KWPN Stallion Grappa Sold to Hong Kong

Dressage

Hong Kong

The 12-year old KWPN bred and Grand Prix level trained stallion Grappa has been sold to Hong Kong. The black will continue as an FEI level schoolmaster for British based young rider Yuddy Cheng.

Grappa is a 12-year old Dutch warmblood by Fidertanz out of Zazoo (by Special D x De Niro). He is bred by Jolanda Woudsma.

The Netherlands

The dark bay Grappa was licensed as a young stallion with the KWPN society in 2014. He has the WCYH finalist Tanirma as grand dam.

He completed his stallion performance test in the spring of 2015 after missing out on the 2014 autumn testing due to a skin infection. He scored 76.5 points with 8.5 for walk, 7 for trot, 8 for canter, 7 for suppleness and 8 for rideability.

The stallion was trained to small tour level and competed in The Netherlands, first by Adelinde Cornelissen who finished 9th with him in the 2015-2016 KWPN Stallion Competition Finals. as of 2018 by Jean-René Luijmes.

France

In May 2019 owner Aris van Manen and Joldan Woudsma sold Grappa to Haras de la Tuilerie and was registered as owned by SAS La Perelle

In France he was shown at small tour level by Laura Vandeputte. Dressprod reported that in 2023 Grappa competed in just one show, an Intermediaire II test with Jean-Philippe Siat in June. He scored 63.873% The horse was then sent to a Paris based horse dealer to be sold.

Hong Kong

Cheng and Damasco at the 2022 CDI Sint-Truiden

Grappa has now been secured by the 19-year old Yuddy Cheng.

Cheng made her international show debut in 2022 with her trainer Joao Pedro Moreira's Damasco, a 15-year old Lusitano (by Quixote x Guadiana), at the CDI Sint Truiden. From there she went to the CDI Troisdorf for mileage. This year she competed Moreira's small tour horse Grenoble (by Alexandro P x Unaniem) at the Aachen Dressage Days in Hagen.

Cheng recently moved to the U.K. where she works with former Under 25 rider Alexander Harrison.

"I am training with Alex currently as I am studying at the University of Bath," Yuddy told Eurodressage. "I was training in Germany with Joao during my high school years, but it would be better to be based locally now. I still have my 8-year old Tolkien in training with Joao."