Argentinus

Bay stallion, born 1980, 17 hands

Argentinus is the most influential son of the Hanoverian stallion, Argentan I. While Argentan was highly regarded as a brood mare sire he was also successful as a sire of performers, and was the most influential source of Absatz blood in contemporary breeding. Argentan was the sire of many international showjumpers as well as 19 approved stallion sons, and 119 state premium mares. Argentinus' dam is by Duden II who was highly esteemed as a producer of top quality performance horses and wonderful broodmares.

In 1996, Argentinus was the youngest millionaire among Germany's top sires and is still regarded as amongst the most successful living Stallions in Germany. A successful advanced level jumper himself, this Performance Class 1, Main Premium stallion has bred both jumping and dressage stallions. Numerous Argentinus progeny have been at the top of international jumping and dressage for years now.

Over 20 approved stallions, (including the stallion performance test winner and Vechta price record breaking, August der Starke) and numerous State Premium Mares, many which have proved themselves on a national level, Eg; National Broodmare Show, FN Performance Studbook), Performers include Anka with Markus Ehning, Aleppo S-OLD with Isabell Werth and Albano with Heike Kemmer - team gold medal winner in the 2001 German European Championships.

Because Argentinus seems to have produced more solid lower level performers than international superstars, his current WBSFH ranking is not high - number 148 on the 2000/2001 standings and 170 in the rankings for the last ten years. He is currently represented by eight jumping horses. He is much more highly placed on the dressage standings, currently at number 2, largely on the basis of his son, Albano - sadly his second highest points earner, Amaretto died just as he was coming into his prime. Argentinus ranks 14th on the dressage standings for the past decade.
Further in depth info can be viewed through Berndt Eylers website:

http://www.horse-gate.com/argentinus

In the survey of the world's top 75 jumping sires that appears in the French publication, Monneron 2007-2008, compiled by Bernard le Courtois (visit www.brullemail.com), Argentinus is ranked 16th in the world, with 15 CSI winners.