Rivendell Lucca ( Sold )
Rivendell Lucca
D.O.B 18/11/2023
Rivendell Lucca is larger than life in every way. He is super tall, super cute, super athletic and with a super performance proven pedigree. He is one of the stud’s first progeny of our stallion Rivendell Lamborghini, who at eight years of age is competing in the 1.40m GP’s with rider Nicola Sime-Riley.
Lamborghini is the son of the stallion Lissabon and out of the premium mare Calvyra Z x Calvaro Z. Lamborghini is the half brother on the dam side to open showjumpers Rivendell Numerology, Rivendell Champagne and Rivendell Braveheart. Lamborghini was her last foal.
As a young horse in Germany, Lissabon won both sections of his Stallion Performance Test in Oldenburg. Multiple style-class winner, he received the dream score of 9.3 for his jumping style at the Bundeschampionate Finals with Johannes Ehning. During his short breeding career in Germany, in addition to scores of champion foals and state premium mares, he produced six licensed sons of which Lissaro van der Helle rewrote history after winning three consecutive Bundeschampionate Gold medals.
After progressing to the 1.50m classes as a serial winner, he was imported in 2008. It was here in South Africa with Callaho broodmares that his reputation as a legendary progenitor was truly cemented with reams of progeny now revealing exceptional promise in the open classes, including the big 1.50m tracks. Indomitable at the top of the SASJ Sire Rankings, this magnificent stallion has proven himself, beyond any shadow of a doubt, to be a sire of Warmblood sport horses in a class of his very own.
Lordanos, sire of Lissabon, is an amazing foundation sire. His successful offspring drew attention to this great stallion. In 2013 he was named the top jumper’s sire in the USA by the USEF.
His career began by winning nearly 40 competitions for young showjumpers, where after he was successful at the 1.40m and 1.50m classes for an incredible eleven years. He also competed in the Puissance class, successfully clearing a 2 meter high wall.
Lordanos has an unparalleled character, extraordinary rideability and is an extremely talented show-jumper. He has produced avery large number of incredibly successful offspring and is regarded as one of the greatest sires in the world.
He is a descendent of the famous and high profile Ramiro line 776 and a guarantee for maximum heritability for performance and ability. His sire being Landos, one of the sons of the famous stallion Lord. On the dam side of Landos we find Calypso I and Capitano. The dam sire Ahorn Z originates from the international showjumpers Alme Z and Heureka Z, and has produced many top show jumping horses.
In the third generation we find Calypso I, the sire of some of the world’s top dressage and show jumping horses. The blood of the top stallion Cottage Son xx is also very dominant in the pedigree of Lordanos. Lordanos’s sire Landos, and his dam, Ashley, both come from the
Holstein dam line 776. This line produced top sport horses and the stallions Calvados I and II, Cortino I and II, Captain Incipit, Lord Incipit, Lauritz J, Rossini, Toledo and the famous and important sire Ramiro.
The sire of Calvyra Z, was no other than the legendary Calvaro Z himself, who was ridden by three of the World’s greatest show jumpers Jos Lansink, Johan and Michael Whitaker, with such success that he is worthy of being added to the list of World Class stallions. His progeny have become extremely popular based on the successes of his offspring as well as their own offspring in future generations. They are known to demonstrate brave attitude, carefulness and ability to perform at the highest levels.
Due to his own showjumping commitments, Calvaro Z himself started his stud career late. However, in his first season at Zangersheide, he produced 232 foals and in his second season 246. His progeny are known by tremendous canters and a very powerful jump, which placed him in the top 10 rankings of the WBFSH sire rankings during his time with an exceptionally high ratio of sons and daughters consistently jumping in the 1.60m tracks.
Calvaro’s sire was Caletto I, who also featured in the top 10 sire rankings of the WBFSH. His dam Deka by Consul, made breeding history of her own by producing five approved sons. Caletto I was one of the most successful horses in sport, ridden by Michael Rupling. He jumped at international level with his greatest achievement being winning the individual bronze at the 1982 Dublin World Championships, after his show-jumping career of five years, the son of Cor de la Bryere had won more than 100 000 DM, more than any other German breeding stallion before him at that time.
Lucca’s dam is the imported Belgium Warmblood mare Godiva van Essene, who competed successfully in the open classes herself. She is by the legendary stallion Chacco Blue, who with four progeny was the best represented stallion at the European Championships 2015. He was also the best represented at the WEG in Tryon in 2018, with eight progeny. His influence was still seen in 2021 as sire of Ben Maher’s Explosion W, winner of the Gold Medal at the Tokyo Games.
The bay stallion died in his prime, of Lyme disease in 2012, having won the Grand Prix of Neumünster earlier in the year, ridden by Schockemöhle stable jockey, Andreas Kruezer.
For most of his life, from 2007 to 2010, Chacco-Blue was ridden for Paul Schockemöhle by Alois Pollmann-Schweckhorst. They were moderately successful on the international scene: the pair were 3rd in the Grand Prix of Falsterbo, 2nd at Hachenburg, first in a 1.60 at Olympia, for total lifetime earnings of €289,517, but it is as a sire that Chacco-Blue has been a star.
For Alois, he was the horse of a lifetime: “When I started to work with Chacco-Blue, he was nine years old,” he told me. “He was just ready to step up into international sport. The good thing for me was that he had always had good riders in his life. When he was five and six, Cameron Henley rode him, a popular well-known rider from Ireland, then David McPherson, then Manuel Fernandez Saro. When I got him, he was well-educated but for me in the beginning, he was really ambitious, he was sometimes a little over-motivated. It took about half a year before I could control him even at the end of the course, from number nine to the
last fence, 12 or 13.”
“He was a horse with a wonderful attitude, he always wanted to go, he was not spooky at all. The only thing that made it a little bit harder for me in the beginning was that I didn’t have total control, but we found our way together, and for sure he was one of the best horses I have ridden.”
The outstanding feature of the motherline is the grand dam, a half bred mare, Godahra II, by the Thoroughbred, Godavari (Tudor Minstrel line). In the Eastern part of Germany she was very popular, and used to win a lot of 1.30m and 1.40m classes, with superb rideability. The offspring of Chacco-Blue, almost 99% have a super technique, a big heart, a good attitude to work, which might well come from this very strong grand-mother.”
Chacco Blue passes on a wonderful technique, front leg technique, and the most obvious thing is the positive attitude to the sport. Some of the horses, they might be a little bit delicate in the beginning, when they are young they are a little bit freaky, a little bit spooky, not really spooky but their senses are 100%, what they hear, what they see, and it takes them a little while to settle. This is not a weakness, this is something that every good young horse has.”
Chacco-Blue is by Chambertin, a Holsteiner, and on the mother’s side it is Contender, another Holsteiner with many offspring at the Championships, also some grandsons. Chambertin
bred foals that were good in type, and their jumping style was good, very careful horses.
His FN young horse jumping value is 139 and 178 for highest level achieved. He was number one on the WBFSH jumping sires rankings for many years after his death.