The sire
Long Deal (ex Parus) is sending his first sons to NMS. This bay stallion came to Germany via Russia, like to many excellent sport horses, and his FEI career in show jumping is testimony to the excellent selection on performance that our Eastern Trakehner friends have implicated a long time ago. Long Deal's sire Alarm III was actually German-bred, but leased to Russia as a breeding stallion and came from an excellent sport horse line from East Germany. Long Deal's direct dam line has produced a number of excellent and successful stallions in Russia, among them the great jumper and producer Poroch (out of the second dam Prichot). The pedigree again combines the substantial original Trakehnen lines of Piligrim, born in Trakehnen and a foundation sire in Russia, with the excellent Arabian blood of Pomerantes ox and his best son Hockey. At the peak of Hockey's career he had over 40 offspring competeing internationally, in dressage and show jumping!
The dam
Dam Lucaera scored a 9.0 for her technique and a flat 10.0 for her potential during hte free jumping phase of her mare performance test. Dam sire Vivus is recently back in the spotlight with his exceptional approved son Impetus, who won his 70 day test with over 140 points in 2006. Under saddle, Vivus won the South German Riding Horse Championships in Wiebasen in the 90s and then was lost from our radar for some time. He came back with his new ownership and sired a number of outstanding, modern inspection high scorers. The Lorelei family is a branch of the big Libelle family (O235A), which has produced such noteworthy stallions a EH Leonardo, Linne, Lafayette, Lockruf I and II, the top jumpers Lossow and Lessen and the 2006 approved Lugani.
