{"id":12496,"date":"2014-10-15T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2021-04-01T16:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T05:24:38","slug":"balou-du-rouet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2014\/10\/balou-du-rouet\/","title":{"rendered":"Balou du Rouet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1999 171 cm Bay<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breeder: Paul Schockem\u00f6hle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul Schockem\u00f6hle is a marketing genius, and his skills are abundantly in evidence in the case of his \u2018hot\u2019 stallion, Balou du Rouet. The stallion perhaps has appeal to German breeders because they are mixing the strange and unknown \u2013 the Selle Fran\u00e7ais jumping star, Baloubet \u2013 with the comfort of a mare that is solidly German. Balou\u2019s dam, Georgia, has also produced the licensed stallion, Cornet\u2019s Balou who was the Five Year Old Jumping Horse Champion at the 2011 Bundeschampionate.<\/p>\n

Her sire, Continue combines the elite Holsteiner stallions, Contender and Tin Rocco. Continue is the sire of the licensed stallion, Cowondo Z. The grand-dam, Georgette II produced the licensed stallion, Sandrissimo. In the third and fourth generation we find Domino and Gepard who were very influential in shaping Paul Schockem\u00f6hle\u2019s mare band.<\/p>\n

Balou showed his jumping qualities in the 30 day test in 2002, where he achieved a 9.2 score for jumping. He qualified for the Bundeschampionate in 2004, and in 2005, he won several young jumping horse tests and was a Bundeschampionate finalist. He had several advanced wins but never competed at an international level.<\/p>\n

Despite this rather modest performance record, so far Balou has produced 40 (!) licensed sons, including Balzachi, Balloon, Baldeur, Balou\u2019s Bellini, Balou\u2019s Star, Bonaventura, Burberry, Baltimore, Bon Balou, Bacaccio, Blueberry, Balou\u2019s Crack, Balero, Amazing, Baccord, Bali and Ballybo H, none of whom have set the world alight.<\/p>\n

He is the sire of Bundeschampionate competitors in the five and six year old classes. 176 of his progeny are successful at Advanced level. Bacardi has won \u20ac139,779 in prize money – in 2015, he won three times, all at the same show, Ciekocinko***, taking out the 1.50, the GP and the 1.50 against the clock with Marc Bettinger – although the field was not first class. The licensed stallion, Horse Gym\u2019s Balzaci with Felix Hassmann has\u00a0prizemoney of \u20ac315,569 \u2013 in 2015, he won two 1.50 classes, one at Odense***. the other at Ommen***. In 2016, his only recorded result was\u00a0a 40th in the four star GP of Lipsia.<\/p>\n

There are 1145 horses with winnings of more than \u20ac3,847,280 according to the 2021 Hanoverian Stallion Yearbook. There are 36 of his progeny who have won more than \u20ac15,000. Winners of more than \u20ac100,000 inlcude: Babalou 41 (180,020); Bacardi (137,779), Balance 30 (225,673), Baloubet 4 (211,334), Balzaci (527,281), Bangkok Girl (116,317) and Brooklyn (156,144).<\/p>\n

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Balzaci (Ex Libris) – a winner of over half a million euros with Felix Ha\u00dfmann<\/i><\/p>\n

On the 2017 FN breeding values, Balou has a Jungpferdepr\u00fcfungen (young horse) value of 144, and a Turniersport (open competition) value of 127.<\/p>\n

On the 2018 FN values he scores 152 on the ranking of sires of open competition horses with a reliability of 95% – this is not enough to put him into the top ten.<\/p>\n

On the 2017 Hanoverian rankings, he rates 145 for jumping and 74 for dressage. He scores a negative 93 for type, just 80\u00a0for the neck.<\/p>\n

On the 2018 Hanoverian rankings, his jumping value is 142, and his dressage value is 96. He scores 94 for type, although the ‘neck score’ has improved to 83.<\/p>\n

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First Class van Eeckelghem<\/em><\/p>\n

On the WBFSH rankings for 2016, Balou was in\u00a07th place\u00a0with his most successful points earner, Daniel Deusser; First Class van Eeckelghem (Feischnitt van de Richter), with the second highest points earner, Bowie Z (Jumpilot), Babalou was the 3rd highest.<\/p>\n

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Todd Minkus and Babalou win the $130,000 Adequan GP*** in Wellington in 2016.\u00a0<\/em>In March 2017, the pair won\u00a0the $100,000 Longines FEI World Cup\u2122 Jumping Ocala, the closing leg of the Longines FEI World Cup\u2122 Jumping 2016\/2017 North American League season.<\/em><\/p>\n

On the 2017 rankings he is in 8th place with 68 points earners, the most successful of which was Bianca (Cardento) a genuine 1.60 star, who carried Steve Geurdat to an individual bronze at the Tryon WEG.<\/p>\n

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Steve Guerdat and Bianca<\/em><\/p>\n

Balou du Rouet\u00a0is one of the most popular jumping sires in German today. On the 2021 FN rankings for jumping he scores 133 as a sire of young horses, and 144 in the highest level rankings.<\/p>\n

Like many great jumpers, Balou has a negative Hanoverian value for type – 91 – but a 2021 value of 148 as a sire of jumpers, which puts him into third place on the Hanoverian jumping toplist, behind Stolzenberg and his sire, Stakkato.<\/p>\n