MIKALI FARMS

Apolaris is from fokfamilie 522. 

Her sire, Indorado keur, had an impressive jumping carreer at Interational level and is sire to many good jumpers like Eurocommerce Milano, Eurocommerce Lanapoule, VDL Oranta, Heechhiem’s Springtime, Sam Sam, Kilkenny Rindo and many more. 

He is also well-known for producing big, long lined horses with an unlimited amount of scope. 

Then, in the sire line, we see the top jumper producers: Fedor (by Darco), Notaris, Marco Polo and Koridon xx.

Her dam, Polaris, is sired by Fedor. Sired by Darco, Fedor became top of the stallions approved in 1991 with a 9 for both jumping free and under saddle. At the age of 6, he won his first national 1.30m class. He started jumping internationally in 1995, winning and placing in many classes around the world. Fedor was gelded in 1998, after being sold, and has one licensed son in the keur stallion Karandasj. 

Granddam is the ster preferent prestatie mare Dolaris D, a mother to the National jumper Nolaris and of the Z-jumpers Hurricane, Kuilenrode, Tolaris and Ularis. She is also granddam of the International jumper Carthagena and the approved Stallions Platini, Pouwer, Within Temptation and Brugal VDL.

At the base of this motherline is the mare Sirikit who jumped at International level.

Prior to our purchasing her, Apolaris was presented to the KWPN keuring jury in 2008, where she received her ster predicate. Her scores were: Ex 70 G 70 Spr 85. 

At the Central Keuring, she was deemed keur eligible and was invited to the National Mare Show where she competed in the freejumping competion - placing 13th overall. In the fall of that year, she scored a 76 at her IBOP, thus earning her keur predicate. All while pregnant to Chin Chin.

Visit - March 08, 2011 

We visited Apolaris in the spring of 2011, and although her Cantos foal is not expected until June - the excitement is already starting!

Apolaris has gifted us with an absolutely stunning filly by Cantos. We are naming the filly "Gwenhwyvar", a Welsh spelling for Guinevere of Aurthurian legend.

It was an incredibly hard decision not to breed her again, but instead to focus on getting her started in sport. The plan is to work towards her sport predicate and continue as far as she can go before returning her once again to the broodmare band.

Apolaris is now jumping 1.20m. However, with Nella's own pregnancy, we decided that a change in training locations was the best choice for Apolaris to continue with her career. For that reason, Apolaris is now training and competing with Marcel de Boer.

October Update: Once again the time has come for the horse shows to move indoors for the winter season. Apolaris will continue to horse show with Marcel gaining the valuable mileage needed for a competitive sports career. We are currently planning out the future for this amazing mare - perhaps she just might find herself coming to Canada?!

Training with Jur Vrieling and Suzanne Tepper.

Sadly, we have found Apolaris to be open this year. We had tried breeding her to the young stallion Jardonnay VDL, and while she would have a black dot at two weeks, she was found to be open at the heartbeat check two different times. While we don't like to leave her open, we are looking forward to getting an earlier start next year.

Last Updated: June 14, 2021