This is the sixth installment of Warmblood Stallions of North America’s Foundation Friday. Each Friday we will be featuring a foundation sire - one who has been influential in the development of warmblood breeds. We pull from the incredible archive of The Horse Magazine, published by Chris Hector of Australia. Thank you, Chris, for permission to draw on your expertise!
Foundation Sire: Lord
Foundation Sire: Lord
1967-1993
1.68 m
Bay/Brown
Breeder: Heinrich Schuldt
Lord played an instrumental role in shaping the Holsteiner horse of today. The progeny he sired were a wide variety of types, depending on the dam’s breed. This led to some excellent examples of Holsteiners and Thoroughbred-types.
Lord is described thus in The Holsteiner Horse:
"Elegant stud stallion demonstrating the features of the international Thoroughbred horse. Great charisma and good lines. Head could be more attractive, expressive eye, long, classic riding horse neck. Very good conformation of shoulder / withers / croup. Legs too fine for a stud stallion, very long pasterns, tapered joints in the foreleg and rather straight hind legs with not very pronounced hocks. Excellent action. Extraordinary jumping ability. Outstanding own performance. Top-class eventing horse of international character."
The book, written by Dr Thomas Nissen, Gabriele Pochhammer, Donata von Preußen and Joachim Tietz, notes that "while the first two generations of his pedigree are dominated by the two most significant Thoroughbred stallions stationed in Holstein - Ladykiller xx and Cottage Son xx - the sires of the next generations were pure-bred Holsteiner without any Thoroughbred blood. This may explain why Lord didn’t sire uniform offspring. Some of his offspring were elegant and Thoroughbred-like types, others were often sturdy with coarse heads and slightly short-legged."
His first crop produced the international showjumper Livius, who won the 1980 German Showjumping Derby under Peter Luther, and then team medals at the 1981 European Championships, the World Championships of 1982 and the 1984 Olympic Games.
Other successful competitors by Lord include Luguna (K. Huck), Lafeyette (H. Schmidt), Actrice (C. O. Nagel), Lusius (E. Gundel) and Pedro, who competed at the World Championships in Dublin with Thomas Frühmann, Loyal 9 (P. Nagel-Tornau) and many more. Successful sire sons include Lantaan in Holstein, and the sadly short-lived Lord Liberty in Oldenburg.
In all, Lord sired more than 60 stallion sons, and his progeny won more than €3,000,000.
To read the entire article, with pedigree and more offspring details, on the Horse Magazine website, click here.
There are several stallion descendants of Lord in North America. Click on the following links to read about each of the ones on WarmbloodStallionsNA.com:
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