Glasgow van’t Merelsnest x Chacco Blue x Coconut Grove XX x Jus de Pomme.

Born August 2 2023.

The sire: Glasgow van’t Merelsnest (Nabab de Reve x Darco) competed at the top level under Jur Vrieling and won many large titles including the Nations Cup Final, Grand Prix’s in Rome and Arezzo, and the World Cup in Helsinki. He already has several offspring competing at 1.50m+, as well as 11 approved sons. He has royalty in his lines — sire is Nabab de Rêve the top sire-producer with more than 50 licensed sons. His dam Wendelina competed at the international GP level, and is full sister to Sapphire who won the Olympic gold twice among other major grand prix wins.

The dam: LSS Kaleidoscope (2019 Chacco-Blue x Coconut Grove xx x Jus de Pomme). “Gansa” has great breeding and shows great potential for sport. She is compact and modern, just grew into 16 hands. We have not done much with her yet, but in free movements and free jumping she shows good scope and stride length, and has been smart and kind to work with learning to ground drive and has had her first handful of rides. Gansa’s sire Chacco Blue needs no introduction; he has produced more than 180 offspring jumping to 1.60 or higher, including Explosion, Chadino, and Chaqui Z, among others. The Landra damline ( fokfamilie 212 / Merrielijn 51) dates back to the 1910s, and each mare between the original Sjabelina through Gansa’s dam Elandra have earned predicates for breeding quality or performance. Many 1.40+ horses have come from this line. Granddam Nellandra produced two approved sons, Baltic VDL (1.60m) and Vegas VDL (1.45) as well as GCT winner Don Vito. Elandra her dam is by Coconut Grove xx, one of the few full thoroughbreds to have reached the 1.60m level in the past several decades. Elandra’s damsire Jus de Pomme won gold in the 1996 Olympic Games.

We expect this filly to be modern and scopey with a good brain. The combination of power and size from Glasgow with the blood and sharp reflexes should produce a great jumper prospect.