This exquisitely elegant, classy, long legged, modern, dark bay filly oozes charm and commands attention with her presence and attitude to life. "Extacy" moves with a lightness to her step, a trot filled with suspension that floats on air, a canter that bounds uphill effortlessly with cadence and a ground covering stride to her walk. Her sire is our own stallion Amoureux out of our home bred mare Solaris Chiquita daughter of our foundation Keur mare Quinine

Alongside her qualities as a dressage horse she comes from a long line of world class showjumping progenitors - G Ramiro Z, Pik As, Contender, and Calypso coupled with the Selle francais Bloodlines of Grand Veneur, Furioso and Surioso.

Her maternal grand dam successfully competed up to 1.30m and her dam showed exceptional aptidude as a jumper when shown loose, inheriting the elasticity and bascule of her paternal grandsire Contender, with the carefulness and calculating stride of her dam Quinine.

However adding to her prolific jumping heritage, she also has the blood of of Krack C Anky Van Grunsvens world cup dressage champion by Flemming and Pik As who produced the famous Pik Bube I and II as well as Graphit.

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The Parentage: Her sire "Amoureux" has consitently won young horse qualifiers with scores of 78-80% having qualified for Badmington Young Dressage Horse Of The Future, Sheerwater Potential International Dressage Horse, the Sheetwater British National Young Dressage Horse both as a five and six year old under International Grand Prix Dressage Rider Michel Assouline, with a Double win at Sheepgate Premiere League in the Hickstead Young Horse Qualifier and Medium SOQ75 and a finalist in the Sheerwater 6YO Championship. The duo also qualified for the Regional Championships placing ninth in the most difficult of the medium tests M75 with just a years training under saddle and with very little competition experience.

Saros Van 'T Gestelhof

Sired by the Belgian approved dual purpose stallion Saros Van 'T Gestelhof a son of G Ramiro Z out of a Pik Koenig x Wendekries mare, Saros sired the Belgium champion foal 2003 and currently has an exterior index of 188 earning him elite status at the young age of seven. He had obtained over 50 victories from the age of 4 – 7 with 17 wins at Prix st Georges, placing 4th at the World Championships in Verden in the six year old class. Other wins include the Belgian 4, 5 and six year old Dressage Champion title.

Pik Konig

A top hereditary transmitter of show-jumpers, some of whose progeny managed to jump into the higher spheres of dressage, sired 19 Approved sons including Pik Bube I II & III, 242 main studbok mares, 22 State Premium mares with a sports index overall of 129, dressage 126, jumping 131. Pik Konigs' Thoroughbred sire "Pik As" (1949) was most reknown for his ability as a sire passing on his beautiful movement and great jumping ability. He Stood at Celle 1953-1969 a genetic transmitter with a lot of potential he sired world class showjumpers & 4 approved sons, in 1981 ranked #13 as German sire of competition horses. Erle's dam sire "Wendekreis" adds once again the combination of both jumping and dressage genes to an already illustrious pedigree.

G Ramiro Z

Saros's sire is the famous G Ramiro Z who competed in classes of 2.20m and perhaps most renown as sire of the famous Olympic gold medallist Ratina Z out of the famous Holstein mare Heureka Z. This combination of German bloodlines has conistantly proven to be a winning combination.

Ruby (Ster Preferent)

Amoureux's dam "Ruby" (Krack C x President) is a consistent progenitor of successful dressage horses. She was awarded the Preferent Predicate, following her daughter' Bachoera SV's (Samba Hit II) award of the STER predicate having successfully completed her EPTM gaining an above average score of 81 points. Bachoera SV was also placed 2nd behind the reserve Champion 3 year old mares at the National Mare Championships. Ruby's other progeny are the Ster gelding "Wonderfull Jazz" (2003) by Jazz competing with success at M2 level dressage and the Ster gelding Zirkoon (2004) by Rousseau competing with success at M1 level with M Ubels. Cousteau by Dreamcatcher competing at L1 and Danica SV by Johnson (Jazz x Flemmingh) successfully passed her mare performance test and was awarded the Ster Predicate in 2011 and is now debuting a career in dressage. Ruby is fast approaching the Prestatie predicate based on the success for her three sons in dressage. Ruby is maternal sister to Felita the dam of Velita by Goodtimes dam of Favorinna.

Krack C

Krack C has no less than nine licensed sons with the KWPN studbook, two in Germany and one with the NRPS. Krack C is thought by many to be maybe the best dressage horse progenitor in Europe. He is the Ambassador of both The Netherlands Dressage Sport and The Netherlands Dressage Horse Breeding. Alongside his results in breeding he has a great amount of sporting success himself ridden by Anky van Grunsven. Known for his flamboyant moving mechanism and his rideability, Krack C impressed many KWPN breeders and became their main choice, placing him in the top ten of most used breeding stallions.

Flemmingh

Born in 1987 Bred by H.C. Albertsen from Behrendorf, Germany, the bay stallion was by the Holsteiner Lacapo out of Texas (Carneval x Lorenz). As a 3-year old he went to Holland for the licensing and became one of the best performers at the 1990 KWPN Stallion Performance Test, especially excelling in show jumping. Flemmingh became a top producer of successful international sport horses. Alongside Anky van Grunsven's Grand Prix horse Krack C, Edward Gal's former medall winning horse Lingh and the current Pan American gold medallist Regent (under American Christopher Hickey) were sired by Flemmingh.

Contender

Is very much a hall mark of German breeding and one of the most influential sons of Calypso II who was himself an important transmitter of the genetic heritage of Cor de la Bruyère.

Grand Veneur

The Selle Francais stallion "Grand Veneur" sire of the "Le Tot De Semilly", which when fused with Contender these great bloodlines produced the black Holstein stallion "Diarado" that sold for over one million euros at the PSI auction.