Pictures like this make us happy to sell our babies! This is Ariel SSF (Iroko x Chiltern Copa of Tower Hill), with her new owners/devotees, Joanne and Stephen.
Check out Scot's journal for recent events and entries, updated often.
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Current Sales List
If you see a horse you like, we are happy to convert the purchase price into monthly payments, just like buying a car or a house, but without any interest charge. We agree on a the length of time for the payments, and you can have yourself a new Shooting Star Farm sport horse or breeding prospect. Please contact me for more information,
If we have readily available video footage of any of our sale horses, you can find it on youtube by searching "shootingstarfarm314
Scot
FOR SALE
Bunny SSF (Johnson x Volkmar x Rechter)
Three year old, chestnut mare. Should mature to 16.2. This young mare has yet to be started, but will be presented at a keuring in the fall. She's is an ultra-modern type, with scopey, supple movement. We will start longlining her in the next month or so, and get her going under saddle. She's a super sweet personality. Once the weather breaks, we'll get some pictures and video footage posted. I am planning on breeding this mare if she doesn't sell before April or May. She is the last foal of our beloved Kirona, and I'd be more than happy to keep a filly for our program. Her price is temporary; it will go up as she begins undersaddle work. 15,000.
Bonfire SSF (Contango x Vincent x Elcaro)
Three year old, bay gelding. Should mature to 16.1+. This is a big boned, powerful gelding with the type of natural dressage talent that his pedigree would suggest. In type, he will most likely be a second premium, but in movement and dressage ability he has the potential to be a really solid sporthorse. He, too, will be started in the spring. His price will rise accordingly. $15,000.
Bravour (Jazz x Cabochon x Fruhling)
Three year old, black gelding. Is currently just under 16 hands. This colt is still in Holland. He has been started undersaddle. More information is listed at the bottom of our sales page.
Ben Harper MVDL (Burggraaf x Zeoliet x Nimmerdor)
Three year old, chestnut gelding. I expect this colt to mature to 17 hands +. He is also in Holland. More information at the bottom of this page.
DaVinci SSF (UB-40 x Havidoff x Ramiro)
At the recent New England Keuring Leo was first premium, top
dressage baby, and high point young dressage horse. The jury's
comments were: "Beautiful, well developed colt with a very good
rectangular frame and much charisma--he moves with much power and
expression and has particularly good use of his hind leg."
"Leo" is a colt that I haven't publically offered for sale this year because I'm so torn about keeping him. He's one of our best. His pedigree speaks for itself--the very best of modern Dutch breeding. His sire's offspring are much sought-after in Holland, and many breeders can not understand why UB-40 was ever sold to the USA. His dam, Oleander B, was top foal in her region in Holland, invited and sold at the Borculo foal auction, and went on to be a top ten ster mare in the USA. The mareline is exceptional, full of top sport horses and well predicated mares, including the famous UTV mare, Weigelia, whom we had the good fortune of owning the last few years of her life.
This colt is a supple, relaxed mover, with excellent bending of the joints. He shortens and lengthens easily and in very good rhythm and tact. He is expressive in his movement without having the "young horse flash", that kind that wows buyers and judges in the lower level competitions, but doesn't have the substance or balance to make the FEI ring. This is a colt bred and built for upper level work. He's a good colt. $25,000
Aerosmith SSF (Iroko x Pass the Glass xx) $30,000.
We're delighted to announce that "Stevie" is the number one, KWPN-NA, jumper mare of 2008! Since birth, she's demonstrated her extreme athleticism and quality. The jury sang her praises, especially for the correctness of her foundation, the quality of her walk, and the talent of her jumping. This is an extraordinarily talented mare upon which to base a sport partnership or breeding program. Her dam, LaLiscia, is a TB mare of nearly royal proportions. Her breeding includes Hyperion in the immediate pedigree and line breeding to Precipitation, which is the TB stallion behind the influential Furioso horses. The KWPN is so intent on reintroducing TB blood to the pedigrees of modern sporthorses that it has developed a half TB keuring class in Holland, to encourage breeders to use this blood. Stevie combines the highly successful blood of the keur stallion, Iroko, with the very best TB blood in sport horse history. She has had three months under saddle with Joe and Patty Forrest. Video footage is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxr3fC7BEKc
Degas SSF, aka, Eddie
(Polansky x Fairfield's Fortune x Funquest Talstar)
$5000 SOLD!
Bandito SSF (Donatelli x Hierarch) 10,000.
SOLD!
Click here to download recent video footage of Bandito SSF
Click here to download recent video footage of Bandito SSF
Click here to download recent video footage of Bandito SSF
At two years old, this is one of the most talented colts we've bred, but he's really sensitive and needs the right home--hence, he's still priced as a weanling.
Verito SSF (Freestyle x Jazz x Roemer)
Click here to download recent video footage of Verito SSF
(6 minute - 20mb .mov video file)
"Guido" is one of the best horses we've bred. He was number one in North America as a foal and number two as a two year old; he was selected to return for possible licensing with the KWPN; although not licensed, he successfully completed the performance portion of the presentation process, and was the high score DG Bar Cup horse at the Iron Spring Farm keuring in 2004.
His dam line is one of Holland's finest. Orchis, his dam, has the highest dressage index of any KWPN mare in North America. If she were in Holland, she would be among the top few, as well. This mare family has produced a large number of FEI dressage horses and approved stallions.
Guido's sire, Freestyle, recently had a daughter compete in the young horse championships in Verden. Freestyle is siring top young dressage horses, with super ridability and lovely, supple gaits. Freestyle himself has competed through PSG.
Guido was gelded this fall, and is really starting to come into his own. He has been under the tutelage of Grand Prix rider, Jim Koford, for a year and a half. This five year old gelding wants to please a rider; his training is correct; his future unlimited. He is a prime candidate for the FEI young horse program. Guido is currently approximately 16.1 hands, a dark, almost black, brown, and fairly short coupled. Recent footage under saddle is available. Drop me an email, and I'll get a DVD right out to you.
SOLD!
Congratulations to Eileen Halloran on the purchase of this really special young dressage horse.
Two Talented Coming Three Year Olds For Sale
We have two stallion prospects in Holland that are not going to the stallion selections. The KWPN has raised its height requirement, and Bravour is only 16 hands. He is a talented, dark, dark brown colt out of a super, performance-based mareline. He demonstrates very good basic gaits and brings the blood of both Jazz and Cabochon together. He is currently beginning training with Wim Cazemier in Holland. Wim says that Bravour loves to be worked, and shows much talent for dressage.
Ben Harper is one of the most athletic and supple horses I've had the pleasure of owning. However, in the short two years since I've owned him, specialization has taken a complete choke hold on the pedigrees that are interesting to the KWPN--they are not interested in even looking at this colt--he is Burggraaf x Zeoliet--too all purpose for the current trends in Dutch breeding. Ben is going to be a big boy--most likely 17 hands. He is from a very good dam line that is elite for three generations. His dam has a sport predicate in dressage; his full sister is a succesful jumper and has produced Darco offspring that sold for big money in one of the German foal auctions. Ben is chestnut with some white. He is out to pasture in Holland at the moment. I bought him as a potential dressage sire. Although I have not seen him jump, given his damline, athleticism and pedigree, my guess is that he can.
Price on these talented coming three year olds is negotiable, depending on import.
Over the last few years, I've stopped offering in utero sales, but, given the current economy, I'm a little more willing. We have five foals coming this year and are planning on breeding eight mares in 2009, so some of this year's crop will have to go. It's possible that more of our foals will be for sale...and possible that the ones listed below will not be once they get here and they have not been reserved! As I always say, I don't breed horses with the plan of selling them necessarily; I breed for the betterment and continuation of our program. All of the future babies listed below are priced at 7500., which is between 2500 and 7500 less than they'll be priced at upon birth.
UB-40 x Contango x Elcaro
UB-40 x Havidoff x Ramiro
Farrington x Elcaro x Belisar
The Serano Gold x Jazz foal will not be for sale; the UB-40 x Pass the Glass xx foal may be.
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