Contenda is the ultimate dual pupose sire. He won his AWHA stallion licensing and since has fulfilled his performance testing to be acredited as a fully licensed stallion. Contenda has a very impressive performance record. He has won in straight dressage competitions, been almost unbeatable in eventing up to 1 star and has regularly won and placed in showjumping up to Grand Prix level. Click here for more detail about Contenda and click here to read about his competition updates. Contenda is proving to be a sensational sire with people choosing to breed back to Contenda time and time again. See Contenda's progeny page for photos of some of his youngstock.
Video footage of Contenda
Dam Line: Wimborne Special Edition
Wimborne Special Edition is a Head Stud Book mare with the AWHA scoring a massive 81.5% at her mare classification. She is tall, very correct mare with excellent paces and a very pretty head. Her first foal by Contenda , Wimborne Confedertae,is outstanding. He has been named a stallion prospect by the AWHA classifiers. He is a tall elegant foal with outstanding conformation and very loose expressive paces.
Dam Sire Line: Stedinger
Video Footage of Stedinger
Stedinger was Champion Stallion of his stallion licensing in 2002 where he excelled in both the dressage and jumping phases scoring 130.72 for dressage and 121.92 for jumping.
Being by Sandro Hit out of a Landadel mare,his pedigree represents the merging of dressage and jumping royalty. Stedinger's dam, VPr.St Bold - Fantasy is a full sister to the dressage stallion Lamar H and a half sister to CIC** winning event horse, Just Me H. His dam has also produced the licensed stallion Donninger.
As a sire himself he has already proved his incredible value with 12 licensed stallions, including the 2006 lisencing Champion stallion, Status Quo. His foals are also highly sort after with 9 of his foals being selected for the Verden Auction in 1 year.
Despite a heavy breeding load Stedinger has won many dressage tests at medium level ((M) and has qualified for the Bundeschampionat.
Video Footage of Status Quo by Stedinger out of a Quattro B mare
Dam's Dam Line: Vivaldi by Valuta
Wimborne Special Edition is out of Wimborne Four Seasons. Wimborne Four Seasons is by the flamboyant dressage stallion owned by Blas Lago, Vivaldi ,who is in turn by the FEI dressage stallion, Valuta (imp).