Fiston de Bo Z

With his elasticity, elegance and excellent jumping quality, Fiston de Bo Z embodies the ideal of a modern sports stallion.

Very successful in the international Youngster Tour up to the 1.45 m course, Fiston de Bo Z impresses with excellent reflexes on the jump, suppleness, overview and brilliant rideability. As a three-year-old, he already triumphed as the winner of the renowned Z Festival with his ability, elasticity and exemplary technique.

Sire Flipper d’Elle was one of the most successful sport horses of the 2000s for many years under the French rider Laurent Goffinet. The Selle Francais stallion competed for France at the 2005 European Championships in San Patrignano and the 2006 World Equestrian Games. The sporting dream couple also won the Grand Prix in Chantilly and the Nations Cups in Dublin, St. Gallen and Rotterdam. Flipper d’Elle also became very popular as a sire. He particularly influenced French, but also worldwide, show jumping horse breeding with a number of offspring who were successful in sport at the highest level.

Dam’s sire Calvaro Z shone as a world-class show jumper in sport. In 1997 he won team silver under Jos Lansink at the European Championships in Mannheim. In 1999 Calvaro Z moved to the legendary Whitaker brothers in Great Britain. He first took part in the World and European Championships with Michael before competing under John at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. Used extensively in breeding, Calvaro Z established himself as an significant sire with important offspring, such as team silver winner at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky Katchina Mail/Patrice Delaveau as well as international figureheads such as Cadeau Z/Jessica Kürten, Callas Sitte/Christina Liebherr and Chester Z/Mathijs van Asten.

Lys de Darmen, in the third generation, was created by mating an Anglo-Arabian stallion with a Selle Francais mare. With his offspring, who have often achieved success at the highest sporting level, Lys de Darmen has had a particularly great influence on Belgian show jumping horse breeding, which is so successful today.

Mother Indochine de Bourguignon also gave birth to the internationally successful sport horses Canavaro de Bo Z/Emanuela Forte (1.50 m), Ascalvara de Bo Z/Mathieu Guery (1.45 m) and Surprice de Bo Z/Lea Rucker (1.40 m ).