Morningside Stud was founded in 1999 with the purchase of our Holsteiner stallion Condios (see picture above) and soon thereafter the Dutch warmblood stallion Ekstein. Since that time we have developed a very selective breeding program that has produced: ° Ulysses m2s: (born 2001) approved stallion; international Grand Prix showjumper with Belgian Young Rider Rossella de Simone; 2006 Cavan (Ireland) 5-Year-Old Indoor Showjumping Champion with Irish rider Clem McMahon; 2005 Champion at the Euregio Denekamp Stallion Show (Netherlands) with Dutch rider Eddie Brinkman; and sire of 2009 Joint Winner of the British 4-Year-Old Showjumping Championship, Millfield Ultymate. ° Wang Chung m2s: (born 2003) approved stallion; international showjumper, German Grand Prix winner, and Vice-Champion of France's "Future Elite" international showjumping series with German rider Felix Hassmann; 2008 CSI** Zwolle "Future Stallion" Showjumping Champion with Dutch rider Eddie Brinkman; and sire of licensed stallion Chien-Ming Wang m2s. ° Diamond Toby aka Elvis the King m2s: (born 2002) international showjumper; national Grand Prix showjumper, 2008 Millstreet 6-Year-old Champion, and represented Ireland at both the 2008 & 2009 FEI World Breeding Championship for Young Horses with Irish rider Ross Mulholland. ° Wind Shear m2s: (born 2003) international Grand Prix showjumping stallion winning at 1.45 m. and 1.40 m. in South America. ° Airborne m2s: (born 2000) dam of Wind Shear m2s. ° Confident m2s: (born 2002) international eventing horse with Lucienne Elms. ° Fernhill m2s aka Confidant m2s (born 2003) international eventing horse; represented Portugal at the 2009 CCI* FEI World Breeding Championship for Young Eventing Horses with Duarte Seabra; 3rd in the CNC* Michael Leonard Memorial 5- & 6-Year-Old Memorial Championship; in 2010 competing in CNC** and CIC** (Intermediate) with Sophie Richards. ° The Reprieve aka Conundrum m2s: (born 2003) international eventer competing in CIC* in 2010 .     ° Conspiracy m2s: (born 2002) approved stallion; national level showjumper with Eddie Brinkman and eventing horse with Katie O'Sullivan. ° Ballistic m2s: (born 2006) licensed stallion. ° Concordia m2s: (born 2003) dam of Ballistic m2s. ° Boy Toy m2s: (born 2006) licensed stallion. ° Chien-Ming Wang m2s: (born 2007) licensed stallion. ° Vampire Slayer m2s: (born 2002) dam of Chien-Ming Wang m2s. ° Millfield Ultymate: (born 2005) 2009 Joint-Winner of the 4-Year-old British Showjumping Championship. ° Condessa m2s: (born 2002) dam of Millfield Ultymate. ° Ana Bella m2s: (born 2005) KWPN-NA Ster mare; 2009 Champion of the KWPN-NA ISF Cup for 4-Year-Old Jumpers in North America. ° Una Bella m2s: (born 2001) dam of Ana Bella m2s. ° Zorriola m2s: (born 2004) 2009 Champion of the KWPN-NA ISF Cup for 5-Year-Old Jumpers in North America. ° Nothing Concluded: (born 2003) intro, pre-novice, and novice-level eventing horse with Christa George. ° Vector m2s: (born 2002) Grade C showjumper in Great Britain jumping 1.30 m. classes with Stacey Babes. ° Advocate m2s: (born 2005) eventing in England with international rider Nicola Wilson. ° Ziggy Marley m2s: (born 2004) eventing at pre-novice level with international rider Katie O'Sullivan. We have bred more exciting prospects purchased by international showjumping, international eventing, and international dressage riders throughout Europe, the United States, and South America that will be started in sport in the next few years. Our only goal is to breed and produce athletes that will compete at the very highest levels of international sport. This goal is clearly expressed in our mission statement: "Morningside Stud's mission is to breed and produce international Grand Prix / 4* competition horses for the three Olympic disciplines of showjumping, eventing and dressage by crossing world-class warmblood sires with mares that possess outstanding performance bloodlines and athleticism." Our stallions were born into the Holsteiner, KWPN, Selle Français, Anglo-European, and Irish Sport Horse studbooks and they are approved by over a dozen studbooks throughout Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.  Under the ownership of Morningside Stud our stallions, both homebred ones and purchased ones, have been approved or licensed by studbooks around the world a total of twenty-three times. Our mares were born into the Anglo European, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Holsteiner, Irish Sport Horse, KWPN, and Weatherbys Non-Thoroughbred studbooks. As of 2009 we register all our showjumping-bred foals with the Warmblood Studbook of Ireland and other foals with the Anglo European Studbook and KWPN; in the past we have registered foals with Belgian Warmblood, Irish Sport Horse, Trakehner and Zangersheide. Our homebred young horses can be found throughout the world: Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the United States. In the last few years we have been retained as consultants by clients seeking breeding advice, planning the development of breeding programs, and looking for competition horses. We found for a talented teenage eventing rider in the USA, Callie Judy, a mare here in the Ireland named Irish Odyssey on which Callie, a year later, won the Individual & Team Gold Medals in the North American Young Riders Championship. We also sold to South America a filly foal named Ballycullen P'Compadre that was in 2009 the 7-Year-Old Vice-Champion Showjumper in Argentina with international rider Matias Albarracin. And in the spring of 2008 Tom Reed was appointed the breeding columnist for Horse International magazine, for which he wrote an article on breeding in most issues until the summer of 2010. These articles are also available for reading here on the Articles on Breeding page. Other articles have appeared in L'Annee Hippique and been translated into German and re-published in Der Trakehner, the official magazine of the Trakehner Verband.