{"id":994,"date":"2010-08-31T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T03:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.130\/~thehors5\/thm\/?p=994"},"modified":"2021-07-29T09:39:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T23:39:48","slug":"grosso-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2010\/08\/grosso-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Grosso Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

1983 – 2014 168 cm Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breeder: L\u00e9on Melchior<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the beginning, this stallion created a great deal of interest, in that he \u00a0produced a genuine international jumping star in Goldfever andt has also produced a respectable dressage stallion, Goethe. But after that the line peters out…<\/p>\n

As his name indicates, Grosso Z is not only a descendent of the famed Hanoverian ‘G’ line, but also a product of perhaps the most famous private jumping stud of them all, L\u00e9on Melchior’s Zangersheide, in Lanaken, Belgium.<\/p>\n

Grosso Z is by Goliath II Z who was an international showjumper with Willy van der Ham. Goliath II Z is by Graf Gotthard by Gotthard, and out of the foundation mare of the Zangersheide breeding program – Heureka by Ganeff. Heureka was actually ridden by Zangersheide founder, L\u00e9on Melchior, but it was with Hermann Schridde in the saddle that she was a star, winning the Grand Prix of Aachen. Heureka is the grand-dam of Olympic gold medallist, Ratina Z and her three stallion full-brothers, Rebel I, II and III.<\/p>\n

Grosso Z’s dam, F\u00fcchsin is by Furioso II out of a Lugano I mare. F\u00fcchsin was the dam of expensive auction horses as well as the licensed stallion son, Cadence Z, who competed successfully as a showjumper.<\/p>\n

After he won the title of Champion Stallion of Belgium, Grosso Z moved to Germany and the St Ludwig stud. One year later, Grosso Z was the Champion Stallion of the Stallion Performance test at Warendorf, scoring a sensational 148.85 – thanks to his wonderful basic gaits, rideability and jumping ability.<\/p>\n

In 1994, Grosso Z returned to the Rhineland area, where he continued to compete up to M level jumping, then under Jan Nivelle switched to the dressage arena, competing up to Intermediaire I level.<\/p>\n

Accepted as a breeding stallion in Westfalia, Oldenburg, Belgium and the KWPN – and soon after that for Hanover and all the German studbooks – except Holstein – Grosso Z was also used as a breeding stallion in France and Italy.<\/p>\n

Grosso Z finally stood at the picturesque Gest\u00fct Wiesenhof, a private stud near Dusseldorf.<\/p>\n

The Hanoverian stallion book, the Hannoveraner Jahrbuch Hengste <\/em>for 2011 (the last in which he appears) credits Grosso Z with 584 competitors in Germany who had won \u20ac3,524,314 – giving Grosso Z an FN dressage rating of 114 and a jumping rating of 121. His most successful dressage horse was Goethe, winner of \u20ac41,153, while his top jumping earner was Goldfever with a massive \u20ac2,315,893.<\/p>\n

He has produced a number of licensed sons including Goldfever, and his full-brother, Goldfever II, as well as Galippo (out of an Absatz mare) who with the new name, Gambinus, competed for Britain in the European Dressage Championships, ridden by Peter Storr.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Gambrinus and Peter Storr competing for Britain<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Grosso Z has proven one of the better stallions that descend from Gotthard – producing jumpers and dressage horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[1246,974,85],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-stallions","tag-great-stallions","tag-grosso-z","tag-warmblood-breeding"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59927,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/59927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}