STAMROOS W
Sire: Heartbreaker
Damsire: Ramiro Z
Damline: Damline-802
Year: 1999
Height: 16.2h
Breed Reg: Imported KWPN
XX/OX rate: 47.27%
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Pedigree
Description
Stamroos W is by the show jumping Ambassadeur preferent progenitor Heartbreaker and out of a preferent ster Ramiro mare. As if these stars did not suffice, all this is spiced by a double cross to Uppercut xx, which has given her a long-lined blooded outline.
Stamroos W (Roo around the barn) came to us after a long sojourn in the West where her jumping talents unfortunately were not exploited.
After a brief stint in training to see what she was made of, we have placed her in the broodmare band to take full advantage of her exemplary bloodlines.
Strong Points:
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Proven jumping bloodlines
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Good Conformation
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Power
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Modern build
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Good uphill canter
Progeny
KINETIC DU RYU
Sire: Olympic Cardento
Date of Birth: June 27th, 2015
Expected Height: 16.2h
Breed Reg: KWPN
Pedigree:
XX/OX rate: 53.13%
Price:
Sire: Carrera VDL
Date of birth: May 19th, 2014
Height: 16.2h
Breed Reg: KWPN First Premium Top Jumper Foal
Pedigree:
XX/OX rate: 49.61%
Price:
Sire Information
Nimmerdor-Silvano-Uppercut xx 16.2h 1989 KWPN Stallion
In 2007 Heartbreaker was declared a ‘Belgian Ambassador’ and not surprisingly given the success of his offspring. On the list of the top 75 stallions for 2006, based on international jumping results, compiled by the French journalist, Bernard le Courtois, Heartbreaker ranks an impressive 11th, equal with the great Voltaire.
Like Voltaire, Heartbreaker is an exciting mix of German and French jumping lines, with a fair splash of Thoroughbred.
Heartbreaker is by Nimmerdor, out of a mare by the international showjumping stallion, Silvano, who was started in jumping competitions by Bert Romp and Henk Nooren before going on to success in Italy with Giorgi Nutti, placing in a number of World Cup qualifiers. In 1985 they were 2nd in Milan, 5th in Brussels, and 8th in Geneva.
Silvano is by Le Mexico, the Dutch based son of the French stallion, Mexico by the Thoroughbred, Furioso.
Despite his jumping success Silvano was little used by the breeders, but mares by him have produced many competitors and three stallions: Democraat, Glennridge and Heartbreaker.
On the dam side, the line goes back to Cleopatra – the foundation for the approved stallions, Gershwin, Ami d’Or, and Jenny Zoer’s international jumper, Wendela (by Purioso).
The pedigree of the Thoroughbred Uppercut features all the usual suspects – Teddy, Hurry On (twice) and Phalaris.
In 1992, the Belgian Warmblood stallion selection committee approved Heartbreaker with a score of 74.02%, and in his first season he produced 63 foals.
At the age of six he placed fifth at the World Championships for young jumping horses, ridden by the New Zealander, Grant Wilson. A year later, he came back to finish fourth in the seven year old class.
At the age of eight, Heartbreaker commenced his international career in 1.40 classes. In 1968, ridden by the Dutch rider, Peter Geerink, he won the Nations Cup at Falsterbo, and finished third in the Grand Prix of Hamburg, Rotterdam and Geesteren. The following year, they were fourth in the Grand Prix of London and fourth in the Grand Prix at Aachen. He was the winner of the Stallion Showjumping class at Zwolle. He finished his career with a win at Dortmund.
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Heartbreaker has been equally successful as a sire, leading the Dutch breeding values for jumpers for four years in a row. International competitors by him include: Splendid van de Heffinck (James Paterson Robinson), BMC’s Skybreaker (Mikael Forsten), Thorax van ‘t Heikhof (Marc Wirths / Markus Beerbaum), Toulon (Hubert Bourdy), Vancouver d’Auvray (Danielle Toano), Uriana van Klapscheut (Frederica Franceschetto), Voice (Jose Larocca), Calypso VB (Marshal Field), Ups ‘n Downs van den Bandam (Clemence Laborde) Viva (Sergio Alvarez Moya), Radieux (Frederic Vernaet), Riant vd Mosselcentrale (Hank Melse), Unbreaker (Marco Porro), Vienna Rouge (Keean White), Up To Date van het Geelhof (Emile Martinsen), Clever-Boy vd Ruitershoeve (Antonio Portela), Quasimodo van de Molendreef (Jaime Azcaraga), Versace van de Ruitershoeve (Pauline Guignery). Action-Breaker (Sergio Alvarez Moya) and Orlando (Darragh Kerins).
Heartbreaker’s stallion sons feature in a number of studbooks. With the Belgian Warmblood Association we find: Actionbreaker, Boris vh Kluizebos, Del Piero D & B, D’Ukase, Dulf van den Bisschop, Echo van ‘t Spieveld, Quasimodo vd Molendreef, Quickfeuer vd Koekshof, Torino and Vancouver d’Auvry. Four sons are licensed with German Verbands: Pino, Herzblatt, Quickfeuer van Koekshof and Orlando (first licensed with the BWP).
Studbook Zangersheide recognizes six sons: Aertbreaker, Bamiro, Orlando, Pino and Untouchable Z. The Belgian Sport Horse Studbook features Doré van ‘t Zorgvliet, Quasimodo vd Molendreef and Toulon.
Damline Information
Born 1965 Died 1995 Height 16.3 hh Breeder Paul Bahlman, Ramiro Z was conceived in Holstein, born in Westfalia, licensed at Neumünster, and himself an international performer under Fritz Ligges, Ramiro influenced nearly all European Performance Studbooks.
Ramiro was the most popular representative of the Ramzes line and at one stage was the most frequented sire in Germany. He stood at stud in Westfalia, Holstein, Zangersheide and Holland.
The Anglo Arab, Ramzes was foaled in 1937 in Poland, and imported to Germany in 1948 by Clemens Freiherr von Nagel, who initially gave the stallion to German jumping rider, Hans-Heinrich Brinkmann as a competition horse. Ramzes stood at the Holstein Verband in 1951 and 1952 to refine the heavy Warmblood horses of the area. His sire was the great Thoroughbred, Rittersporn, while his dam was the Shagya Arab, Jordi. The Shagya is a breed that has been developed over several hundred years from a base of Andalusian, Lipizzan and Polish Warmblood mares, bred to Arab stallions.
Ramzes was an immediate success as a sire. His jumping offspring: Retina, ridden by Fritz Thiedemann, Romanus with Hans Günther Winkler and Ramona with Alwin Schockemöhle, established Ramzes’ fame in Holstein, and resulted in him standing there for two more seasons, in 1959 and 1960.
While in Holstein, Ramzes bred showjumpers, in Westfalia, he produced dressage horses. The Ramzes son, Remus won individual dressage silver and team gold at the Tokyo Olympics, where he was ridden by Harry Boldt. Two years later, another son, Mariano, ridden by Josef Neckermann, won the World Dressage Championship, with Remus collecting another silver medal. Mariano won silver at the 1968 Games – and four years later, at the Munich Games, another son, Robin was a member of the German gold medal winning showjumping team.
The Ramzes son, Radetzky established in Westfalia a line that led to Romadour II (although there is some doubt about the parentage of Romadour II) and in turn to his gold medal-winning son, Rembrandt.
In Holstein, Ramzes produced five licensed sons, including Raimond and Rigoletto. Rigoletto was sold to The Netherlands where he was an enormously successful sire of showjumpers. Raimond was the sire of Ramiro.
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Legendary Mare Ratina Z by Ramiro Z
In his Stallion Book of the Holsteiner Warmblood Breed, Dr Dietrich Rossow has this to say about Ramzes and his influence:
“Ramzes was a medium framed, harmonious stallion with a very well set on neck, which was heavily muscled on the underside. He had a heavy poll, good width and depth of body and clean legs which were very good behind and light boned in front. His head was plain… In general it can be said that his Holsteiner offspring lacked size and were too fine… In conclusion it can be said that Ramzes had a positive effect on the old Holsteiner type. He sired a huge number of beautiful, supple riding horses. He decisively improved on the old, tremendous but high headed, flat backed jumping form. Doubtless because of his gaits, he produced hardly any dressage horses in Holstein. His offspring’s heads are not always the most beautiful.”
In his history of the breed The Holsteiner Horse, Romedio Graf von Thun-Hohenstein, values Ramzes mainly as a carrier of Thoroughbred blood:
“The marvelously positive results were doubtless due to the large percentage of Thoroughbred blood carried by Ramzes himself. Ramzes influence in Holstein seems to have achieved its greatest importance with the whole list of first class approved broodmares which carry his blood. On his dam’s side, Ramzes carried a great deal of Amurath blood, however his offspring did not show any Amurath characteristics. This is probably due to the large percentage of Thoroughbred blood. The hereditary Amurath tendency to produce pacing, which did not necessarily nullify jumping ability as seen in the Argram line of the Hanoverian breed, never occurred in Holstein.”
From Ramzes first breeding season, came the super mare, Fatinitza, showjumping from victory to victory under Fritz Ligges and Thomas Frühmann, she was to go on to be dam of the Zangersheide stallion, Almiro Z.
Bred to the Cottage Son daughter, Valine, Ramzes’ son Raimond produced Ramiro in 1965. When Ramiro was presented for selection, he was described as the ideal type of the modern Holsteiner – strongly imprinted by his dam, tall and elegant, showing the top line of his grandfather, Cottage Son xx, with powerful frame, a glorious face and large, clear eyes. His excellently formed neck, beautifully set, could still be seen – even when he was an old horse – and is stamped on his progeny. Ramiro displayed a very good walk, a normal trot, and a great canter.
Ramiro’s second season saw him in Holstein where he produced three stallions:
Rinaldo (out of a Trakehner mare), Rio Negro, who became a Grand Prix dressage horse, trained by Willi Schultheis, and Ronald, who was for years the most popular stallion in Holstein.
Ronald sired five licensed sons and more than a hundred top broodmares, many of whom became dams of sires like Alcatraz, Libero and Lord Incipit. Ronald, like his famous father, went to Holland, where he stood for five years, and sired, among others, the showjumping sire Saluut.
Ramiro’s influence on the Dutch Warmblood breeding was, and still is, of utmost importance. The Dutch bestowed the title – ‘Horse of the Year’ – on Ramiro in 1992. For Leon Melchior’s performance breeding program at Zangersheide, Ramiro was a key element in the mix.
Ramiro was among the early stallions to compete. During his own sporting career, Ramiro had numerous wins at all levels of showjumping – Nations Cups, Puissance (jumping over 2.2 metres) and in international Grand Prix competition.
Based at the Zangersheide Stud of Leon Melchior, Ramiro was presented with a selection of superbly bred jumping mares. His most famous ‘nick’ was with the foundation mare, Heureka. Argentina Z, the Heureka daughter by Almé, produced with Ramiro the stallion sons: Rebel I Z, Rebel II Z, Rebel III Z and Rock Z as well as Ratina Z who, ridden by Piet Raymakers and Ludger Beerbaum, won World Cup Finals, the European Championships, the Grand Prix of Aachen, individual Olympic Silver, double Olympic Team Gold, Team Gold at the WEG, and twice team gold at the European championships.
In the survey of the world’s top 75 jumping sires that appears in the French publication,
Monneron 2007-2008, Ramiro (who thanks to frozen semen was still producing foals 12 years after his demise), is ranked 23rd with 11 CSI winners, while his son, Robin I Z is 43rd with 7 representatives.