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Ricco the sire of three HOMOZYGOUS foals all to Angrove Dance Girl

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

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

Ricco's well-known Sire was Captain Maverick and his Dam was owned by Sue Kennedy of the Honeypot Stud. Ricco's Grandsire, Zhivago, is the sire of Tullibards Shakespeare. 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 & Dressage horses. He is built with speed, bravery and elegance. He takes on flooded rivers with ease, and he boldly goes where others fear to tread!

 

The importance of the Weatherbys NTR

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.

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.

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
A Trio of puddings  what more could a breeder ask for,Homozygous Angrove Spotted Dick 07, Cherry Pie 08, & Arctic Roll 09
 
                                                                                             
   
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 £20.00p per month you can race.
 
 
Angrove Rum BaBa wins his class and is In Hand Reserve Champion at Potto Show ,below is Angrove Rum BaBa's Reserve in hand  Steven Bean Throphy
Ricco and his son Angrove Arctic Roll hes a very proud Dad and loves babysitting the Children while mums has a nap.
 
 
Ricco breeding results
2006
4  mares in foal 1st cycle
2007
 11 mares in foal 1st cycle
   3 mares on 2nd cycle
   1 mare in foal 3rd cycle
   
2008
16 mares in foal 1st cycle
  6 mares in foal 2nd cycle
 
 2009
   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.
 

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
2009 
7 coloured 6 Tobiano 2 Homozygous 1 Overo 2 toveros   
6 plain


Key Information about Ricco
  • Disciplines: Eventing, Dressage, Showjumping, Racing
  • 16.2hh (1.677m) 3/4 thoroughbred piebald stallion
  • 9 1/4" bone
  • Graded with CHAPS
  • Date of birth: 23/04/1999
  • Terms: NFFR
  • Stud fee: £400

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