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Flaneur as the first imported licensed and performance tested stallion, bred a huge number of mares, but produced very few competitors. The eventing mare, Holiday, was competitive at Advanced level, a stallion son, Condor, competed Prix St Georges dressage, while the showjumper, Gran Boneur competed in several World Cup qualifiers without placing.<\/p>\n
The Flaneur son, Christofle (out of a Thoroughbred mare) won numerous led and ridden stallion classes before he was gelded, but not before he sired the Atlanta and Sydney eventing gold medallist, Darien Powers. Another eventing grandson, Rimini Park Fabian (by Pfrinzen) went clear cross-country, twice, at the world\u2019s toughest three-day event, Badminton.<\/p>\n
It was a modest return, and perhaps emphasised the folly of trying to breed opposites to get the perfect amalgam, as in, our horses are a bit too light and lack power, let’s find the biggest ‘tank’ we can and the result will be perfect…<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As a broodmare sire, Flaneur, teamed with the blood of another import from Holstein, Contact (by Cor de la Bry\u00e8re out of Section by Grant II, imported in 1976) produced the international dressage horse Northern Charisma, who competed at the World Cup Dressage final in Dortmund in 1999. Charisma was bred at Jan and Peter Powles\u2019 Northern Warmblood Stud, and although this stud did not set out to breed Holsteiner horses, it used mainly Holstein bloodlines. At one stage they had 18 Flaneur daughters \u2013 but after considering the results, kept only three as ongoing members of their breeding program.<\/p>\n Peter Powles\u2019 first foal arrived in 1969, just a week before he married his wife, Jan. The foal \u2013 Fleur \u2013 proved a winner, and was the dam of the 1987 Royal Melbourne Show Champion Warmblood stallion, Northern Campaign. The sire of Charisma was Northern Congress, by Contact out of a mare by Flaneur, out of a Thoroughbred mare by True Mist. Charisma was out of Northern Amblett by the Dutch import Arnhem (by the Thoroughbred, Abgar) out of a Flaneur \/ Thoroughbred mare.<\/p>\n Contact was the sire of Carlbrook Talkind, who was a member of the Australian showjumping team at the first WEG in Stockholm, as well as the world cup showjumpers Close Encounters and Schleswig Cognac (a member of an Australian showjumping team to New Zealand) and the advanced eventer, Carlbrook Contrast. He was also the sire of FEI dressage horse, Corroboree.<\/p>\n According to Peter Powles, Don Paul who had imported Flaneur, went back to Germany looking for another stallion.<\/p>\n \u201cDon arrives at the Holsteiner Verband and there is an old guy sitting on a hay bale, throwing stones at the youngsters who are free jumping in the arena. He tells him that the best colt they had bred in years had been sent to Australia some time previously, mainly because he was by this controversial French stallion, Cor de la Bry\u00e8re. He tells Don that the horse that went to Australia had one of the best jumping styles he\u2019d seen, and that lots of that first crop of foals were beginning to prove themselves. Australia, the old man said, was very lucky and they probably didn\u2019t know what a gold mine they had.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo Don Paul returned to Australia, hoping to buy that son of Cor de la Bry\u00e8re \u2013 Contact. Don died soon after he returned but I started looking for sons of Contact. I bought Northern Ty Cardin, out of an Anglo-Arab mare, and then bred Northern Congress out of a Flaneur mare. And now we are thrilled to say that the old fella \u2013 Contact, himself \u2013 is coming down to stand at our stud in June or July of this year\u201d (this was in1988).<\/p>\n Contact had been imported by Linda Mayer, who was 20 years old at the time, and she soon found herself the target of a vicious smear campaign, with rival stallion owners muttering about \u2018the French disease\u2019 and drawing attention to a trotter in Cor de la Bry\u00e8re\u2019s pedigree \u2013 the trotter was born in 1924 and appeared four generations back!!! I guess there are not many questions about Cor de la Bry\u00e8re\u2019s bloodlines nowadays\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Although originally registered with the AWHA, Contact was later de-registered in the mid-80\u2019s, but then re-registered later again after he was purchased by committee members of the AWHA\u2019s ACT branch. Even the Holsteiner Association which had initially refused to register Contact, eventually fell into line, especially after Holsteiner stalwart, Norm Raphael purchased the Contact son, Melody Contact.<\/p>\n Northern Charisma was ridden by Rachael Downs (now Sanna) who also competed on Northern Aphrodite at the Sydney Olympic Games. Like Charisma, Aphrodite was out of a mare of Flaneur breeding \u2013 Northern Catherine II by Northern Congress out of a Flaneur \/ Thoroughbred mare. Aphrodite was by another of the Northern stallions, Falkland Victory \u2013 representing yet another vein of Holsteiner breeding that grew up in the northern part of Australia \u2013 Queensland \u2013 and yet again, the breeder was a German migrant, this time Gerhard Quast originally from the town of Lander near Elmshorn.<\/p>\n Gerhard arrived in Australia in 1956 and soon established himself as a strawberry farmer, but he saw the market for Warmblood horses, and so imported his first stallion, Monopol in 1975. Monopol was born in 1972, by Moltke out of a mare by Aldato.<\/p>\n In Germany, Gerhard had seen the successful use of trotter (Standardbred) mares to breed jumping horses, and followed suit in Australia (besides, Standardbred mares were even cheaper to buy than slow Thoroughbreds). So Gerhard bred Monopol over his trotters and established a dynasty.<\/p>\n Gerhard imported another stallion, Falkland (Farnese \/ Lopshorn) in 1979, yet another, Lander (Lorenz \/ Fasolt) in 1983, and then Cassanova ( Coriander \/ Lord Calando ) in 1998. None of Gerhard\u2019s imports were licensed or performance tested in Germany.<\/p>\n Falkland Victory is by Falkland out of Moneyella (by Monopol). Another successful stallion from the Quast farm was Falkrich, again by Falkland out of a half trotter mare by Monopol.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Despite only covering a handful of mares each year throughout his career, Falkrich was \u00a0one of the more successful sires in Australia. His stallion son, Wirragulla Nicklaus (out of a mare of Trakehner \/ Hanoverian breeding) \u00a0won a number of World Cup Showjumping qualifiers and was a candidate for the Australian showjumping team at the Beijing Olympics. Falkrich also produced two Grand Prix dressage horses, Finagin and Frontier and several better than useful eventers.<\/p>\n As is common in Australia, Gerhard also established his own studbook \u2013 the Holsteiner Breeders Association of Queensland in 1978.<\/p>\n In 1976, another Holsteiner stallion was imported to Australia, this time Romedio (by the Ramzes\u2019 son, Rigoletto). Romedio was the sire of the FEI dressage horse, Snowview Romboli (out of a Flaneur \/ Thoroughbred mare) bred by Norm Raphael.<\/p>\n Norm started breeding Holsteiners at the beginning of the 1970\u2019s and he was one of the founders of the Holstein Horse Association of Australia. Not surprisingly, Norm\u2019s first stallion was a Flaneur son, Flaxon, out of a Thoroughbred mare. Since then he has sent mares to almost all the Holsteiner stallions that have come to Australia: Romedio, Wildfeuer, Talisman, Rocadero.<\/p>\n Because of the difficulty of obtaining frozen Holstein semen out of Germany, Norm turned to the United States, using the semen of Riverman (by the Rebel Z son, Redfort).<\/p>\n Norm stood two sons of Riverman: Snowview Revelation, out of a mare by his original stallion, Flaxon, and Snowview Mount Royal, out of a mare by the Romedio son, Mountbatten out of a Flaneur mare.<\/p>\n Norm was a passionate believer in the Holstein horse:<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll only breed Holsteiner to Holsteiner, otherwise you are just mongrelising. It\u2019s the same if you want to breed a German Shepherd, you don\u2019t cross with a Labrador! The Holsteiner is a breed all of its own.\u201d<\/p>\n Another FEI dressage horse was Isle of Hinton, bred by another of the \u2018founding fathers\u2019 of the Holsteiner breed, David Quick of Isle of Wight Farm. A president of the Holsteiner Association, David stood a number of Holstein stallions. The first was the sire of Isle of Hinton, Grand Flaneur, by Flaneur out of a Thoroughbred mare, Lady Tudor.<\/p>\n Grand Flaneur, like the next stallion David stood, Grand Isle, was bred by another of the founding members of the Holsteiner Association, Anne Duncan, and his pedigree is a summary of the early history of Holsteiner breeding, particularly in the southern state of Victoria. He is by Grand Flaneur, and out of Vagabond Gardenia, by Romedio out of a mare by the Flaneur son, Boss Cockie.<\/p>\n Isle of Wight produced another FEI dressage horse, HRH (by Melody Contact II, by Contact, out of a Flaneur mare).<\/p>\n The formation of the Holsteiner Association was in part inspired by dramatic news from the West of Australia. In 1974 and 1975 Andr\u00e9 van Helvoort imported two Holsteiner stallions and nine mares (two of which were in foal and subsequently produced fillies) to found his Barrabadeen Stud.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Van Helvoort\u2019s foundation stock were well bred \u2013 he imported mares by Lord, Cor de la Bry\u00e8re, Moltke I, Marlon xx, Farnese, Laertes, Wahnfried and Calypso I. The two stallions were Talisman (Tumbled xx \/ Marder) and Wildfeuer (Waterman \/ Ganeff). Wildfeuer was the Holsteiner licensing champion of his year. Talisman was ranked third in his selection year. Of the mares imported, Lafette, was a full sister to World Dressage Champion, Granat, Emillie, a full sister to Constant, and Koralle, sired by Lord. The first consignment of horses was more of the \u2018traditional\u2019 type of Holsteiner, with Wildfeuer and four mares. The second consignment was the start of the more \u2018modern\u2019 Holsteiner, with the arrival of Talisman and five mares.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/69.89.31.130\/~thehors5\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Contact-1.jpg\" "\\"Contact")
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\nPeter soon refined his views: \u201cFlaneur and the early horses were the big \u2018old type\u2019 farm horses. We had to change what we were breeding just like the Germans who were changing at the same time. I quickly realised that the heavy horse wouldn\u2019t suit Australian riders and went for the lighter type, with a better power to weight ratio.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>