LATEST: Tornado is back in Fall training with Jacqueline Lubrano here in Pennsylvania. Jacqueline will jump him for the entire 2009 WEF season and he will be stabled in the Grand Prix Village.

Jacqueline Lubrano is the 2009 winner of the Platinum Performance/USEF Show Jumping Talent Search at the Hampton Classic Horse Show; the USEF Show Jumping Talent Search Program attracts the nation's top young riders in head-to-head competition. The program has developing riders meet a more difficult set of standards than required in other competitions, which helps prepare them for later participation in high-level events and creates a pipeline for future show jumping talents. The roster of graduates of the program is impressive, including many who have gone on to compete in the Olympic Games for the United States. Among them are: Greg Best, Chris Kappler, Peter Leone, Beezie Madden, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Katie Monahan Prudent, Richard Spooner and Mclain Ward.

Jacqueline is also winner of the 2009 USEF Bates Equitation Ranking. Also Jacqueline is the 2009 winner of the Christy Conard Perpetual Trophy.

Jacqueline is also the 2008 winner of the the Ronnie Mutch Equitation Championship on at the Devon Horse Show and Country Fair as well as the 2008 winner of the $10,000 Wölffer Estate Equitation Championship at the Hampton Classic.

Jacqueline has just announced that she has chosen Tornado as her mount for the prestigious 4th George H. Morris Horsemastership Training Session on January 5-9, 2010 in Wellington, Florida. The mounted sessions each morning, conducted by George H. Morris, the legendary horseman and chef d'équipe of the Olympic gold medal show-jumping team in 2009 in Hong Kong, will be held in the Grand Prix Ring on the South Grounds of the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center. Please join me, Jacqueline and Tornado at one of these sessions if you time allows.

Tornado has jumped full WEF and Hampton Classic past two years and has gained a wealth of high profile show experience.

He has jumped most top East Coast shows including Lake Placid, Kentucky, Culpeper, Saugerties and participated in YJC past three years as well as North American Young Rider Championships this year.

Tornado has uncompromizing jumper pedigree:

Tornado Born May 17th 2002. EU Import. Sire is CORONADO the son of Corrado I and grandson of COR DE LA BRYERE often just called "cord". In the most recent edition of the French breeding bible, Monneron 2007-2008 (www.monneron.com ) Bernard le Courtois has gone through the FEI list of the top 2515 best showjumpers to compile a stallion ranking of the top 75 stallions, based on CSI winners. He finds that, after Almé, Cor de la Bryère is the most influential sire."Cord" himself still holds 51st place on the rankings with 6 CSI winners - and that 14 of his sons make up 19% of the 75 best stallions in the world.
The most successful of these sons is Corrado I - Tornado's grand father - who occupies 23rd spot with 11 winners.

Dam's Sire is Lagano, the grandson of Ladykiller. When the German Warmblood breeders in the 70s turned to the thoroughbred horse to add refinement and athleticism to the modern warmblood jumper, there were a number of important stallions that played a key role in the shaping of the Olympic sports horse; none however was more important than Ladykiller.
Lagano's Dam is Las Vegas, the mother of Olympic Gold Medalist Classic Touch (by Caletto II).