Romedio was one of the early stallions imported to Australia. He was a large, energetic and athletic horse with faultless conformation and temperament. He bred horses in Australia that were successful in dressage, showjumping and breeding.

In Germany he won a Premier Champion Foal, Premier Champion Yearling, and was hugely successful at the 2 1/2 year old stallion selection and the 100 Day Test. In fact, at the stallion selection he scored an amazing 84% or 47 out of a possible 56. He received the maximum 7 out of 8 for five categories and 6 out of 8 for two categories.

Romedio left a lasting legacy in Australia as a sire of stallions and broodmares. He is now represented in the third and fourth generations of riding and breeding horses.

Other Stallions of the same Stem as Romedio include; Le Grande I, II, & III, Caletto I, II & III, Montanus, Coronado and many more.

Sire: Rigoletto x Ramzes. Rigoletto is a household name in the showjumping world. A successful sire in Holstein he was then sold to the Netherlands where he became a keur stallion, favoured by many breeders. He has countless successful sons and daughters in the showjumping field and now his grand and great grand progeny are reaching the heights.

Dam: Waldenserin x Waldenser XX. Waldenserin was a successful showjumping mare by the improvement sire Waldenser. Waldenser carries two crosses of the famous Dark Ronald who has had so much impact on the breeding of jumping horses. Waldenser sired an enormous number of successful broodmares but his most famous offspring at the moment is undoubtedly Sandro who is out of a daughter of the Waldenser son, Wahnfried. Therefore Romedio and Sandro Hit share a similar cross of Ramzes and Waldenser.

Romedio's first crop of foals in Germany left several good riding horses and broodmares including:

Olerma - dam of Lyra (by Lord). Winner of the European series of the 1994 Volvo World Cup.

In Australia his success was much more obvious and he was a super cross with some lines of TB mares - particularly Better Boy blood. From this cross came the Grand Prix dressage stallions Mountbatten, Rubens (Miguel & Di Tavora), Snowview Romboli (David Quick) and Heatherton Park Roanoke (Emmy Schmul) and the jumping horse Rembrandt. He is now also the grand sire of a growing number of sport horse sires and broodmares including many of the stock from JK Holsteiner stud in NZ through the Brokeford bred stallion JK Sacramento (Siegfried x Romedio) sire of Grand Prix dressage horse JK Supersonic.

Flaneur was purchased in Germany by Mr Don Paul. Don had been in Germany following WWII and was impressed by the local horses he had seen - particularly in the Holstein area where the land was particularly heavy and owners were proud of their horses jumping ability. The dam of the world famous mare Halla was reknowned for leaping the drains at will.

When Don Paul returned to Australia he witnessed the growing fascination with European style competition and thought that one of the stallions from the Holstein region would be perfect. He purchased from Germany the classified and tested stallion Flaneur.

As a 2yo Flaneur was only "large" he didn't grow to his HUGE proportions until a late maturing adult. He was still a much larger horse than the Germans wanted but Don Paul thought this would be an advantage in Australia where the only 17hh plus horses were the odd TB or draft horses.

It is WRONG to describe Flaneur as a throwback in that most of his immediate ancestors where neat and quite modern horses for the time.

Sire: Fax I by Fanatiker (and older style of horse but from a wonderful bloodline descended from the foundation line of Achill 1877 who can be traced back to the Darley Arabian). The dam of Fax I is the Anglo Arab mare Margot (75% TB).

Dam: Lita by Markgraf from the Elegant - Ethelbert line out of Depenau from the Heinze - Ethelbert line.

Very old, original Holsteiner lines.

Unfortunately we hear much ridicule heaped on Flaneur which he doesn't deserve. True - many of his progeny were not "up to scratch" by anyone's definition but quality mare selection wasn't very high on the lists either. The offspring from GOOD tb mares were successful as both sires and dams.

I do have a couple of photo's but they aren't loaded anywhere. I'll have to look.

phoenix

I think I have some info on Duellschutz at home that came with a Valuta/Duellschutz mare that I have.

From memory, there are several old ads (with some details of shows) and maybe an article that mentions him. All are from the era when he was out and about. There is some stuff on Valuta, too, I think.

I just don't know how much, or how good the info is.

I will be home in several weeks - if I remember (possible-to-unlikely ), I will try to dig the info out.