Westfalian Breeding Stallion Arpeggio Passed Away

Breeding

Westfalian

State Stud Warendorf announced that its versatile breeding stallion Arpeggio passed away on 6 April 2025 at age 30.

Arpeggio was a 1995 born Westfalian stallion by Accord II out of XX (by Power x Schöning x Dialekt). He was bred by Heinz Dieckhoff-Holsen in Telgte.

Reserve Licensing Champion

The bay became the reserve licensing champion of the 1997 Westfalian stallion licensing and moved to stand at stud in Warendorf his entire life.

He did his 100-day stallion performance test at home in Warendor and scored a dressage index of 111.14 points (6th) and a jumping index of 116.75 points (6th), finishing fifth overall out of 20 participating stallions.

There was no significant career in sport.

Versatility

While Arpeggio is known as a versatile producer, he mainly had his influence in show jumping. He has 916 offspring registered for sport in Germany: 142 of them compete at S-level in jumping, 10 at S-level in dressage.

His most famous offspring in sport are jumpers All Inclusive NRW (Dennis Lynch & Ludger Beerbaum), Acomet (Theo Muff) sowie Allerdings (Marco Kutscher & Henrik von Eckermann). At the 2017 Bundeschampionate five of his offspring made it into the final.

He sired 17 licensed sons, of which 10 are in studbook 1 and 36 state premium daughters.

His most famous dressage offspring include the international para dressage horse Akuna Matata (Rixt van der Horst), the NRPS licensed Aachen (Imke Schellekens-Bartels), and Arezzo (Celina Bådstangen).

Passing

Warendorf announced the stallion's passing on its Facebook page.

"At the beginning of the year, we were able to celebrate his 30th birthday. Unfortunately, however, the senior has been deteriorating more and more recently, so together with the vets we made the difficult decision to let him go. We look back with gratitude on many wonderful moments with this charismatic equine personality. He fascinated us with his special charisma, presence and amiable character. He not only had a special significance for our team as our senior resident."