Alfa was imported from Holland as a weanling by Genesis Farm. He is sired by the Dutch National Champion and Dutch Selection Champion, ‘Allacher’. Allacher is currently the most popular stallion in Holland, producing elite mare prospects and offspring that dominate the shows year in and year out. Allacher is also known for his deep metallic copper color which he passes to his offspring and Alfa is no exception to this. Alfa’s grand-sire, Alpenstein, was the World Reserve Champion Stallion and is known in Austria for producing mares that are always at the top of their class at mare inspections. Alfa’s dam, ‘Eva Van Leivere’, is sired by the Dutch Selection Champion, Atlantic. Atlantic is known for passing on exceptional movement and athleticism to his offspring and Eva is no exception to this. In fact, her first two foals have both been selected as stallion prospects, an extreme rarity in Holland.
Alfa started his show career by being named the champion foal at the invitation-only select show of Hans Vandenberg in Holland. It was at this show that this spectacular colt first caught our attention. We later purchased Alfa at this same show. A few months later, we imported him into the United States where he has continued his winning ways.
In 2006, Alfa was named Champion Yearling at the AHR National Futurity. In 2007, Alfa matured into a dominant force in the show ring. He captured BOTH the GLHA and AHR National Futurity ‘Champion 2-year-old’ titles. At BOTH of these futurities, he also took home 1st place in the 2-year-old pleasure driving classes. These were his first and only debuts thus far under harness at a show and he performed beautifully. A special thanks goes to Jim Wiggins for the wonderful job that he did in training Alfa under harness!
If the futurity halter and driving titles were not enough for this promising young stallion, Alfa also went onto be named the 2007 AHR NATIONAL CHAMPION PLEASURE STALLION.
In August of 2008, in Horseheads, New York, Alfa received his official AHR inspection score. Alfa was scored at 82 points! Of course, this meant that not only was this fine young stallion inspected at GOLD status, but also that he has become the highest AHR inspected horse EVER in North America! Alfa is only the second stallion ever to be classified as GOLD through an AHR inspection; the last horse to do such was Aristocrat in the year 2000.
In September 2008, Alfa won 1st place in the AHR National Futurity 3-year-old stallion class. He then went on to be named ‘Champion 3-year-old’ of the AHR Futurity. In summary, this means that Alfa was the overall champion in his age division at the AHR Futurity as a Yearling, 2-year-old and then also as a 3-year-old! Alfa’s menagerie of awards and championship titles just keeps growing!
Alfa stood in 2008 at Genesis Farm to a limited number of outside mares. His first foal is due in February 2009 out of our 2007 Junior National Champion Mare, “Fantasy RWF”. He will be available again to a limited number of outside mares in 2009 for live cover or semen can be shipped for artificial insemination. Bookings to Alfa will be taken only on a very limited and exclusive basis—contact us early for breeding contract details.
We look forward to what this promising young stallion will contribute to the breed. As a winner of his futurity for three consecutive years and then with official GOLD classification status by the AHR, we have nothing but high hopes for this fine young gentleman. His pedigree, conformation, incredible movement and awesome color should make him a great asset to anyone’s breeding program in North America.
