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Given the motto of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag, 'The Power of Performance', it is logical that the majority of the auction foals descend from stallions who have proven themselves in sport and/or breeding. Take Kannan, Cornet Obolensky, Cumano, Numero Uno and Toulon or the younger generation Zirocco Blue, Vagabond de la Pomme and Quickly de Kreisker.
Then we also have foals by E-star, Global Express VDL and Etoulon VDL, very promising young stallions who are at the start of a great career. But Prinsjesdag looks even more at the quality of the dam's line than with performing sires. It must be infused with the performance genes. Never before has there been such a strong collection of foals based on sporting achievements with family in the direct line.
In an earlier report, Baloubet's offspring at Prinsjesdag and a number of other top progenitors such as For Pleasure, Verdi and Casall were discussed. But there's more! For example, four foals by the popular Olympic stallion Cornet Obolenky have been selected. Including a colt out of a half sister (by Lord Z) of the Grand Prix stallions Action Breaker and Quasimodo van de Molendreef. The selected colt by Quasimodo van de Molendreef x Mr.Blue is out of the full sister of the 1.60m Grand Prix show jumper Okometa, who was ridden by Jurgen Stenfert.
Comme il Faut, who performed fantastically with Marcus Ehning, son of Cornet Obolensky out of Olympic and European champion Ratina Z, has a son in the auction from a niece of the famous Grand Prix showjumping stallions and sires Toulon and Vancouver d'Auvray. Also beautifully bred is the Plot Blue x Darco out of the full sister of the world famous jumping mare Sapphire of McLain Ward.
A unique foal, born via the ICSI method, is from the former world champion Cumano, who has been infertile for years, out of the Grand Prix jumping mare Parabel (by Animo). A colt by Arezzo VDL x Lasino has been selected out of the half-sister of the international 1.50m show jumper VDL Groep Zapfier (Mathijs van Asten). A Kannan x Lux is bred out of the full sister of the Grand Prix mare Utascha SFN, who unfortunately suffered a broken leg last week and had to be put to sleep.
Quickly de Kreisker, who jumps the most difficult Grand Prix clear in Moroccan service, has two foals in the auction. One of them is out of the full sister of the BWP stallion Dulf van den Bisschop. The other is out of Winning Girl (Numero Uno), a daughter of the full sister of Carthago Z.
The two sons of the number two in the 2015 World Cup final, Vagabond de la Pomme, come from the damline of the Grand Prix show jumper B Once Z (Katharina Offel) and the Oberlina pedigree respectively. Also unusual is the son of Vivald'Ick, who herself comes out of a half-sister of Glock's London, out of a half-sister of the 1.60m show jumpers Electra and Falco van 't Roosakker.
Eight-year-old Cidane, sold to America last year and now neutered, is represented by a daughter bred out of a half-sister of the golden Olympic show jumper Vindicat (Guidam). Vindicat's tribesman is also the Toulon x Emilion. From the same dam line as Cidane come the Dakar VDL x Indoctro, who is closely related to the 1.60m show jumper Ornike, and the Clarimo x Heartbreaker, a grandson of the Grand Prix showjumper Audi's Reflection.
Bred out of the niece of Eldorado van de Zeshoek, who performs so well with Willem Greve, is the E-Star x Quite Capitol. The E-Star x Rubens du Ri d'Asse is a half-brother of the Grand Prix horse Oak Grove's Heartfelt (Rolf-Göran Bengtsson) and a grandson of the famous 1.60m Grand Prix jumping mare Ta Belle van Sombeke.
Some foals have also been selected from the first crops of young stallions. A pearl among the fillies is F One USA from Larthago (Carthago), who already produced five approved stallions, including the Grand Prix stallions Harley VDL and Cevin Z.
