Foundation Friday: Argentinus

Here is the next installment of Warmblood Stallions of North America’s Foundation Friday.  Every other 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!

1980–2007
17 hands
Bay
Breeder: Jacob Buether

Argentinus is the most influential son of the Hanoverian stallion Argentan I. Argentinus’ dam is by Duden II, who was highly esteemed as a producer of top quality performance horses and wonderful broodmares.

By 1996, Argentinus was the youngest millionaire among Germany’s top sires and he remained a top sire right up until his death in 2007. A successful advanced level jumper himself, Argentinus produced both jumping and dressage competitors and stallions. His progeny include over 20 approved stallions...

In the survey of the world’s top 75 jumping sires that appears in Monneron 2007-2008, Argentinus is ranked 16th in the world, with 15 among CSI winners. Argentinus was the Hanoverian Stallion of the Year 2005, and the 2015 Stallion Yearbook takes an extra page to detail his career....

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To read the entire article, with pedigree, details of Argentinus' sons and daughters, on the Horse Magazine website, click here.

There are a few of stallion descendants of Argentinus in North America. Click on the following links to read about each of the ones on WarmbloodStallionsNA.com:

Apiro

Beau Balou

Fairbanks