Description
Are you looking to breed the ultimate eventing horse?
A horse that will not limit you from moving up the grades and might even take you all the way to the top?
A horse that has the paces of a specialist dressage horse, the scope and carefulness of a straight show jumper plus the bravery and endurance needed to gallop home on time in the cross country?
Breed to Contenda and your dream eventing horse can become reality.
Contenda offers Australian event horse breeders the opportunity to breed to a world class purpose bred eventing stallion.
Contenda has proven himself on all levels to be both the ultimate event horse and the ultimate event horse sire.
*Personal Performance - Contenda has been a prolifically successful eventing competitor with Shane Rose. In 2014 Contenda won or placed in all his starts at 2* level. His dressage scores are consistently over 70%, he has dropped only 2 rails in showjumping over 4 seasons of eventing competition , he is frequently the fastest horse home on the cross country. Add to this his multiple wins in straight dressage and showjumping competitions and you have an all round top class performer.
In a live interview with "An Eventful Life " , Olympic silver medallist Shane Rose described Contenda as
"....he certainly has got the ability to go as far as he needs to go for 4 Star and beyond, he has super super jumping ability, he is great on the flat and he appears to gallop great....he just gallops and jumps and doesn't get tired near the end of the course"
Pedigree - Contenda's pedigree carries world leading supersires on both sides of his pedigree and at every generation. Contenda's sire is renowned eventing and showjumping horse sire , Contendro 1, the sire of Andrew Hoys's 4 star eventer Cheeky Calimbo and Mark Todd's Bronze Olympic Medal winning horse, Campino. Contenda's dam line is the 3/4 TB bred dressage supersire, Bolero.
Also on the dam line is the Olympic Event horse producing TB sire Der Loewe.
Progeny - Contenda is a prepotent sire who has produced progeny that are excelling in all fields of equestrian sport - eventing, dressage, showjumping, mare and foal classifications and the showring. High profile event riders who currently own and/or campaign Contenda's progeny include Shane Rose, Heath Ryan and Badminton winner, Jock Paget Contenda's progeny are not just for professionals, but are ridden into the winners circle by amateur riders alike. Over 60% of people who have previously bred to Contenda have bred back to him as they are so happy with their Contenda progeny that they want more!
Visit our website to view some Contenda's progeny and read of their many achievements.
You can breed with confidence knowing that Contenda is a fully licensed and stallion performance tested with the Hannovarian Verband, AWHA, ACE and ANSA.
Only the best stallions pass the strict conformation, performance and veterinary tests required to obtain licensed status.
Contenda is highly fertile stallion who is available to breeders via both chilled and frozen semen.
Wimborne Park stud offers 3 different service fee packages to cater for all breeders preferences.
Gold Service Fee Package for chilled semen service fees includes
* A pregnancy guarantee (no pregnancy - no service fee)
* A live YEARLING guarantee (the only stud in Australia to offer this!)
* Earlybird discount for bookings received by 30th September
* Payment plan available to approved applicants if required Service fee $2 500
Silver Service Fee Package
*Purchase frozen Contenda semen on a per dose basis.
*No pregnancy or live foal guarantee
Silver service fee $1210 per dose of frozen semen
Bronze Service Fee Package
No pregnancy or live foal guarantee
Buy 3 or more doses of frozen semen at one time for a price of $990 per dose
Please visit our website (details below) for more information and photos of Contenda.
Details
Age: 12 year old
Height: 16.2hh
Colour: Bay
Breeding: Contendro 1/ Bolero
Level: 2*
Location: Arcadia, NSW, AUS
Service Fee (Aus $): from $990 - $2500
