TOP KWPN prospect for sport.

Coconut Grove x Darco x Supron

Born 6/19/10 Fiasco is going to be a champion jumper or a stellar eventing prospect. Excellent, lofty canter on this personable & refined boy. Bold, bold, bold, he has already jumped most of the jumps in my indoor arena. Easy and tractable. Has the scope for a professional with the temperament for an amateur. Located in SE WI.

Sire: Coconut Grove (Dare to Pet x Propellant x Milord), 16.1 Thoroughbred Stallion
Coconut Grove is one of showjumping’s most prominent Thoroughbred stars. Coconut Grove’s show ring accomplishments began in 1993 and continued with great success at the Grand Prix level from 1996 through the remainder of his career. In 1997, he was champion of the Bolivarianos Games in Peru. Coconut Grove was champion in the Toyota Cup World Cup Qualifier, reserve champion in the Centro American and Caribbean Games, and reserve champion in the World Cup qualifier in Caracas, Venezuela, all in 1998. In 1999, he was ranked Best South American Horse and Team Fifth at the Pan American Games in Canada and participated in the Canadian World Cup qualifiers, securing a spot in the World Cup event in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was National Champion Jumper for Colombia from 1997 through 1999. The Camargos brought Coconut Grove for U.S. competitions in 2000, where he won third in the $100,000 U.S. Open Jumper Championships in Miami and fifth in the $25,000 WEF Grand Prix of Tampa. These placings and others earned the stallion a ticket to the Sydney Olympics representing Colombia, but a lack of funding kept the stallion at home. Capping that outstanding year, Coconut Grove qualified for the AGA Championships, the American Invitational, and was ranked third in the AGA Rookie of the Year standings based on only six starts. In 2001, he placed fifth in the $25,000 Wellington Grand Prix and was retired shortly after. In 2003, the American Holsteiner Horse Association became the first Warmblood registry to approve Coconut Grove for use as a sire, making him the first Thoroughbred stallion ever to receive breeding approval in any major North American Warmblood studbook. The stallion repeated history in 2004 by being the first Thoroughbred stallion to receive a breeding license from the American Hanoverian Society. Many other American studbooks followed suit and, setting worldwide precedents, multiple European-based registries granted him approval, including the Selle-Francais, the German Oldenburg Verband, the Belgian studbook, Zangersheide, KWPN of Holland, the Trakhener Verband, and the Irish Horse Board. No other Thoroughbred stallion in history has gained such status as a sire. As a sire Coconut Grove is now approved in nine American registries, one Canadian registry, and nine European Warmblood registries, with a 100 percent approval record. No other U.S.-based Thoroughbred stallion has ever accomplished such a feat.

Dam: Tango B (Darco x Supron x I Want You), 16.1 Belgium Warmblood Mare
Tango B is a powerful, compact mare with a lovely face, kind eye and exceptional talent for jumping. With the passing of her sire Darco in 2006, she will continue to carry his legacy on through her valuable offspring. Her daughter, Datoucha was honored as the Highest Scoring Foal of the 2003 BWP Keuring Tour. Darco, her sire is a legendary Belgium stallion. He was ridden by Ludo Philippaerts to Olympic level and ranks as one of the top ten show jumping breeding sires in the world. His international achievements include a 7th at the Barcelona Olympics, 2nd at Spruce Meadows, 6th in the World Equestrian Games, and numerous placings in World-Cup competitions. As a sire, Darco was never known to produce offspring that fell short of excellence. His mares are highly coveted as brood mares and his male offspring have been very successful. Especially notable is his son Parco who was 9th on the World Ranking List in 2001 and King Darco who competed at the Atlanta Olympics. In a survey of the world's top 75 jumping sires that appeared in the French publication, Monneron 2007-2008, Darco held the position of Third Best Sire in the World, with 35 CSI winners.         

The KWPN is one of the largest Warmblood studbooks in the world. For 2009 – for an unprecedented fifth year in a row – the KWPN once again took the leading position for jumpers in the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horse (WBFSH) rankings and again took the second spot in dressage.

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