The TOP sire

Only a few stallions deserve the title of stamp stallion. Escolar is one of them. You can recognize his offspring - by their talent, their appearance, their rideability and not least their hardiness and health. Escolar? Exceptional stallion!

Olympic squad

Misjudged as a young stallion, now a successful Grand Prix stallion with internationally successful offspring - Escolar has shown everyone. His influence can even be seen at first glance through his dam's side. As a three and four-year-old, he was riding horse Bundeschampion. Just seven years old, he won his first advanced (S) level dressage test with riding master Hubertus Schmidt. Just as he did shortly afterwards in the Nuremberg Burg Cup qualifier in Balve. He came second in the final. Two years later, he returned to Frankfurt as a Louisdor Prize finalist and finished fourth - unbeaten at S*** level until then. 2019 was Escolar's first international Grand Prix season. He collected ribbons in Hagen, Munich, Aachen and Stuttgart, where his team was honored with the Otto Lörke Prize for the best young dressage horse. He was also among the front runners at the German Championships in Balve. This was followed by his appointment to the Olympic squad. However, he never made it to the championships. When an injury put an end to Hubertus Schmidt's show career, Escolar retired from breeding altogether.

E for success

By this time, Escolar had long since proven himself as a sire. For years, he had been leading the FN breeding evaluation both in terms of points and safety. He has made the E-blood omnipresent again, at licensing, mare shows, the Bundeschampionat, the World Championships for Young Dressage Horses and in major sport. 50 sons have now been licensed, including such successful stallions as Escamillo and Endorphin. The latter was able to take home Bundeschampionat silver at the age of four and five at the Pape stallion station. The former won a silver and a bronze medal at the World Championships for Young Dressage Horses, was a finalist in the Nuremberg Burg Cup and is now successful at advanced (S***) level. One of many. Escolar's first foal crop in 2014 produced 169 offspring. From this first crop alone, more than ten percent are successful in the advanced class, almost half of them at S*** level. One representative of the first Escolar crop is Etro, for example, who played the lion's share in India's historic victory at the 2023 Asian Games with Anush Agarwalla in the saddle. They also won bronze in the individual classification.

The US Champion rider Shelly Francis has just secured the ride on the four-time Bundeschampionat finalist and S***-successful Estero.

The quality, rideability and character of the Escolar children is also demonstrated by how successful they are among young riders, especially Espe, bred by the Droege family, who won double gold with Annabella Pidgley at the 2023 European Young Rider Championships and is unbeaten in 17 international appearances. ZINQ Emma FH carried Lana-Pinou Baumgürtel to team gold as well as individual silver and bronze at the 2023 European U18 Championships and was victorious with her twice in the U21 classes in Aachen this year.

The best in your blood

Escolar's sire, the 2006 NRW Champion Stallion, Estobar NRW, also successful at Grand Prix level (see p. xx), is the last Ehrentusch son of importance in breeding. He gave his son the best of this line - character, quality, rideability, hardness and health. The combination with another legendary paternal line of the NRW State Stud, that of Florestan, has proved its worth in Escolar. His grandsire, premium stallion and stallion performance test winner Fürst Piccolo, gave Escolar's dam, the state premium mare Farah Dina L, the elasticity and consistency that characterize modern dressage horses. The whole thing is based on the Oldenburg mare line of Bastiane. Sion, the sire of champion dressage horse Sterntaler among others, follows in the falling pedigree and stands for energy, nobility and mechanics. The Oldenburg stallion legends Vollkorn xx and Figaro round off the pedigree. Farah Dina L herself competed briefly but successfully with her breeder Sabine Ludwichowski before going into breeding. She had three foals by Estobar NRW. Escolar is the second. The first was laid, but was also successful in the advanced class in the dressage arena. Escolar has another licensed full brother, Escorial. He also went Grand Prix.

If you want quality, character and health, breed with Escolar.