16.2hh. 9" Bone. 1993

Voltucky is a stunning, champion graded, quality Dutch stallion with excellent confirmation and attitude to work. He has those very elastic, powerful, 'up hill' paces that are so highly prized in a dressage horse. Voltucky added to his 1998 SHB (GB) Champion Young Stallion grading success by becoming 1999 SHB (GB) Champion Non T.B. with an incredibly high overall grading mark of 9.25. He was also the 1999 SHB (GB) Champion 6 year old Dressage Stallion. His jumping ability is simply superb, and if he wasn't pursuing a dressage career, he would undoubtedly follow in the footsteps of his sire and excel jumping.

Voltucky made a very impressive start to his dressage career by winning 32 classes before taking a 3 year break from competing due to lack of rider. To get him back into competition, he was downgraded and rewarded us by winning both the Open Novice and Open Elementary Regional Championships. He then went on to head off some very strong opposition to win the Open Novice National Championships. He is already qualified for the 2004 Medium and Advanced Medium Regional Championships.

Voltucky's ¾ brother Equador was leader of the 1996 Dutch jumping index. The sire Voltaire won many Grand Prix' around the world with Emile Hendriks and holds the top sire title of Keur. He is directly related to many top class sport horses including World Cup winner For Pleasure. Voltaire stands very high on both the Dutch jumping and dressage index and in 1996 was ranked 2nd in the world. He had more offspring at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics than any other sire and is well known for producing highly talented, easy to ride sport horses such as the international Aladdin, Concorde, Cozumel, Dante, Don Dudley, Etaire, Evoltaire, Electra, Especiale, Ecoloog, El Campeons Quality Time, Falstaff, Finesse, Foltaire, Frauenheld, Gyltaire, Mezcalero, Play It Again, Vivaldi, etc…

Voltaire's sire Furioso II has produced a staggering 125 graded sons, and having earned over D3m, is the top money winner in his progeny for all stallions at stud in Germany born before 1969.

Voltaire's dam Gogo Moeve is a full sister to the very good sport horses Von Grey Boy and Goldhunter III and dam of Fandango R, P.S., Falkan and Petite Fleur. Her sire Gottard, prolific sire of jumpers and one of the first stallions to have progeny winnings over D1m, has offspring competing world wide including Gringo, Gammon, Goldika, Goya, Genius and Queensway.

The dam's sire Joost, awarded Preferent status, was a Grand Prix jumper of some considerable note and consistently sired outstanding jumpers including VIP, Palfrenier, Ultrazon etc… Joost's sire Consul sired amongst others the great dressage horse of the 1980's Granat. Consul's sire Cottage Son XX is one of the founders of the best jumping lines in Holstein and is also found twice in the pedigree of Maximillian Saluut.

The material grandsire is the legendary Lucky Boy (Preferent). He ran 27 times, being 1st or 2nd on 16 occasions. A glamorous Thoroughbred, he consistently produced supple movement, incredible jumping ability and a plucky willingness to work in his offspring. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 3 of his offspring were competing for different countries and another 2 were reserves! At the 1987 Nations Cup at Spruce Meadows the winning American team was made up of 3 Lucky Boy progeny!!

The eldest of Voltucky's offspring will be seven this year and are doing extremely well, but with the demise of the British Horse Database it is difficult to check up on their achievements. For certain, they are showing all the attributes of their sire with many of them gaining impressive wins in the dressage arena. A good number are also showing great promise jumping as well as winning in the show ring. The Williams family who compete internationally in Endurance have very successfully started competing their homebred Voltucky gelding bred out of a 13.2 Arab mare!