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Stallions

Mares

Knabstruppers

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 - This 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.

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