STALLIONS hitting the heights in top-level dressage and showjumping - think Totilas and Painted Black, Cumano and Peppermill - are nothing new, but in five-star and championship eventing, where the physical demands and risks are greater, they come along less frequently.
Until Chilli Morning reached his full potential with William Fox-Pitt, the premier competing eventing sires in recent memory would have been headed by the flamboyant British-bred Yarlands Summersong, multi-medallist with France's Marie-Christine Duroy, plus his son Leprince Des Bois (eighth at Burghley in 2012 with Germany's Kai Ruder).
There were also the Barrs’ Welton Apollo (eighth at Badminton in 1989 with Leslie Law), Windfall II, winner of the 2003 Pan-Am Games and the only other stallion to win a five-star (the
