Breed: Dutch Warmblood (KWPN) Licensed & Approved Stallion With: the NZ Warmblood Horse Association, Principal status Sire: Voltaire (Dutch Warmblood) Dam: Daydyne (Dutch Warmblood) Dam Sire: Nimmerdor (Dutch Warmblood) Age: Born in 1992 Colour: Dark Bay, 4 socks and blaze. Height: 17hh 2010 Service Fee: $2250 all inclusive (see bottom of page for details)	(Photo: Annie Studholme)

We are very excited to introduce a new stallion to Astek Stud - the beautiful natured and superbly bred Dutch Warmblood sire "Voltaire II".

Voltaire II was imported to New Zealand from the Netherlands in 1994 as a 2 year old, where he took up residence at Seattle Lodge Stud in Cambridge. He was started under saddle as a 3 year old and commenced early training with New Zealand's dressage star Kallista Field. Despite the best intentions to compete him, huge demand for his breeding services saw him retire from ridden work at a young age. While his potential under saddle has never been fully realised, his contribution to the New Zealand performance horse scene via his progeny has flourished, and is continuing to be very impressive!

VOLTAIRE II IS CURRENTLY THE SIRE OF:

* PUISSANCE WINNER 2.01M AT WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW NOV 09 * ADELAIDE INTERNATIONAL CCI 4* EVENT WINNER NOVEMBER 2009 * NATIONAL EVENTING CHAMPIONS TO ADVANCED LEVEL & WORLD CUP QUALIFIER * NATIONAL SHOWJUMPING CHAMPIONS INCLUDING WORLD CUP SERIES 2007/08 * NATIONAL SHOWHUNTER CHAMPIONS * NATIONAL DRESSAGE CHAMPIONS INCLUDING PRIX ST GEORGE LEVEL 2007/08 * SUPREME CHAMPIONS IN-HAND

Voltaire II at Canterbury Stallion Parade, September 2007, 15 years old.
(Photo: Kim Annan)

"Voltaire II" ridden by Kallista Field

Voltaire II has a very attractive refined head with excellent correct, leggy, athletic conformation, eyecatching white markings and medium sized bone. He is an outstanding natured stallion - extremely kind, calm, playful, intelligent and affectionate! His movement is elevated and bouncy with lovely natural spring and scope including a big ground covering canter. He also displays excellent effortless jumping technique with a fantastic attitude to jumping - just like his famous relatives! His obvious athleticism and scope, beautiful elegant looks, intelligent characters and smart jumping technique are all being passed onto his progeny. He offers warmblood power and scope yet with refinement and elegance.

"Voltaire II" at the Canterbury stallion parade 2007, 15 years old.
(Photo: Annie Studholme)

Although a stallion himself can be very impressive, it is how he transmits his genes that will mark his success as a sire. Again, Voltaire II greatly impresses with the international bloodlines behind him and, with his own progeny now well underway in their performance careers, it is becoming very clear that he has what it takes to produce the same quality attributes of his famous forefathers as well!

Voltaire II has exceptional bloodlines, with both his famous sire "Voltaire" and equally famous dam-sire "Nimmerdor" having become world acclaimed for their terrific impact on sport horse performance world wide. His pedigree also contains the superior sires Furioso II (Han), Gotthard (Han), Farn (Holst/KWPN) and the highly influential Thoroughbred sires Furioso, Precipitation and Fairway.

Voltaire II's sire "Voltaire" (see photos below) was approved KWPN (Dutch Warmblood), Hanoverian, Selle Francais and Oldenburg. He jumped 1.50m courses as an 8 year old with a great deal of success. He showed his prowess in international jumping in 1988 in Calgary, Stockholm, Lanaken, Helsinki, Wiesbaden and Wembly and in 1989 he brought his showjumping career to a successful end by winning the Grand Prix of Berlin.

Above: Voltaire, the famous sire of Voltaire II

Voltaire stands very high on the index for both jumping and dressage. Each year so far a son of Voltaire has been approved for breeding in the Netherlands: Olympic Concorde, Damocles, Equador, Farmer, Gershwin and Haarlem to name just a few. In Germany Voltaire sons were approved, along with the stallions Electro in Sweeden and Forever in Belgium. Many offspring of Voltaire have been awarded high premiums and, examplified by Hallo Hallo, Fantast, Dante, Vivaldi, Especiale, Electra, Etaire, Don and Concorde, are jumping 1.40m/1.50m courses.
It is therefore no surprise that Voltaire received the sought after 'keur' predicate.

Voltaire II's dam-sire "Nimmerdor" shone during the jumping phase of his performance test in 1975. 'Preferent' Nimerdor went on to be ridden at international level by Albert Voorn, with whom he jumped various World Cups and made impressive appearances at several important international competitions. Nimmerdor was invited to go to Los Angeles Olympic Games, but the owners declined, as they considered it more important at the time that he fully devoted himself to his breeding activities.

Above: Nimmerdor, the famous dam-sire of Voltaire II.

Nimmerdor's enourmous influence on breeding is not only felt in the Netherlands but also in many countries abroard. He has sired more than thirty approved stallions all over the world and has many successful grand-sons as well, including the likes of Himmerdor, Heartbreaker, Ahorn, Goodtimes, Wellington and more. When Nimmerdor was withdrawn from the sport, his children were already continuing the great family tradition. In 2000, Nimmerdor was elected 'The Stallion of the 20th Century' in the Netherlands.

The Voltaire / Nimmerdor cross was quickly recognised by Dutch breeders to be an extremely sucessful mating, with the great character and extreme carefulness of Voltaire combining very well with the boldness of Nimmerdor. At the moment, approximately 25% of the top 150 Dutch jumping horses are out of Nimmerdor mares.

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Voltaire II's own progeny already hold National titles in all four disciplines of Dressage, Showjumping, Eventing and Show Hunter, with many progeny also Supreme Champions in the show ring, plus talented progeny exported overseas.

Some Notable Progeny Results Include:

- Adelaide International CCI 4* Event November 2009 won by "Vettori" and rider Stuart Tinney
- Washington International Horse Show $25,000 Puissance class 2009 won by "Vancouver" and rider McLain Ward.

- Vancouver - winner of the NZ World Cup showjumping series 2008. Vancouver has recently been sold to the USA via internationally known showjumping rider Chris Kappler. He will be missed in our top SJ competitions but we wish him well!!
- Veritas - Prix St George National Dressage Champion 2007/08
- DV8 - 1st CCI 1 star, Richfields 3 Day Event, Dec 07
- Gordon - 1st CCI 3 star, Richfields 3 Day Event, Dec 07
- Viking SL - Supreme Champion Ridden Warmblood at Canterbury Royal A&P 2007
- Gordon, 2nd in Taupo Event 2007, CCI 3 star
- Vettori (AUS), 6th in Taupo 2007, CCI 3 star
- Sacred Hill Tipsy, 6th= National 5yo SJ series

Alongside countless wins in all disciplines, some of his major progeny titles and wins (that we are aware of) include:

Other winners sired by Voltaire II include: Viking SL, Dutch Treat SL, Vienetta, Ventus, Primvera Vermont, Vimac, Ashbury Rose, Vista, Volte SL, Volivia, A Wizard, Volenta, Varensia, Double J Breeze, Miss Victoria, Vibrant SL, Viggio (USA), Poseidon (AUS), Shelia Brodie (USA), Voltaren (USA), Voltez, Zap, Vanilla Ice, plus many more.

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Certainly, Voltaire II is proving himself to be a successful sire of top quality all round performance progeny!!
In fact, due to his progeny performance results, Voltaire II has been upgraded to being a "Principal" status stallion with the NZ Warmblood Association.

Voltaire II will be standing his first season at Astek Stud in 2007. We are thrilled to have this stallion join us as we feel his bloodlines and type perfectly compliment our current breeding programme, and his progeny will continue to impress in all disciplines of sporthorse competition.

(Please note: If you own or have bred progeny by Voltaire II, we would love to hear from you!)

We are excitedly looking forward to our first Astek foals sired by Voltaire II in the spring of 2008.

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Voltaire II - your sire choice for producing progeny with:
- Refined, leggy, athletic conformation with beautiful heads
- Lots of Scope and Versatility for any discipline
- Natural elegance and beauty (he often produces very colourful white markings)
- Intelligent, kind, trainable temperaments
- Very scopey, clever and talented jumping technique and ability
- Internationally sought after Dutch Warmblood performance bloodlines
- PROVEN CHAMPION PROGENY winning at NATIONAL level across ALL DISCIPLINES!

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2010 Stud Fee: NZ$2250 all inclusive
(includes GST, Booking Fee, First Semen Collection Fee & First Semen Freight NZ wide, plus Live Foal Guarantee.)
(Discount provided for multiple mares booked to any of our stallions by one owner.)

AI only. Transported fresh chilled semen available NZ wide. Very Good Fertility.
All services come with a Live Foal Guarantee and Service contract.

 

2010 Service Contract & Brochure Downloads
	- Voltaire II (Dutch Warmblood) Service Contract 2010 (PDF 62kb) - Voltaire II's Stallion Brochure 2010 (PDF 1754kb)

DVD footage of Voltaire II and his progeny now available!
Contact us today for your free copy!

All progeny eligible for registration with the New Zealand Warmblood Horse Association.

Please phone Sue or Diana at Astek Stud - 03 347 6613 - or email info@astek.co.nz for more info/video or DVD/service contracts etc.