Selle Francais Stallion 'Calvados'

Calvados is bred from the best French performance bloodlines. His sire the Selle Francias , Uriel has been leading sire for several years (index 211, the highest index figure ever in France) .

His dam Gold Rose (index 186!) was as a 3 year old French Conformation Champion and she was in the French Show jumping Team from 1979 until 1982, during which time she won for example the Grand Prix of Paris and Madrid and came second in Lisbon, Barcelona and Hamburg .

Grand-dam of Calvados was the unique mare Jolie Rose, who became very famous by producing 6 international show jumpers including: All Rose, Dall Rose, Gold Rose, La Rose II. She also produced the approved stallions Irminio and Joly Jumper.

In 1992 Calvados as an 8 year old claimed a deserved 7th place in the Dutch Championship with Peter Geerink.
 

The next year they were Reserve Champion of the Netherlands and won the Grand Prix of Tjele in Denmark, 3rd Grand Prix of Drammen, 5th Grand Prix of Falsterbro, 2nd Grand Prix of Spangenberg, 4th Grand Prix of Geesteren and winner of the Stallion Competition at 's-Hertogenbosch.

Although Calvados has bred on a very limited scale, he has many international offspring jumping at Grand Prix level .

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