{"id":12852,"date":"2014-10-16T15:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T04:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=12852"},"modified":"2017-02-27T21:29:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T10:29:37","slug":"koyuna-majestic-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2014\/10\/koyuna-majestic-supreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Koyuna Majestic Supreme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Koyuna<\/a><\/p>\n

1989 – 2004 168 cm Chestnut<\/strong><\/p>\n

With winning horses in both eventing and showjumping, the Australian bred Koyuna Majestic Supreme, was THM Jumping Stallion of the Year 2009.<\/p>\n

The chestnut stallion was born in 1989 and was by Supreme, a son of the jumping foundation sire, Souvenir, and out of Northern Coroula II by Northern Congress, an Australian born son of the German Holsteiner, Contact, by Cor de la Bry\u00e8re. Congress was out of a mare by the first Warmblood to come to Australia, another Holsteiner, Flaneur out of a mare by the fine Thoroughbred stallion, True Mist. Northern Coroula II\u2019s dam, Northern Amunda, is by the imported Dutch sire, Arnhem by the Thoroughbred sire of jumpers, Abgar, out of another daughter of Flaneur, Marmara.<\/p>\n

Although Howard Clark, who stood Souvenir, has recently supplied me with a pedigree of the stallion, it just doesn\u2019t work. Either the horses are not to be found at all in the Australian Thoroughbred Studbook, or are \u2018impossible\u2019 \u2013 like the mare who is listed as a stallion. Howard points out as proof that Souvenir is a Thoroughbred, that his son, Kumali was advertised as a \u2018registered Thoroughbred\u2019. Once again when we look at the ASB studbook, we find that Kumali is registered but described as \u2018ntb\u2019 \u2013 not Thoroughbred – his sire (that is Souvenir) is \u2018unrecognized\u2019 and only the dam sire, Yultewina, is accepted as a Thoroughbred.<\/p>\n

The pedigree for Souvenir\u2019s son, Supreme, does more or less check out. He is described as out of Koyuna Felicity by Nestor out of a mare by Voluntary \u2013 and both names do come up in the Thoroughbred stud book. There\u2019s just one quibble, Felicity\u2019s dam Philesia is described as being out of Phillady by Valiant Chief out of Lady Courteous. There is a record of a filly by Valiant Chief out of Lady Courteous, but her name is Courtesan.<\/p>\n

I guess we will never get to the bottom of the mystery of Souvenir\u2019s pedigree, but there is no doubting that he was one of the very first jumping horse sires in Australia. Howard Clark recalls:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe first took Souvenir to Melbourne Show in 1963 and that\u2019s when we first started taking outside mares, before that it was a private operation of my father\u2019s. I made it commercial when someone at Melbourne Show said to me, \u2018How much is your service fee?\u2019 and I said \u201cWhat\u2019s a service fee!\u201d Off the top of my head I said forty guineas and all of a sudden I had twelve booked in that year and I thought, well bloody hell this is alright!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOut of that first lot came our first Australian Showjumping Champion, the mare, Burgundy. We knew Souvenir could jump because when Henry Hooper broke him in at Wangaratta he free-jumped him. He jumped an enormous bloody log. Jumping wasn\u2019t really fashionable those days, it was only about that time that Olympic jumping started to come in. Dad was more interested in hacks, not showjumping and it was only when Burgundy came along, and more started to jump that we realised what we had. It was me who took it forward as a professional stud. Dad was quite happy to leave it at that because his interest was the hacks and nothing more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sire of Koyuna Majestic Supreme, Supreme, was never quite as famous or seemingly as important as Souvenir?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, not to me he wasn\u2019t. He was probably a better conformed stallion. He was Champion at Melbourne, 12 or 13 times and certainly was Ridden Champion at Melbourne a couple of times. But I don\u2019t think the Nestor side of his breeding helped on the jumping side, but certainly it was Souvenir with the jumping influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

What made you turn to a Warmblood mare when you bred the stallion, Majestic Supreme?<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter Souvenir died, I really lost heart in the whole thing. I had really had enough because we were milking 300 cows at the time and I had a young family and I just really didn\u2019t have the heart any more. I had Supreme left, and I only had two or three mares left. Johnny White came to me one day and he said to me that he had this mare from Peter Powles and did I want to breed a foal? And I said \u201cOh not really,\u201d and he said, \u201cI really think you should, and if you get a colt, you can keep the bloodlines alive.\u201d If that hadn\u2019t happened I would have finished breeding forever then. Majestic Supreme was the resulting foal. He wasn\u2019t the be-all-and-end-all as far as I was concerned but he certainly had a fantastic temperament, and there\u2019s a photo I sent to you free-jumping and that was just as a three-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have a look at his natural jump over those jumps as a three-year-old, you\u2019ll see Wendy Schaeffer\u2019s mare, Sun Set, jumps the same way. I\u2019ve been watching a lot of the European horses and they jump the same way too.\u201d<\/p>\n

He never competed, Majestic Supreme?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, he never competed. I took him to Melbourne Show as a two-year-old and he won the Warmblood Class and was Reserve Champion in the Open Stallion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStill we weren\u2019t breeding much. All we did with him was to try and keep the bloodline alive. It wasn\u2019t \u2018til after Barcelona Olympics that a bloke in Melbourne approached me and asked, \u201chave you got the same bloodlines as Peppermint Grove?\u201d and I said \u201cyeah,\u201d and he said, \u201cwould you like to start up again?\u201d and I said, \u201coh not really,\u201d and he said, \u201cwe\u2019ll get a group together and go and get a band of mares together.\u201d So I went and bought ten or twelve mares of my bloodline that I really wanted and we started up again. And Majestic Supreme was a foundation of the resurrection of the horse breeding again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Howard reflects upon the performance horse breeders\u2019 lament \u2013 by the time the stallion has enough foals in competition to prove how good he is, he is dead. Majestic Supreme died not so long ago after a paddock accident as a comparatively young fifteen year old.<\/p>\n

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