Family 1-4 – Desiderius Farms

Family 1 — The French Foundation

Root 1 — Ibrahim / Almé Z / Quidam de Revel

Deep fingerprints

Orange Peel Karikal Vas y Donc

Engine room indicators

Ibrahim Almé Z Double Espoir Jalisco B Quidam de Revel the d'Elle line

Key sire chains

The Ibrahim branch:

Orange Peel → The Last Orange → Ibrahim → Almé Z → Jalisco B → Quidam de Revel / Quito de Baussy

Orange Peel → The Last Orange → Ibrahim → Double Espoir → Bayard d'Elle

The d'Espoirs / d'Elle branch:

Orange Peel → Plein d'Espoirs → d'Elle line (Toscane d'Elle | Jesabelle d'Elle | Bayard d'Elle)

The Ultimate branch:

Orange Peel → Ultimate → Grand Veneur → Le Tot de Semilly → Diamant de Semilly

Orange Peel → Ultimate → Almé Z dam side (Girondine by Ultimate)

★ The Jalisco B bridge — Family 1 × Family 3

Jalisco B bridges Family 1 and Family 3. His sire is Almé Z (Family 1) and his dam sire is Furioso (Family 3) — he concentrates both foundational families in a single horse. His son Quidam de Revel therefore carries both families simultaneously, which helps explain his dominance at the top of both Olympic studies twenty years apart.

2024 Study: Quidam (19) + Diamant (12) + Le Tot (12) = 43 appearances

Family 2 — The Holsteiner Foundation

Root 2 — Ladykiller / Cor de la Bryère / Contender

Deep fingerprints

Achill Tobias Favorit Loretto Heintze Lorbeer

Engine room indicators

Ladykiller Cor de la Bryère Ramiro Z Contender

Key sire chains

The Ladykiller branch:

Ladykiller xx → Landgraf I → Lord / Burggraaf

The Cor de la Bryère branch:

Rantzau xx → Cor de la Bryère → Calypso II → Contender

Rantzau xx → Cor de la Bryère → Corrado I / Caletto I / Caletto II

Rantzau xx → Cor de la Bryère → daughter Loanda

The Ramzes branch:

Ramzes → Raimond → Ramiro Z → Contender dam side

How they converge in Contender

Contender = Calypso II (Cor de la Bryère son) × Gofine (Ladykiller via Cita / Ramiro Z via Ramzes)

Contender is not a new family. He is Root 2 concentrated — Cor de la Bryère, Ladykiller, and Ramzes united in a single horse.

2004 Study: 60% of WBFSH top 50 · 2024 Study: Capitol (16) + Corrado (15) + Contender (13) = 44 appearances

Family 3 — The Furioso / Voltaire Bridge

Hybrid of Root 1 and Root 2

Deep fingerprints

Furioso Gotthard Goldammer II Fling Flingarth Alnok Alderman I Karikal

Engine room indicators

Furioso II Mexico Voltaire Kannan

Key sire chains

The Furioso sire chain:

Furioso xx → Furioso II × Gogo Moeve (by Gotthard) → Voltaire → Kannan GFE

The Gotthard / G-line (primary sire chain into Voltaire's dam):

Goldschaum xx → Goldschläger I → Goldfisch II → Gotthard → Gogo Moeve → Voltaire

The F-line (feeds into Goldfisch II's dam side):

Flingarth → Fling → Flugfeuer II → Goldfisch II

The Adeptus / A-line (also present in Voltaire's dam side):

Adeptus xx → Alnok → Alderman I

★ See the Jalisco B bridge — Family 1

Furioso is the dam sire of Jalisco B, making Family 3 an active component of the Jalisco B bridge. See Family 1 for the full explanation of how Almé Z (Family 1) and Furioso (Family 3) concentrate both foundational families in a single horse.

2024 Study: Voltaire (14) — 79% in the engine room · Kannan top dam sire

Family 4 — The Dutch Foundation

Hybrid of Root 2 with Root 1 at depth

Deep fingerprints

Achill Tobias Favorit Loretto Heintze Lorbeer

Engine room indicators

Nimmerdor Heartbreaker

Key sire chain

Tobias → Favorit → Fanal → Fanatiker → Farn → Nimmerdor → Heartbreaker → Toulon / Action Breaker

Note

When you see Heartbreaker or Nimmerdor in the engine room, Tobias and Favorit are running beneath them. The Dutch Warmblood conduit is different. The Root 2 foundation beneath it is the same.

2024 Study: Heartbreaker (17) + Nimmerdor (11) = 28 combined · Father and son, one family