Senator VDL was bred at the world famous VDL Stud in Holland. On both sides of his family, he has very potent jumping blood: Corland, Cor de la Bryere, Landgraf, Voltaire and Nimmerdor.

Senator VDL is producing foals with correct conformation, lovely heads and a strong topline and hindquaters. The progeny out competing are scopey and careful, both in showjumping and eventing. Senator VDL is sire of the top New Zealand eventing horse, Balmoral Sensation, who was placed 5th at the Badminton Horse Trials 2016 and 6th at the Rio Olympics.

Senator VDL had multiple wins and placings throughout his jumping career including winning the Norwood Gold Cup at the Horse of the Year Show. He competed through to when he was an 9yo, when he was retired due to injury.

Senator VDL is now retired to stud. Frozen semen is available for purchase NZ only. Enquiries to: Wendy Keddell Mount View Sport Horses.

Breeding

Senator VDL has an enviable pedigree on both sides of his family. His dam is Falonie by Voltaire (Team Nijhof) out of a Nimmerdor mare. She is the sister of two international showjumpers Charly and Gyltaire. Gyltaire, also by Voltaire, a full relation to Falonie, was ridden internationally by Michael Whitaker.

Senator VDL’s dam, grand dam and great grand dam are all “keur” mares. Keur is a very high ranking predicate that is only awarded to quality mares that have produced satisfactory offspring and have passed selection performance tests. On his dam’s side, he has the famous sires, Voltaire and Nimmerdor which are preferent stallions. A very high honor for sires that are bestowed as famous progenitors.

Sire Corland was bred from two of the most influential sires in global jumper breeding: The French stallion Cor de la Bryere and the Holstein stallion Landgraf I. He descends from the famous Holstein dam-line 104a, this lineage has produced numerous stallions and International sport horses. He had lots of influence in breeding based at VDL Stud in the Netherlands and was one of their top breeding stallions.

He had an impressive career under Wout-Jan van der Schans. He jumped regularly on the Dutch Nation's Cup Team, and was very successful on the international circuit. He had many top finishes in Grand Prix

Corland was an absolute breeding sire. He therefore received the Keur predicate from KWPN. He has five approved sons, Apardi, Bacardi VDL, Pacific, Silverstar and Sir Corland. Pacific and Sir Corland were Champions of their Stallion tests. Corland has also been influential through his excellent breeding daughters, who gained the predicates 'Preferent' and 'Prestatie'. He passed away in 2017 at the age of 28 years.

Progeny bred at Mount View

Other progeny