Cloverfern Equestrian Centre

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Grand Kavalier son Starring in Europe

A son of Grand Kavalier's, Grand Joca, is a rapidly rising star in the eventing team of UK based Australian Olympic Gold Medalist Andrew Hoy.

Grand Joca was owned and successfully campaigned in eventing by Jonathan McLean before being purchased by Hoy and exported to the UK.

Joca is in the early stages of his career currently competing two-star however it is rumored that Andrew considers him the best horse in his stable. Certainly he was in excellent form in September 2006 when Joca carried the Australian flag to 8th place at Kreuther in Germany in the CCI two-star finishing on a score of 60 points. Most recently he competed at Barroca d'Alira, Portugal, where he came 4th in the 2 star event.

Grand Kavalier Son Licensed ISSA

The stunning four year old black stallion VPS Granite by Grand Kavalier out of a Valuta mare Nikita has been awarded his stallion license by ISSA. His younger brother VPS Garrison will be presented next year after he has reached his third birthday.

ACE Assessment Tour 2007

The ACE assessment tour 2007 yet again brought fantastic results for Cloverfern, Grand Kavalier and APH Spiegel progeny.

BMS Armada (pic top left) and BMS Savant, two Trakehner colts by APH Spiegel bred by Blackmores Park Trakehner Stud earned premium foal awards and were ranked nationally 6th and 16th respectively. Armada being named as a stallion prospect. The colt ranked in 8th place Rangeview Faramir is out of Grand Kavalier's approved son Grand Farnese (see news below) which is an exciting result for this young stallion.

Cloverfern Margrette (pic top right) by Magritte out of Brindabah Valette also earned premium foal status and was ranked 6th amongst the fillies.

In the yearling and 2 year old assessments 10th placed filly Kureelpa Park Guzini is by Grand Kavalier out Remi Gucci by Graf Landau.

The Stallion assessments saw two full-brother Grand Kavalier offspring (pic below) out of Valuta mare Nikita go up for licensing. VPS Garrison (pic below left) successfully earned his preliminary stallion license joining his older brother VPS General (see news below) who also achieved the coveted award. VPS Granite (pic below right) was entered into the stallion register.

AWHA Show March 2006

Cloverfern only exhibited one foal at this year's Gala Day. However, Cloverfern Sudoku won his class and was the highest scoring colt foal. Sudoku also was the third highest scoring colt nationally in this year's ACE classification. He was assessed as having definite stallion potential. He would be an asset to any stud with his striking markings and superb conformation and movement.

Photo courtesy of Berni Saunders of Cyberhorse.

APPH Grand Farnese Achieves AWHA Approval

Grand Farnese by Grand Kavalier out of a Falkland x Monopol mare was the only colt to pass the stringent standards of the AWHA colt classifications held at the Warmblood Weekend at Werribee Park in Victoria in October 2005.

Four colts/stallions from NSW, WA and VIC were assessed with Grand Farnese the only one to reach an average above the required 70% across all classification criteria.

This follows from Farnese being granted his provisional Stallion License at 2005 ACE assessment tour, placing 4th Nationally.

Farnese is owned by Kylie Stephenson of Ashley Park Performance Horses in Yarrambat.

Ruben Kavalier Stars at Advanced Level

Grand Kavalier son, Ruben Kavalier won both Advanced tests at the South Australian State Dressage Championships therefore gaining the Advanced Champion title earlier this year.

As an eight year old , Ruben Kavalier, finished third on the 2005 Zilco Dressage Leaderboard with 36 points attained throughout the year across medium and advanced level EFA classes where the horse scores above 55%. Ruben Kavalier was also the 2005 Medium Champion of the South Australian Country Dressage Championships and the South East Dressage Championships.

Owner/rider/breeder Julia Weir says "He has lots of admirers including several different people who have young horses by Grand Kavalier. " Julia has had numerous offers of purchase for Ruben, all of which have been turned down.

Not content with only one progeny by Grand Kavalier, Julia welcomed the arrival of a foal from her mare Yarraglen Argentina in 2006.

AWHA Gala Day March 2005 (VIC)

Horses bred from Cloverfern horses were very successful at this year's Gala Day. In the older fillies class both first and second place getters were out of Vancouver II mares and the second place in the older colts class went to BPS Volition by APH Spiegel out of a Valuta mare.

The first placed filly, Ebony Princess went on to become reserve champion foal. Ebony's dam is Cloverfern Alberta and her sire is Prince Noir.

The second place getter in the two year old filly class was Roxbury Catkin by APH Spiegel out of a Wunder mare.

APH Spiegel performed in the stallion parade over lunch. Berni Saunders of Cyberhorse commented from the day "The wonderful natured trakehner stallion APH Spiegel who stands at Cloverfern Stud....This stallion has won fans all over Australia....Congratulations to Dr Sally Carter the principal of Cloverfern Stud who always takes time out of her busy schedule to support warmblood breeding and dressage."

Photos courtesy of Berni Saunders of Cyberhorse.

ACE Assessment Tour 2005

The ACE assessment tour 2005 once again saw three of the National top 30 colts and two of the top 10 foals sired by Grand Kavalier or APH Spiegel.

This year two of Grand Kavalier's progeny were assessed for their preliminary stallion license, VPS General and Grande Farnese. Both young stallions were successful, earning National 1st and 4th place respectively.

The ACE Newsletter March 2005 reports from the tour....

"The following day was a big one at Cloverfern Equestrian Centre. Plenty of nice offspring from Grand Kavalier and APH Spiegel as well as others to be seen. We had a whole lot of young colts to look at for preliminary licensing and saw among them VPS General (Grand Kavalier - Valuta), who amazed us with his beautiful movements and very correct conformation."

APH Spiegel and Sara Price are the winners of the
Victorian FEI Young Rider Championship 2004
and runners up at the Aachen Challenge 2004.