Marengo

Marengo is an eyecatching black gelding, his fun loving nature makes him a pleasure to be around.  Marengo loves an audience and is happy to practice his piaffe steps when arriving at a competition or even just hacking around the farm when he spots another horse riding by!  His striking looks ensure he is noticed wherever he goes and his fluid paces and dramatic extensions do not disappoint.

Marengo is by the stallion Metternich who is by the remarkable French Anglo-Arab stallion, Matcho, and is out of a successful dam-line.  Metternich is best known for producing personable, versatile, highly rideable horses of wonderful character and type with good gaits, (especially a ground-covering walk), correct conformation and excellent jumping ability. His  sons Montesquieu and Multistar each became Reserve Champion at their stallion licensings.  After a very successful stallion performance test, Montesquieu became a State stallion at Celle.

Marengo’s mother Wengente is a State Premium mare by Wenzel I, champion of his stallion test and best stallion of 1980. Leading dressage sire 1997 and 1998, there are not many stallions that have been as successful as Wenzel I. In Hannover alone he left 68 state premium mares, at the elite auction he was represented by 80 offspring, the first to break the 100K Barrier was Walk on Top who later won the 1998 World Cup Final. Wenzel was also an excellent sire of stallions, siringover 29 approved sons.  Wengente’s maternal grandsire is Argentan  who was one of the most important founding sires of the modern Hannoverian.   Argentan was Reserve Champion of his stallion licensing, in 1994 he was crowned Hannoverian Stallion of the Year as a result of his extraordinary success as a sire. Argentan was the sire of 805 competition horses who won a total of DM1,648,638. His broodmares in particular were highly regarded and included three Champion German Riding Horse mares.  He was also the sire of some top performers including World Cup winner, Aramis.  He was the sire of 19 stallion sons, including Airport, Al Capone and most famed of all, Argentinus.