Irco Mena - Imperius (tb) - King of
Diamonds
An international Grand Prix winner with exceptional ability and graceful movements. Father, Grandfather and great Grandfather all jumped international and were Nations Cup horses. Damline comes from the best of Ireland with Olympic lines. - Learn More
Lars Irco G – Irco Marco – Chou Chin Chow (tb)
A lovely both scopey and careful stallion that has been
jumping
international for Sweden, Norway and USA. Linebred on leading sire
Irco Marco, with a world class pedigree on both sides, dam being
fullsister to Nelson Pessoas World Championship horse.
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Feinschnitt 1 – Ramiro Z – Ferdinand
An impressive very scopey horse who has been jumping internationally in World Cup, International Grand Prix and Puissance with the Pessoa stable. From an Olympic sire with damsire rated "Stallion of the century" and top international dam line. - Learn More
Baloubet du Rouet – Irco Mena – Raldo Polo
Unlimited scope, yet very careful, extremely promising jumper just started jumping international when he died. From the worlds best jumper and 3times World Cup winner out of an exceptional family with leading damsire and World Cup g.granddam. - Learn More
Gustavii Stud was started in the early 1970s with the then young Dutch stallion Irco Marco and the Irish filly Ballymena Park. These two horses became the foundation to the Stud, and are still today in the bottom line of most of our horses. They are also involved in building up the bloodlines that was the reason that the stud in 1998 was ranked 15th best showjumping stud in the world.
We bred Marcoville, 6th Individual Olympic Games in Barcelona, and her fullbrother Irco Mena, Grand Prix and Nations Cup winner. Both selected to represent Sweden in the 1994 World Championships. We have had the leading sires in Sweden for many years, first with Irco Marco from 1990 for, I believe,18 years in a row, in the list of older stallions, and later also with his son Irco Mena, among the younger stallions, from 1995 to around 2008. This ranking has now been replaced with BLUP rating, where both stallions lie in top.
We have bred a large amount of international jumpers, both while the stud was located in Sweden, and also later while located in England. We have always been keen to look for ways of improving the horses we breed, like finding ever better bloodlines, and with that introducing the Dutch blood in Sweden, and also carefully finding some of the best thoroughbreds for jumping in Ireland. This have been a very happy mix, and continuing with these bloodlines, we have almost managed to make our own showjumping "breed". We were also first to introduce frozen semen to Sweden, with our stallion Irco Marco, and helped getting the use of frozen semen well known over the country. We were also first to do embryo transfer in Sweden, even before it became legal to do so. This difficulty to make progress that exists in Sweden made us look abroad, and that is why we moved to England in 1991.
In England we have continued linebreeding on the best bloodlines, but have also introduced new blood from Germany and France.
As we breed for the international jumping sport our aim has been to breed a horse that is sensitive and well balanced with primarily the female rider in mind, yet powerful, scopey and careful.
We have some
fantastic young horses to bring forward just now, so please contact
us or check out our facebook page for more up-to-date
information.
Contact Information:
Ann Gustavii
Telephone number: +44 (0)7535-900976
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