Rhythm & Blues is a gorgeous TRUE BLACK stallion of Dutch breeding.  A relatively young stallion, he is already quite accomplished in both Dressage and Jumping.  Following his stallion testing he began a career as a Three-Day Event horse.  Shortly after his purchase by Heritage Manor in May 2005 R&B began competing as a Jumper, and cross training in Dressage.  Now R&B is exclusively training in dressage.

 

Rhythm and Blues is  talented and skillful Jumper while exhibiting three good gaits and a light front/powerful hind for Dressage, he excels in both disciplines, just as his sire Olympic Ferro and dam sire Argus.  With a lovely head, lovely sloping & free shoulder and his sire’s powerful hind/compact frame, R&B is a powerhouse (Ferro is known for passing on his ability to "sit" on his powerful hindquarters and have a powerful engine, R&B certainly demonstrates this).  R&B shows a natural ability for lateral work as well. In 2002 R&B completed his stallion performance testing in Prussendorf, Germany with excellent scores.   He received 9.0s in “character”, “ability to work”, and “cross country jumping” and an 8.33 in “free jumping”.  He became the first US stallion to be approved during European stallion testing.  R&B is one of very few approved sons of the great sire Ferro standing in the United States.  R&B’s dam, Harmony is the only American bred/born Dutch mare in the USA to have received her Elite, Preferent, and Prestatie status. 

 

In 2006 R&B was inspected for RPSI stallion approvals.  At his inspection he received an impressive 9.0 for his canter.  

 

Much like his sire, R&B matured into Dressage after a successful competition career as a Jumper.  In 2007 R&B’s primary training focus switched from Jumpers to Dressage.