Jovian

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About - Double World Champion of young dressage horses. “The Emperor!” is how the judges called the old and new World Champion Jovian at the World Championships for young dressage horses. Already as a five-year-old, he was in a league of his own (four out of the five criteria were marked 10). And also in the ranking of the seven-year-olds, ridden by his trainer Andreas Helgstrand/DEN, no one could compete with him. His trot is swinging, elevated, full of power and with enormous freedom of the shoulders: 10. His walk has a clear four-beat rhythm with a good overtrack. 8.0. His canter could not be more uphill: 9.8. The suppleness was almost perfect in the expressive half-passes, flying changes and pirouettes: 9.8. There are no words to describe the perspective: 10. “What a horse!” And an average of 95,2 percent. And also for the execution of the movements, Jovian was almost eight percentage points ahead of the competition with 83.143 percent.

Performance - In 2017, Jovian won the three-year-old Dutch Championships. In 2018, he won his sport test in Verden with a score of 9.01, was named premium stallion at the Danish licensing and secured silver at the Dutch Pavo Cup. In 2019, as well as his gold medal at the World Championships, he also won the silver medal at the Danish Championships. In 2020, Jovian was also in the World Championship selection for the Netherlands, as he is Dutch bred. However, due to the cancellation of the championships due to the coronavirus pandemic, he was unable to defend his title in the six-year-old class.

Sire - His sire is the impressive Apache, reserve champion from the KWPN licensing in s'Hertogenbosch and superior winner of the stallion competition in winter 2011/2012. Under Emelie Scholtens, Apache is now consistently successful at Grand Prix level and was qualified for the Dutch Olympic squad in 2015. Desired by his first offspring, Apache is one of the most popular breeding stallions in the Netherlands. 

Damline - The dam, Zinith, who was successful in sport before her breeding career, delivered several offspring with different stallions and was awarded as elite mare by the KWPN. The grand sire, Tango, was international Grand Prix winner with Hans-Peter Minderhoud. Jovian is related to the great sire and Grand Prix stallion Jazz/ Kristin Becker in the third and fourth generation and represents the family of NL-Merrielijn 27, which is considered one of the most important breeding bloodlines in the Netherlands. 

Progeny - With his first foals, Jovian is on everyone’s lips: Slangerupgaards Josefine was the top price of the Danish Elite Foal Auction, with a knockdown price of 72,000 Euros. At the Danish Foals Championships, Jubilee accessed the finals of the fillies. At the German Foal Championships in Lienen, Jovian produced two finalists. Several sons from his first crops of stallions were licensed, including our premium stallion Joshua.

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