Home of Tornado at Knabstrup RIP 2005-2019
Tornado af Knabstrup
Life approved, performance tested and graded with KNN, SPSS & Zfdp
**Sire of BEF Elite Eventing Foal**
**Ranked in top 10 stallions for Eventing and No. 1 Sports Pony Stallion for Eventing in the BEF ‘All Time Sire’ rankings since 2014 until 2018 when the list was discontinued ***
***Sired the leading Eventing Sports Pony in the BEF futurities in 2014 & 2015***
Tornado was born in Denmark on 30th May 2005. He was imported to the UK in July 2007 as a 2 year old by Miss K Clack. In October 2007 he attended the UK Knabstrupper grading day at Kingswood Equestrian Centre where he was graded as a classic type Knabstrupper. He gained his KNN breeding licence for 2007 and was best stallion born in 2005.
In 2010 he was also granted a years breeding licence with the Sports Pony Studbook Society and started his competitive career, qualifying for many dressage championships in his first year.
In August 2011 Tornado attended the Zfdp grading day and KNN grading day where he gained his life approval in both studbooks and passed his performance test, he was then granted life approval with Sports Pony Studbook Society and was the KNN Performance Champion for 2011.
Since 2011 Tornado has had offspring presented at the BEF Futurities for all disciplines and gaining first premiums for Showjumping foals, higher first premiums for Dressage foals and an Elite for Eventing foals! He is the first and still the only Knabstrupper stallion to have offspring awarded an Elite at the BEF futurities.
He has gone on to become the No. 1 Sports Pony stallion for Eventing in the BEF ‘All Time Sire’ rankings as well as ranking in the top 10 of all Eventing stallions since 2014 and retained this until the lists were discontinued in 2018.
In 2014 & 2015 he sired the highest scoring Sports Pony for Eventing throughout the BEF Futurities in those years.
He has also had foals presented at the UK Knabstrupper gradings, every foal presented has been awarded a first premium, the highest premium that can be awarded at the Knabstrupper gradings.
Most noteable progeny;
Waterbank Asgard - Winning Medium level dressage at the age of 9 years old, ridden and produced by a junior rider.
Jubilee Harvest - competing and placed BE100 as 5 year old
Offspring by Tornado af Knabstrup
Jubilee Harvest
Born 2012, out of Appledore Miss Mohave (King Ben x Roundhills Hawaiian Harvest).
Out competing British Eventing BE100's by the age of 5.
Waterbank Asgaard
Born 2012, out of Twilight Tansy (Applewitch Pure Magic x Sturtmoor Mr Darcy).
Produced and ridden by a junior rider and winning Medium level British Dressage at the age of 9 years old and now out competing and winning Advanced Medium level British Dressage at the age of 10 years old!
