The Hanoverian licensed breeding stallion Grosso Z has passed away at the respectable age of 31 on 18 July 2014. The versatile dressage and show jumping stallion was bred by Leon Melchior at Zangersheide in Belgium.
"The entire team at Gestut Wiesenhof is saddened for the passing of Grosso Z, who passed away last Friday at the biblical age of 31," Wiesenhof posted.
Grosso Z was born in 1983 and sired by Goliath Z out of Fuchsin G (by Furioso II x Lugano I x Welf). He was a Stallion Performance Test winner in Warendorf with 150 points
According to Zuchterforum, he started breeding at Gestut St. Ludwig in Rhineland, after which he moved to Gestut Wiechenhof. From 1995 till 2002 he returned to Rhineland and stood at stud at Gestut Wiesenhof in Krefeld. For one year, in 2003, he was leased to Dorit Kothe. He was retired from breeding in 2004 after fracturing his pelvis. He has enjoyed his retirement at Beate Conle-Hüttner's Gestut Wiesenhof.
As a sport horse, he competed in show jumping up to M level and was trained and competed as a dressage horse up to Intermediaire I level.
Grosso Z was a versatile producer with offspring successful in dressage and show jumping. He sired over 30 State Premium Mares and 15 licensed sons, including Galippo, Gallarius, Gaudino K, General Dancer, Gullit, Grancino, Griseldi, Gambit, Goethe, Zorro Z and Goldfever I and II.
His most famous dressage offspring were Grand Prix horses Goethe (Heiner Schiergen), Grandioso (Cesar Parra, Marcel Schoenmakers), Gina Royal OLD (Ellen Schulten-Baumer), Gambrinus (Peter Storr), Grosso's Erbe (Pether Markne, Anne Tanghe, Joachim Thomsen), Zorro Z (Beatriz Ferrer-Salat), and Florine Kienbaum's young riders' horse Good Morning M.
Photos © Barbara Schnell
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