Love Connects

Biography

Love Connects is an exciting young showjumping stallion available for the first time to UK breeders in 2024. In 2023, at the age of 7, he competed under Maikel van der Vleuten at 1.40m and is well on his way to a successful career as a show jumping horse. Love Connects' sire Connect was campaigned by Caroline Müller at international 1.35m level and he was one of the most popular stallions at the Holstein approvals in 2013. Grandsire Connor is from the direct dam line of Corrado I. He is a son of the acclaimed Casall out of a regional priced mare by the legendary Cor de la Bryère, full sister to Corrado I. In the pedigree of Connect, we successively find the Holsteiner stallions Contender and Lord. Out of this famous dam line (stamm 2067) come many 1.60m successful international jumpers. Love Connect's dam Hello Twiggy BB by Quality Time, who achieved impressive results with Jeroen Dubbeldam at the top level showjumping. His granddam Origgi (by Burggraaf), produced a 1.40m horse from Chin Chin and is also the grandmother and great grandmother of various international showjumpers from 1.40m to 1.50m level, including the 1.50m horse Farnell (by Carombole). The third dam Iggy (by Libero H) also produced several sport horses, including Rochefort (by Voltaire), who jumped 1.50m. The KWPN stallion Creool comes from this dam line as well. Love Connects has inherited his elegant, modern-blood type build along with his incredible work ethic and ability, which he passes onto his offspring. He is an exciting young stallion, available in the UK for the first time. KWPN Performance report: "Love Connects is an honest and hardworking stallion with a good attitude. The stallion has much to very much willingness to work and is easy to work with. The walk has more than sufficient space and flexibility. The trot has sufficient to more than sufficient space. The stallion has more than sufficient to good posture and balance during movement. The canter is active and has more than sufficient to much space. Love Connects jumps well with an upwards withers direction, with more than sufficient to good reflexes and more than sufficient to good body use. The stallion jumps with a good foreleg technique, in which the jump has to be finished better in the hindlegs in many cases. Love Connects seems careful and shows plenty of scope. Love Connects has more than sufficient to much talent for jumping and gives his rider a more than sufficient good feeling."