Steeped in Luck

Inspected and Approved:  Registered Irish Draught (R.I.D.)

Inspected and Approved:  Canadian Sport Horse Stallion

Dark Bay, 16.3 hh, 10 inches of bone

2008 Stud Fee:  $1000 US ($500 Booking Fee)

Quality Frozen Semen

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Steeped in Luck was imported from Ireland in 2002 a a weanling after a memorable and intoxicating :-) shopping expedition in Ireland.

Steeped in Luck is by Mount Diamond Flag out of Steeple View.  His pedigree is rich in performance bloodlines including King of Diamonds and Pride of Shaunlara.  Laughton is found on both his dam and sire lines. 

Although Steeped in Luck's bloodlines are through and through jumper lines, he demonstrated his versatility at this year's annual North American Irish Draught Show by winning the dressaage suitability class in addition to the two 1st level dressage classes.

His conformation, movement and presence were recognized by the judges at this year's North American Irish Draught show where he placed 1st in the stallion class (4 years and older).  The competition was tough and Steeped in Luck was lucky enough to catch the eye of the judges on this particular day. 

Steeped in Luck is being ridden and trained by Olympian Tom Dvorak from Hillsburgh, Ontario, Canada. Tom is no stranger to the Irish Draught horse as he and his mount "Clearly Canadian", an Irish Draught sport horse competed together at the World Cup in Sweden in 1998. 

Tom enjoys and appreciates Steeped in Luck's willing temperament.  Tom is impressed with his work ethic and ridability and looks forward to future competitions with him.

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Now, you may ask:  "Yeah, but can he jump?"

You Betcha!

Inspections 

Thank you to Dana Balfour and Jean Rablat (www.TwistedPineFarm.com) for their professional services in training and presenting Steeped In Luck (RID) at the Irish Draught Inspections and the Canadian Sport Horse Inspections. 

The Canadian inspections concluded with the panel of judges providing a public commentary on the stallions that passed the inspections.  The following comments were made by the spokesman/inspector regarding Steeped in Luck:

• upon announcing his name - "Steeped in Luck", the inspector said it was "not just his lucky day, I think this is a pretty nice horse" 
• "lovely topline"
• "very well balanced"..."three equal parts"
• "this horse is very structurally sound, ...structurally very correct", "this horse travels absolutely straight"
• "althletic"
• jump - "very good with his forearm"
• "lots of bone"..."lots of feet"

Pedigree

                                                       ----- King of Diamonds

                                 ----- Flagmont Diamond

                                                       ----- Gowran Betty

              ----- Mount Diamond Flag

                                                      ----- Lahinch

                                  ----- Drumanespil Lady

                                                      ----- Correen Chestnut

Steeped In Luck

                                           ----- Grey Macha

                               ----- Agherlow

                                           ----- Sligo Star

            ----- Steeple View

                                         ----- Ginger Dick

                           ----- Ginger Sheila

                                           ----- Deerpark Sheila

Steeped In Luck's AncestorsThank you to Liz Freemen DVM for her bloodline contribution

Steeped in Luck is from the well-respected King of Diamonds AND Ginger Dick line.  Double the genetics for jumping!

Steeped In Luck's sire, Mount Diamond Flag is a son of Flagmount Diamond.  Flagmount Diamond sired the half bred Hopes are High who won the 1998 De Maurier Grand Prix at Spruce Meadows with Nick Skelton(BG), in addition to Grands Prix at Dublin and Dijon, and the Team bronze at the WEB the same year.  In 1999, Hopes are High won the King Geroge V Gold Cup at Hickstead and was ranked 15th by the WBFSH.  Flagmount Diamond also sired Grade A showing jumping stallion Diamond Chin,  who in turn sired Eezy, who won the US Jumping Derby at Del Mar and the Grand Prix of San Diego.  Flagmount Diamond was ranked in the top 50 sires of show jumpers in the world in 1998-1999 by WBFSH.  He is also sire to the grade A show jumping mare Lady Glen, who herself was dam to John Whitaker's Diamond Cliff who won the speed class at 's-Hertogenbosch CSI-A in 2000.  Flagmount Diamond is the sire of current RID stallions Crosstown Dancer and Mount Diamond Flag and the damsire to Class Vision, Supreme Ginger, the sire of the 2nd dam of the full brothers Sir Rivie and Ryde's Sea Quest.   Flagmount Diamond's progeny have collected an astounding 7,651 Showjumping Association of Ireland points. 

Flagmount Diamond was sired by King of Diamonds, a grade A showjumper himself.  He had close to 40 stallion sons and grandsons and great grandsons on the Irish Horse Register in 1995.  King of Diamonds was ranked 21st in the World Breeding Rankings for the perio 1992-2001.  Famous show jumping progeny include Rodrigo Pessoa's Special Envoy, John Ledingham's Millstreet Ruby, and Joe Fargis' Mill  Pearl.

Lahinch is from the Laughton line which is known for producing good sensible jumpers with particularily good limbs.  Ginger Dick is also from the Laughton line.  Ginger Dick sired numberous Grade A and international show jumping in Ireland.  Ginger is the sire or damsire of the following horses:  Rodrigo Pessoa's international show jumping mount Flash la Silla, who went on to compete for Mexico at the Olympics; international showjumpers Out of Touch(IRL), Windgate Illusion(ITA), Capelo IV(GB), and Sea Wolf(NOR), grade A showjumpers Class Vision and Sire Rivie, RID stallions Rhyd's Sea Quest and Supreme Ginger, Irish Nations Cup horses Gelvin Clover and Ginger Watt, and international eventers Hey Du(SUI) and Proud Ginger(GB)

With his superb temperament and conformation, Steeped In Luck is ideally suited to breed uncomplicated mounts that are sound and athletic – offspring with huge market potential!