Josie R

Josie R is the mother of numerous outstanding foals including Royal Jive R, sold for $15,400 at the 2012 AOS, Gold Coast, Qld. Ryans have retained a full sister to Royal Jive R for the breeding program. Josie R is a magnificent type of mare with huge elastic and airborne paces, as can be seen in the photograph. Josie R is by Jive Magic, who won arguably the biggest and most important Grand Prix held in Australia each year – Sydney CDI 2010. Josie R is out of Anky, who in turn is by the FEI stallion Ilkay. Ilkay was a very fancy Dutch stallion imported into Australia by Val D’Agent. Ilkay has, with limited opportunity, sired some very impressive competition horses. Lot 8 in the auction is Grand Prix horse Absolute Indulgence, also sired by Ilkay. Interesting enough, Ilkay is by Varient. Varient is the dam line of Olympic gold medallist and world champion dressage horse Valegro. Australia has been very slow to pick up on this. Anky’s grand-dam Alpha II was an FEI dressage horse with then-teenager but now Olympian, Kristy Oatley. Josie R also has a full brother in the auction, Lot 11 JE Blues. J.E. Blues is competing at 2* level eventing with professional rider Sam Fasher. Josie R is a beautifully bred young broodmare with outstanding progeny on the ground. Fiji R is proving to be a very popular stallion with his progeny being particularly goodlooking, very quiet and showing off some very fancy paces. Fiji R has just started his Grand Prix career, which makes him indeed very unique. It is our estimate that less than 3% of horses have the ability to perform a Grand Prix test. Josie R is a wonderful broodmare opportunity.