‘A clear-round machine’
“WHEN I went to try him, I left thinking, ‘I have to buy that horse.’ He was an outstanding jumper and already a beautiful-looking horse, with real breeding stallion potential.”
Ask Billy Twomey about his first memories of Je T’Aime Flamenco and this is the Irish Olympian’s response, drawn from trying the then six-year-old at Pennie Cornish’s yard.
Fast forward 15 years and the Belgian warmblood is one of the most popular stallions standing at Stallion AI Services – he has covered more than 100 mares in the past year – after a hugely successful showjumping career.
Pennie first saw Je T’Aime Flamenco – or “Doug” – when he was a three-year-old.
“I was in Belgium looking for some horses and saw him. He
