This handsome guy arrived on 5/3/10. He is very modern, elegant and flashy with four white socks and facial markings.This is a great opportunity to buy a handsome colt from an exciting, up-and-coming stallion and a proven mare line!

Sire: Banderas
2006 16.2 hh Oldenburg Stallion - (Balou du Rouet x Grannus x Beach Boy)
Banderas is the first approved son of the sensational European stallion Balou du Rouet, to stand in North America. Banderas is a very typey athletic stallion, with a lovely expression, clearly stamped by in looks by his sire.
Banderas has three very good athletic gaits, and shows a huge amount of jumping potential, he jumps in classic form, and show a lot of scope. He also has a very good temperament and good nature.

Sire Balou du Rouet is highly sought after as a breeding stallion, he is very known for producing type, elastic movers, and his oldest offspring are showing his prepotency for first class jumping ability.

Banderas comes from a very strong dam line through dam Grisette he combines some of the best bloodlines available. His dam sire is the legendary Grannus, one Germany's greatest sires with over five million DM in earnings, he is also the sire a multiple international and Olympic jumpers, including Top Gun La Silla(Jan Tops), Grand Plaisir(Ludger Beerbaum), Grannusch(John Witaker), Burmah Grand Slam (Nick Skelton) and Imperial to name a few. Grannus is also the sire of over 60 approved stallions.

Great Grand sire is the Elite international stallion Beach Boy. He has sired 8 graded sons who are already making a name for themselves and his own progeny includes the 1991 Oldenburg performance test champion Brandenburger, the international showjumper Beach Game and the international eventers Beach Star and Feldschwalbe.
His eight approved sons and 239 competitive offspring have earned him a BlUP score of 141 for both jumping and gaits.

Dam: Leading Lady is a 16.2 hh Verbands Premium Westfalen mare. She underwent her mare performance testing in Germany; where she was 9th out of 56 mares tested! Highlights include her scores of 8 for character, 8 for rideability and 8 for free-jumping. Her overall score was 7.55. Leading Lady's dam is the States Premium Mare Pan Am (Pilot/Pik Bube II). Pan Am has produced two Verbands Premium Mares, a States Premium Mare and a Westfalen stallion candidate. She has also produced at least 5 offspring in Germany that have won/placed highly in both young jumper and open classes (she herself placed in the top 4 in several young jumper and open level L classes before becoming a broodmare). Her most successful jumping offspring to date is Fine Kiss who is currently winning at Level M jumping in Germany. Leading Lady's sire is the Holsteiner stallion Landino (Landgraf I/Lido). Landino has sired a number of outstanding progeny, such as Lanciano (character "10" at the stallion test), who in his turn sired Lord Sinclair, who was sold to Hong Kong for some 1.4 million dollars as a dressage performer.Lanciano's pedigree is actually Landino/Pilot, very similiar to Leading Lady's. Landino also produced the top hunters Without Question and Lute'ce. He is the sire or dam-sire of several approved jumping-type stallions. Leading Lady produced 4 foals in Germany, 3 of which were imported to the U.S prior to her own importation in 2003. One of her daughters in the U.S., by Dinard L, has produced several premium foals, breed show winners and high placers at Devon.

This foal can be registered with the German Oldenburg Verband or Westfalen registry.