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Kirby Park is on top of the world
Kirby Park Stud horses were ranked 1st and 2nd on the FEI Sport Horse Breeding Championship World Rankings in July. (The rankings have now changed slightly as they are updated monthly)
As of 01 July Kirby Park Irish Jester was at the top of the FEI World Breeding Championship for Sport Horses (WBFSH) World Rankings for Eventing. In second place was stablemate The WBFSH is the only international federation of studbooks for sport horses in the world. The WBFSH is the major connection between the breeding organisations of sport horses and the international equestrian sport (FEI). Together, FEI and WBFSH have organized the World Breeding Championships for Sport Horses (WBCSH) in dressage, jumping and eventing since 1992. Every month the WBFSH/FEI ranking of each discipline is published on the WBFSH website, providing official information on every horse competing at international level all around the world. Full pedigree information and studbook rankings are available. At the end of the year the breeders of the winning horses will be presented the WBFSH/Merial Breeding prize at various international competition events in the country of the respective prize winning members. 15-year-old Jester is by Irish Enough whose untimely death as a 6-year-old cut short his breeding career. Irish Enough is also the sire of Cammy O’Rourke’s 4-star horse Megan Jones who rode Jester to a Team Silver Medal at this year’s Olympic Games and to 4th place in the Individual competition owns the horse in partnership with her mother Margaret. Kirby Park Stud kept another son of Irish Enough for breeding. Jordan (a full brother to Jamie) has sired a number of foals and kept the bloodline alive. Allofasudden is a 9-year-old Australian Thoroughbred owned in partnership by Allan and Stephanie Poulson and by his rider Megan Jones. Bred to race by Prim Cromwell (Wayne Copping's sister in-law) Allofasudden was a disappointment on the track. The son of Rustic Amber (USA) and out of Passionate (Luskin’s Star) - the mother of many successful race horses, Allofasudden found his way to Eventer Lauren Poulson. Lauren was based with Megan and when she was no longer able to ride him the horse was offered to Megan. “He was very naughty,” says Megan, “that is how he got his name because all of a sudden he would do something naughty, and all of a sudden you would be off the arena!” “But he was always talented.” In fourth place on the FEI WBFSH World Rankings is another of our Olympic Team horses - Australian Stock Horse Ringwould Jaguar (Jensens Man). Jag is owned by Augusta and Jim Saunders and Phoebe and Dan Johnson.
Well done Aussies! For more information or to view the rankings please go to www.wbfsh.org |
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