Silvy Z joined the family in April 2014. She's a very classy lady very sweet natured with exceptional bloodlines, a real gem and a very rare find. Her sire is the late legend Sandro Z, sire of Sandro Song, grand sire to Sandro Hit. Her dam sire is the great Zeus and her maternal grand sire Glendale by Nimmerdor.

As her pedigree would imply she has an valuable addition to our breeding program. Silvy has three good paces with an especially good canter.

Silvy is scanned in foal to Amoureux for 2015

Sandro Z was quite unique in that he is the only stallion son of the cross of Sacramento Song and Wahnfried – a cross that has also been very successful in producing dams of stallions.

The stallions Lavell I, & II, Atlantas Z, Campione, and the international jumping horses, Cathleen, ridden by Meredith then Michael Beerbaum and Zigeunerin ridden by Rodrigo Pessoa all came from the same cross.

Sandro’s dam, Dürte was a the full sister of one of the most successful Puissance horses of all time – Wabbs. Durte was also the dam of Harvey Smith’s Salvador.

The most successful of his sons was the great Sandro Boy ridden by Marcus Ehning who made history in the global show jumping: with over 1.2 million Euro in competition winnings

Equally Sandro was a major influence on dressage breeding grand sire to the legendary Sandro Hit. Dressage descendants include Isabell Werth’s Satchmo by the Sandro son, Sao Paulo. Sorento and Furstenball all carry the blood of Sandro.

Zeus Bred in France, he was named Gordios and stood at stud for the French National Haras, later sold to Germany he was renamed "Zeus" after the greek God of mythology, during his stud duties in the Netherlands he was known as Nurzeus. Sire of many great International Show Jumpers and the stallion sons Beach Boy and Zandor Z.

Glendale bred by VDL stud in the Netherlands a son of the influential stallion of the century Nimmerdor. His own career in sport never took off after his colic surgery and export to the US but has a quantitive number of successful progeny in dressage and jumping. Also a producer of quality brood mares including "Lominka" dam sire of dressage legend Totilas.

Ramiro Z Over a period of of thirty years, the "Preferent" G Ramiro Z's performance as a sporthorse and breeding sire has clearly earned him the well deserved titles 'Stallion of the Century' and "King of Sires." Bred in Holstein, born in Westfalia, licensed at Neumünster, Ramiro Z was an international performer under Fritz Ligges, a stallion that has had a far reaching influence on the greatest acheiving sports horses of today. Ramiro was one of the first Holstein stallions to actually appear in competition unlike many others of that era. During his own sporting career he had numerous wins at all levels of show jumping including Nations Cups, Puissance (jumping over 2.2 metre) and in international Grand Prix competition.

La Vie (Ramiro Z x Lucky Boy) Dam of the International show jumper Silton ridden by Jean Baptise in France, Claudio Panetti in Switzerland and Mohamed Tawfik ASSI for Egypt. Grand dam Tourniquette was awarded the Prestatie predicate based on the success of her progeny in sport.