Jaz | Jazz

چهار نعل: Jaz | Jazz

Among the amber-colored manes of Dutch dressage stallions, no name has coursed through the veins of later generations as much as Jazz. The bay colt, born in…

Jazz was born on 21 May 1991 at the farm of Huub and Tiny van Helvoirt in Rosmalen, the Netherlands, and was originally named Jacob, a name taken from Jacob Melissen, a well-known Dutch equestrian journalist and photographer. He was the son of the stallion Cocktail -who himself earned the KWPN Horse of the Year title for Anky van Grunsven in 1995- and the mare Charmante, daughter of Ulster. The chestnut colt was purchased at six months old by Bob Rijsdijk and Nico Witte and in 1992 took part in the KWPN stallion licensing test in Den Bosch; it was there that he was approved for breeding and renamed Jazz.

Two years later, in 1994 and at the age of three, Jazz completed the KWPN stallion performance test with a score of 71 -a score that described him as an honest, reliable, sensitive horse and, in the judges’ words, "spirited and curious about everything going on around him"; a trait that later was reflected in his offspring, in the form of hot-blooded and sometimes spooky talent.

Rider Tineke Bartels took the reins of Jazz and brought him up from the elementary level to Grand Prix. This stallion placed fourth in the Dutch Grand Prix Championships in 2000 and in 2001 made his debut at Grand Prix level; that same year, he won the Amsterdam Grand Prix World Cup class with a score of 74.65 percent. In 2002 Jazz represented the Netherlands at the World Equestrian Games in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain.

In December 2001, as worldwide demand for breeding from his offspring surged, ownership of Jazz was divided among a ten-member consortium led by Cees and Anne Broere with a 20 percent share, and the name "Broere" was added to his name. In October 2004, at the age of thirteen, full ownership was transferred to Stoeterij Broere in Alblasserdam. From then on Kirsten Beckers took the reins, and Jazz continued competing in international Grand Prix arenas until 2007 -from Zwolle and Den Bosch to Gelderland, Rotterdam, Aachen and finally Maastricht, his last CDI appearance- before an injury in 2008 cut short his competition career and he officially retired from the show ring in 2011.

But it was in the breeding shed that Jazz became a legend. He received the Keur title in 2002 and the Preferent distinction in 2006, and that same year was named KWPN Horse of the Year. From 2008 to 2011, for four consecutive years, he stood at the top of the WBFSH world ranking for dressage stallions. He has more than 3,100 registered KWPN horses to his credit, including thirteen licensed stallions -among them Johnson, Wynton, Olivi and Westpoint- and ninety-nine Preferent mares.

More than one hundred of Jazz’s offspring have competed at Grand Prix level, the most famous of them being Parzival; a horse that, with rider Adelinde Cornelissen, won team and individual silver at the 2012 London Olympics, the 2011 European Championship gold, and two consecutive World Cup Final titles in 2011 and 2012. Other champion offspring included Wynton with Madeleine Witte-Vrees, Tango with Hans Peter Minderhoud, Vancouver K with Judy Reynolds and Don Olymbrio with Daniel Bachmann Andersen.

Jazz died in January 2020, at the age of twenty-nine, at Stoeterij Broere. His death was met with grief throughout the equestrian world, and KWPN called him the “King of Dressage Breeding”; a title that continues to keep his stamp on the temperament, movements, and talent of the world’s best dressage horses alive today.

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