Lord Spencer, 'Pence' foaled June 15th, 2007

Asking price $7,000

Sire: IdleHour Yorktown, Cleveland Bay
Dam: Cricket, Oldenburg

IdleHour Yorktown is recipient of the British Society's Quality Approved Stallion Rating. Yorktown is an exceptional young stallion passing on the attributes of his performance proven sire and dam. He has won in hand consistently as a Sport Horse and as a Hunter. His first foals exhibit the quality of their sire. Yorktown is a very good candidate for siring the partbred or purebred Cleveland Bay. Excellence and Versatility. He evented in his youth, doing very well, and his dam was regularly hunted first flight.

Cricket is a Caretino, and Landjune (maternal) granddaughter and registered Oldenburg.

Caretino is one of Germany's top stallions, producing horses that excel in both the dressage and jumper rings. From the latest (2001) WBFSH rankings of top jumping sires, he is ranked #5 and is the youngest, at 18 years old, in the top ten. With more than 100 offspring, known for their astonishing movement and jumping ability, in sport, Caretino has 18 approved sons and 114 daughters, of which 12 are German State Premium. Recently Caretino was one of four to be accredited as an approved KWPN stallion without having been presented at the Stallion Show nor evaluated on the constitutional requirements of the KWPN.

Caretino is by Caletto II, the most important son of the Holsteiner breed mainstay, Cor de la Bryere. Caletto II is said to embody the perfect traits of the Holsteins: noble and expressive, long-bodied, correct conformation, excellent gaits and exceptional jumping ability.

As a young stallion, Caretino won his 100-day test in the Holsteiner Verband with the brilliant scores of 9.0 and 9.5 in jumping and 9.0 in general performance.

About Landjunge: Landjunge finished his 100 day test with a score of 124.12 – with scores likes 9.67 in free-jumping and 9.00 in character. With Kurt Maier, he qualified for the Bundescham-pionat before leaving for America, where he had an extraordinary success as a grand-Prix jumper with Margie Goldstein. As a young stallion in Baden-Wurttemburg, he produced international jumpers Laissez-Faire5/Ludger and Markus Beerbaum and Leopard 56 / Kurt Maier in one very limited breeding season. Since his recent return to breeding in the past few years he has produced 3 approved sons – Lifestyle, Lifestar, L’Exorbitant. Every year, his foals bring record prices at auction, and premiering, wherever you go in germany, his foals are on top. Landjunge breeds Holstein, Oldenburg, and Baden-Wurttemburg.