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Sires - Olympic Concorde Pref

NEWS FLASH!!! From the NAWPN news "In an overfull Brabant Hall in Holland, Concorde was honored as Horse of the Year 2003 out of 10 nominated horses...The votes were overwhelmingly for Concorde...Concorde looked as though he understood that the whole celebration was for him"

Olympic Concorde also has the great honor of being #5 in the WBFSH Top Ten Jumping Stallions of 2003. He is ahead of such greats as Ramiro Z and Galoubet A. He is also the youngest stallion in the top 10!

Concorde comes from very strong jumping lines on both sides. Sire of this stallion, who in jumping circles is known as Olympic Concorde, is the impressive dominant breeding stallion Voltaire, who via his sire Furioso II and Gotthard is bred to perform. Voltaire is the number 2 in the World Breeding Rankings for Showjumping Sires in 1996. Voltaire through the performances of his offspring stands very high in both the dressage and jumping indexes. Due to his high ranking position, Voltaire was given the "keur" and "preferent" predicates at a very early age. Concorde's dam, Flyer, is by the legendary Marco Polo, one of the most influential Dutch stallions in breeding and jumping with representatives such as: Irco Polo, Pybalia, Marius, Orpheus, Mr LA, Pierrot and Recruut.

Flyer is related to the international jumper Vivaldi, which under Melanie Smith was speed horse of the Year in 1980. Flyer produced at least 6 (inter)national jumpers. Concorde was himself an international jumper with Jos Lansink. They won the Grand Prix of Nordrhein-Westfalen at Aken and they were Champion of the Netherlands in 1994, 2nd in the Grand Prix of Amsterdam, 2nd Darmstadt, 2nd Lanaken, 2nd Helsinki and 2nd Gothenburg. The last three years Concorde was the sire with the most offspring at the World Breeding Championships for young horses. In the year 2001 the "preferent" Concorde has proved himself to be an absolute top sire of international sporthorses. His offspring Audi's Jikke, Kathja, Conquest II, Larino, Viktor and Isabella proved themselves at the very top at Grand Prix level (1.60 m.). In the Grand Prix of Rotterdam 3 from the top 8, had Concorde to thank as their sire. At the international horseshow of Maastricht Concorde had 11 offspring in the international finals! Concorde was the youngest stallion ever to be awarded "preferent", due to his endless list of national and international children.