‘For ever a special place in our hearts’: legendary stallion put down aged 28

Tributes have been paid to the prolific showjumping stallion Numero Uno, who has been put down aged 28.

“It was with great sadness and pain in our hearts that we had to say goodbye to our stallion Numero Uno this morning,” a Stal De Wiemselbach spokesman announced yesterday (4 September).

Numero Uno was by the former World Cup winner Libero H, and out of a Lord Calando Mare. He was bred by Martien van Deurzen, in the Netherlands, and competed internationally up to 1.50m with Marco Kutchster.

In 2011 Numero Uno became the youngest stallion in 10 years to receive the KWPN preferent predicate for his “excellence as a sire”. As a three-year-old he was described by KPWN as an “honest, reliable, and willing stallion”, who shared “many similarities” with his sire.

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Article written by: Becky Murray