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Blarney is a 7 year old Irish Sport Horse bay gelding by Flagmount King* (King of Diamonds**) out of a TB mare. He showed at Spruce Meadows in May (indoors) and had clear rounds in the 3'6" division. At his first major show at Edmonton Northlands in May (see picture below) he had clear rounds and got a 1st in the 1.2m jumper, and went on to take two ribbons in the same division at Spruce Meadows National in June with several clear rounds. He is considered to have open jumper potential and with the right rider should be ready to move up to 4'6" by the end of the year. Excellent conformation and temperament, X-Rays available.
Blarney is powerful, well balanced, handsome, uncomplicated to ride and a perfect gentleman to his groom. He has no vices, and as far as we know, has never been unsound.
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* Blarney shares his sire with "Hopes are High", ridden by Nick Skelton, who won the most prestigious event in show jumping The Spruce Meadows DuMaurier in 2000.
** Blarney's grandsire is the famous Irish jumping foundation stallion "King of Diamonds"
Blarney Stone, foaled in 1996, bred by the Kerfoots in Cochrane Alberta, is an Irish Sport Horse (RID x TB) by Flagmount King (King of Diamonds). In 2002 he was ridden by an amateur rider in some local schooling shows. He was purchased by Tadpole Farm from the Kerfoots in December 2002, and has since then been trained and ridden by Amy Dundas Head. This year he has shown in Kamloops (see first picture above) and Kelowna, BC, at Edmonton Northlands, twice at Spruce Meadows, and at the Twin Oaks Derby Show in Vancouver.
At Edmonton in May (see video) he was doing 3’9 and 4’ divisions and won a class and placed third . At Spruce Meadows National in June he was in the 1.2m (4’) division and placing with clear rounds. At Twin Oaks in the 4’ division with a new rider, Carla Diewert, he placed 5th in the 1.2m derby.
Amy planned to have Blarney doing 4’6” by the end of 2003, and to move up to the Modified Open and National Open Divisions by the end of 2004.
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