GEMINIS STORM

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A beautifully refined colt foal with 71% Thoroughbred who has TWO FULL SIBLINGS with two current Team GBR Eventing Gold Medallists & directly related to 2 x Kentucky CCI5* winners and a Maryland CCI5* winner.

This colt foal is simply breath taking and comes from the only breeding daughter of Ferndale Victoria who was 3rd at Bramham CCI4* with Piggy March and had multiple top 4 British Eventing Advanced placings.

This colt's full brother Geminis Viceroy was sold to Team GBR Eventing Gold Medallist Millie Juleff and his full sister Geminis Classic Symphony was also purchased for a 2022 Team GBR Eventing Gold Medallist and she will start her competition career as a 5 year old next year.

This colt's sire line breeding directly relates him to Santano II (via Weltmeyer) who won Team bronze medal at the Rio Olympics for Chris Burton aswell (AUZ) aswell as being Saumur CCI4*-L winner just pipping Upsilion into post into 2nd place. Geminis Storm's sire line also features Chico's Boy who is the sire of Rio Olympics selected & Bramham 4* winner Chico Bella P ridden by Gemma Tattersall and the dam's sire of Denver who Holly Smith rode for Team GBR Show Jumping at the Tokyo Olympics.

Chico's Boy is also the sire of the CCI5* eventers Colanis Sunrise and Chicos Man VDF and 5 other CCI4* eventers including Chiccolino BS, Callas 30, Comte Lignieire Z, Cellus Dermac Z and Cufflink.

This colt's sire Classic Opera is full brother to an Advanced /CCI4* Eventer ridden by Harry Meade (see videos below) and the Classic Opera himself is also the sire of 46 youngstock class winners including the overall Light Horse Champion at Lincolnshire County Show 2023 and two class winners at Great Yorkshire Show this winner who were presened for the Championship.

Geminis Storm's grand sire Classic Primiitive was a British Eventing Young Horse Champion and he has gone on to sire the two CCI4* eventers Something Classical and the Advanced Eventer The Classic Composer ridden by Harry Meade. Classic Primitive is FULL SIBLING to the CCI4*-L eventer Cufflink.  Classic Primitive was also a Reserve National Champion for Show Jumping in the Futurity.

Directly related to KENTUCKY CCI5* WINNERS Kings Mistress (Mary King), Cool Mountain (William Fox-Pitt) and On Cue who is Boyd Martin's Maryland CCI5* winner all via Primitive Rising

Classic Primitive was out of a full TB mare by Primitive Rising xx who is the sire of Team GBR Mary King's Kentucky CCI5* WINNER King's Mistress, Team GBR William Fox-Pitt's Kentucky CCI5* WINNER Cool Mountain and is the dam's sire of Boyd Martin's Maryland CCI5* WINNER On Cue.  Still today the full TB stallion Primitive Rising holds the record for the highest number of Burghley Young Event Horse Final WINNERS in the UK with a total of 5 winners.

This colt's sire Classic Opera won a British Eventing as a 5 year old and BSJA Prize money as a 5 year old and is well known for producing easy, trainiable stock that are uncomplicated to produce with stunning movement. Classic Opera has been ranked inthe top 12 stallions in Great Britain by Horse & Hound Magazine and has been featured in editorial in Horse & Hound, The Insights Magazine and British Eventing Life Magazine.

Geminis Storm's grand dam Weltmusik is a Hanoverian Elite Graded mare who is also the sire of the Futurity National Champion Furst Opera who scored a perfect 10 for type and was National Champion across all disciplines, the WINNING PSG dressage mare Summer Night City, the Advanced Eventer The Classic Composer, the graded stallion Churchill III, the graded stallion, BE Event winner & HOYS Cuddy Finalist Classic Opera, the winning showing mare Geminis Classic Valentine.  Weltmusik is also full sister to the Hanoverian State Premium Mare "Why Not".

Geminis Storm's dam Zara is the only breeding daughter of the CCI4* International Event mare Ferndale Victoria ridden by the then Piggy French. The pair had multiple top 4 placings at British Eventing Advanced level and Zara was always destiine to follow in her dam Ferndale Victoria's footsteps but had an injury as a 4 year old whilst being produced for the Burghley Young Event Horse Classes and has been a broodmare ever since. It is a great credit to her that not one but two of Zara's offspring are with current 2022 Team GBR Eventing Gold Medallists.

This colt is beautiful, elegant, modern and refined with a lovely uphill way of travelling and has his sire's hallmark fabulous temperament.

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