COLT BY PEGASE VAN’T RUYTERSHOF OUT OF GENA QF (H5 GANESH HERO Z X TOUCHDOWN)
Born 19th April 2026. SOLD.
Gena QF is the last foal from Knightfield Mena, with whom our breeding programme was started. She is a half sister to Showman QF, now competing with the Irish Army Equitation School, and to Hendrix IIG, who debuted at 1m40 level in Spring 2025.
Knightfield Mena is a full sister to Nations Cup Showjumper Touchable, who was ridden by Great Britain’s Jessie Drea. Together they represented Great Britain at team events in Copenhagen, Hickstead, Lisbon, Odense and Rotterdam. The pair were also Great Britain’s reserve combination for the 2014 World Equestrian Games.
Mullaghdrin Touch The Stars, the full brother to Knightfield Mena, performed at Nations Cup level with both Jessie Drea & Ireland’s Michael Duffy. In 2019, Mullaghdrin Touch The Stars was the highest earning Irish-bred horse across all Olympic disciplines, thanks to results such as placing third in Cascais Longines Global Tour Grand Prix, and winning the Longines Global Champions League Super Cup Quarter Final at the Global Champions Prague Playoffs.
Knightfield Mena is also a half sister to the international Showjumper Mullaghdrin Gold Rain, who competed up to Nations Cup level with Shane Breen, jumping double clear for Ireland in Lisbon CSIO4* in 2010.
Link to Gena QF’s pedigree & damline
FILLY BY PEGASE VAN’T RUYTERSHOF OUT OF APRIL MOON (QUINAR Z X LANDWIND)
Born 21st April 2026
April Moon was produced successfully as a young horse by USA’s Nicole Shahinian-Simpson, which included winning the 6-year-old YJC Midwest Final in 2014, and the 7-year-old Young Jumpers at the 2015 Winter Equestrian Festival (WEF).
Angel Karolyi (VEN) later took the reins for the duration of the mare’s international career. In 2019, Angel and April Moon contested the Pan-American Games in Lima, Peru, as part of Team Venezuela. During the 2019 season, April Moon won the $36,500 Murieta Inn Spa & Restaurant 1m45 at Samcramento CSI3*-W, was 2nd in the 1m50 at Spruce Meadows ATCO Connect CSI5*, 3rd in the $132,000 Grand Prix at Tryon CSI3* and 3rd in the $100,000 Grand Prix at Del Mar CSI3*.
The dam of April Moon, SRF Dragonfly (later SRF Dragonfly De Joter), represented both Brazil and the USA at Nations Cup level, with Karina Johannpeter and Nicole Shahinian-Simpson respectively. Nicole rode SRF Dragonfly to win the USA Olympic Show Jumping Trials in 2008.
During a competition break, SRF Dragonfly produced triplets from one embryo transfer flush, resulting in full sisters April Moon, Nicole’s multiple Grand Prix winning mare Akuna Mattata, and Junior showjumper Abbey Road. In 2020, Akuna Mattata ranked 10th in the final World Breeding Federation for Sports Horses (WBFSH) showjumping rankings.
Link to April Moon’s pedigree & damline
COLT BY DRUMMER 2000 TN OUT OF CONTHALETTA (CONTHARGOS X CHACCO-BLUE)
Born 21st May 2026
Conthaletta (‘Twinkle’) was produced as a young horse by Germany’s Daniela Theelen. At nine, Twinkle competed in Mexico for one season, prior to moving to the USA.
The career of Chaccoletta, Twinkle’s dam, followed a similar trajectory. Also bred at Gestüt Lewitz, Chaccoletta went on to jump with a number of riders in Mexico, competing up to 1m50. Chaccoletta also produced the Oldenburg licensed stallion Couture, and Contha Blue, who have both competed up to 1m45, and who are full brothers to Twinkle.
Conletta, Twinkle’s full sister, is the dam of Titanium PS who sold in the Schockemöhle Online Auction as a Four-Year-Old for €120,000. Titanium PS is now being produced by Hansi & Simone Blum, and has already been successful in a number of international young horse classes.
Dialou Blue PS, who competed at the 2022 European Championships with France’s Kevin Staut, is out of a full sister to Chaccoletta. Now Iron Dames Dialou Blue PS, she competes at Grand Prix level with Germany’s Katrin Eckermann.
Link to Conthaletta’s pedigree & damline
COLT BY PEGASE VAN’T RUYTERSHOF OUT OF CASSITTA SR Z (CASSIANO X CANTUS)
Born 10th June 2026. SOLD.
Cassitta competed in The Netherlands as a five and six-Year-Old before an injury ended her sports career. Her first Irish-born offspring, Ziggy QF W, displayed a lot of talent under the saddle of Spanish rider Celine Aragón Lorenzo, and has recently moved to his owner, Angel Karolyi, in the USA.
Oslo, the dam of Cassitta, is a half sister to the international showjumper and approved stallion, Quality Time TN. In 2012, Quality Time represented The Netherlands on CSIO5* Nations Cup teams in Calgary, Dublin and Falsterbo in addition to winning the CSI5* Grand Prix in San Patrignano. Under Dubbeldam, Quality Time TN achieved significant success, including becoming the Dutch Champion in 2011.
Cassitta is a half sister to Charlotte SR who competed to 1m45 level with Dutch rider Max Van De Poll, and who is the dam of Jacs Z, a former mount of Ireland’s Jessica Burke, and Hetteea Harrison’s Ivory. Half brother Impressive SR Z performed to 1m40 level with France’s Pierre Gautherat. Intenskey SR Z, Cassitta’s younger brother, has competed to 1m40 under USA’s Denise Wilson-Gallagher.
In the spring of 2025, Tejas Dhingra (IND) made back-to-back victories when winning India’s National Championship aboard Tiens Key SR Z, Cassitta’s half brother.
Link to Cassitta SR Z’s pedigree & damline
FILLY BY AKARAD HERO Z OUT OF PINA COLADA HERO Z (PERIGUEUX X KASSANDER VAN’T ROOSAKKER)
Born 2nd July 2026
Pina Colada Hero Z’s dam, Kamalah Hero Z, has competed to 1m45 under the saddle of Doron Kuipers (NED). A three quarter sister to Leopold Van Asten’s Grand Prix horse VDL Groep Elegant Hero Z, and to Young Horse World Champion Kerswin van’t Roosakker, Kamalah is also a half sister to the 1m60 Approved stallion, H5 Ganesh Hero Z (Carol Hank Guerreiro). In 2024, two siblings of Kamalah were finalists at the FEI WBFSH Jumping World Breeding Championship for Young Horses; Sevilla van De Berghoeve Z (Niamh McEvoy) & Corvette vd Berghoeve Z (Kris Christiaens).
Granddam, Hiamant van’t Roosakker, is a sister to Electra van’t Roosakker, Falco van’t Roosakker and MOM’s Gatoucha van’t Roosakker. Hiamant’s sisters have themselves gone on to produce Grand Prix horses such as Kaprice (Kent Farrington), L'esprit Hero Z (Dermott Lennon), Attoucha (Paris Sellon), Zarkava Hero Z (Johnny Pals) and Marit Haarr Skollerud’s World Championship mount, Nelson van't Roosakker.
The line has also given Ben Maher’s 2013 European Silver Medallist, Cella, among many others. The pedigree of Pina Colada Hero Z combines two crosses of the ‘Usha line’, as her dam is line-bred on Atoucha van’t Roosakker.