Breeder:
Dieter Niesar, Kranenburg
Riding Quality at the Highest Stage
Belissimo M himself was a model student under the saddle: Top auction horse, record breaking stallion performance test winner, Bundeschampion, finalist at the World Championship for young dressage horses. After a longer sport break he returned in 2011 at the advanced (S) level and achieved straightaway victories and placings in Grand-Prix classes under Hayley Beresford. As recognition of his breeder’s significance Belissimo M has been honoured in a way that only a few top stallions have been given: He now is allowed to perform as representative of his homeland, as Belissimo NRW!
As well, the Holsteiner Verband honoured his extraordinary breeding qualities in 2010 by granting him a rare approval to breed Holsteiner mares as a sire of a foreign blood-line.
The offpring of Belissimo M sets records: Nine stallion performance test winners and three vice performance test winners from the first few crops are probably a world record!
In addition, there are five Bundeschampions and, with Blickpunkt, there is a double bronze medal winner of the World Championship for young dressage horses in Verden. Currently, Callaho's Benicio - the eponymous hero of the 2011 Hanoverian licensing catalogue as a licensed stallion in Verden – became, with fantastic scores, Bundeschampion of six-year-old dressage horses in Warendorf. Then, he also won his stallion performance test with 9.88 in dressage (a 10.0 for trot, walk and canter each) and an 8.43 for jumping!
Further winners of championships and many high-prized auction horses world-wide – with 572,000 Euro (Denmark), his daughter Belandra was one of the top horses at the PSI in Ankum – are all the result of Belissimo M's resounding inheritance of riding quality. In 2011, his oldest offspring competed in the advanced class for the first time – already five of them were successful at this stage, several times even as winners.
According to FN’s estimated breeding value statistics he has been positioned for years, nationwide among the top sires as a dressage sire (154 index points in 2011) – and also with a positive breeding value for the inheritance of jumping (109 points). The Hanoverian estimated breeding value statistics place him with the very best stallions, with 147 points for the dressage quality of his performance tested daughters – and that with impressive evaluations also for the inheritance of riding horses (142 points) as well as the fundamental (159 points!).
Until the end of the last year, Belissimo M already presented us 42 licensed sons, including numerous premium stallions in Hanover (310,000 Euro top-prized Bentley), Oldenburg, Westphalia, Austria – there, Bellheim became champion stallion. Furthermore, there are already 80 state premium mares, including the champion mares of Hanover and Bavaria, as well as the 2009 champion mare of Westphalia, Brillante, and the 2011 reserve champion mare Bella Vista.
This resounding inheritance is the result of systematic performance breeding. The sire Beltain was himself successful in the dressage arena up to advanced (S) class and originates from one of the most successful mare lines of Hanover. His dam is full sister of the Celle State Stud sires Garibaldi I and II and granddam of Wolkenstein I and II as well as of the Grand Prix dressage horse Little Big Man, the Celle State Stud sires Brentano I and II, as well as Beauvalais (e.g. 2002' vice world champion in Jerez, Olympic bronze medal in Athens 2004).
Belissimo's dam Roxa produced, when bred to Boss, three successful full siblings in dressage up to advanced (S) level: Bonnie Bianco, Baccarole and Boutique.
