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“These days the horse is at the show from Tuesday to Sunday. In the past you would have more time to prepare your horse. Today, they have to be naturally careful. With so many entries, you couldn’t win a meter 20 or meter 30 if your horse is not careful.”


ANDY KOCHER


Hailing from Ocala, Florida, Andy’s a Grand Prix winner on multiple horses. For his favorite he picked Le Conte (Lancer II x Martel xx).


“He is an older Holsteiner, by Lancer II, with a lot of Thor-


oughbred in the mother’s side,” says Andy. “He’s a very light horse, maybe 16.3 or 17 hands, but narrow, built like a Thor- oughbred. He’s a little difficult to ride between the jumps but he’s a very careful horse. He’s made me $400,000.” Andy says that Le Conte always gives his all. “He took me


from jumping regional Grands Prix all the way up to 5-star classes. One time he won a class in Wellington, a $10,000 meter 45 class, even though he dislocated a rear pastern. He was out for four or five months.” He adds that Le Conte is a very careful jumper. “He very


rarely hits a pole. He did stop with me. I prefer that, because if you do a good job you will jump clear. A lot of people want a horse that doesn’t stop, but then it’s more likely he will hit the jumps. For me it’s okay if the horse occasionally shuts off.” “These days the horse is at the show from Tuesday to


Sunday. In the past you would have more time to prepare your horse. Today, they have to be naturally careful. With so


Le Conte 5 and Andy Kocher in the $200,000 Sunshine Grand Prix, National Sunshine II, in November 2016 at Ther- mal, California.


many entries, you couldn’t win a meter 20 or meter 30 if your horse is not careful.” Andy prefers a


horse that is good in front, saying, “If you watch a lot of horses, more horses hit with the front end than the hind end. They have to have a clas- sic front end, and an average hind end will work.”


Foaled in 2001, Le Conte is listed as Le Conte 5, 48 precent


Thoroughbred. His sire Lancer II is Landgraf x Fantus. In 2017 Andy and Le Conte won at the CSI4* in Wellington, and were second at the Devon CSI4*. “He’s been like a pet. I’ve had him the longest,” says Andy. “I have a little favoritism toward him.”


A COMMON ANC ESTOR: LIBERO H


Four of the horses described by our riders happen to be descendants of Libero H (Landgraf I x Ronald):  Romantovich Take One, grandson  Cocq a Doodle, great-granddaughter  Condor C, great-grandson  Donna Speciale, great-granddaughter Libero H jumped internationally from 1990 through 1995, winning many


Grands Prix and World Cup qualifiers. In the 1994 World Cup Final, he won by jumping clear all three legs at s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. He has sired many 1.60-meter jumpers, along with prestatie mares and preferent stallions, such as Numero Uno


The 1981 stallion Libero H


preferent (x Lord Calando). When Numero Uno was awarded keur status in 2008, Ine van Deurzen, a KWPN inspector, reflected about the 1994 World Cup, saying “Jos Lansink and Libero H were in form that year and won the World Cup Final here. The breeder of Numero Uno [Martien van Deursen] was a big fan of Libero H.” Seeing Libero H triumph, the van Deurzens chose him as a sire for their keur mare Jolanda (Lord Calando x Ahorn Z), and Numero Uno was foaled in 1995. Libero H was 40 percent Thoroughbred in the first five generations. Other KWPN licensed sons of his are Niagara,


Nijinski and Ustinov. Some of his other notable jumper offspring include Liberty 106 (x Nimmerdor) who competed in the 2000 Olympic


Games with Laura Kraut. No Mercy (x Dillenburg) jumped to fourth in the 2009 World Cup Final and also competed in the 2004 Olympic Games with Swiss rider Christina Liebherr. Other Libero H jumper offspring include Libera (x Raspu- tin), grandmother of Condor C; Melisimo (x Jasper); Rocky W (x Corofino I); and Obelix (x Zeus).


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