Upgrade

Upgrade is a beautiful modelled son of the well-known showjumping stallion Heartbreaker.

Breeding

Upgrade's sire, the Nimmerdor son Heartbreaker, is from a real jumping family. He was successful with Peter Geerink in the international showjumping sport. The eldest offspring by Heartbreaker are presently winners at Grand Prix level. Examples are, for instance, Quasimodo van de Molendreef, Quartz Music, Quintin, Saffier, Zip and Skybreaker. In the pedigree of Upgrade the genes of Heartbreaker are combined with those of the Westphalian mare Palette, a daughter of the famous Pilot. This son of Pilatus is thé top stallion in Westphalia and produced a huge amount of international showjumping horses and licensed stallions. Examples of his successful offspring in the sport are Priamos (Ludger Beerbaum), Poker (Otto Becker), Showtime (Nick Skelton) and Pirol (Lesly Mc Naught). The dam's line of Upgrade has its origins in Westphalia. Great-granddam Madame is a half-sister to the Westphalian stallion Glücksritter (by Grünhorn).The well known stallion Frühling has laid the foundations of many International showjumping horses through his sons Frühlingsball and Frühlingstraum I and II.

Performance

In his performance test Upgrade impressed with his powerful jump and super hind technique. In addition, this stallion displayed superb movements, in walk, trot and canter. Upgrade was very successful in jumping competitions in 2006 he was placed at several springpferde prufungen in Germany and won the Isterberg 2006 opening class for 5 and 6 years old horses. In 2007 Upgrade was highly placed in several championships for young horses.

Progeny

The KWPN states that Upgrade (Heartbreaker x Pilot)has produced a uniform collection of more than sufficiently developed riding type foals that are attractive and have a good rectangular model. In movement the foals show much suppleness along with good self-carriage and active use of the hindleg. Upgrades youngstock are also being recognised for their quality within the foal market as a foal sired by him achieved the most expensive price at the 2006 foal auction in Limburg

Does not breed chestnut

Pedigree

Numero Uno- Indorado

Dam Sire Mytens xx

Dam Sire Ferro