Alma Director
2004 Supreme National Champion Purebred NSHA and AHANZ
National Shows, revised into the Spanish Studbook

Alma Director pedigree

FARINO
Sire of Multi Champions – Revised for inclusion into the Spanish Studbook
Farino carries mainly Carthusian bloodlines via his dam Fenicia 1971 (imported from Spain) bred by Sn Pedro Salas Garau of Ses Rotes stud on the island of Mallorca, Spain, and Military and Carthusian lines via his paternal grandsire Caprichoso III (imp Spain) and paternal granddam Directora III (imp Spain).
Farino is a proven high quality performance bloodlines in the inhand and ridden showring up to Advanced level. His temperament combines the fiery self-confidence and docility that has been the trademark of the true Pure Spanish horse for centuries. Farino has proven his qualities as a sire across a variety of mares (Spanish and other breeds such as TB, Warmblood, Anglo-Arab, Stationbred), consistently producing well-conformed, strong riding horses with ample scope and a willing, keen temperament for training and exceptional talent for dressage and showjumping.
His partbred offspring have taken out National Titles virtually every year they were shown and have also distinguished themselves in the open showring including the Horse of the Year Show:
Junior Partbred Title 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002
National Highpoint Award for Junior Partbred 1996, 1997, 1998
National Reserve Supreme Partbred Champion Overall 1999, 2002

His first purebred son was awarded:
Champion Titles at all major Spanish classes in 2001
Champion and Reserve Champion Titles in 2000
And with his new owner in the South Island at the Ellesmere A&P Show:
2nd, Best Entire for Saddle Horse
4th Turnout
and in 2003 Champion Hack, Most Suitable for Showjumping, Best Stallion, Reserve Champion Stallion suitable for breeding Hacks, Hunters and Sporthorses and Runner-up Ridden Stallion in open competition at the Canterbury A& P Show and All Breeds in Hand Show.

During the 2002 National Show, Farino’s partbred offspring won 2 out of 3 junior partbred classes, with the youngest winner only 6 weeks old.

Farino was presented during the first ever classification visit of the Spanish studbook revision team in 2001 and scored very highly, being of excellent breed type and conformation to be considered a suitable sire to represent this breed.

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ALMA DIRECTOR
Alma Director arrived in New Zealand in February 2002, as a 2-year old colt, purchased from Debbie and Jim Galletly of Alma Vista Stud, Queensland, Australia. Director was selected by us after the decision was reached to add new bloodlines to our existing breeding programme and to choose a young colt as a future replacement for our foundation stallion Farino.
The pedigree of Alma Director was ideally suited to complement our bloodlines, adding some new lines as well as confirming those lines that we have identified as being important for our breeding programme due to pre-potent ancestry.

Director’s sire, Alma Velador, was the highest scoring entire during the 2001 Australasian revision round, scoring an incredible 86 points. His dam, Directora XIV received very high movement scores (9 out of 10).
Alma Director is the only son of this mating in New Zealand to date and is proving to combine all the positive attributes of his sire and dam.

His first public appearances, as a 4-year old colt during the AHANZ and NSHA National Shows culminated in 2 Supreme Champion wins, Best Movement, Best Presented and Most Suitable for Dressage and Showjumping. At one of these shows, Barbara Currie from the Foundation of the Purebred Spanish Horse in the USA was the judge.
These show successes confirmed the judgement of the Cria official in November 2003 during Director’s valoration for Basic Aptitude, attracting the comment of being “the perfect PRE horse’ and the need for his presentation for the Calificado Level at some later stage.

Alma Director has just started his early training and after only a few weeks (May 2004) under saddle is showing great balance, rhythm and cadence. Our plan is to continue to work him lightly under saddle during the 2004 winter in preparation for his first stud season beginning October 2004.

We strongly believe that Director will further improve the quality of Hanna Stud’s bloodlines but also has the potential to add to PRE lines in New Zealand improving type and breed characteristics.
At Hanna Stud, we are looking forward to his first foals to be born in 2005.

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CANCIONERO CA (reference sire)
Hanna Stud is proud to be associated with this latest and most exciting addition to the genepool of Pure Spanish Horses in New Zealand.

Cancionero CA, owned by Mark Walton and Andrea Ritmeester of Heartwood Farm, Pukekohe, imported this colt in 2003 as an 8 months old from America.
Bred by David & Jacqueline Suechting of Camass Andaluz in California, Cancionero is by the imported stallion Olimpico VII out of the Indiano XVIII mare Oliva JIM.

Bred in Spain by Romero Benitez, Olimpico has won numerous National and Regional Championships as well as Best Movement Awards in the U.S.A. and was recently sold to Hacienda Santa Lucia in Mexico.
Cancionero's grandsire, Indiano XVIII ("the Lion of Spain"), was bred by one of the most prestigious studs in Spain "Nobleza del Guardiana" in Don Benito, Extremadura.
This horse was National Champion in Spain and twice National Champion in Mexico before his importation into America.

Despite having two grey parents it looks like Cancionero will remain a beautiful dark chocolate bay colour and he is expected to mature around 16.2hh.
At Hanna Stud we will be using this colt extensively as soon as he is old enough to breed and expect him to add height and strong bone to our breeding programme.

We have visited Nobleza del Guardiana in Spain repeatedly and are very familiar with these bloodlines, which has convinced us that Cancionero CA will have an important influence on purebred breeding in New Zealand. It is the combination of Indiano XVIII and Olimpico blood that makes this colt so special for us as are his bloodlines throughtout Spain, USA and Mexico.