•  Approved German Holsteiner Breeding Stallion
• Ridden by Marco Kutscher, Germany
• Winning at International level

Royal Contender is a full sister to Controe. This stallion is an approved Verband breeding stallion based upon his tremendous success in the competition arena (Over 321,000 Euro lifetime winnings) In 2006, he won the CSI*** 1.6 Meter Grand Prix of Dortmund, as well
as competing in the finals of the 2006 German Show Jumping Championships.  When you are Marco Kutcher you have the pick of the horses you ride.

http://www.ludger-beerbaum.de/module-pagesetter-viewpub-tid-1-pid-22.html
  *click on the small picture of Controe to enlarge it
 

This next link is a video clip of Controe jumping Internationally with Marco Kutcher

http://www.pro-stallions.com/stallions/Controe.wmv
 

•  Ridden by Erik Navet, France
• Winning at International level

Also, full brother to RC, this horse was initially shown by Stanny Van Paesschen who placed in 7th in the 1.6M Grand Prix at the famed Olympia Show of London as well as showing
successfully at Spruce Meadows.  In Jan 2004 he was brought to West Palm Beach and the incredible Olympic rider, Eric Navet of France, was flown in to compete him on the Grand Prix field where he placed 5th in the CSIO along with a 3rd in the Saturday afternoon Grand Prix
 

• Highly placed with Marco Kutscher, Germany at the Bundeschampionship for 5 and 6 year olds
• Placed in 6 year old 2005 Bundeschampionate

A third brother, Chogun, was ridden in the German Bundeschampionship by Marco Kutcher where he made it the to the finals but also was highly placed in the 5yr olds  and then again the following year in the 6 yr old Finals.  Recently I spoke to Dirk Ahlmann( International rider who first brought Gitania into the Grand Prix ring) about Chogun.  He and Ludger Beerbaum were 50 % owners in the horse Chogun before he was sold to Finland and Dirk said that there is no doubt that Chogun has the ability to show in the 1.6 Grand Prix classes. Recently Ludger sent us a video
take of Chogun competing at the Championships

• Also closely related, Curtis is out of the full-sister to Almava the mother of RC
• Won team gold at 2006 WEG!

At the 2006 World Equestrian Games the team gold was won by the Netherlands.  On that team was a horse named Curtis ridden by Piet Raymakers ( Piet is the famed rider who rode Ratina Z to an individual silver in the 1992 Olympics).  Curtis is a first cousin to our Royal Contender i.e. their mothers are full sisters(Zaloube and Amalva).  After the WEG, Curtis went on to place 2nd in the CSI-W Grand Prix of Oslo. 

Here is a link to Curtis, from the main page, click on button: Paarden then click on button: Van Schijndel`s Curtis

http://www.pietraijmakers.nl/volg_frames/volg-index.htm
 

Also, out of this mother line 1916 and off a slightly different, but related branch, comes one of the currently 'Hot' stallion in Holstein, Clearway.  He was the father to 1 Approved stallion in Neumunster in 2005 and 2 in 2006 all with outstanding jumping ability.

Conway, who was shown in the USA on the Grand Prix circuit by Will Simpson and Gaby Salick is also out of the same mother ( Wodka) as Clearway.  Also out of this motherline is the up and coming star Chika's Way who is being competed very successfully by Janne-Fredrike Meyer.