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A tremendously athletic grey and an elite level player on the international showing scene.
The Zirocco Blue son whose damline has already produced many international top sport horses, brings along tons of athleticism and ambition, totally in the style of Chin Chin. Zuccero’s carefulness and his unique hind leg technique, spectacular also over the highest dimensions, deserve special mention. The medium framed stallion has a good, excellently proportioned top-line indicating strength.
Zuccero is an elite level sport horse known to jump a course with ambition and exceptional ability. This is also confirmed by his oldest offspring, as they also demonstrate special jumping ability. The stallion should be bred to taller mares with sufficient frame.
Euro 350,- + VAT
plus Euro 1,000,- + VAT when pregnant;
plus Euro 100,- + VAT Foal fee
Euro 350,- + VAT
plus Euro 1,750,- + VAT when pregnant
Remark
Zuccero is expected to be available through fresh semen until the end of April.
Stations
Sire
His sire Zirocco Blue is a Dutch stallion with international bloodlines tracing back to a French dam line through Mister Blue, Voltaire, and Le Tôt de Semilly. Under Jur Vrielig he has won at international grand prix and Nations Cup level and took team gold at the Aachen Europeans in 2015.
Damline
Zuccero’s dam, state premium mare Zarese, is by Caretino, a proven sport performer himself. He made the top 10 of the WBFSH world sire ranking several times due to offspring including Casall, Cristallo, and Chandra. Zuccero’s second dam, Sarese, a state premium mare as well, is by Contender, sire of many international top horses, like for example Chiara, Carlos, Montender, Conrad de Hus or Collin. The produce of his third dam, Varese by Calypso II son Coriolan, includes Lordano (Rolf-Göran Bengtsson), third in the German jumping Derby.
Own performance
At four-year-old, Zuccero won the Elmshorn State Championship. The stallion’s 2017 Münster-Handorf sport test yielded excellent results. 8.5 on canter and technique, 9.0 on ability, 8.7 on rideability and overall impression resulted in a total mark of 8.69 (weighted).
Since August 2018, Zuccero has been at the yard of Rolf-Göran Bengtsson where he was initially very successfully shown by Bart van der Maat. Their results include finishing third at the seven-year-old National championship in Warendorf in 2019. Since 2020, Zuccero has been under the saddle of Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and demonstrates his impressive jumping ability on the international scene. The 2022 showing season resulted in numerous international wins and top placings up to 1.60m level. He finished fourth in the Pinneberg grand prix, third at Herning and in September he attracted attention by finishing an excellent seventh in the 1.60m class at Spruce Meadows.
In 2023, Zuccero hit it big: wins and top placings up to 1.60m level for example in Neumünster, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Uggerhalne, Falsterbo and Milan. At the European championships, Zuccero and Rolf-Göran Bengtsson performed brilliantly, jumped excellent rounds and took home the team gold medal. The combination continued their streak of success in 2024, they finished third in the Abu Dhabi Nations Cup (QAT), second in Herning (DEN) and Rotterdam (NED). The highlight of the season were the Paris Olympic Games where Bengtsson and the grey finished sixth with the Swedish team and just missed out on the individual final. Finally, the pair took home excellent placings in the top 3 from Barcelona (ESP) and Stockholm (SWE) at the end of the year.
Stallion performance test
The stallion’s 2017 Münster-Handorf sport test yielded excellent results. 8.5 for canter and manner, 9.0 for ability, 8.7 for rideability and overall impression resulted in 8.69 overall (weighted). These marks correspond with the judges’ commentary: “He displayed very good attitude throughout, from first training to the final day. The canter is very practical and long-striding. The stallion always has a very forward approach to the fence. We have observed him to be obedient, yet with lots of energy in the take-off and a scopey, seemingly effortless jump.”
Test results
Sportprüfung 2016 in Münster-Handorf: overall 8,69
Offspring of Zuccero
His three-year-old daughter Zamantha was sold at a whopping 67.000 euros at a Holsteiner auction. He has had a first son, Zuccarello, licensed at the 2021 Holsteiner stallion grading and in December 2023, another Zuccero son has been stallion graded, Zander, out of a Canto dam.
Also as sport horses, Zuccero sons and daughters are getting more and more attention. At the 2022 National Championship in Warendorf, Zenzero placed in the final of the five-year-old jumping horses with Jack O Donohue. Zucceros was sold through the 2019 elite riding horse auction and is now successfully shown at international youngster level by his owner-rider, Alonso Valdez Prado (PER).
At last year’s foal auction held during the German Jumping Derby in Hamburg, a filly by Zuccero-Casall sold to Austria for 20,000 euros.
