Breeding: Sonesta Farms breeds top quality
Hanoverian, Knabstrupper and Arabian horses for dressage and show jumping.
We usually stand a few stallions and offer a variety of quality mares
(Hanoverian, Oldenburg, Knabstrupper and Arabian) for use in custom-making
your own foal by breeding them to any stallion in the world! See
some of the many horses we have bred - all grown up and with their new
owners by clicking here. They are excelling in
show rings all over the country.
Our Stallions
We
are very sad to announce the passing of this great stallion on May 26, 2003, at
the age of 22. He left behind many wonderful offspring and 2 stallion sons
who will carry on for him. RIP, Fyre boy. We'll miss hearing your
whinney to us whenever we came into your barn.
Fyre One - A fabulous, extremely athletic homozygous
black pure Polish Arabian stallion by the legendary *Aladdinn
and out of Fyre-Love, a champion *Bask+++
daughter who, at $1.5 million was the second highest price EVER PAID for an
Arabian mare at public auction. Fyre produced exquisite show Arabians when
bred to purebred Arabian mares and stamped his foals from other breeds of mare
with elegance, lightness and an intelligent, willing disposition. Whether you
wanted a fancy Arabian show horse or an athletic sport horse this guy did not
disappoint you. He was Sweepstakes and Futurities nominated and tested SCID
clear.
See more of Fyre and some of his get.

Custom Foal Program
We offer a unique service to those who have always wanted to
custom make their own horse. You no longer have to buy a quality broodmare, pay
the board and upkeep on her, get her bred, deal with the pregnancy and the
foaling, and spend countless hours working with a new foal. We offer you a
wonderful alternative. You may select one of our large variety of lovely, proven
broodmares. Then choose any stallion in the world that offers shipped semen. We
will handle EVERYTHING else. We will coordinate with the stallion handler,
supervise the insemination, handle all the vet checks, maintain the mare,
administer all the inoculations, spend the countless hours of "foal watch,"
attend the foaling, imprint the foal, handle the daily training and the weaning
of the foal. When the foal is 4 months old, you pick up your custom-made horse
-- guaranteed to lead, tie, bathe, clip and load quietly. Price of in-house
leasing of the broodmare depends upon the mare chosen. In addition to the lease
price of the mare, you would be responsible for the stallion fees and any vet
fees associated with the insemination, pregnancy and foaling. What could be
easier?

Our Broodmares

Feiner Fantasy - Known here as "Fancy," this gorgeous
girl is by
Feiner Stern and out of our wonderful,
Diende by Diamont.
She is 16.2 hands tall and a stunning sooty bay color with blaze and four even
white stockings. She is in the Hanoverian Main Mare Book. She scored well
at her mare inspection and was named an Elite Mare Candidate after passing her
Mare Performance Test with exceptionally high marks. She was champion of the
testing. She is showing in First Level Dressage and will enter 2nd Level in the
fall of 2010. Mares just don't come much better than this one.

Diende
- This
gorgeous 16.3 hand Hanoverian mare is by the Elite Hanoverian stallion,
Diamont, and out of a daughter of Darwin. She is approved for breeding
in the Main Mare Books of the American Hanoverian Society, the Oldenburg
Verband and the Oldenburg North America. She has produced awesome foals to
date from top stallions, including a fabulous colt in 2002 by Weltmeyer.
Her conformation and movement are just spectacular and she has the nicest
disposition of any mare I have ever known. In 2004 she produced an
exquisite filly by the Elite Imported Hanoverian stallion,
Feiner Stern (see 2004 foals) that we are
keeping for ourselves. In 2005 she had another lovely filly by Feiner Stern that
was a custom foal. In 2006 she had a gorgeous filly by
Pablo
that sold before it was even 3 days old! Her latest foal was a custom bred filly
by Dacaprio born in February, 2010.
Wallstreet
- T his
wonderful imported German Hanoverian mare is approved for breeding by the German
Hanoverian Verband, the American Hanoverian Association, the Oldenburg Verband
and the International Sporthorse Registry/Oldenburg N.A.. She is a 16.1 hand,
seal brown mare who does produce black. She was a successful show jumper before
beginning her career as a broodmare. Wallstreet has produced some lovely foals
from dressage stallions, but is certainly athletic enough to produce top
jumpers, as well. Her foals make excellent amateur riding horses, since they are
very easy to handle and train. Her bloodlines are impeccable. Her sire, Waldhorn
is found in the pedigrees of several U.S. licensed stallions, including
Wertherson, Wummestern and For Sure. Her dam's sire, Grunewald was ranked #5 in
Europe as a dressage breeding stallion, according to the WBFSH. His son, Gunox,
finished 4th in the world dressage rankings for 1996, and is ridden by Monica
Theodorescu of Germany. Wallstreet produced a beautiful filly by
Diamont in June,
1998, which was sold even before it was born to Florida as a young rider's
dressage prospect. Since then she has produced a black Diamont Filly that is
performing well in hunters and dressage (see
Dreamstreet) and a bay
Feiner Stern
filly (see Fillistern).
We have kept both these fillies to add to the program.
Note: Although still very sound and
happy, we have chosen to retire Wally (now 23!) from the breeding shed and let
her continue to have fun teaching students to ride and being "Aunty Wally" to
the foals.
Fillistern
- A gorgeous 16.2 hand Hanoverian mare by Feiner Stern
(Freiherr/Goldstern/Romulus II), this daughter of Wallstreet (Waldhorn/Grunewald/Ehrenschild)
is a real love. Feiner Stern is considered to be perhaps the TOP broodmare
sire of all time - even surpassing the great Weltmeyer. He has many, many
approved sons and his daughters are producing approved sons by a variety of
stallions. Her dam carries the good old "G" lines which produce sane, rideable
horses with good soundness. Fillistern has lovely, floating movement and
is very correct. She is now in the Main Mare Book with the Oldenburg Verband and
will be presented for mare approval in October, 2005, to the American Hanoverian
Society. In 2005, she gave birth to a really especially nice custom foal,
a chestnut colt by Routinier. We are concentrating
on her saddle training right now, but will offer her for custom foals again in
2010.
Dreamstreet
- Dreamstreet is a 2000 16.3 hands dark seal bay
Hanoverian mare by Diamont, the premier producer of sport horses in North
America. A proven dressage sire, Diamont ranked 1st by USDF among Hanoverian
stallions and 2nd among all stallions of all breeds for production of dressage
horses in the U.S. Diamont has also produced many hunter champions and in 1997
his son, D'Jango won a jumping championship at the Oaks Jumper Classic in
Southern California. Dreamstreet's dam, Wallstreet, is a Hanoverian mare
imported from Germany. Her sire, Waldhorn is found in the pedigrees of several
U.S. licensed stallions, including Wertherson, Wummestern and For Sure. Her
dam's sire, Grunewald was ranked #5 in Europe as a dressage breeding stallion,
according to the WBFSH. His son, Gunox, finished 4th in the world dressage
rankings for 1996, and is ridden by Monica Theodorescu of Germany.
Dreamstreet does not carry a chestnut gene, so you will get only a bay or black
base coat on your foal (unless you breed to a gray stallion that contributes his
gray gene - or breed to a stallion that carries a dilute gene like palomino).
She is showing her talent for both hunters and dressage and has the smoothest
gaits you could ever want.
BF
Moon Fyre - Purebred black Arabian daughter of
our own Fyre One [Aladdin x Fyre Love x Bask], this gorgeous mare is winning in
open dressage classes against the warmbloods. She is 15.2 hands tall and a
spectacular mover. She is approved in the main mare books of the
Oldenburg Verband and RPSI. In
2004, Moon gave birth to a gorgeous black colt by
NV Beau Bey. See Black Fyre Bey
here. Moon was bred in 2006 to the Champion stallion of the Arabian
Sporthorse Nationals in 2005, Klint Black, and
produced for us a stunning black filly that we are keeping. See pics of BF Fyres
Khyss are below.
Moon's 2010 custom foal by the Dutch Warmblood stallion, UB40, is absolutely
amazing! See Uphoria at
www.sonestafarms.com/2010foals.htm. Moon is booked for 2011 for another
custom foal.
BF Fyres Khyss - Purebred black Arabian.
Sired
by Arabian National Sporthorse champion, Klint
Black, and out of BF Moon Fyre, above, this lovely mare should add elegance
and refinement to your sporthorse foals by warmblood stallions and add real star
appeal to your purebred foals. She stands 15.1 hands at 3 years old and we
expect her to mature to just around 15.3 hands. We look for great things from
this mare.
And, introducing..... mares selected
specifically for breeding of the first Knabstrupper horses born in North
America.
The Knabstrupper is a European warmblood horse from Denmark that
is colored like the American Appaloosa. Sonesta Farms has selected top quality
mares and has bred them to what may well be the #1 Knabstrupper stallion in the
world, the wonderful Apollon who was bred in Denmark and then lived most of his
live in Germany at
Gestuet Falkenhorst. Learn
more about the Knabstrupper by clicking the following links.
American Knabstrupper
Association
1993 Sport
Horse World Article about Knabstruppers
Article from the Danish Knabstrupper Registry (KNN) on the history of the breed.
We are very sad to report that the
great Apollon died on September 29, 2005, of apparent heart failure. This
wonderful stallion was the foundation of the entire Knabstrupper breed in North
America and will be greatly missed, but his legacy will live on through his many
foals all over the world.
Apollon, #1 Knabstrupper stallion in the
world & foundation sire of our Knabstrupper breeding program.
Macarn's First Encore - "Annie" is a daughter of the Knabstrupper
stallion, Apollon. She was one of the first Knabstrupper foals born
in N. America. She is a 16.2 hand
black based few spot mare with lovely movement. She is approved for breeding
Knabstruppers by the RPSI and the American Knabstrupper Association. In 2006,
she had her first foal, a stunning black near leopard Knabstrupper filly by
Tzigane
that we named Tzarina. This foal was so special that
we immediately bred her back to Tzigane and hit the jackpot again with the birth
of Tzshamrock, another near leopard filly! She
is approved for breeding by RPSI and AKA.
 Joker
Jill – This mare is a real love. She is a liver chestnut leopard spotted
mare. A very well built, solid mare with lots of reach, she has a temperament to
die for. She is a wonderful riding horse and has the smoothest trot we’ve ever
ridden. Jill was approved by the RPSI for breeding Knabstruppers and was placed
in the main mare book. In March, 2002, Jill gave us the first Knabstrupper born
in North America – a lovely bay filly with a large blanket, named
Macarns American Beauty. In 2003, she gave us a very loud leopard
Knabstrupper filly named Macarns All that
Jazz. She is approved for breeding by RPSI and the AKA.
Miracle
in the Mist - M&M is a
daughter of Blue Moon Again
and out of the wonderful TB stallion, Digamist. RPSI inspectors loved her
and approved her for breeding Knabstruppers with high marks for her movement and
type. In 2003, she produced Waps
Moonshine, a drop dead gorgeous black and white snowcap colt by Wapspotted
that is a definite stallions prospect. In 2004, she produced
Macarns Chocolate Mist, a drop dead gorgeous colt with minimum spots, but
maximum conformation and movement. She is approved for breeding by RPSI and
AKA.
|