KWPN Honours Dam of Ulysses M2S!
Gudrun (Voltaire x Le Mexico), the dam of one of the stallions we represent, Ulysses M2S (by Ekstein), was awarded the predicate "Preferent" for producing two Ster mares and one Elite, Sport Showjumping mare. Under Morningside Stud's ownership Gudrun advanced from being a Keur mare to Keur Prestatie mare to Keur Preferent Prestatie mare.

Gudrun's sister, the Ster mare Deborah (G.Ramiro Z x Le Mexico), was awarded the predicate "Preferent" for producing a Keur mare, a Ster mare, and a Keur Sport-Showjumping mare.

This recognition by a leading world stud book, underlines the priciples of our policy regarding the importance motherlines when breeding sport horses for the highest levels in sport. Congratulations to our friends Tom and Dawn at Morningside Stud who have put mare lines at the heart of everything they do.

Future Sport Horses 2007 Newsletter now available on line!
We are delighted to make our 2007 Newletter available to read on line. To find out a little bit about our year, or to print off the Newsletter, please click here

"Superstar Winsome Adante Retires".....
We are very sad to have to report that as the result of an injury sustained during training, Winsome Adante - the son our our broodmare Juswith Genoa, has been retired. A full announcement was made on the US Eventing Association website here.
A transcript is also located here

Offspring & relatives of stallions respresented by FSH succeed across Europe!
Condios: Runrig Gangster, a four-year-old gelding by Condios, won the Regional Qualifier on 11th October for the Danish Show Jumping Championship for 5-year-old horses which takes place at the National Stallion Show in March 2008 in Herning, Denmark.

Jason Hobbs believes that the 6-year-old Stilo Kontiko (bred by Tom Slattery) is a definite four star prospect with the movement and bold jump required for top sport. Michael Diamantides said the 5-year-old XLNT Fast and Furioso (bred by Anne and Vincent Murphy) is very balanced in his flatwork and jumping and is going to be a very good eventing horse.

Loughnavatta Papillon, bay 6-year-od gelding by Condios out of Ballinclover Penny (by Clover Hill), bred by Patrick Heffernan, owned by Rory Costigan, and ridden by Katie O'Sullivan, placed 1st in his first Pre-Novice Event at Ravensdale Lodge (Ireland) 17/06/2007.

Ulysses M2S: Ulysses M2S competed at the CSI** Show at Valkenwaard (Netherlands) on 11th August in the International Jumping Competition for 6 & 7 Year Old Horses. On the first day with his co-owner, the Belgian junior rider Rossella de Simone, Ulysses M2S jumped double-clear. On the second day he jumped double-clear and placed 9th.

Ekstein (sire of Ulysses M2S): Ekstein's grandson 'Hickstead' won the $1,000,000 Grand Prix at Spruce Meadows 9th September. Hickstead (Hamlet x Ekstein), recently won the Individual Bronze Medal and Team Silver Medal at the Pan American Games.

Desir du Chateau: Itot du Chateau, the stallion by Le Tot de Semilly and out of the mare Sophie du Chateau, has been selected for the French Team for the European Showjumping Championship. The dam of Itot du Chateau is a half-sister to Desir du Chateau.

Future Sport Horses is delighted to announce the purchase of the outstanding broodmare Broadstone d'Elegance!
We are delighted to announce the purchase of Broadstone d'Elegance from Gloria Smith who has had tremendous success with her in the show ring. 'Deli' has been Champion Hunter Broodmare at numerous County Shows throughout England, including being Reserve Champion at the Royal International Horse Show - twice! Her offspring have also been incredibly successful taking 8 Foal Championships between them. Deli is by the Grand Prix dressage stallion Demonstrator, out of the thoroughbred mare Ganges Trial. Ganges Trial descends from the outstanding thoroughbred stallions Kadir Cup and Evening Trial. We are excited by the substance and movement that Deli will bring to our breeding programme.

To read more about Broadstone d'Elegance click here

100% 1st Premium Foals from Future Illusion's first crop including Joint Top Graded Foal of the Day!!
Future Illusion flew the flag in style at the BEF Futurity Grading at Arena UK, with his first two foals born taking 2 of the top 3 slots not only in the Eventing Foal section, but across ALL disciplines. Future Faere Illusion was the joint highest scoring foal of the day with an amazing 88% with the judging panel's comments reading "Refined, elegant, athletic colt. Superb type for eventing and with great potential". He was pipped to the post of being crowned Champion Event Foal as the category selected from the 5 grading marks to seperate Future Faere Illusion and the other foal which were tied with the joint highest grading marks, unfortunately favoured the other foal. He was therefore awarded Res. Champion Event Foal but retains the accolade of being joint high-scoring foal of the day. Future Magical Illusion, in the capable hands of his owner Rachael Mackie, also scored extremely highly with 85%, and finished as the 3rd highest graded foal of the day. It was a fantastic day for FSH with our first 3rd generation foals taking 2 of the 3 top grading scores awarded from 28 foals presented, across all the sections of eventing, showjumping, dressage and pony foals. It is a very exciting start to Future Illusion's career as a breeding stallion!

Future Faere Illusion also finished the day as the joint highest graded Eventer across all ages (foals to 3 Years) !

To get the joint highest graded event foal this year is a wonderful follow up to last year where we also had the highest graded event foal, Future Glamour. We are now looking forward to what next year will bring!

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Winsome Adante wins the World Cup Qualifier at The Fork USA!
We were thrilled to hear that 'Dan' (son of our broodmare Juswith Genoa) won the World Cup Qualifier at The Fork in America. He won by more than 8 clear marks, with an outstanding double clear, finishing on his dressage score. He flies to the UK this week to contend the CCI**** Badminton Horse Trials, and we are keeping everything crossed that he has a good journey and a great run. Photo 1, Photo 2

Our 1st Third Generation Foal is born by our young stallion Future Illusion
We are doubly excited by the birth of this foal as he marks 2 landmarks in our breeding programme. Firstly he is our first third generation foal born at Future Sport Horses, and secondly he is the first foal by our young stallion Future Illusion. He has surpassed our wildest hopes and is a tall, stunning, athletic bay colt - a definate sport horse prospect. For more information on our newest addition to the Future Sport Horse stud, click here - Future Faere Illusion. For a 4 generation family portrait click here - 4 Generations

Future Encore wins at his first ever Show!
We are thrilled for Erin who owns Future Encore at her success with 'Eddie'. For more details see Eddie's page

FANTASTIC STUD TERMS NOW AVAILABLE ON FROZEN SEMEN!!
We are delighted to be able to offer some unbeatable terms on our frozen semen -

For Desir du Chateau and Ulysses M2S we are able to offer NFFR or 50% stud fee returned (minus non-refundable deposit). Because semen for Condios is limited, we cannot unfortunately offer NFFR terms, however we are offering the opportunity to swap to one of our other stallions or have 50% stud fee returned if the mare is not in foal after 2 cycles with Condios semen. Click on the link below to view each of the stallions terms:

Condios
Ulysses M2S
Desir du Chateau

We are also offering fantastic additional terms on ALL our stallions for proven mares, repeat breedings, multiple breedings and on mares whose foals by our stallions have been awarded a Premium at the BEF Futurity Gradings. These terms are outlined below:

Stud Fee Offers

You can save hundreds of pounds on these offers so don't miss out!!

Foaling Countdown Calendars now online for Musical Lyrics and Future Faer
Click on Musical Lyrics and Future Faer's pages and select the 'Foaling Countdown calendar link above the 'Progeny' section.

Future Sport Horses feature on Eventing Worldwide Website!
Eventing worldwide can to visit our stud a few weeks ago and subsequently have written an article about how Future Sport Horses began, and how it's developed over the last few years.

Click here for Eventing Worldwide website

If you're not a member of Eventing Worldwide, you can see a reprint of the article here

Future Sport Horses becomes the exclusive UK Agent for 3 world class stallions !
We are delighted to announce that Future Sport Horses has been appointed the exclusive agent in Great Britain for semen from the Holsteiner stallion Condios (Coriano x Landgraf I), the Selle Francais stallion Desir du Chateau (Quidam de Revel x Cor de Chasse), and the Dutch Warmblood stallion Ulysses M2S (Ekstein x Voltaire). "Future Sport Horses is at the forefront of breeding top-class horses in Britain" said Tom Reed of Morningside Stud, "and this collaboration will provide exciting opportunities for British breeders to easily access semen from these fantastic stallions."

We are delighted to be able to exclusively represent such outstanding stallions in Great Britain. This is an exciting addition to our growing portfolio of services and provides the discerning sport horse breeder with the opportunity to utilise internationally renowned stallions to breed both showjumpers and event horses of the highest calibre. We are looking forward to using these fabulous stallions on our own mares in 2007.

Future Illusion spends some time with Olympic Medallist Jeanette Brakewell
We were delighted when multiple Olympic Medallist Jeanette Brakewell agreed to take Future Illusion for a few weeks this winter to back him. Jeanette reported that he's been very easy to back, had a canter you could sit on all day and settled into yard life with no fuss at all, which bodes well for his ridden career. The grooms said he had a big personality without an ounce of malice and he became a firm favourite in the short time he was there.