Alcatraz
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| Gender | Brood Mare | Date of Birth | 10/06/98 |
| Breed | Holstein | Stamm | 8763 |
| Colour | Bay | Horse Ref | 17 |
| Points | In foal to Chateau de Brion due 23 July 2008. | ||
Bloodline
Description
This horse is an old style Holstein Mare, big and heavy, she has wonderful movement and floats over the ground. This together with a calm nature makes her a valuable and interesting Brood Mare
Sire Line
Alcatraz
One of the most impressive stallions for its type in Holstein. Alcatraz has the sires combination (Alme / Gotthrad) the same combination as Athlete, one of top sires in Holstein, both bread on Zangersheide in Belgium, Leon Melchior has selected the best group of Gotthrad Mares ever in the 1970’s and has had very great success when mating them to Ramiro and Ramiro.
Stallions of this blood combination have influenced the breeding of jumping horses world wide. In Alcatraz there is the addition of Remero blood through the Dems Sire Ronald.
Alcatraz His sire Aloube Z initially covered in Bavaria for a short time, before going to Holstein. Even today he is one of the very few Hanoverians that is utilised in Holstein following the dissolution of the Holstein Traventhal stud farm. He was a successful show jumper under Austrian patronage. The dam, state premium mare Nirza produced a number of successful sports horses, including federal championship contestants and top auction horses. The damsire Ronald made a name for himself in Holstein as a pronounced procreator of mares and became the most important Ramiro son in breeding terms in the state between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. The granddam also gave birth to the renown sires Colt (Holstein Association) and Joost (Netherlands, leased stallion Holstein Association) and is furthermore the granddam of the breeding stallion Merano. The great-granddam Diastolchen moreover produced the sires Anklang and Laertes. In addition to that, bloodline 242 brought forth the stallions Ahorn Z, Mannerheim and Record (all private stallions Netherlands), Briscar, Lesanto, Liostro, Roderik and Locarno (all private stallions Holstein), Calatus, Castellini, Ravensberg (all private stallions Holstein), Canino de Lobo (private stallion Rhineland, Rhineland-Palatinate-Saar), Lutz L (private stallion Westphalia) and the top international competition horse Rosella G /Ludger Beerbaum.
Performance record: Alcatraz was the sovereign winner of the aptitude test for approved and performance tested stallions carried out at the DLG-show in Frankfurt for the first time in 1989. He passed the stallion performance test with top scores for jumping ability and galloping (10 points respectively in training), as well as loose jumping (9.5); In addition to that, he achieved well above average points in all other test criteria (between 7.67 and 9.0), making him the worthy performance test champion.
Breeding record: Alcatraz began a brilliant stud career right from the start. He has presented six approved stallions to date, namely, Aurelio I and II, Alcazaro, Arnstein E, Argent and the 1993 Holstein approvals champion Akinos. He furthermore sired fifteen state premium mares, of which the majority achieved outstanding results at the brood mare performance test in Holstein. His progeny are doing well in competition sport. Apart from conformation class winners and series winners of show jumper classes, he has already presented successful international show jumpers including i.a. Achille Laura, Alcamo 2, the approved Alcazaro and Aurelio II, Apia and Ashley 38). For years now, the FN breeding value rating has listed him at the forefront in respect to his versatile hereditary transmission.
Dam Line
Rembrant
Rembrant is interesting as the son of Roman and he comes from the Holstein one of the top strain 18b1. Roman is also the Dam Sire of Cantus, he is the sire of some of the most famous jumping horses in the world like Calvaro, Little Rock Stallion and very good jumper Dem is by Roman Larome a Stallion that had a good producing record of Jumping horses), Tin Rocco (Stallion) Rouletto Stallion.
Roman
Roman is one of the best dam sires in the world for jumping horses all have dams by Roman. Carolus, Calvin.
Alme
One of the most influential stallions two of his sons being ‘I Love You’ - winner of the world cup, and Galoubet - who dominated the International jumping scene in the 80’s. Further Stallion sons are Jalisco, Athlete, Ahorn, Aloubet, Alexis, Animo and Aldato. Genetically strong always has strong blood.