{"id":12876,"date":"2014-10-16T15:34:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T04:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=12876"},"modified":"2021-09-21T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T23:32:19","slug":"lucky-boy-xx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2014\/10\/lucky-boy-xx\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Boy xx"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

1966 – 1984 167 cm Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

1976 Keur<\/strong><\/p>\n

1979 Preferent<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Thoroughbred stallion Lucky Boy was responsible for the first of the Dutch modern jumpers to set the world alight. Melanie Smith\u2019s Calypso finished second in the 1980 World Cup final and then followed that up two years later with a victory in the 1982 final in G\u00f6teborg.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Calypso and Melanie Smith<\/em><\/p>\n

Jacob Melissen comments in his 92\/93 edition of The Leading Sires of the Netherlands that: \u201cCalypso has been of fundamental importance to the development of showjumping in the \u2018new style\u2019, he was one of those elastic, plucky horses that perform intelligently and are keen to tackle anything without being too hot. Bold horses, with a light-footed canter. The kind of horses in which the athletic action of the Thoroughbred is united with the balanced character of the part-bred. That\u2019s what Calypso was, and that\u2019s precisely what Lucky Boy contributed to Dutch sport horse breeding.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact Lucky Boy contributed a string of top jumpers to the international scene. There was Willi Melliger\u2019s Van Gogh, and The Freak with Hugo Simon and later Dirk Hafemeister, and Anne Kursinski\u2019s Medrano \u2013 and all three of them were in Los Angeles for the 1984 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0The Freak and Hugo Simon<\/em><\/p>\n

In fact, the Lucky Boys seemed to come in threes, because three years later, the winning American team in the Nations Cup at Spruce Meadows found room for three Lucky Boy offspring: VIP and Debbie Dolan, Victor and Joan Scharffenberger, and Anne Kursinski and Medrano.<\/p>\n

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

Anne Kursinski and Medrano\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Other international performers include Urchin (Rene Tebbel), Logo (Dianne Shaw), Dutch Regard (Mike McCormick), Revlon Rascal (Lisa Tarnopol), Servus (Martha Burstein), Windsor (Guido Dominici), Zazou (Phillip Heffer), US Neapolitan (Annemarie Kynsilehto) and Bokilly (Eugenie Legrand, now Eugenie Angot).<\/p>\n

Lucky Boy\u2019s sire, Compromise is rich in the blood that says \u2018jump\u2019 on any Thoroughbred pedigree. Phalaris (three times) and Bayardo (twice).<\/p>\n

Lucky Boy produced 16 stallion sons, the most famous of which was Octrooi, who had a successful career in the USA under the name, Best of Luck. Interestingly, he was out of a mare by yet another Thoroughbred sire, Koridon.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Octrooi aka Best of Luck<\/em><\/p>\n

Best of Luck, competed in Europe as a Grand Prix jumper where he was a champion, and in North America where he was a Champion Hunter. A horse of elegance and impressive appearance, Best Of Luck sired winners in all Hunter and Jumper divisions from Junior \/ Amateur to Open, Puissance and International Grand Prix, as well as FEI dressage and Combined Training champions. He scored over 100 points in both Dressage and Jumping on the Dutch Stallion Index.<\/p>\n

Lucky Boy is also proving a valuable brood mare sire. Beezie Madden\u2019s star, Authentic is by Guidam but out of a grand-daughter of Lucky Boy. Rolf-Goran Bengtssen\u2019s Mac Kinley is out of a great grand-daughter of Lucky Boy. Katharina Offel\u2019s, Nike, is by Indoctro out of a daughter of Octrooi (Best of Luck).<\/p>\n

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