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| ROSTER *About Sakura Hill Farm *Services Offered by Sakura Hill Farm *Broodmare Lease & Embryo-Transfer and Sales *Sakura Hill Farm Recipient Herd *Past Sakura Hill Farm Mares |
| ROSTER *Young Horse Sales & Pricing Categories *Young Horse Incentive Program *Sakura Hill Farm Young Horses of the Past |
 *Bringing the highly sought-after Irish bloodlines of Cruising and Ozymandias xx to North America  | 2006 KWPN mare 57.43% xx/xo Bijin is growing up in Europe. Bijin started and trained with Monica under Olympic Show Jumper Tim Stockdale of the UK in January 2010. They are now at the yard of Daniel Delsart, the French rider/trainer who has started many of Tim's horses. Bijin is currently jumping 1.0m courses. Reports are that she is a very quick learner and eager to please. She likes her human friends and, when silly, resumes proper demeanor quickly. *Video taken March 2010  Bijin carries the precious KWPN blood of her sire Ekstein(Zion-Joost), who is out of the famous Niki motherline. As Ekstein's semen did not ship, his progeny are rare in the United States and even in Holland, as he stood at stud in Ireland. Ekstein himself is the sire of Olympic competitor Joel, the damsire of 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist Hickstead and Olympic Competitor Don Porfirio.   Bijin brings a highly interesting combination of Irish thoroughbred blood, represented in her dam Ozy Cruise M2S, an outcome of the Irish ET project to perpetuate valuable Irish bloodlines as well as the blood of the famous thoroughbreds Ozymandias xx and Nordlys xx also in her pedigree. Bijin's dam-sire Cruising’s dam, Mullacrew was an International showjumper, winning at top European shows. Mullacrew’s sire, Nordlys was the sire of many famous jumpers, including the 1972 individual Olympic gold medallist, Ambassador (Italy). Cruising’s grand-dam, Big Idea was a full sister to the Irish stallion, Ideal Waters. Big Idea was by Water Serpent, the sire of international jumpers like Rockette and The Rock. Water Serpent was also the foundation sire in Patricia Nicholson’s successful eventing horse breeding program. As a competitor himself, Cruising was a star – winning Grand Prix at Aachen (1999), Dortmund (1999), Lucerne (1998), San Marino (1996) and Wolfsburg (1996). He was the winner of three World Cup Qualifiers: Millstreet (1997, 1998) and Geneva (1998). Cruising has been a successful sire of international jumpers such as Cruise Missile, Cruiseline, Sails Away, Sail Rain and World Cruise. His eventer son, Mr Medicott, ridden by Frank Ostholt, won the World Cup CIC 2007 in Strzegom (POL). In the 2006 Jumping Stallions’ rankings, as compiled by Bernard le Courtois in Monneron 2007-2008, Cruising ranks equal 24th with 11 international representatives.    *Updated Video 2/13/10 *A Training/Competition partnership will be considered with the right trainer/rider." We are fortunate to have the opportunity to breed to the stallion Olympic Quintus (Pavarotti v/d Helle x Garitchou x x Alme), who represented Ukraine in the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Quintus placed 10th in the 2008 Olympics and is a half-brother to the 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Jus de Pomme and the 2008 Olympic showjumper Tresor d'Opaline. He is also half-brother to the international showjumpers Richebourg, Shogun II, and Magister.    *This mare will be available as a donor mare for Embryo Transfer when she arrives in Florida* |
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