{"id":23404,"date":"2015-06-15T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T05:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=23404"},"modified":"2022-01-20T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T23:00:49","slug":"norton-deole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2015\/06\/norton-deole\/","title":{"rendered":"Norton d\u2019Eole"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2001 172 cm Grey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breeder: Eric and Guillaume Dewulf<\/strong><\/p>\n

His sire, Cento was one of the great jumping competitors and his dam, Fragance de Chalus is the greatest broodmare of all time.<\/p>\n

Cento is the classic Holstein mix: Capitol and Cor de la Bry\u00e8re, with the addition on the mare line of Ladykiller xx, and Ramzes aa. Indeed Cento\u2019s rider suggests that Thoroughbred blood was crucial to understanding the stallion: \u201cOn the outside he might be the older type, but inside, he was like a Thoroughbred, that is why he was so careful, right till the end, and so sensitive. Inside he was like a Thoroughbred,\u201d Otto Becker told me.<\/p>\n

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Norton in action…<\/em><\/p>\n

Norton\u2019s competitive career has not quite rivaled that of his sire (or for that matter his half-brother, Mylord Carthago) but it is certainly respectable. In 2015, he was second in the Grand Prix at Maugerge and third at Hardelot, with his rider, Eric Dewulf. The year before that the pair were 2nd<\/sup> at Reims and in 2013, won the Grand Prix of Sancourt. His offspring are only now starting to compete, with the only one to make the Showjumping Archive records so far, Utac d\u2019Estrees (Veneur de Baugy) second with Alexandre Leviche in a 6-year-old class at Sancourt.<\/p>\n

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Norton\u2019s dam Fragance is a phenomenon, and her origins lie in a nineteenth-century pure bred Arab line (I am indebted for this information to Emmanuel Spinnewyn, whose article on Norton d\u2019Eole appeared in the 2010\/2011 edition of Monneron) <\/em><\/p>\n

We have to go back five lines to find the pure Arab on Fragance\u2019s pedigree, her great, great, great, great grand-dam, Ram Bera \u2013 who established a famous steeple-chasing family through her daughter, Raita II. Bred by the Baronne d\u2019Espulungue, Raita II was a successful steeplechaser, she was also classified \u2018Recommended for Showjumping\u2019 on the basis of the performances of her full brother, Petit Ratou, who was first and second in the French 3DE championships of 1947 and 1948.<\/p>\n

Raita II\u2019s sire, Mont Bermina, a winner at the famous Jockey Club, and he was the half-brother of Mont Black, winner of the Poule d\u2019essai of Foals, and T\u00e9l\u00e9rique, winner of the Grand Criterium, and sire of Alizier, who sired Laudanum\u2019s maternal grand-dam. Mont Bermina was the maternal grand-sire of La Mioche who sired the great Grand Veneur.<\/p>\n

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Mont Bermina’s famous dam, Beaute de Neige was the dam of 13 winning horses who took first place in 40 flat races for winnings of 1,175,010 FF…<\/em><\/p>\n

Raita produced winners on the racetrack and in the jumping ring. In twelve steeplechases, her daughter, Emirline (by L\u2019Emir xx), was either first or second before she was purchased by that knowledgeable connoisseur of horse breeding, Roland Gilberton, who selected mares who had proved themselves in the field. Emirline’s first daughter, Upsala D was entrusted to Gilberton\u2019s neighbor, the Olympic rider, Marc Deuquet. Upsala D was a winner of Grand Prix and Puissance. Raita then produced Marinella, a great jumper with an amateur rider, then Quime, a successful steeple-chaser. Raita\u2019s daughter, Urania (by Matador aa), bred to Alm\u00e9 produced Jessica D, who bred to Hand in Glove xx, produced Jessy Mail, a successful eventer.<\/p>\n

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The Thoroughbred, Ch\u00e2teau du Diable<\/em><\/p>\n

Bred to Cidre Mousseux xx, Raita produced Oita, who had an outstanding racing career, 9 wins out of 26 races. Oita was then bought by Roland Gilberton. Oita produced only one filly \u2013 Ifrane, by Ch\u00e2teau du Diable xx, a stallion with a good reputation for producing jumpers. Bred to the Thoroughbred, Drapeau Rouge, Ifrane produced Hubert Bourdy\u2019s wonderful jumper, Morgat \u2013 team bronze at the Seoul Games, Team gold and Individual bronze at the WEG in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

Ifrane was sold in foal to Fury de la Cense (a grandson of Furioso out of a mare by Rantzau) to Mr and Mrs Planson, of the village of Levet, and the showjumping family \u2018de Chalus\u2019 was underway. Ifrane\u2019s first daughter, Nifrane was born in 1978, and went on to win 540,000 francs in the showjumping arena with Remy Deuquet. Nifrane bred to the three quarter Thoroughbred, If de Merze, produced Lord If de Chalus who had an excellent career with the Danish rider, Karina Rie Truelson, winning the Grand Prix of Sopot and Norrk\u00f6ping, and 2nd<\/sup> in the five star GP at Barcelona, before going to the well-known \u2018Ukranian\u2019 duo of Katharina Offel and Cassio Rivetti, winning the GP at Arezzo in 2012 with Cassio. In 2015, the horse was ridden with modest success by Austrian, Jessica Vonach.<\/p>\n

Bred to Jalisco B, Nifrane produced Fragance de Chalus, who competed firstly with David Jobertie, and then with Karline de Brabander, all the while producing a string of astonishingly successful foals, thanks to Joris de Brabander’s skills at embryo transplant.<\/p>\n

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Fragance de Chalus<\/em><\/p>\n

Nifrane was not the only daughter of Ifrane to find her way to Joris\u2019 famous Stal de Muze. Caprice d\u2019Ifrane, by Galoubet A, was also purchased by Joris who bred her to Chin Chin to produce Triomphe de Muze, who won two Grand Prix \u2013 Bourg en Bresse and Lons le Saunier, and placed 2nd<\/sup> in a 1.50 at Hickstead, in 2006, his last year of competition with David Jobertie. As a stallion, Triomphe de Muze has already produced a number of international competitors.<\/p>\n

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Triomphe de Muze<\/em><\/p>\n

As a sire it would see, Norton does not quite live up to his genetic heritage… he has 99 competitors on the horsetelex database, one 1.50 jumper, one 1.55 and one 1.60 competitor, Made in’t Ruytershof (out of a Diamant de S\u00e9milly \/ For Pleasure mare).<\/p>\n

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Ulysse des Ch\u00eanes(Norton \/ Lys de Darmen) \u2013 approved in the Selle Fran\u00e7ais studbook<\/em><\/p>\n