Solaris Flambeaux, a chic, modern, elegant, bay colt, strikingly marked with his two front white socks and two hind stockings. From birth he has shown quality in his movement with exceptional reach in all three paces. His Trot is truly off the floor at every stride and his canter powerful and uphill with a very long stride in walk.

Flambeaux is bred in the purple with both Internationally recognised World Class jumping and dressage bloodlines including Krack C, Contender, Nimmerdor, G Ramiro Z, Grand Veneur, Flemmingh, Pik Konig and Wendekries.

Flambeaux is a very special colt for us as he is very much the product of our own breeding program. His sire is our own Amoureux and his dam "Solaris Achanenna" a hombred filly by Umenno who combines the bloodlines of Nimmerdor and Pericles that when combined through Glendale produced the great Moorlands' Totilas dam Lomminka.

Achanenna's dam is also a hombred SSH "Ster" mare "Solaris Chiquita" out of our foundation State performance tested and successful showjumping "Keur" mare "Quinine" who had a successful career in sport. Chiquita is a combination of two very influencial bloodlines "Contender" and Grand Veneur that are found in the bloodlines of many great show jumpers such as Le Tot De Semilly and more recently Diarado that sold at auction for over one million Euros to Paul Schokemohle, the Holstein Verband and Joop van Uytert.

The bloodlines:

His sire "Amoureux" has consitently won young horse qualifiers with scores of 78-80% having qualified for Badmington Young Dressage Horse Of The Future, Sheerwater Potential International Dressage Horse, the Sheetwater British National Young Dressage Horse both as a five and six year old under International Grand Prix Dressage Rider Michel Assouline, with a Double win at Sheepgate Premiere League in the Hickstead Young Horse Qualifier and Medium SOQ75 and a finalist in the Sheerwater 6YO Championship. The duo also qualified for the Regional Championships placing ninth in the most difficult of the medium tests M75 with just a years training under saddle and with very little competition experience.

Saros Van T'Gestelhof

Sired by the Belgian approved dual purpose stallion Saros Van 'T Gestelhof, a son of G Ramiro Z out of a Pik Koenig x Wendekries mare, Saros sired the Belgium champion foal 2003 and currently has an exterior index of 188 earning him elite status at the young age of seven. He had obtained over 50 victories from the age of 4 – 7 with 17 wins at Prix st Georges, placing 4^th at the World Championships in Verden in the six year old class. Other wins include the Belgian 4, 5 and six year old Dressage Champion title. Saros' progeny are equally as talented in jumping as they are in dressage. Saros's sire is the famous G Ramiro Z who competed in classes of 2.20m and perhaps most renown as sire of the famous Olympic gold medallist Ratina Z out of the famous Holstein mare Heureka Z. This combination of German bloodlines has conistantly proven to be a winning combination.

Erle (Pik Koenig x Wendkreis)

Saros's dam, "Erle", carries "elite" status, claiming the National Champion mare titles in 1983 1984 & 1985 and mother to a number of dressage horses, "Le Primo" who won several victories ZII LRV with Louis Van Gestel and the Bronze medal Belgian Championship with Leen Cools. "Pancho" - Belgian vice champion 4 year old ridden by Els Michiels, Bronze medal Swiss championship, Rianta, with several victories Z2 LRV with Wilfried Mondelaers & "Ultra", an elite mare. Erle also proved herself in competition with successful results up to S level.

Pik Koenig /Pik As / Wendekreis

Erle's sire Pik Koenig a top hereditary transmitter of show-jumpers, some of whose progeny managed to jump into the higher spheres of dressage, sired 19 Approved sons including Pik Bube I II & III, 242 main studbok mares, 22 State Premium mares with a sports index overall of 129, dressage 126, jumping 131. Pik Konigs' Thoroughbred sire "Pik As" (1949) was most reknown for his ability as a sire passing on his beautiful movement and great jumping ability. He Stood at Celle 1953-1969 a genetic transmitter with a lot of potential he sired world class showjumpers & 4 approved sons, in 1981 ranked #13 as German sire of competition horses. Erle's dam sire "Wendekreis" adds once again the combination of both jumping and dressage genes to an already illustrious pedigree.

Krack C x Flemmingh

Krack C has no less than nine licensed sons with the KWPN studbook, two in Germany and one with the NRPS. Krack C is thought by many to be maybe the best dressage horse progenitor in Europe. He is the Ambassador of both The Netherlands Dressage Sport and The Netherlands Dressage Horse Breeding. Alongside his results in breeding he has a great amount of sporting success himself ridden by Anky van Grunsven. Known for his flamboyant moving mechanism and his rideability, Krack C impressed many KWPN breeders and became their main choice, placing him in the top ten of most used breeding stallions.

Flemmingh

Born in 1987 in Germany. Bred by H.C. Albertsen from Behrendorf, Germany, the bay stallion was by the Holsteiner Lacapo out of Texas (Carneval x Lorenz). As a 3-year old he went to Holland for the licensing and became one of the best performers at the 1990 KWPN Stallion Performance Test, especially excelling in show jumping. Flemmingh became a top producer of successful international sport horses. Alongside Anky van Grunsven's Grand Prix horse Krack C, Edward Gal's former medal winning horse Lingh and the current Pan American gold medallist Regent (under American Christopher Hickey) were sired by Flemmingh.

Umenno

Umenno, bred with athleticism in mind, an expressive powerful mover with off the floor paces. Shown successfully inhand as a three year old, winning many Championship titles the length and breadth of the UK, including the Royal Highland Show, CHAPS Scottish Youngstock Champion, Overall Inhand Champion, Supreme Champion Reserve, CHAPS Open Non Native National Champion 2004 as a three year old. Winner of numerous ridden sport horse classes, Burghley Young Event Horse Finalist, winner of four five and six year old young horse classes in the UK and Switzerland.

Wellington

Wellington (now deceased) belonged to the famous VDL Stud in Holland. Not only was Wellington a successful show jumper himself, but well known as a producer of quality movement in his offspring. He has sired many ‘Ster’ and ‘Keur’ mares and many approved stallion sons including Farrington, Glennridge and Emillion of World Cup success. His offspring are of International show jumping standard including Jerome, VDL Jupiter and What a Game but also sired the Grand Prix dressage horses, Bollvorms, Ceylon and Luxaflex .

Nimmerdor

Crowned KWPN Stallion of the Century, son of the ‘preferent’ stallion Farn, the ‘preferent’ Nimmerdor was the most famous of all the old-fashioned Holstein’s offspring. Nimmerdor has had a tremendous, far-reaching influence upon the world of equestrian breeding and has sired over 50 Approved sons as well as a multitude of international show jumpers, dressage horses and exceptional brood mares.

Samber

Samber achieved ZZ level in Show jumping and Grand Prix level in dressage. Samber has also proven himself a remarkable sire producing versatile offspring succeeding in all Olympic disciplines and remains the only Approved coloured stallion with the K.W.P.N. – at present.

Pericles xx

Pericles was an English bred Thoroughbred. He stood at stud in the Netherlands from 1976 until his death in 1987. He was one of very few Thoroughbreds like Lucky Boy to achieve Preferent status. Pericles did some racing and competed in Open Jumpers later in his career. His offspring made excellent sport horses and proved themselves in the breeding shed as well. Pericles was best known as being a dressage sire. He is also the maternal grandsire of the legendary stallion Ulft. Not only was perciles dam sire of the most famous coloured stallion to date "Samber" but also when combined with the Nimmerdor son Glendale produced the dam of "the world most famous dressage stallion: "Moorland's Totilas"

Cappuccino Van Berkenbroek

Also known as Cappucino FCS, imported by the Whitaker and Gillespies to Scotland in 2000, he stood for only one season prior to being sold overseas. Prior to his arrival in Scotland the son of the famous showjumping sire Contender, covered 80 mares in his first season at stud in Belgium one of which produced the showjumping mare "Bi-Nice" out of a Landetto mare successfully jumping at Grands Prix and 1.60m classes. Other sons and daughters are consistant high achievers at National and International level both here in the UK and overseas. A Capucinno son was placed third at the loose jumping Championship in 2005 and another of his sons was sold to England for £35.000 after great success showing tremdous form as a future star.

Contender

Contender is proving to be one of the most influential sons of Calypso II out of the Ramiro daughter, Gofine who was in turn by the great Thoroughbred sire, Ladykiller xx he has dominated German breeding values for many years now and continues to produce exciting young stallions like Contendro (premium stallion in the approval of 1999, and winner of the performance test at Adelheidsdorf the following year). Marco Kutscher is successfully riding three approved Contender sons in international sport: Contreo, Conterno Grande and Montender (German Champion of 2003, bronze medallist at the Athens Games and European Champion 2005). Toni Hassmann won the German Showjumping Derby with Collin, while Checkmate won on the Rider’s Tour with Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum and was her ride at the European Championships.

Quater

Swiss State federal Stallion, Quater, competed with success at MII. His best progeny Magnolia CH and Quatersman CH competed CSI CSIO, CSI, SII and in the young horse classes Balladeuse du Cornat CH, Bellamour du Cornat CH, Catania IV CH, Cristal de la Taille CH qualified for the Zangersheide Young Horse Show Jumping Championships.

Grand Veneur

Since 1976, Grand Veneur produced more than 335 show jumping winners, of which 75 stallions.
Regularly classed among the best sires, father of winners in show jumping, he has produced among the best Le Tot de Semilly Lama des Landes, Love Love de l'If, Magicien IV, Nabo II, Rocky du Carel, Tenor de la Cour, ISO 160, Vas Y Donc Longane, Alfa d'Elle and many showjumping winners in foreign countries such as Le Grand du Tot, Mont Blanc, Quatre de Mai, Sioux de Baugy, Tenor Manciais, Ulysse de Thurin, Upsala de Baussy, Valou de Baussy, Veneur Pierreville, Amour de Coquerie, As de Thurin, Beau Veneur, Belle Landaise and Billy du Lys.