2015 Stallion Obituaries
Remembering North American Sport Horse Sires By Liz Cornell
Let’s pause to give recognition to sport horse stallions who sadly passed in the last year. There may be a few omitted unintention- ally, as we published those whose owners responded to our request. Listed below alphabetically are the sires we give tribute to.
Blue Eyed Dream (2002-2015) Blonder Hans x Cavalet Trojsky Equivale, Deleon Springs, Florida
Blue Eyed Dream GF could not have been given a more appropriate name. When I (Jean Thornton) first set eyes on him as a scrawny yearling in the dead of winter scram- bling across a frozen cobble- stone courtyard in a castle in Germany, I knew he was the cremello stallion of my dreams.
I had the dream of
competing a four-in-hand team in both ridden dres-
sage and combined driving. I knew that having a driving team would be quite expensive even if they were ordinary horses, but if I had to buy four or five international quality horses, I would never be able to afford it. So I decided that my team would be special in another way. I would set out on an endeavor to create the world’s first team of palomino German riding horses. I wanted to ride and drive riding-type horses, not driv-
ing-type horses. And I say “create” because at the time there were only a few dozen of these colored horses in the whole world and no four that matched. I learned that cross- ing a cremello to a chestnut guarantees a palomino. So I researched all of the cremello Warmblood stallions, of which there were only six in the world at the time. I fell in love with Dream because of his sweet temperament, fantastic ability to sit, free extension, large cannon bones, lovely neck and quick agility. He was a little smaller than I had hoped for, but I found a small rider for him and I found several suitable
chestnut mares, who I expected would lend some height to his offspring. The mares were Dutch, Oldenberg, Hanove- rian and Trakehner but because Dream was registered as Zeuchtverband der Pferdsport and we don’t have that regis- try in the U.S., I had the offspring registered with the Ameri- can Warmblood Registry. I think we should be proud of our American-bred horses. Dream had over 75 foals. There is one in Hawaii, several
in Canada and I even sold one to New Zealand, where he is standing at stud. Many are competing now at high levels in dressage, hunter/ jumpers, eventing and combined driving. Dream himself competed successfully through Intermedi- are I and, due to his achievements in the dressage arena, he became the first and only cremello in the world to be licensed for breeding by the Oldenburg Breeders Society GOV. (Frozen semen is available.) Tragically, despite having the vet treat Dream immedi-
ately for simply not wanting to eat his breakfast one morn- ing, he went into total renal failure within 24 hours and within 48 hours, his coffin bones were coming through the soles of his hooves. The original cause of his death still remains a mystery. His rider and I miss him deeply. Somewhere, on the other side of the rainbow bridge, his iridescent coat is glistening like a pearl and the sun shines through his angel-hair tail.
Guarantor (1982-2015) Grossfurst/Grande x Aktuell/Cardinal xx Bridlewood Farm, Union, Kentucky
The Elite Hanove- rian stallion Guar- antor ranked fourth out of 128 stallions in his 100-Day Test in Germany where he was highly praised for his spectacular gaits, kind temperament
and generous character. He was imported in 1986 where he began his highly successful dressage career. He was Cham- pion Stallion and Reserve Grand Champion at Dressage at Devon and was USDF Horse of the Year at Second and Third Level. Guarantor successfully competed in Prix St. Georges on the competitive California dressage circuit. He retired from his dressage career and was purchased in 1997 by Dr.
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