Jumbo Shrimp MS

 Cerulean Nightlife RID carries superior Irish Draught Horse genetics from both his dam and sire lines.    Cerulean Nightlife was inspected and approved by the Irish Draught Horse Society of North America in 2014 as a five year old.  At his inspection, his pedigree received the highest marks.  Cerulean's pedigree is full of many well known and respected Irish Draught horses both in the US,  Great Britain and Ireland.

  On his Sire's side, Bridon Belfrey RID, there are several familiar names.  Snowford Bellman RID, his grand sire, was by Slievenamon and out of a mare by a stallion, Skippy.  This is noteworthy because Skippy sired many FEI event horses including  Jumbo, who in turn sired Headley Brittiania, Mr.Chunky, and Jollybo.  Cerulean's grand dam, Flagmont Belle RID, is by the well know Irish Show Jumper, Flagmont King, who sired many Grand Prix Show Jumpers and Upper Level Event Horses.

  Even more impressive, is Cerulean's Dam, Roma Blue Hawk RID and her lineage.  She herself won many championships in hand  in Great Britain before being imported to the US.  She is a 2x Hornby Premium mare and incredibly, this is a trait on her dam side, as her dam, great dam, and great grand dam were all Hornby Premium mares!  Remarkably, Cerulean's Grand dam, Roma Blue Wind RID, is the most widely acclaimed mare in Irish Draught history being that she is the only 5x  Hornby Premium mare.  In addition, Roma Blue Wind RID,  was a Supreme Champion mare both in Ireland and Great Britain.  Her sire, Blue Henry RID was one of the most influential Irish Draught Stallions in his time producing  many successful Show Jumpers, Eventers, and Dressage Horses.   Cerulean's Grandsire, Rakish Paddy RID was a champion as well in both Ireland and Great Britain,  He was a competitive and successful Show Jumper in Europe earning him a  Grade "A" , which was  one of only two Show Jumper Irish Draught Stallions in the world at the time. 

Cerulean Nightlife's progeny is all class with exceptional minds, willing and cooperative temperaments, excellent conformation, great bone and solid feet. For a big powerful horse, Cerulean is very agile and light on his feet and all his babies have this same quality.  Cerulean's beautiful refined head is remarkable for the breed and is evident in all of his offspring so far.  Not only are his babies beautiful, their athleticism is exceptional, with proven scope and form over fences and engaging gaits.  We love their friendly affectionate nature like their father most of all.

Cabin Society is a 16h brown mare that was owned by Denny Emerson for years. She competed up through Preliminary while owned by him.

Jumbo is a Traditonal Irish Sport horse as he is Irish Draught and Thoroughbred.

Jumbo is the leading ‘all time sire’ of competition horses & competing mares in British Eventing (BE). For seven years, from their inception in 2008 to 2014, he was ranked in the top ten of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) Eventing Sire Rankings and for six of those was the highest ranked British-bred stallion. Jumbo has 9 graded sons in the UK. He has sired the winners of the World’s leading 4* events, Badminton, Burghley & Lexington as well as the winners of the UK’s leading 3* at Bramham & Blenheim. Over the years he has produced many advanced event horses. Among his best-known progeny are, Mr Chunky, Avebury & Headley Britannia Jumbo is the leading ‘all time sire’ of competition horses and competing mares in British Eventing (BE). For seven years, from their inception in 2008 to 2014, he was ranked in the top ten of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses (WBFSH) Eventing Sire Rankings and for six of those was the highest ranked British-bred stallion. Jumbo has 9 graded sons in the UK. He has sired the winners of the World’s leading 4* events, Badminton, Burghley and Lexington as well as the winners of the UK’s leading 3* at Bramham and Blenheim. Over the years he has produced many advanced event horses. Jumbo’s versatility is also evident, siring winning dressage horses, showjumpers and show horses; the mare Vulcanite was the 2016 Working Hunter Champion at Royal Windsor.

NOTABLE PROGENY

Mr Chunky ridden by Padraig McCarthy – Individual Silver at The World Equestrian Games as well as Team Silver for Ireland in 2018 – Avebury ridden by Andrew Nicholson – Won Burghley on a record three consecutive occasions (2012 -2014) –

Headley Britannia ridden by Lucinda Fredericks – the 15.3hh mare won all 3 Rolex Grand Slam events, Burghley in 2006, Badminton in 2007 and Kentucky in 2009 – Headley Kingdom – 4* eventer and Bramham winner – Henry

Tankerville – 4* eventer, ridden by Andrew Nicholson – Skylight – Winner of Young Rider European Team Gold (2008) –

Other advanced progeny include; Allercombe Ellie, selected for the British 3-day event team for Rio (sadly withdrawn due to injury), Foxdon Sunny Jim competing Nations Cup (Sam Griffiths), 3* horse Sambo III, Advanced winner Dunbeau, Jollybo competing 3* in the USA and Jumbo’s Jake (3* winner, competing at four-star in the USA)