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The pedigree of Million’s Way combines famous names in breed and sport. This licensed Million Dollar son comes from a family with numerous representatives collecting sporting merits at the highest level. While he looks a lot like his sire Million Dollar, you can also clearly see his dam, Derby winner Carassina, and this combination is just unique. The combination of top Belgian blood on the sire’s side with one of most prestigious Holsteiner mare families has resulted in an athlete with impressive ability giving hope for great expectations.
Million's Way, the produce of high-performing parents, lives up to expectations at stud and in sport. His first crop of foals has produced elegant foals with long legs, the desired chic and charme, and powerful movement. His offspring are structurally correct with good legs. He should be well suited for a wide range of mares.
Stations
Euro 350,- + VAT
plus Euro 450,- + VAT when pregnant;
plus Euro 100,- + VAT Foal fee
Euro 350,- + VAT
plus Euro 800,- + VAT when pregnant
Sire
Million Dollar carries a rare concentration of elite level sport performance genes. Listing Plot Blue, Vigo d’Arsouilles, and Cento, his pedigree reads like the Who’s Who of international sport horse breeding. Million Dollar clearly demonstrated what he is capable of in 2022. With Sophie Hinners he shone in classes up to 1.55m and won the Bratislava and Budapest Nations Cups with the German team.
Million Dollar is also a successful sire, as his daughter Kalifa became National Champion of the five-year-old jumping horses in Warendorf in 2022 and many of his oldest offspring successfully compete at young horse level. At the Holsteiner auctions he was represented by several highly interesting offspring, like for example La Douce, a mare knocked down at 50,000 euros to the USA.
Damline
Million's Way’s half-brother is United Way, a licensed stallion who has won over the breeders with his offspring already at a young age. Their dam, Carassina, is a unique mare, seeing that she first demonstrated her exceptional class as a sport horse with Thomas Kleis and went on to have a profound influence on the breed later.
The numerous international results of this dream combination include winning the German Jumping Derby in Hamburg in 2009. The second dam, Wodka, produced the licensed stallions Arturo, Clearway, Conway I and II as well as eight show jumping offspring with results to S level, including Chika's Way, a highly successful S level mare first shown by Janne-Friederike Meyer-Zimmermann and later Katrin Eckermann.
Million's Way’s damsire, Concerto II, deserves special attention in this exceptional pedigree as this Contender son has been able to produce successful jumping horses in rare concentration. With only few of his daughters put to stud, they are considered as precious gems.
Own performance of Million's Way
Million's Way completed 50-day performance testing in Neustadt upon Dosse in the autumn of 2022. With a final jumping weighted mark of 8.40, he was given 9.0 on willingness to perform and 8.75 on rideability (test rider) and character and temperament, and 8.5 on ability and jumping technique.
His first showing season saw him win a young horse jumping class at A** and placed at L level. By now, Million’s Way is successfully shown at S* and also boasts international results under the saddle of Arne van Heel with his recent development confirming his huge prospects.
Test results
50-day performance testing in Neustadt/Dosse 2022: final jumping weighted mark of 8.40
Offspring of Million's Way
The first foals by Million’s Way were born in 2024. A filly out of a I’m Special de Muze dam born at Dirk Thomsen’s in Hörup shows powerful yet light-footed movement, as does the Million’s Way foal bred by the Storm family in Hingstheide.
