Antourage of Genesis was born on May 20th, 2008. He is sired by our two-time AHR ‘National Champion Stallion’ and three-time AHR ‘Stallion of the Year’, Arno van het Nieshof. His dam is the broodmare extraordinaire, Mint Julep MLF.
Antourage comes from a winning lineage of futurity and SIP winners. His dam, Mint Julep MLF, won the GLHA pleasure futurity as a weanling, a yearling and then again as a two-year-old. To date, Mint Julep has produced four foals. Antourage is her first colt but three older filly siblings preceded him.
Antourage’s oldest sister, Mint Edition MLF (link), has won her AHR futurity class as a weanling, yearling, two-year-old and then again in 2008 as a three-year-old.
Antourage’s other older sister, Mint Tradition MLF (link), was the 2006 AHR Pleasure SIP Champion, won 1st place in the 2006 AHR Futurity and also at the 2006 AHR National Show in the weanling filly class, going on to win the title of 2006 Reserve Junior National Champion Filly.
Antourage’s other older sister, Mint Jubilee MLF (link), was the AHR Futurity 2007 Reserve Senior Champion Weanling.
At the 2007 AHR National Show, Mint Julep’s foals won 1st place in the “Produce of Dam” class on her behalf.
This fall at the AHR National Show and Futurity, at less than 4 months of age, Antourage had some big shoes to fill. But he didn’t disappoint us, nor did he tarnish the winning legacy of his sire, dam and siblings.
Antourage, following in the footsteps of his older sister Mint Tradition MLF, was the 2008 AHR SIP Pleasure Champion. This may be the first time that one mare in the pleasure division has had two foals capture this same title within a 3 year span. This was an impressive win for this young colt but his wins were far from over. Antourage won 1st place in the 2008 AHR Futurity Junior Weanling Colt class and then went on to be named the 2008 AHR Futurity Junior Champion Weanling. Of course, it was special to see him earn his title alongside of Cashmere of Genesis (link), his pasturemate and best friend, who claimed the title of Reserve Junior Champion Weanling. Finally, and perhaps most incredulously given his young age , Antourage won 1st place at the AHR National Show in the open weanling colt class out of a field of entries much older than himself.
In October 2008, Antourage attended the GLHA Futurity. He won 1st place in the Weanling Pleasure Stallion/Gelding class despite being the youngest competitor in the class. This fantastic young colt then went on to be named ‘Champion Pleasure Weanling’ at the show! If this title was not enough, Antourage also competed in the Pleasure Stallion Service Invitational Class on Arno’s behalf and won 1st place, adding yet another bit of glory and recognition to Arno, even though he himself did not attend the show.
Antourage will be competing in the Ohio Jackpot Weanling class at the AHR Fall Sale later in October.
The future looks bright for Antourage because he has already proven that he has the winning genetics of his sire, dam and siblings, to make him a dominant force in the show ring in the coming years.
