the foundation bloodstock for many North and South American breeds. The Andalusian has also been used to create breeds more recently, represented by breed associations for both the Warlander (an Andalusian/Friesian cross) and the Spanish Norman (an Andalusian/ Percheron cross) established in the 1990s.
MODERN CROSSINGS OF IBERIANS
WITH WARMBLOODS Spain: Lauro Aguiló is considered the third best rider on the Spanish dressage team with the PRE crossbred “@ Hierro C” by the leading KWPN stallion Ferro. France: Sylvain Massa created a breeding farm at the
Chateau de la Font du Broc on the Mediterranean coast of the South of France. Besides his important purebred Lusitano stud farm, he developed a lineage of “Lusitano Sport®” with an emphasis on competition dressage. He selected 25 Lusitano mares that he first crossed to some Trakhener stallions (Hohenstein, Munchhausen, Latimer) before changing to the Oldenburgs Rubin Royal and Rubin Cortes who produced very well. He also used San Amour (by Sandro hit), First Romancier, Crack C, Vivaldi and Totilas on his Lusitano mares (when the fabulous World Champion became available). Because of Massa’s preoccupation with maintaining the Lusitano character, the female products of the first cross go back to the Lusitano as well as the 75% mares. He uses the German stallions for their locomotion (which is a homozygous trait in most quality Warmbloods) and counts on the character and the ability for collection of the Lusitano (a homozygous trait in most Iberian horses). The mares are selected under saddle before being bred and are particularly tested for their walk and their ability to collect. A few notable laureates of this relatively new
crossbreeding program are: a six-year-old Reserve Dressage Champion of Luxemburg as well as another ridden by
JP Zilver by Istoso (Lusitano) out of Nakoma (Holsteiner by Rapport-Franat).
Daniel Pinto and owned by Brazilian Pascal Chevrot who bought him for his wife Chantal (who also acquired Galopin de la Font, Pinto’s previous Olympic horse, bred by Massa). This six-
year-old already performs all the Grand Prix movements with Pinto, who also has two four-year-olds (by Rubin Cortes and Rubin Royal) in training. Portugal: Jorge Ortigao Costa has bred 20 black
Victory is a Lusitano / Oldenburg cross, by the Veiga Lusitano Pincelim out of a Hanoverian mare by Grundstein. He became a very good amateur jumper.
Lusitano mares to Totilas in 2011. Ortigao Costa and his father have built a very solid Lusitano breeding operation with 80 black mares and he decided to take a leap into the future. The breeder Vasco Freire owns the stallion Peralta dos Pinhais (bred in Brazil) who was third in the Dressage World Cup for Young Riders, as well as eighth in the Young Riders European Championship. The stallion (approved by the German crossbred registry) is ridden by Boaventura
Freire who works in Germany as a professional dressage rider. Freire has been breeding ten mares of the De Niro/ Donnerhall line to Peralta and the resulting offspring are now in training. Pedro Ferraz da Costa, former President of the Lusitano Association of Portugal, has been breeding the Lusitano stallion Regalo to five German mares. According to Freire, the result of the cross is very successful as the horses are better than either breeds in rideability and athleticism. Germany: Ulli Kasellman, the partner of Paul
@Hierro C, a PRE / KWPN cross, and Lauro Aguiló of Spain win the CDI Nambroca in May 2011. Photo by R Godinho
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Schockemöhle in the famous PSI sales, has bred the stallion Duende (by Valeroso VI, a former stallion of the Andalusian School of Equestrian Art) to a couple of Hanoverian mares by Florestan for about five years. In 2011, PSI sold one of the resulting offspring, the five-year-old buckskin/gray stallion Bayo, a very nice horse, to Switzerland for $160,000. PSI had sold another stallion named Jerez (by the PRE
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