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Lineage
Montserrat is by Metternich,
publicly known as the best son by Matcho x. Metternich is
extremely versatile for both Dressage and Jumping, and prepotent to pass down the traits.
Montserrat's half brother Multistar,
was
the Reserve Champion at his stallion licensing in 1999, demonstrating
the multi-talents in this line. Montserrat's dam-sire Abajo is also the dam-sire of Verden Licensing
Champion William's Gold and approved stallion Pik L, now standing in the US and Pan Am Game
competitor.
Performance
Montserrat is the Champion
at his stallion licensing in Adelheidsdorf. In the
same performance test group, even with 5 points deduction because he
was started late, Montserrat beat his Verden Licensing Reserve
Champion brother Multistar. He also scored higher than two other
popular stallions that currently stand in the US, and two other stallions
taken by Celle State Stud that year. Only 3 years after his licensing, he is already schooled to S level dressage by a
young trainer, Joerg Dietrich.
Traits
Montserrat has a strong
frame; he is leggy yet very compactly coupled overall. He has an
expressive
face with soft eyes. His specific conformation strengths include
his big sloping shoulder, good saddle position, and long forearms,
strong gaskins and well formed and low set hocks. All of them
are the TB/AA traits desired by the WB breed associations. He
will be very suitable to cross with warmbloods as well as
Thoroughbreds to add/or preserve movements and produce modern type dressage horses.
We consider him a superb outcross choice for D-/F-/R-/W-lines for
dressage.
Because of his jumping talent, we expect him to produce hunter/jumper
babies as well.
  His
gaits are correct, cadenced, and very uphill, making
him very easy to sit even
though the movements are lofty and powerful; he scored 9 on trot (video
at age 5).
He scored 9 on his temperament, and is soft and sensitive; his amateur owner
can ride him without any effort even at the very first time (see
pictures).
Reference siblings:
- Mambo No. 5 - 5-year-old
gelding, PSI auction horse sold for 1,100,000 Dmarks.
Competing and ranked highly at FEI level in 2004. See PSI
auction video.
- Marbach State Stud stallion Metteur (Metternich
X Pik Bube, registered Hanoverian.)
- Hanoverian State Stud
Stallion Montesquieu (Metternich X Weltmeyer)
- Multistar - Reserve Champion
at Verden licensing. Scored way ahead of well known
stallions Diamond Hit and Fuerst Piccolo at Zwolle International
Stallion show.
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