‘Creevagh Diamond Pride’: Irish Sports Horse Stallion
Vital Statistics:
Age: 8 years old Height: 16.1 ½ hh Breed: Irish Sport Horse
Breeding:
CDP is from an established jumping line, his grandsire Flagmount Diamond and even more so, King of Diamonds are very famous in the Irish Draught world. King of Diamonds may have been a prolific sire but this ws for a very good reason – he produced stock with big jumps and great temperaments.
We think that having a King of Diamonds descendant is an excellent basis for a cross to any other breed of horse. He will give your horse bone and athleticism.
History:
Bought as a 3 year old in Ireland from Ronnie Hollinger, CDP moved back across the water with us along with our other horses. Not before, though he had paid a visit to Edward Doyle, former Irish Olympic competitor. There he spent 8 months being broken and schooled for jumping.
We brought him home to give him time to think about it all and to mature, young colts definitely improve with age and this is true of CDP. At this point he covered two of our thoroughbred mares and we awaited the all important first foal. This foal called ‘Randale Ambishion’ is now a stunning 3 year old and already over 16.2hh.
Performance:
Creevagh Diamond Pride has competed locally in Showjumping, Dressage, Cross Country and Showing – always with small lady riders. He shows a natural ability for dressage, scoring 61% in his first test.
In fact he is now giving our young groom a feel for the movements – a testament to his great temperament.
At Malton show, his first showing class, he was placed 7th and he was so well behaved neither judge, both of whom rode him, realised he was actually a stallion!
Creevagh Diamond Pride has schooled over 1.20m under saddle at home but we haven’t found a fence big enough when we loose-school him. He’s curently working over grids of about a meter and is proving to be very ‘gymnastic’.
