Cranswick's Lord R.B.

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Lord R.B. is fully graded with the Danish Warmblood Society and licensed with AES. He has completed the 100 day performance test in Klosterhof Medingen, Germany with 117.34 point, giving him the highest performance test score for a British bred warmblood stallion ever. He was placed 8th overall out of 34 and was placed 3rd in the dressage with an incredible score of 133.47. This included scores for "rittigkeit" - rideability of 9 from the trainer and 9.67 from the test judges (i.e. 2 out of the 3 judges gave him the absolute maximum - 10).

Lord R.B. has been sold to Sweden, where he is competed in Grand Prix.

Lord R.B. was fully graded with the Danish Warmblood Society in March 1996, another first for a warmblood horse bred in England and International acknowledgement of Lord R.B.'s exceptional quality.

Lord R.B. is the rare combination of good exterior, correct conformation, extravagant paces and performance pedigree. This is no accident as all his forefathers have very high indexes - indicating improvement in offspring.

Conformation
Dressage

Leonardo II

119
143

Raubritter

119
137

Ibikus

115
141

compared to:-

Top 2.5% of all stallions

120
140

Top 16% of all stallions

110
120

Average of all stallions

100
100

Lord R.B.'s sire Leonardo II was imported from Holstein as a 3 year old. He has been active in Danish breeding and dressage until he was exported to USA in 1989. In USA he has been placed in Grand Prix and Grand Prix Special in National and International competitions.

Leonardo II has been a "great producer" of dressage horses a.o. Rex, winner of the 1992 Young Horse Championship. Leonardo II has 6 graded sons in Denmark.

Leonardo's sire Lord is today the absolute top sire out of 834 stallions in Germany with an index of 162 (135 for dressage and 189 for showjumping) and with winnings of DM 3,476,625. Lord is the sire of 48 graded stallions in Germany and a number of international performers e.g. Livius - team bronze medal winner at the Olympic Games, 1984.

Leonardo's dam, Felica, has a.o. produced 2 stallions, 2 State Premium mares and 2 international show-jumpers.

Lord R.B.'s dam, Romance, has produced one further graded stallion in Denmark, and two of her foals have been sold as potential stallions in the UK. Her pedigree includes Raubritter - advanced dressage horse and sire of 5 advanced dressage horses, Ibikus - sire of 12 advanced dressage horse in Denmark after only one season. In 1998 she was awarded a bronze medal for her progony.

Lord R.B.'s foals have been exceptionally good. He has stamped them all and has improved conformation and movement. Lord R.B. can be used on both warmblood and thoroughbred mares.