Bloomington Farm

Olympia's attitude is what really makes her stand from the crowd.  She is focus, careful and very athletic. Olympia has been bought as a youngster and ridden by an amateur rider who was very successful at low level dressage.  She brought her to win the Silver Stirrup National Championship in 2003 in the A/A training level and again in 2004 at First Level dressage. Olympia main features are her good gaits, great attitude, short back and very wide and strong loins. 

After many attempts to get her in foal in 2007, we almost gave up on her and  decided to get her back in shape and resumed her training. We were very please to find a very cooperative partner. She was willing to work and she worked well.  Her former owner used her in dressage and she had never been jumped.  We tried her on a small jump and to our amazement, she really impressed us.  When first introduced to the jump, she showed such an excellent form that we tried her up to 4 feet.  She kept the same focus and rhythm as if she had done it all her life. We really had a hard time to believe that she had never jumped before. But considering her bloodline it should not have been such a surprise.  Bolero might have gave her the nice gaits but through Grande, Nimmerdor, Purioso and Joost, we could certainly expect some jumpers talent as well. 

She has what is needed to produce a reliable, brave, forward and serious top hunter or jumper with good gaits. We decided on our last attempt to breed her with fresh semen to a nearby jumper stallion with excellent bloodline, Bratt Z.   Well... she must have been waiting for the right guy! Olympia has given us a nice chesnut filly that is currently for sale. See sales page. 

Sire line

Olympia sire Consul  by Nimmerdor is one of the leading sires at Iron Spring Farm and is known for producing remarkable athletes. Sire of Approved Stallion, Judgement ISF, winner of $1,000,000 CN Int'l at Spruce Meadows and member of 10 US Nations Cup teams , Consul  has sired nearly 70 first premium foals, 52 star mares and geldings, 9 Keur mares, 1 licensed son, and 1 approved son.

Consul's get excel at all levels of dressage, eventing and jumping and he has produced many champion hunters. Most notable is the impressive career of Judgement ISF, who with rider Beezie Madden, has won over 1.5 million dollars in prize money competing in Show Jumping Grand Prix around the world. His daughter, the keur mare Hivona, is a Produce of Dam winner at Dressage at Devon and continues to be one of the top producing broodmares in the KWPN-NA,

Consul was equally good at dressage and show jumping at his stallion test at Ermelo in 1987. With excellent marks for character and stable behavior (9’s), he finished 6th out of 33 stallions with 21 stallions being approved. After the testing he was campaigned in show jumping in the Netherlands and immediately won his first classes.

Consul’s dam Waloniki is a ster, preferent, prestatie mare from the famous “Niki” line. (Mare line 11, breeding family 199 ) This mareline has produced amongst other the International jumpers and KWPN approved stallions Palfrenier and Ekstein (dam sire of Hickstead). Consul was the 1st of 7 foals that Waloniki produced. Three of which were dressage horses including the international dressage horse, Hercules and three that were jumpers which makes Waloniki one of the few mares to be on the KWPN mare indexes for dressage and jumpers simultaneously.

Consul's sire is the Preferent Dutch stallion Nimmerdor. Nimmerdor is one of the leading producers of Jumpers in Holland as well as being high on the index for producing Dressage horses. Consul is the first foal of the famous mare Waloniki. Consul is a very pre-potent sire and grand sire like his father producing talented jumpers and dressage horses.

Consul is approved by the KWPN, the Oldenburg Verband, and the International Sporthorse Registry. He is nominated to the International Jumper and Dressage Futurity

Mare line

Olympia’s dam Brissta is by the Hanoverian sire  Banter.  Banter was a wonderful stallion standing in the USA, who excelled in producing good dressage mares, although he sired a Grand Prix jumper mare Bedazzle (Banter/Argentan).  He was by Bolero out of a Grande/Duellant mare. According to the Horse Magazine Bolero was one of the new dressage sires in the Hannoverian studbook, with his abundance of Thoroughbred blood contributing to the elegant quality of his descendents.

If we look through the progeny listed in the period 1992/2001 we find that the stallion with the most international Grand Prix competitors is Bolero with eleven. Bolero was by the elegant English Thoroughbred, Black Sky, imported to Germany in 1972, Black Sky’s grand-sire Djebe was a son of Djebel, sire of the great stakes winning sire, My Babu, who when exported to the United States established a winning line of hunter/jumpers. In Australia the My Babu son, Better Boy has been an influential sire of jumping horses.

Black Sky stood at the private stud of Schmidt-Ankum, where he was somewhat in the shadow of Cardinal xx. Black Sky’s progeny were always very rideable dressage horses. 

Bolero’s dam, Baroness is by another English Thoroughbred, Bleep (described as 'unusually large framed for a Thoroughbred') who traces on her dam’s side, to Hyperion and then of course to Bay Ronald. Her dam’s sire Athos was regarded as a good sire of dressage broodmares. The damline, Athos-Fliegerstern also produced the popular sires, Grenadier (Celle State stallion) and Hitchcock (Celle and Radegast state studs) as well as the private stallion, Winner.

At his performance test, Bolero performed only moderately, placing 6th out of 30 stallions in his 100 day test at Adelheidsdorf with a score of 111.

In his lifetime Bolero was a useful sire in a career cut short far too quickly, but he is now proving a wonderful sire of broodmares. He was stationed Landesbrück where he clicked wonderfully with the daughters of Grande and Duellant.

Grande produced 33 approved sons, 34 states premium mares and sent three of his showjumping progeny to the Olympic Games – Grande Giso (Holland), Grande (USA) and Gute Sitte (Belgium) but his grand children seem to have been the real stars.

OLYMPIA  NAWPN 96.17292 Stb. 1996  1.65m L2-drs Champion and reserve Champion Silver Stirrup Year End in 2003 and 2004 XX/OX percentage : 33.6%	CONSUL  KWPN 84.7010 Stb. 1984 donkerbruin ggk: KWPN IDP	NIMMERDOR  KWPN 147 Stb. pref 1972 bruin 1.68m ggk: KWPN;Holst;SF;SI ISP 1.60m	FARN  Holst 1959	holst stamm 18b1
			RAMONAA  NWP 1963	fokfamilie 498
		WALONIKI  KWPN 80.7763 ster pref prest 1980	PURIOSO  Old 1974
			RANIKI  KWPN 1975	Niki-stam, merrielijn 11, fokfamilie 199
	BRISSTA  Hann 319623591 Stb. 1991 bruin	BANTER  Hann 314420184 1984 vos 1.65m ggk: Hann	BOLERO  Hann 1975
			GRANINI  Hann 1975
		WRICKSTER  Hann H31330484 Stb. 1984	WILHELM TELL II  Hann 1980
			NESTHAEKCHEN  Hann 1970