Tristan Bryan
East Maitland NSW
02 4982 7424
0409 600 548
meridianestate@hotmail.com

Armani is a true representation of the Arabian Warmblood and meets all criteria of the Standard of Excellence for an Arabian Warmblood with natural carriage in an uphill and elevated manner that combines sound conformation with substance and elegance and suspension, elevation and strong, driving hock action in his movement.

His sire, Lionel carries the Arabian performance lines of Sindh who was one of the leading Arabian sires in Australia in the 70's. He made a huge impact on the Arabian Industry and became the foundation for many studs.

His dam is by the imported Warmblood stallion, Wunder, who was imported from Denmark for the explicit purpose of importing a stallion with superior movement and bloodlines. Wunder's bloodlines are predominantly Hanoverian with some Trakehner influence which has proven over the years to be producing quality dressage and showjumping horses. Wunder's sire, Voltaire is the 3rd leading sire of showjumpers in Holland and 4th leading sire in the World.

Armani's dam's pedigree contains the stallion Agricola who sired some outstanding showjumpers with his most famous being Apache who won the Grand Prix in Rome. Agricola was one of the last foals of Precipitation who has been one of the major sires of jumpers of all time in Europe.

Armani has everything you could want in a sire. He has proven performance bloodlines, beautiful and powerful movement, is very impressive in appearance, correct conformation, a sensational and trainable temperament and is a total gentleman in any company. He has good swing and elasticity, an amazing jump in the canter yet is still exceptionally comfortable to ride.

If you are looking to produce reliable, trainable and attractive foals with excellent movement and rideability then this is the stallion for you.

Lionel is a pure Crabbet Arabian Stallion who stands in Victoria & is a grandson of the highly successful stallion, Banderol. He has produced numerous successful performance horses consisting of Purebred Arabians, Anglos & Arabian Warmbloods.

Sindh (Banderol's sire) was imported to Australia in 1961 by Fenwick Stud. He was a top show horse and was the leading sire in Australia through the 1970's until he passed away in 1986 at the age of 28. He had a huge impact on the Arabian industry and became the foundations for many studs starting out. Sindh carries the Arabian height gene which has been passed on through his progeny.

Wunder was imported from Denmark as a two year old, being bought with the explicit purpose of importing a stallion with superior movement & bloodlines. Wunder's bloodlines are predominantly Hanoverian with some Trakehner influence. This mix has proven over the years to be producing quality dressage and showjumping horses.

His sire Voltaire is one of Denmark's top sires, having produced a large number of licensed stallions and proven performers. Voltaire's sire, Wedekind, is well known for producing top performers in both dressage and showjumping. Wedekind, ranked in the top 100 show jumping horses in the world for his time, is also the grand sire of Welt As, sire of Olympic Dressage gold winner and multiple Dressage World Cup winner, Olympic Bonfire, ridden by Andy van Grunsven. Ferdinand & Matrose (grandsire's of Voltaire) are well known showjumping lines throughout Europe.

Ferdinand is one of the top German sires. He sired 12 approved sons, 194 competition horses & 165 Main Studbook mares. One of his most famous sons was Ferdl who was a member of the gold medal winning German Showjumping team at the 1960 Rome Olympics. Another was Mehmed who won the Individual Gold Medal in Dressage at the World Championships with Reiner Klimke in 1974.

Wunder's dam, Poesi, is a Bronze medal winning mare, an award presented to only the highest quality producers of performance horses. Her pedigree contains the famous Abglanz who is one of Germany's top stallions, a producer of World Class dressage horses. The Hanoverian A-Line has, through Abglanz, produced the foundation of today's best performance horses.

Atlantic, Poesi's sire, has been awarded a gold medal for his importance in breeding. He has produced Elite showjumpers.

Dagmar, Poesi's grand dam was the first mare ever to be awarded a gold medal. She produced 19 silver medal foals, including Palett by Pilar, Poesi's dam.

Abglanz, Poesi's grandsire, was perhaps the most influential stallion of modern time. Abglanz and his progeny are credited with bringing about great improvement in the head and neck of the Hanoverian horses. He sired 19 approved sons.

Armani's great great grandsire, Agricola, was an outstanding sire who produced well-known jumpers including Australian Vicki Roycroft's great showjumper, Apache.

Agricola was one of the last sons of Precipitation, who was perhaps the most influential jumping sire of them all, through his son Furioso, whose stallion sons dominated jumping breeding in France, Germany, Holland and Belgium for many years. Agricola's dam Aurora was by Hyperion.

Precipitation is perhaps the most influential sire of all, and while his influence on jumping horses has long been recognised, some of the most exciting dressage horses in the world today trace their ancestry to this great sire.

But it is not just in the jumping world that the Precipitation blood comes through. The Oldenburg stallion, Welt As - sire of World Champion, Olympic Bonfire - is out of Elfene, by Furioso 11, and Anky van Grunsven's other great dressage horse, Olympic Cocktail, is by Purioso, by Furioso xx. Purioso is also the sire of the Showjumper, Henderson Gammon, and the French dressage team horse, Arnoldo Thor.

In the Southern hemisphere, Precipitation has mainly exerted his influence on the racetrack. His three New Zealand based sons, Count Rendered, Summertime and Agricola were all top racing sires - and the Agricola son, Apache, showed that the stallion could produce international level showjumpers.

Precipitation was highly influential in New Zealand and Australia, where three sons became champion sires and had a great impact on bloodstock there in the 1950s and '60s. Precipitation also made a major contribution to the sporthorse world by siring Furioso, who in France got ten Olympic show jumpers and the extremely influential warmblood sire, Furioso II.