{"id":1228,"date":"2010-08-18T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.130\/~thehors5\/thm\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2021-04-01T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T04:42:55","slug":"argentan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2010\/08\/argentan\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ArgentanHERO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13827\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ArgentanHERO.jpg\" alt=\"ArgentanHERO\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ArgentanHERO.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/ArgentanHERO-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><strong>1967 &#8211; 1996 165 cm Bay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Breeder: J\u00fcrgen Clasen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Argentan was one of the most important founding sires of the modern Hanoverian.<\/p>\n<p>Argentan was Reserve Champion of his stallion licensing in 1969, and the following year, was 4th out of 15 candidates in the performance test.<\/p>\n<p>In 1994 he was crowned Hanoverian Stallion of the Year as a result of his extraordinary success as a sire. Argentan was the sire of 805 competition horses who won a total of DM1,648,638. His broodmares in particular were highly regarded and included three Champion German Riding Horse mares at the DLG show: Aragonia (1978), Ascona (1980) and Arabella (1984). He was the sire of 119 state premium mares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-World-Cup-winner-Aramis-out-of-the-Westfalien-mare-Elfenfee-by-the-Thoroughbred-Exstream.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13829 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-World-Cup-winner-Aramis-out-of-the-Westfalien-mare-Elfenfee-by-the-Thoroughbred-Exstream.jpg\" alt=\"The World Cup winner - Aramis out of the Westfalien mare, Elfenfee by the Thoroughbred, Exstream\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-World-Cup-winner-Aramis-out-of-the-Westfalien-mare-Elfenfee-by-the-Thoroughbred-Exstream.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/The-World-Cup-winner-Aramis-out-of-the-Westfalien-mare-Elfenfee-by-the-Thoroughbred-Exstream-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The World Cup winner &#8211; Aramis out of the Westfalien mare, Elfenfee by the Thoroughbred, Exstream<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However he was also the sire of some top performers including Mario Deslauriers 1984 World Cup Showjumping winner, Aramis.<\/p>\n<p>He was the sire of 19 stallion sons, including Airport, Al Capone and most famed of all, Argentinus.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Argentan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1359\" height=\"874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Argentan.jpg 1359w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Argentan-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Argentan-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Argentan-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Argentan-466x300.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1359px) 100vw, 1359px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentan was famous as a sire for producing &#8216;type&#8217; and his influence lives on through Argentinus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[141,1246],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-stallions","tag-argentan","tag-great-stallions"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58077,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/58077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}