MEZCALERO is now standing at October Hill Farms in Weatherford, Texas.
Mezcalero is a 17.2 hand bay stallion by the famous producer Voltaire.
Mezcalero competed internationally on the Grand Prix Show Jumping Team for Mexico with Federico Fernandez.
Mezcalero has had numerous offspring all over the world which are carrying on in their fathers footsteps.
SIRE LINE –
Mezcalero is by the beloved Dutch stallion Voltaire, one of the first performance stallions to go on and prove himself equally important as a breeding stallion. Voltaire won at the highest levels of showjumping, with Nations Cup wins at Calgary, Stockholm, s’Hertogenbosch, Lanaken, Helsinki, Wiesbaden, and Wembley. In 1989, he was the winner of the Grand Prix of Berlin. Voltaire, as a breeding stallion, became known for passing on his jumping ability and his wonderful stable manners. He was represented by a staggering twenty-eight jumpers in the WBFSH standings for 2000-2001, and was ranked 9 th in the top fifty sires in the ten years from 1991 to 2000. Today his progeny, including at least 33 approved sons, continue to excel in sport around the world and to produce more great horses; in the USEF sire rankings, Voltaire has been ranked the number one sire of hunters from 2003 to 2004, and was ranked 4 th as a jumper sire in 2003, and 8 th in 2004. Some of his sons, such as Concorde, Equador, Gershwin, Julius, and Farmer, are also consistently found in these rankings.
Voltaire is by the French stallion Furioso II, one of the first of such stallions to be imported to Germany to provide some much-needed Thoroughbred influence. Standing in the Oldenburg region, he easily won his 100-Day test, and was later approved for breeding in Hannover, Rhineland, Hessen, and Westfalia. Furioso II had winners in all disciplines; some noteable ones are FBI, Heissman (Michael Matz’s Horse of the Year and 4 th at the Barcelona Olympics), and For Pleasure (ridden by Lars Nieberg to Olympic team Gold in Atlanta, and by Marchus Ehnning to team gold in Sydney). In dressage, Furioso II’s son Purioso is the sire of Cocktail (Anky van Grunsven’s Grand Prix mount). Furioso II, who died in 1986, sired a total 81 approved sons, 96 dams of approved sons, and has progeny earnings of DM9,000,000.
Furioso I, sire of Furioso II, was the leading sire of racing winners in France from 1954-1961, even though he himself never won a race in twenty-one starts. When the Furioso I son Lutteur B, who won the 1964 individual gold for showjumping, competed in the Hamburg Derby, the crowd of Germans was stunned. Wrote breeder Maas Hell, ‘The Germans were again amazed at how nonchalantly Lutteur B performed on the jumping course, how he played with the distances, and how, with a long neck, he left the course as though nothing had happened.’
Voltaire’s dam is Gogo Moeve by the great Hanoverian stallion, Gotthard. Gogo Moeve was the dam of successful competition horses Fandango R, PS Falkan and Petite Fleur. Her dam sire is the English Thoroughbred, More Magic xx, who was the sire of 1980 Moscow Olympic dressage gold medallist, Mon Cherie. Gotthard was for seven years the leading sire of showjumpers in Germany, and he sired over thirty-four licensed stallions and twenty six States Premium mares. He also sired numerous showjumpers, among them Goldika, Goldfink, Golden Gate, Goya, and Galipolis. Gotthard is also noteable as a damsire, having produced the mother of World Cup Winner The Natural, as well as the mare Gandria, one of the Hanover region’s most decorated broodmares (she is the dam of October Hill’s Amaretto D II)
BROODMARE LINE-
Mezcalero’s dam is by the legendary sire Ramiro, one of the most influential jumper sires in the world. Bred and raised in Holstein, Ramiro has had considerable influence in many breeding regions. He is the sire of the incredible international show jumper Ratina Z, United States Olympic Medalist Royal Kaliber, and is grandsire to Athens Olympics super stars Montender and Butterfly Flip. Besides these names, there are hundreds more offspring competing and winning all over the world.
Mezcalero’s second damsire is the German Trakhener stallion Marco Polo, brought to Holland in 1964 as an upgrade sire. While not popular at first, it was soon apparent that Marco Polo’s progeny had hereditary jump. The first horse to really announce the arrival of a new jumping sire was the mare, Elzette, who teamed with a 15 year old Franke Sloothaak became Royal Dutch Federation Champion in 1973. The following year, Franke rode Marco Polo to become Champion of the Young Riders. Other successful offspring were Jonker Arno (Henk Nooren), Polo Boy (Katie Monahan), Vivaldi (Melanie Smith), Pybalia (Phillippe Guerdat’s Olympic mount in 1984 as well as in Seoul), and Marius (Caroline Bradley’s Birmingham Grand Prix winner and 1977 British Showjumper of the Year). Marius went on to sire Milton, perhaps the most famous showjumper in history. Marco Polo was also successful as a broodmare sire; one of his daughters was bred to Voltaire to produce Concorde, and both Hap Hansen’s Dalfsen and Debbie Schaffner’s Den Ham were from Marco Polo daughters.
