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Giovanni
KWPN Approved
2025 Stallion Service Auction
| Registered Name | Giovanni |
| Show Name | Equilence's Giovanni |
| Registration # | 528003201106820 |
| Birthdate | June 05, 2011 |
| Color and Markings | Liver Chestnut |
| Height | 16.3hh |
| Breeding Direction |
DP (Dressage) |
| Breeding Fee | $2200 CAD |
| Specific Terms, Fees, and Conditions | Booking fee and first collection included. Contact farm for shipping and container fees. Discounts available. |
| Semen Available | Fresh, Shipped |
| EVA Test | Negative |
| WFFS | N/N (non-carrier) |
| Breeder | C. van Etten |
Profile Updated: 2025
Pedigree information:
This handsome liver chestnut KWPN 70 day performance test winner brings North American breeders the proven dressage lines of Van Olst’s best stallions. He is a son of Chippendale and grandson of the Olympic stallion Scandic, followed by preferent stallion Negro. This noble, very talented stallion can improve the quality of movement for dressage, the canter in specific and temperament.
Giovanni was bred by C. Van Etten in the Netherlands and scouted by Gertjan Van Olst as a foal. Giovanni is a son from the first crop of the Van Olst stallion Chippendale (Lord Leatherdale x Negro). Chippendale is another example of the success of the proven cross of Lord Leatherdale – dressage horse producer par excellence – and famous preferent stallion Negro. Chippendale’s dam, the elite sport (dres) mare Ti Amo, is also well-known for being the full-sister of the successful Small Tour horse Straus and Isabelle Herter’s (FRA) International Grand Prix horse, Ushie.
Giovanni’s dam line is equally impressive with multiple generations of mares that have competed at the top levels of dressage and earned the prestigious KWPN Prestatie predicates- meaning they have produced top sport horses themselves. Giovanni’s dam Zarava is an Elite, IBOP, PROK, Preferent, Prestatie, Sport mare by the Olympic dressage horse and KWPN-stallion Scandic. Scandic is one of the best Grand Prix dressage horses in the world and in June 2011 he was the best stallion in the world rankings for dressage. Scandic won the bronze medal in the freestyle at the European Championships in Rotterdam in 2011 with Patrick Kittel. In 2013 he finished seventh in the World Cup finals for dressage. At his European Championship debut in Windsor in 2009 he finished eighth. In 2010 he finished fifth in the World Cup finals and Scandic represented Sweden at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky. The duo has since broken two Swedish records. In Falsterbo in 2011 they won the freestyle with no less than 82.78%. Scandic has an original pedigree for a dressage horse. After Michelangelo we see Akteur, Lucky Boy xx and Le Faquin xx in the pedigree. Both his sire Solos Carex and his grandsire Amiral excelled at the highest level in dressage. Great-granddam Eljenohve is also the dam of Billy Twomey’s showjumping star Luidam.
Back to Giovanni’s dam Zarava and her female ancestors: after having completed a very good mare test, she competed at Small Tour-level. Besides Giovanni, she produced a 3rd and a 4th level horse and another 2nd viewing stallion by Chippendale. Her dam Tarava competed at ZZL/ 4th level and carries the Elite, PROK, Prestatie and Sport predicates. She is by the Preferent Negro and besides Zarava, she produced two 3rd level horses. Great-granddam Nendyrava (s.Romancier) is also Small Tour-level and has the predicates Elite, PROK, Preferent, Prestatie, Sport. This mare is very convincing in breeding too, with offspring by Negro (2x) and Monaco who are competing at ZZL, ZZZ and Z2-level respectively.
OWNER OF RECORD
Canadream Farm
STANDING AT
Marie Josee Proulx
Canadream Farm
Dunvegan, ON Canada
CONTACT
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KWPN Breeding Designation
KWPN Approved
Giovanni’s dressage career started with the top score in the KWPN Performance test: 86 points. He scored an 8 for walk and trot, a 9.5 for canter, a 8.5 for suppleness, a 9 for self carriage and rideability and a 8.5 for dressage potential. The KWPN stallion committee described him as follows:
“Giovanni is an honest and reliable stallion with a very good temperament. The stallion is very willing to work and is very easy to work with. The walk is clear-cut with good scope. The trot is expressive, has good scope and the hind legs come powerfully under the body. The canter is uphill, very powerful with very good carriage and scope. Giovanni moves with good to very good elasticity and with good to very good self-carriage and balance. As a dressage horse Giovanni is talented to very talented and gives his rider a very good feeling.”
Breeding Advice
From his KWPN foal report:
“Giovanni showed a uniform collection of well-developed foals. The walk has good scope. The trot is light-footed and has good scope, power and balance. The foals canter easily with hind legs being brought under well. The canter has good scope, power and balance.”
“In dressage horse breeding Giovanni can add movement and can improve on a mare’s canter and temperament.”