Ringo x May Sherif x Alexander

2005 16.1h black tobiano stallion

Graded with the WBS-UK (2008 Champion SHR)

DOUBLE Elite Premium winner BEF Futurity Scheme 2008

Multiple championship winner in hand sportshorse classes

Amour G is a young horse with the most delightful temperament.

Although he has all the credentials for breeding top quality sporthorses, his kind and gentle disposition make him ideal for producing allrounders for the amateur rider too.

His paces are wonderful. He walks like a cat, trots on air and has a fabulous uphill canter.

Amour G is graded with the prestigious WBS-UK, formerly known as the BWBS, in the Sporthorse Register.

The WBS-UK is widely acknowledged as being one of the toughest sporthorse societies in the UK with which to grade. They are WBFSH members and use foreign graders to assess the horses. They are experts in the field of breeding and producing sporthorses, not show judges.

We are very proud that Amour G is only the third coloured stallion to be approved with the society.

From the WBS-UK website...... ''The standard of the stallions was significantly higher than in some previous years and the judges licensed a total of 10 stallions from the 25 presented. In the Sports Horse category, where standards and expectations are identical to the main Warmblood Grading, this year’s Champion was Amour G, a coloured KWPN son of Goshka Ringo out of a Danish mare. Owned by Pippa Childerhouse and very professionally shown by Tim from Woodcroft Stud, the judges were impressed with this statuesque but lightfooted mover.''

He is also the only horse to date to be awarded TWO Elite First Premiums by the BEF Futurity scheme, one for dressage and one for show jumping.

With no marks less than 9 out of 10, he scored 9.75 in the vetting, 9.75 for his paces and 9.5 for his conformation.
Comments from the evaluators included `` fabulous walk, good hindleg for canter``, ``very scopey, good brain`` and ''it wouldn't matter what colour this horse was, he could be pink with blue spots, he would still be a great horse!''.

Amour G is destined for the dressage arena but has also been lightly shown with great success.
Winner of many sporthorse classes and championships he has also won the coveted BSPA Superstar In Hand Championship twice.

Pedigree

Amour G has both Olympic dressage and showjump horses on both sides of his pedigree.

His sire, Goshka Ringo, is a grandson of the great Olympic Ferro.

Like his son, Ringo has a kind and easy disposition. Only lightly competed, he has been successful at BD medium level.

Ringo's sire King also has the same gentle and easy nature. He not only rides but drives alongside mares and hit the headlines around the world in 2006 when being one of the brave horses that helped lead over 100 horses stranded by flood waters in Holland.

King's sire Purioso produced three Olympic sons including Bonfire and Cocktail, the sire of Jazz, the 2006 KWPN stallion of the year.

Purioso is himself a son of Furioso II, producer of a long line of International and Olympic showjumpers.

Amour G's dam line is equally illustrious.

His dam is a double branded Danish warmblood mare who competed successfully in dressage before retiring to stud in the UK.

His damsire is the great May Sherif.

Despite competition from imported German and Swedish horses, May Sherif won his performance test for the Danish Warmblood Society in 1975.

In 1988, he had two of his progeny competing at the Seoul Olympic Games, Andiamo, then ridden by the Swiss Otto Hofer, and Matador with Kyra Kyrklund. And suddenly May Sherif was not only popular in Denmark, but his semen was being sent all around the world.

It is said that if you reach the soul of a May Sherif horse he will fight for you and to his utmost to serve you.

Amour G welcomes visitors at his home in Norfolk. We are just 40 minutes on from Newmarket so not as remote as you might think!

In order to concentrate on his dressage career, Amour will be doing walk in collections at Groomsbridge Stud and AI Centre at Linton, Cambridgeshire.

With excellent facilities and knowledgeable staff, mares can board here or, of course, chilled semen can be shipped to you.

Stud fee £450 + collection. AI fresh or chilled. NFFR

Possible discount for graded mares or for two or more.