With Comme le père it comes full circle. His father, Comme il faut, has been bred in Riesenbeck by Ludger Beerbaum. The mother Ratina Z won with Ludger Beerbaum the team gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta/USA and also at the WEG 1994 in Den Haag/NED. Furthermore she won double gold at the 1997 European Championships in Mannheim, in 1993 the World Cup final in Gothenburg/SWE and in 1996 the Aachen Grand Prix. From the dam-line of Comme le père comes the mare Padua. With her, Ludger Beerbaum and Ralf Schneider have been able to achieve numerous victories and placements in international competitions. His father, Comme il faut, has been successful in international competitions under Marcus Ehning. In 2016 he won the Global Champions Tour stage of Vienna/AUT and the Riders Tour stage in Paderborn. Almost 15 of his sons have already been licensed; first offspring are successful in advanced level show-jumping classes like e.g. Comilfo Plus Z/Christian Ahlmann. The mother Completta is a full-sister to the licensed Completto. Her half-siblings Caligula de Hus (by Carolus II)/Luiz Felipe de Azevedo Filho/BRA and Come Alone (by Come On)/Clara Darty /FRA have placed in international competitions. Her half-sister Calin (by Clinton I) is the grandmother of the licensed stallion For Complete (by For Pleasure). Completta has been successfully presented in show-jumping competitions. Her son, King Quidam (by Quidam de Revel), has already placed in show-jumping competitions up to medium (M) level. The dam-sire is the famous stallion Contender. 127 of his sons have received their approval, more than 110 daughters have been awarded state premium. The more than 400 advanced level (S) successful offspring, such as the top horses Chiara/Ludger Beerbaum, Colore/Hans-Dieter Dreher, Checkmate/Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Montender/Marco Kutscher, Controe/Marco Kutscher, Con Air/Otto Becker and Constantin/Markus Beerbaum, have so far reached lifetime-earnings of more than 9.3 million Euros. The third father is the Westphalian famous stallion Pilot. 84 of his sons have been licensed. The lifetime-earnings of his descendants amount to 4 million Euros, collected by the 230 advanced level (S)-successful offspring, such as P.S. Priamos/Ludger Beerbaum, Pia Lotta/Edwina Tops-Alexander/AUS, Poker/Otto Becker, Power-Light/Alois Pollmann-Schweckhorst and many more. The great-grandmother Pink Floyd has brought the licensed and medium level (M) show-jumping successful Pirate (by Pilot), Conduro de Cuvry (Contender), who has been licensed in France and the medium level (M) show-jumping horse Pilatus (by Phantom). Her daughter Ascona Adelheid has become the mother of the AES-licensed stallions Robin Adelheid (by Robin II Z) and Zahr Adelheid (by Zandor Z). Pink Floyd is also the full-sister of the licensed and internationally successful Poor Boy/Beat Maendli/SUI. Her full-sister Sora la Silla has been successful under Jan Tops/NED and has brought the Olympic Game horse Sancha la Silla (by Chin Chin)/Daniel Bluman/COL and the World Cup show-jumping horse Zodiac (by Zeus)/Holger Hetzel. Pink Floyd's full-sister Padua has won with Ludger Beerbaum and later with Ralf Schneider advanced level (S) competitions (earnings 177.354 Euros) and has brought, under her breeding-name Pusteblume, the licensed stallion Zandor (by Zeus)/Jos Lansink/BEL. From the Holstein dam-line 4965 come the licensed stallions Rivaldo Adelheid Z (

European Championship fifth placed, three-times German Champion, 125 placings in World Cups, Nation Cups and Grand Prix, 16 of them have been first places and almost 550.000 Euros price money – Coupe de Coeur belongs to the illustrious circle of the most successful show jumper stallions in the world. And he passes his outstanding talents on. Eleven of his sons have been licensed, including licensing winners and stallion performance test winners, as the Stakkato-award winner Complete. He has produced many international successful horses like Coester, Coupe de Alb and Coupe d‘Or. Among his numerous premium daughters, Queentina, the Oldenburg-International reserve champion mare and advanced level winner, stands far out. The offspring of Coupe de Coeur placed at top shows around the world, led by the under Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum in Wellington/USA, Helsinki/FIN and Calgary/CAN successful Comanche as well as Club de Coeur, As de Coeur, Coupis, Coupe de Alb and Casa Ciara. His sire Calido I, a son of the famous Cantus, is one of the main advertisements for the Holstein breed. The dam Adele has also produced the licensed stallion Russel (by Corofino I)/Nick Skelton/GBR and six further advanced (S) level show jumpers, with the underlying inheritance security of Coupe de Coeur.

The outstanding winner of the Aachen Grand Prix and the German Championship bronze winner - for the first time in breeding with us. L.B. Convall has again put an exclamation mark behind his jumping ability and his willingness to perform! So the grey, who has a strong type and who always jumps in perfect manner, placed under Philipp Weishaupt in the Grand Prix of Mannheim, Noerten-Hardenbeck, Calgary/CAN and Muenster. L.B. Convall was licensed in 2011 by the Holstein association in Elmshorn. In his 30-day test the same year in Schlieckau, he received a final score in show-jumping of 9.23 (free-jumping 10.0) and a weighted overall score of 8.14. From the age of four to six he achieved numerous victories and placings in show-jumping competitions up to medium level (M) classes, including the victory in the Holstein State Championship in 2013. In 2014, L.B. Convall collected under Christina Liebherr/SUI placings in the youngster tours of Ascona/SUI, Arezzo ITA and Chevenez/SUI. From 2015 on he continues his career under Philipp Weishaupt.

Mumbai van de Moerhoeve is the perfect example for the highly successful, due to uncompromising selection for performance, Belgian jumping horse breeding. Not only does he have Diamant de Semilly, Nabab de Rêve, Chin Chin and Quidam de Revel, the best sires ever in direct lineage on his father’s side but also the highly successful mares of his mother’s line. Mumbai van de Moerhoeve was formed slowly and competed as a six-year-old under Nick Vrins/BEL in the international Youngster tours of Valkenswaard/NED and Bondheiden/BEL. He was also placed sixth in the overall ranking of the prestigious Hengstcompetitie series in the Netherlands. The mother, Ishgl du Muze won the international Youngster tour of Bondheiden/BEL with Joe Clee/GBR. She also produced the licensed Opium JW van den Moerhoeve (by Kannan) who achieved several victories in the Hengstcompetitie series. The Grandmother, Eureka van’t Roosakker also known as VDL Groep Eureka, was victorious in Lausanne/SUI, London/GBR, Paris/FRA, Gothenburg/SWE and Barcelona/ESP under her rider Maikel van der Vleuten/NED. She also produced Jeleena de Muze/Lauren Tisbo/USA who placed at the World Jumping Breeding Championships for Young horses and also reached placings up to CSI5* competitions as well as also internationally placed Imposante de Muze, Canavaro de Muze and Valdes un Prince. The Great-Grandmother, Beauty-Belle van’t Roosakker, was placed among others at the CSI4* in Munich with Tobias Meyer. Her daughter Fa-Belle van’t Roosakker (by Casper) is internationally successful with her rider Cindy van der Straten/BEL.

Zinedine made a really spectacular debut as stallion. Right from his first foal year he presented the winner of the OS licensing in Vechta, who was later offered at the stallion market for the top prize of 215.000 Euros. Also at other licensing dates, outstandingly jumping sons of Zinedine have been part of the stallion collections. A daughter won the free-jumping competition in Verden. After initially competing in sport in Poland, Zinedine was carefully prepared by Ludger Beerbaum for upper level courses. In 2014, facing fierce competition, Zinedine took second place in the Grand Prix of Paris/FRA and London, fifth place in the Grand Prix of Shanghai, proving his unlimited talent. Later Zinedine won at the World Cup shop in Zuerich/SUI, took fifth rank in Shanghai/CHN and placed at the CSI5* in St. Gallen/SUI and at the CSI4* in Wiesbaden. His sire Guidam (by Quidam de Revel) has produced many championship offspring and was awarded as the „Stallion of the year“ 1996 in the Netherlands. Dam Unadonja has won ribbons in show jumping up to 1.45 meter with Shane Sweetnam/IRL. The Holstein dam sire Heartbreaker belongs to the world’s best show-jumping sires.