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About Ricco

Ricco's Stud Fees for 2010 is still at £400 NFFR.

Ricco the sire of three HOMOZYGOUS foals all to Angrove Dance Girl A Graded Stallion with CHAPS UK, and BSJA winning's of £180 grade C showjumper, Registered and Approved by Weatherbys NTR.

Ricco has a fantastic easy temperament, and has been successful in both showing and show jumping, qualifying for the Royal International.

An evenly marked piebald tobiano, Ricco was bred at the Glencrutten Stud, by Mr Alan McKechnie, for his bloodlines and ability.

Read all about Ricco and Angrove Stud on the Horse Deals web site link here http://www.horsedeals.co.uk/view-article.aspx?ProductCode=MagFeaturesMay102

Ricco's well-known Sire was Captain Maverick and his Dam was owned by Sue Kennedy of the Honeypot Stud.

Below a link to world renowned horseman & coach William Micklem has researched the Throughtbred sires that have been most influencial in the stud books of the world and also the achivements of the progeny taht are international horses, of the TB sires

William has Identified Riccos sire Captain Maverick as one of only five sires from the 80 & 90 in the UK to be on his list!

genes of these horses all contain the classic bloodlines of the best jumping thoroughbreds from the racing world, come from flat racing,with multiple advanced performance sports horses.

To learn more about Williams valuable research please visit.

http://www.williammicklem.com/

http://www.barnmice.com/profiles/blogs/even-mark-todd-can-be-led-2

to read the artical in full visit the above link

Ricco's Grandsire, Zhivago, is the sire of Tullibards Shakespeare, and Mr Todd both sires of advanced event horses including Cornsay Grouse, 316 BE points, and Kilfinnie with 451 BE points, and have competed at Burghley.

As a tribute to the Great Zhivago who is now retired from stud duties he has passed on some amazing genes, not just his colour, here are just some of his grandchildren and there BE points as of March 2010

BY Mr Todd discovered by Ian Stark sire of Wigwam & Cornsay Grouse.

Wigwam ridden by Lucy Price, 50 BE pts,

Cornsay Grouse ridden by Angus Smales placed 33rd at Burghley hightest placed under 25 rider 2009, 316 BE Pts,

By Tullibards Shakespear 25 BE pts Deceased. sired horses below

Kilfinnie 11 ridden by Paul Tapner 451 BE Pts, 24th place at Badmington 09, and 15th place at Burghley 09,

Ricco has not only gained colour but a great eventing family from his dam sire Zhivago, No European bloodlines here, just the best thoroughbred breeding in Colour you can get: Captain Maverick, Chef-De-Race Nureyev Chef-De-Race Northern Dancer, and that's just Dad's side! Top Hat, Zhivago and Flying Bee on Mum's side.

In Ricco 4 generation pedigree there are;17 stakes Winners 10 Stakes placed, 5 Group Winners,1 Group placed. With a consolidated winnings of 527,634 pounds.

Ricco is a Hetrozygous Stallion,1 Tobiano gene 1 non Tobiano gene 1 Black gene 1 red gene

Ricco is ideal for national hunt, point to point and team chasing and perfect for producing Event,Showjumpers, He is built with speed, bravery and elegance. He takes on flooded rivers with ease, and he boldly goes where others fear to tread! being 1/4 I.D Type he is an ideal alternative to warmblood stallions.

The importance of the Weatherbys NTR Angrove goal is to breed coloured racehorses and be No 1 for colour and blood!

In order for Horses to be eligible to race in the UK, Horses need to have a sire and dam registered either in the GSB or the NTR register.

Ricco is a registered sire in the NTR Stud Book, Angrove Stud offers you the opportunity of registration in the NTR using the Covering certificate that this status allows, and the progeny of such a mating of register mares can race under rules in the UK.

There are warmbloods which need improving through breeding in thoroughbred bloodlines; the thoroughbred adds quality, stamina, elegance and gracefulness a good head a bold eye an expressive disposition the modern warmblood has a very high percentage of TB.

We believe that this thoroughbred addition increases the intelligence of the horse, and its ability to react quickly and get out of trouble, It is also very desirable to have the addition of Tobiano / skewbald/Piebald featured and added into the TB so future warmblood breeders can constantly improve, As The great Samber was half TB, if it works for the Dutch it will work for other European & UK breeds.

Ricco makes History

Dear Heather

Congratulatons on your recent run of horse DNA test colour results. As you are aware, the Tobiano Homozygous horse is a highly desirable breeding specimen, it has inherited the Tobiano gene and coat pattern from both parents, and therefore when bred is guaranteed to produce 100% Tobiano patterned foals (Piebald or Skewbald) regardless of the mate.

Although the Tobiano Homozygous horse is not massively rare, it is indeed sought after and often purpose bred. The case of your test results are however slightly more special, when two NON Homozygous horses are bred together, such as the parents of your foals, the offspring only have a 25% chance of being Homozygous themselves. It was a stroke of fortune that this happened just once, to happen twice in a row was certainly unsual, but to happen three times really is extraordinary. The likelihood of this happening three times was 1.56%.

In simple terms, the odds of your non-Homozygous horses to breed three out of three true-breeding coloured foals, in a row, were 1 in 64.

Thanks again for submitting the samples, and please feel free to contact us if you have any further queries.Best Wishes Dan Reeves

Animal Genetics UK

^{The breathtaking heterozygous 7/8ths TB Ricco colt Angrove Rum BaBa 2008 out of a Dr Fong winning mare with a black type grandam. He is just what we set out to breed}

_{^{Going Racing this year he is the first colt from Angrove Stud to be syndicated please email for details for as little as £35.00p per month you can race.Below are photos taken from the open day held at Philip Kirbys racing stables in May where Angrove Rum BaBa made his first appearance as a coloured potential racehorse.}}

http://www.philipkirbyracing.co.uk/news.html

Angrove Rum BaBa ridden by Phil Kirby & outside his stable on the Open day

Shots of the Parade at the open day

_{Ricco breeding results}

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_{4 mares in foal 1st cycle}

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_{11 mares in foal 1st cycle}

_{3 mares on 2nd cycle}

_{1 mare in foal 3rd cycle}

_{2008 Angrove Rum BaBa}

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_{16 mares in foal 1st cycle}

_{6 mares in foal 2nd cycle}

2009 Sealburn Deja Vu

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_{6 mares in foal 1st cycle covered once.}

_{2 mares covered more than once but held to 1st cycle}

_{2 mares held in foal to 2nd cycle covered once}

_{1 Mare failed to have a season no cover.}

2009 Angrove Treacle Sponge

2010 Angrove Rum Syllabub filly

^{We dont believe in % as they can be confusing.

Example take 2 stallions with a 85% fertility rate.

what this does not tell you is how many cycles in took to get mares in foal.

Stallion 1= 85% fertility on 2 cycles 2 seasons. 8 weeks aprox at stud.

Stallion 2 =85% fertility on 4 cycles 14 weeks at Stud same result but the costs to mare owners are significantly different. keep fees and vets bills.

Honest coloured foal breeding results}

^{Pre 2006

4 coloured

1 plain}

^{2007

3 coloured

2 plain}

^{2008

5 coloured

3 plain}

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^{7 coloured 6 Tobiano 2 Homozygous 1 Overo 2 toveros

6 plain}

2010

4 coloured

1 plain

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