Description
APACHE, Pref, Stb (deceased)
2005 Brown KWPN 1.69m
Licensed KWPN, DWB, Oldenburg, SWB, Westfalen
Gran Prix successful
Apache was one of the best examples of modern KWPN breeding, known for his super movement, powerful hind leg, and extreme suppleness through his body. He produced super foals of a lovely modern stamp who can really move. He was proclaimed a KEUR stallion in 2019. By the end of 2019, Apache sadly passed, having to be euthanized from uncontrollable Laminitis. In 2021 the KWPN has posthumously awarded the stallion, Apache the preferent predicate.
Apache started his career as reserve champion of his KWPN licensing, and in December 2015 he made his international grand prix debut, scoring +73% in the straight and +76% in the freestyle. Since then, he has continued his campaign at grand prix level, with scored of +75% in a World Cup qualifier.
His success as a sport horse was almost guaranteed by his pedigree, which contains eight Grand Prix horses in the first five generations. His sire, UB40, is a modern, long-lined stallion who is frequently used to add refinement to more old fashioned mares, and the same can be said for Apache. UB40 was reserve champion of his performance test in 2002, and had several wins at international prix st georges level. He is also the sire of licensed stallion El Capone, (damsire OO Seven). UB40’s sire Olivi, grand prix and keur stallion, is by the legendary Jazz, from the Utopia mare line. UB40’s dam, state premium mare Kilucienne, is by the influential Trakehner Michaelangelo, out of a daughter of the KWPN foundation stallion, Farn.
Apache is by UB40, who is by the Jazz son, Olivi – and Olivi is out of a mare by Gyula Dallos’ piaffe machine of the 1990’s, Aktion. UB40 is out of a mare by the Trakener stallion, Michelangelo, imported to The Netherlands from Germany in 1990, by Joep van Uytert, the first of the Dutch stallion keepers to take dressage breeding seriously.
Apache’s dam is the elite mare Tolanda. She is a daughter of the flamboyant grand prix competitor, Krack C, and out of a daughter of the long-time FEI competitor, Inspekteur. This mare line has produced multiple top sport and breeding horses.
As a breeding stallion, Apache sired six licensed sons: Grand Galaxy Win, Hometown, Intro K, Improver VDT, Indian Rock and Cum Laude. He also produced the KWPN Foal Champion Ferrari STH (Jeanine Nekeman),international small tour horse Gaudi Vita (Joyce Heuitinl), and 2019 World Young Horse Champion JOVIAN (Andreas Helgstrand). He also produced 50 elite mares and 91 ster mares.
And surprisingly, Charlotte Dujardin’s favorite Gio, “Pumpkin”!, because it was Halloween when she bought him, is by Apache, out of a Tango mare!
This stallion is a confirmed carrier of Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome (WFFS), we strongly recommend that owners tests their mares and only use him on confirmed negative (N/N) mares.
