At least 56% of the participating horses descend from the French-based thoroughbred Furioso in one form or another, 48% from the Holstein-based thoroughbred Cottage Son, 47% from the French-based thoroughbred Rantzau and 43% from the Anglo-Norman Ibrahim. The high concentration of specialist showjumping blood is demonstrated by 42 (36%) of the horses having been sired by Holsteiner stallions and 26 (22%) by Selle Français stallions, these two being the studbooks with the longest specific focus on showjumper breeding. The Holstein studbook was represented by 25 horses (22%), there were 20 Dutch Warmbloods (17%), 15 Selle Français (13%), 11 Belgian Warmbloods (9%), 8 Hanoverians (7%), 7 Oldenburger (6%), 6 Westphalians (5%) and 5 Irish Sport Horses (4%), with 13 other studbooks supplying the remaining 19 (16%) of the competitors. All four finalists were already winners of major competitions, namely Cumano of the Calgary Grand Prix in 2004, Authentic a team Gold medal at the 2004 Olympics, Shutterfly the World Cup in 2005, and Pialotta the Bronze medal at the 2005 European Championship (under Rolf Goeran Bengtsson of Sweden).ġ16 horses took part in the competition, with an average age of 11.3 years, 66 being geldings, 34 entires and 16 mares. By comparison, at the 2002 World Championship ten fences were down in the finals, and there is no question that the Aachen course was difficult by any standard.Īlso unprecedented was that three of the four finalists were women, namely Beezie Madden (USA) with the Dutch gelding Authentic, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum (Germany) with the Hanoverian gelding Shutterfly, and Edwina Alexander (Australia) with the Westphalian mare Pialotta, but the 2006 World Championship was won by Jos Lansink (Belgium) with the Holsteiner stallion Cumano, who made it through ten tough rounds with only one fence down. In the four-horse finals with change of riders only one horse had one fence down, leaving the medals to be decided by a jump-off. The quality of the showjumping performances at the World Equestrian Games 2006 at Aachen was unprecedented. Some Observations on the World Show Jumping Championships of 2006 The Thoroughbred Roots of the Modern Show Jumper View a chart showing the most frequently occuring ancestors in leading sires of modern show jumpers of the past ten years.
Written for Thoroughbred Heritage by Andreas Haberbeck©2006. Analysis of 2006 World Show Jumping Championships
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