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The Cyden Dressage Stallions

The Superstar Bloodlines of the

Cyden Dressage
Stallions

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Cyden Oosting Amigo

he pedigrees’ of all three of the Cyden
Dressage Stallions contain some of
the best sport horse bloodlines there

Cyden Cadans M and Cyden Bodyguard
Moorland literally have dressage royalty
in their blood and pony stallion Cyden
Oostings Amigo descends from some of the
best names in sports pony breeding. .
Cyden Cadans M is by renowned dressage
stallion Sir Donnerhall and combines some
of the most successful modern breeding
lines for dressage with some of the most
established sources of dressage talent in
The Netherlands.
As well as a successful dressage career
of his own, being reserve World
Champion Young Dressage Horse and
Bundeschampion of 2006, Sir Donnerhall
has proved to be a sire of champions.
His reputation as a breeding stallion is
exemplary with over 70 licensed sons to
date. In 2012, the Sir Donnerhall sired
stallion, Sa Couer, sold for an astonishing
€2.3 million at the PSI auction, who was
himself Bundeschampion and World
dressage Horse Champion in the same year,
as a five-year-old.
Sir Donnerhalls’ own sire, the impressive
black stallion Sandro Hit, boasts a
phenomenal breeding record of his own,
having stamped his mark on many dressage
horses of the modern era.
His dam sire, Donnerhall combined a
successful career in the dressage arena
with breeding many top horses; in Germany
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Cyden Cadans M
alone he produced 50 approved stallions.
Cyden Bodyguard Moorland processes
relatives that need no introduction even to
none dressage enthusiast.
His sire, Gribaldi is one of the most
successful sire of dressage horses in the
world today, producing multiple Grand Prix
dressage stallions approved across a wide
range of studbooks, these include not only
Hofrat, sire of the all-conquering Hotline
but also Painted Black and, of course, the
phenomenal Totilas.
Bodyguards’ dam, Ulinda is by Negro, sire
to Olympic Gold medal winning superstar,
Valegro, probably the most famous
dressage horse of the moment.
NWPCS pony stallion Cyden Oostings
Amigo is by Z2 Level International dressage
pony Halgelkruis Valentijn, winner of the
2011 Dutch Pony Championships, with
Halgelkruis Valentijn and his own sire both
having been awarded, ‘Sport Predicate’.

Cyden Bodyguard Moorland
Amigos’ dam, Oosting Manuella is out of
Oosting Petronella, who has many of the
great names in sports pony breeding in her
pedigree, including Downland Chevalier,
Downland Folklore and Silvertops Rico.
Cyden Cadans M and Cyden Bodyguard
Moorland will be standing at Stallion AI
Services for a limited time this summer
with frozen semen available from Cyden
Oostings Amigo.
For Further information contact Lara
Dyson on 07920 452739, visit www.
cydendressage.com or like the Cyden
Dressage facebook page.

Everything Horse UK Magazine • Issue 18 • March 2015