STALLIONS > Standing at Stud Stallions at Stud We are proud to have a lineup of Longspring's top bloodlines We currently offer a range of stallions at the stud including Distelfink bloodlines, a son of the Horse of the Year winner Eurosport Centavos, a sire by KWPN pref sire LARINO out of our Super Moth family and stallion NASHVILLE LS by one of Europe's leading sires NUMBERO UNO. Check out his loose jumping! LORD LARINO LS by LARINO (KWPN) This is an outstanding sire - his jump is phenomenal. See the video on his page. This is a reflection of his KWPN keur sire LARINO and his dam TOP LADY LS who is out of a full sister to the legendary SUPER MOTH who won over 44 Grand Prix, Horse of the Year title and was 5 times Showjumper of the Year in NZ. His first crop included FLORENCE who with rider Logan Massie won the 5 Year old & the 6 Year old titles at the respective Young Horse Shows. CRUSADER LS by EUROSPORT CENTAVOS (Hanoverian) This purpose bred young sire has proved his worth! CRUSADER LS is by one of NZ's leading sires EUROSPORT CENTAVOS a sire with an incredible international pedigree and is out of a TB mare by BRILLIANT INVADER who was one of the top TB jumping/eventing sires in Australia and New Zealand. Most famous of BRILLIANT INVADER'S offpsring was the gold medal eventer READY TEDDY with Blyth Tait and the mare FLOWER POWER who won Grand Prix and at stud produced the awesome mare DELPHI. His foals are strong horses with a wonderful temperament. He only produces bay or brown to date if that is important to you (no chestnuts)! CANTABRIAN LS - 2015 Bay stallion by CRUSADER LS CANTABRIAN LS has been kept as a stallion as the last of one of our most successful lines through DISTELETTE LS by DISTELFINK. He is himself an extremely talented jumper with a great attitude and calmness. He has a beautiful face and eye too. Perfect markings too with a star, snip and 4 short white socks. NASHVILLE LS - 2017 Bay stallion by NUMERO UNO KPWN NASHVILLE LS is a top prospect for the serious showjumper. His pedigree is stacked with successful showjumpers on both sides. He is by frozen semen sire NUMERO UNO, one of the top jumping sires in Europe whose service fee is close to $5000 NZ and out of a DISTELFINK mare. NASHVILLE shows exceptional talent and movement for a young horse. Granted he is not a big horse at 15.3hh but that was the size of our best horse ever SUPER MOTH LS! LORD THOMAS by LORD LARINO LS This young stallion by our top stallion LORD LARINO stood for his first season in 2025. He is out of the mare Tom Girl by DISTELFINK that jumped herself to 1.40 level. He is 16.1 HH. SABELLA HUNTER (Clydesdale) - 2011 ALPINE VIEW THOMAS X Princess Patricia X DONNYBROOK MATABO Surprised? So were we when we offered to graze this Clydesdale stallion who seems to have stayed on! He is available for stud duties so for those looking for that Clydie cross horse, we can accommodate.

Frozen Semen Sires WODAN - Hanoverian I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It’s easy. Just click “Edit Text” or double click me and you can start adding your own content and make changes to the font. Feel free to drag and drop me anywhere you like on your page. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you. LARINO - KWPN I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It’s easy. Just click “Edit Text” or double click me and you can start adding your own content and make changes to the font. Feel free to drag and drop me anywhere you like on your page. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you. NUMERO UNO - KWPN I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It’s easy. Just click “Edit Text” or double click me and you can start adding your own content and make changes to the font. Feel free to drag and drop me anywhere you like on your page. I’m a great place for you to tell a story and let your users know a little more about you.

Stallion progeny currently competing Discover the stallion progeny currently competing and making their mark London LS 6yr old London LS, formerly known as Lord Delamere LS, is currently competing with Izzy Wheeler here in New Zealand. DirectorLS Director has found his new home in China, where he'll continue his journey as a 2* event horse. Darkside of the Moon LS FOR SALE! Currently in partnership and competing in the UK

Dutch Auction Sale 2025 Something new ... Over the month of April 2025 we are offering just about our whole collection of young stock for sale - a total of 40+ horses from foals to 7 year olds. We are running in a Dutch Auction format where starting at $50,000 + gst you can have your pick of what is on offer. After the first week, we will drop the price level twice a week by $2,000 to begin with and dropping to $1000 and take out 1 or 2 that we would prefer to keep. So you have to decide when to come in and if you wait, will you miss out? Just so you appreciate - we don't have a rider in the family (but we working on the grandchildren riding!) so we are not in the business of "keeping our best and selling the rest" . All horses we have for sale are quality. Our offer to you is to take a good look at what is on offer knowing there are some real superstars in the bunch. Your pick! Starting at $50,000 + gst for a first pick of what is on offer in the foals to 8 year olds and including the two stallion prospects - Nashville LS (by Numero Uno) and Cantabrian LS (by Crusader LS). Both young stallions are broken in and ready to ride although Cantabrian LS has not been in work for over a year. First in with the money gets the horse and we will back it up with a soundness guarantee. Twice a week after the first week, we will drop the price by $2,000 for a next round of picks and take our picks off the list if they don't make their minimum. We are more than happy to keep several fillies for the future - but we are trying to be fair and say all are up for sale at a price. Even our top bloodlines! And unless the auction goes swimmingly ... we can almost guarantee there will be some of these youngsters sell at $4000. Our bottom price. Your priorities might be bloodlines, colour, gender or looks. We have photos and videos of all horses on our website to help you get a picture of what is on offer. With full pedigrees, you can learn more about their genetic potential. All horses will come with registered NZ Sport Horse registration papers and will be branded with the Longspring Stud brand. They will also be microchipped and have DNA profiling on hand.

STALLIONS > Past Stallions at Stud Archived Stallions DISTELFINK LS Rupert and Anne Vallance officially set up the stud in 1982, when they syndicated and imported a licensed Hanoverian stallion from West Germany. Distelfink (by Diskus out of St Pr St Doreen by Duker) was one of the first jumping specialised stallion to be brought into New Zealand. In the years that followed, until his death in 2004 at the age of 26, Distelfink proved to be a leading sire of competition horses across all disciplines, but especially show jumping. TIGER MOTH LS TIGER MOTH LS died early on but the stud does have frozen semen available on request. Tiger was a 3/4 thoroughbred by TRIBUNE our of a full sister to the legendary SUPER MOTH. He has amazing floating paces with excellent conformation. As he was the product of our original bloodlines, he was not used over many of the stud's mares. His progeny out competing included the talented mare MADAM COCO with Dani Maurer and ??? COLOMBIA COLOMBIA was unarguably one of the best bred thoroughbred stallions in New Zealand being by ZABEEL out of EIGHT CARAT. He was an exceptionally well conformed stallion with a lovely set on neck. Black with lots of bling! As a racing sire, his progeny have now won over $5 million dollars. The stud has retained 3 of his fillies for breeding and has another two out in partnerships with eventing backgrounds. DAIMLER LS DAIMLER LS as with TIGER MOTH LS was the product of the original bloodlines but with a dash of WITZBOLD bloodlines that made its mark in the dressage area. DAIMLER LS was an outstanding looking horse with lovely paces and a kind nature. His full brother DAYLIGHT LS jumped at Grand Prix level with Philip Steiner before being sold overseas. A full sister to his dam TRUE STORY by Tribune sold to the USA as a dressage horse. The stud has mares by this sire and currently being competed is DAIMLER DART LS with ???? DARKMINSTER DARKMINSTER is an exciting combination of NZ’s best ever jumping & eventing sire in DISTELFINK with the top eventing bloodlines of WESTMINSTER. Making him arguably one of the best NZ bred eventing stallions but also equally suited as a jumping sire. WATCHAMACALLIT LS by WATCHMAN (Thoroughbred) WATCHAMACALLIT LS is a chestnut with lots of bling! Four white stockings and a blaze. His movement that he passes on without exception is amazing! And his jump is big and careful. He is by the Group 2 winning TB sire WATCHMAN who goes back directly to MAUREEN the dam of PRECIPITATION - unarguably the most influential TB bloodline in sport horse breeding in Europe. TRIBUNE LS TRIBUNE LS was a full thoroughbred that came as a package deal with his mother - he was still at foot. His sire was TRIC TRAC, a thoroughbred sire that produced top jumpers like NATIONWIDE, MR KINCAID and Olympic eventer KIWI. The sire of TRIC TRAC who was VIEUX MANOIR was a very influential bloodline in producing warmbloods in Europe. TRIC TRAC was a great mover with excellent conformation and a talented jump. His bloodline is important to the broodmare herd at Longspring. SUNSET SAM LS SUNSET SAM LS has a double cross back to DISTELFINK his sire SAM I AM - a full brother to the top jumper DIOMEDES LS now in Australia. DIOMEDES with rider Phillip Steiner was 1st in 8 classes and placed in another 33 for winnings of close to $15,000 - a tidy sum in the old days! Another full brother to SAM I AM is competing at top level in jumpers in the USA as DEVLIN LS. SUNSET SAM himself is an impressive strong type with excellent jumping technique that he passes on to his progeny oldest crop are from 2005. Sadly Sunset Sam LS died in 2010 so his progeny are few and far between. DISCERN LS DISCERN LS was a quiet and lovely type of stallion who seems to pull off the ‘pick of the litter’ title in each year's foal crop! DISCERN LS was a great type of horse with excellent conformation, good nature, lovely head and jumping ability. Of particular strength in his bloodlines is the SOUND REASON which is a good eventing bloodline. He also goes back to SOVEREIGN EDITION a very good TB racing line and broodmare sire. Experience has shown that good mare lines in racing such as Sound Reason also prove to be top bloodlines for equestrian sport as well. DISCERN LS only stood for several seasons before dying but several of his mare progeny are still at the stud. WATCHMAN xx WATCHMAN did not live long enough to be a major influence on the Longspring bloodlines. WATCHMAN arrived at the stud in his early twenties. He is important however as the sire of WATCHAMACALLIT LS and again contributes successful performance genes to the mix. WATCHMAN was a top racehorse and won over $145,000 including 2 stakes races.

CURRENTLY STANDING > Sabella Hunter SABELLA HUNTER ALPINE VIEW THOMAS X Princess Patricia X DONNYBROOK MATABO Born: Breed Registration: Colour: Height: Stud Fee & Conditions: 28 October 2011 Clydesdale Black 167cm $1000 BLOODLINES To be researched PROGENY To be researched

CURRENTLY STANDING > Lord Thomas LS LORD THOMAS LS LORD LARINO LS X Tom Girl X DISTELFINK Born: Breed Registration: Colour: Height: Stud Fee & Conditions: 26 December 2018 NZ Sport Horse Grey 16.1 HH $1200 This young stallion will be covering his first outside mares this year. He is a tall horse so if height matters to you, Lord Thomas LS is the one! BLOODLINES LORD THOMAS' LS sire LORD LARINO LS is a son of LARINO, a Grand Prix Showjumper in his own right. LARINO is a son of the sports horse producer of the 21st century, Olympic CONCORDE. Concorde already has a great number of children that perform at international level. Larino has in his pedigree four famous and successful showjumper producers. At Ermelo during the 70-day Performance Test, Larino was described by the jury as a stallion who jumps with a very good foreleg technique and a very good use of the back. Larino shows a lot of scope and has a superb canter. Under Peter Geerink, Larino became a successful Grand Prix jumper. In the fall of 2001, the grey stallion made his Grand Prix debut and placed second in The Hague, finished second and third in Valkenswaard, and posted a fantastic clear round in the team competition at Rotterdam, in addition to tying for sixth place in the Grand Prix. Furthermore, Larino ended sixth in the Dutch Championships in Mierlo, the youngest horse to show at that venue. The stallion's other achievements include finishing fourth in the Grand Prix of Hickstead, fifth in the Grand Prix of Bremen and first in the team competition. Larino also won the VHO Trophy competition in 2003. Lord Thomas is out of the mare TOM GIRL by DISTELFINK. DISTELFINK was the leading sire of showjumpers and events in NZ for more than 15 years. See link here PROGENY Lily of the Valley LS, Lolliepop LS

CURRENTLY STANDING > Cantabrian LS CANTABRIAN LS CRUSADER LS X Tigerlette LS X TIGER MOTH LS Cantabrian LS (2) Cantabrian LS loosejumping as 3 year old. CantabrianLS Cantabrian LS (1) Cantabrian LS strong mover Cantabrian LS (2) Cantabrian LS loosejumping as 3 year old. 1/3 Born: Breed Registration: Colour: Stud Fee & Conditions: 08 January 2015 NZ Sport Horse Bay / Brown $1200 CANTABRIAN LS has been kept as a stallion as the last of one of our most successful lines through DISTELETTE LS by DISTELFINK. He is himself an extremely talented jumper with a great attitude and calmness. He has a beautiful face and eye too. CANTABRIAN LS has been kept a stallion because of his phenomenal jumping and pedigree. He will be available for service starting in the 2025 season. He has not been used at stud yet as he closely contains all the studs best lines. CANTABRIAN LS is for sale and would suit someone looking for a horse to compete and jump, although he hasn't been in work recently. BLOODLINES This young horse is sure to make his name in showjumping or eventing with his bloodlines and is in the first in the crop for CRUSADER LS. His sire CRUSADER LS is by EUROSPORT CENTAVOS, licensed Hanoverian and Warmblood sire and winner of the NZ Horse of the Year title; and then out of a mare that competed herself to 1.30m Young Rider classes as "Girl Power". She is by Brilliant Invader who was the sire of NZ's famous eventer Ready Teddy (gold medal at the WEG). BRILLIANT INVADER was also the dam sire of the phenomenal mare Delphi with rider Katie McVean. She was out of the Grand Prix Showjumper FLOWER POWER with many GP wins under her belt ridden by Jeff McVean. Flower Power is the dam of the phenomenal mare DELPHI with Katie McVean. TIGERLETTE LS was the last foal of DISTELETTE LS who was Longspring's first Distelfink foal and represents one of the studs top families. Distelette LS by Distelfink was a full sister to Denver LS who was a top jumper and eventer who won over $25,000 with Catriona McLeod. He was on the NZ Eventing team to Australia in 1994 and won the Wandin Park ODE and was 2nd in the Werribee International 3DE***, and had 3 placings in NZ's CCI *** events. Denver was shortlisted for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and ranked in the top 30 of the Worlds top event horses in the World Breeding Championships at the time. Another full brother DEALER LS won the Horse of the Year Speed Championship title with rider Anna Stephen and two other full brothers DAKOTA LS and DALLAS COWBOY LS sold overseas as jumpers for very good money. TIGER MOTH LS represents LONGSPRING'S top bloodlines through SUPER MOTH who with John Cottle won 75 SJ classes, 44 at Grand Prix level. TIGER MOTH is out of a full sister to SUPER MOTH. Best known of the TIGER MOTH LS progeny is the superb jumping mare MADAME COCO who is competing at World Cup level with rider Dani Maurer, TIGER TALE LS a pony who won many classes and was 2nd in the Pony of the Year title class and TOWNSHEND LS sold to Australia as an eventer. Other progeny include TIGER WOODS LS, TIGER EYES LS and ???

NEWS > Archived News Archived News Dutch Auction Sale of all youngsters at stud 31 March 2025 - Anne Vallance Over the month of April 2025 we are offering just about our whole collection of young stock for sale - a total of 21 horses from foals to 5 year olds. We are running a Dutch Auction format where starting at $50,000 + gst you can have your pick of what is on offer. After the first week, we will drop the price level twice a week by $2,000 to begin with and $1000 later on. We will withdraw any that we would prefer to keep as they didn't make the minimum price. So you have to decide when to come in and if you wait, will you miss out? Read more ... DARK SIDE OF THE MOON LS off to the UK 25 Jan 2022 - Vic Martin DARK SIDE OF THE MOON LS, a 9 year old by DARKMINSTER out of Tigerlette LS by TIGER MOTH LS is off to the UK eventing with Bundy Philpott. The horse is in a 50/50 partnership with Rupert & Anne Vallance. We look forward to following his career in the capital of eventing.

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CURRENTLY STANDING > Lord Larino LS LORD LARINO LS LARINO X Top Lady LS X DISTELFINK LordLarinoLS_loosejumping LordLarinoLS_advertisementBreedingSeason ApartByLarinowins 4 star GP at Mechlen LordLarinoLS_loosejumping 1/5 Born: Breed Registration: Colour: Height: Stud Fee & Conditions: 18 Nov 2008 NZ Sport Horse Grey 15.3HH $1200 BLOODLINES LARINO, a Grand Prix showjumper in his own right, is a son of the sports horse producer of the 21st century, Olympic CONCORDE. Concorde already has a great number of children that perform at international level. Larino has in his pedigree four famous and successful showjumper producers. Larino's dam Erina is a daughter of the famous Ramiro offspring, Armstrong. In the report the KWPN judge made, she is described as a very nice mare with a lot of expression. The stallion Larino is out of a lineage that produced many sports horses in the mother line. Bred by Arend Florijn of Geesteren, the Concorde son was out of the preferent broodmare Erina (Armstrong out of Warina ster pref prest by Ridder), whose grandson is the KWPN stallion Zürich . Originally named Lancelot, Larino was approved for KWPN breeding as a four-year-old. At Ermelo during the 70-day Performance Test, Larino was described by the jury as a stallion who jumps with a very good foreleg technique and a very good use of the back. Larino shows a lot of scope and has a superb canter. Under Peter Geerink, the gray stallion became a successful Grand Prix jumper. In the fall of 2001, Larino made his Grand Prix debut and placed second in The Hague, finished second and third in Valkenswaard, and posted a fantastic clear round in the team competition at Rotterdam, in addition to tying for sixth place in the Grand Prix. Furthermore, Larino ended sixth in the Dutch Championships in Mierlo, the youngest horse to show at that venue. The stallion's other achievements include finishing fourth in the Grand Prix of Hickstead, fifth in the Grand Prix of Bremen and first in the team competition. Larino also won the VHO Trophy competition in 2003. LORD LARINO is is directly related to NZs most famous showjumper SUPER MOTH who with John Cottle won over 75 Grand Prix. SUPER MOTH was by DISTELFINK who was the leading sire of showjumpers and events in NZ for more than 15 years. Website - https://teamnijhof.nz/larino/ Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNGInqlAkog PROGENY (see pictures below) Lady Lou LS, Late Entry LS, Lorenzo LS, Lola LS, Lilac LS, Lavender LS, Lady Luck LS, Lady Tamsin LS, Lord Thomas LS, Lunar Eclipse LS, Larinia LS, Louis Vuitton LS London_AuctionPost AuctionPost_LadyTamsin Lorenzo LS London_AuctionPost 1/9

ABOUT US > Distelfink DISTELFINK - NZs leading sire for 15+ years DISKUS X St Pr St Doreen X DUKER The legendary DISTELFINK, a fully licensed Hanoverian stallion, was imported in 1982 to stand at Longspring Sport Horse Stud. He was selected early as a potential sire in Germany and reared by the Hunnesrucke Stud for Hanoverian breeding. His like will never be seen in NZ again. He was with us at the start and put the stud on the map. His progeny included international jumpers, dressage horses, eventers and even the lead equine role in the making of Lord of the Rings! His bloodlines have been retained by the stud as sires and broodmares. Born: 1978 Died: 2004 Breed Registration: Licensed Hanoverian Stallion Colour: Chestnut Height: 16.1 HH BLOODLINES His sire DISKUS (Hanoverian, 1970, black, 1.65 m) was a Celle State Stud stallion known for producing top‑class showjumpers, including Denizen, The Natural (won the World Cup in 1987 with Katherine Birdsall) and Doreen on the Dutch SJ team. known to produce international jumpers with strong bone, good technique, excellent rideability and very good jumping ability. DISKUS was by DOMSPATZ, a classic Hanoverian bloodline which was extremely influential in the 1960s–1980s and considered a foundation Hanoverian jumping family. His dam was the State Premium Mare DOREEN and she was out of the State Premium mare MONTUR showing well above average quality and power in the mare lines. Only 15-25% of mares presented each year achieve that status at the annual Hanoverian classification tours. PROGENY DISTELFINK produced numerous domestic and international performers. Some of these include jumping sensations: JEEP SUPERMOTH, NRM FALCON, DUTY FREE, SKYLARK, DEALER, DIOMEDES and world class eventers: NRM DENVER, GV BRAVEHEART, DANZAR…….. DISTELFINK was not only successful at producing performers but also his broodmare daughters are now highly sought after in NZ by breeders for producing jumping and eventing horses! DISTELFINK was the leading NZ SJ sire with 150+ winners in all disciplines and all levels Inc 15 National Champions. His top showjumper was SUPER MOTH who with John Cottle won 75 jumping classes including 44 at GP or WC level. He sold to the USA and went on to win a WC round there before a tragic accident put an end to his still young career. DISTELFINK was 3rd on the international FEI (WBFSH) sires list for event horses 1997/98. His best performed eventer was DENVER LS who was a top level showjumper before an eventing career where he won the National One Day Event Championships in Australia and then went on to be 2nd in the National 3DE in Australia – after many wins in NZ. His other top eventers included DANZAR and GV BRAVEHEART.’ DISTELFINK also produced top dressage horses TARJE, DISPLAY, and fulWINTER DAMSON, and showhunters CATS WHISKERS, DECORATION, DANICA, DISTANCIA and SPARROW, showing his undoubted versatility. DISTELFINK LS is now a leading grand sire with his daughters producing over 50 ESNZ registered youngsters the quality of Jedi Warrior, Attorney General, Tiger Woods LS, Giggles, Mr Wiggles, Dunstan Springfield, Wishing Warrior, Dansing, Cheleken Casadora, Henton Encore, Henton Exclusive, Winter Warrior, Rodney Red, NZ Pow, DT Stevie Nics, Golden Mile, Henton Distinctive, Armillion MVNZ, Astek Napoleon, Lingo, Coloraddo MVNZ, Day Boy, Traffic LS, Tres Bein LS, 10cc LS, Schimmel Warrior, Tiger Tale LS, NZ Fireball, Kaleidoscope, Lavita, Caledonia MVNZ, Alltech Eon, DT Jack Sparrow, Wild Card II, Timbuktoo LS, Trixie LS to name some. Most of the top breeders around NZ are breeding with Distelfink bloodlines.