CARTHAGO SUN  I

(Holsteiner Breed)

Dam:  Davos

Sire: Carthago  Z

CHAMPION of the first CWHBA Stallion Performance Test

SIRE of the Alberta  CWHBA Champion Filly 2000

CWHBA Champion Colt 2002

1996 Grey Stallion    Carthago Z - Schampus XX - Landgraf  I

Class of 1999

His foals exhibit excellence in:

*Conformation

*Temperament

*Movement

          Class of 2000

Josef and Edda Selinger

R.R. 9, Calgary, Alberta  T2J  5G5

Tel.: (403) 256-0808  Fax: (403) 256-3633

Joe Selinger’s Bio

  Joe Selinger’s passion for horses began at an early age.  He started working at a stallion station doing whatever was required.  Whether it is cleaning stalls, lungeing or riding, he was eager to learn.

In 1959, two years after immigrating to Canada from Germany, Joe purchased 25 acres south of Calgary.  One of his customers, a columnist for the German magazine, Sankt Georg, suggested naming his stable after the publication.  Thus, the birth of St. George’s, the riding stable now operated by his son, Frank, and breeding facility that Joe and his wife Edda run today, J.E.S. Breeding Farm.

When Joe immigrated to Canada, he had a dream- to import top quality jumping horses as well as to breed them.

 In 1968, Joe was entrusted by Ron Southern to import a suitable warmblood for his daughter Nancy to compete with. Obviously Joe made a wise selection because in 1975, Joe was inducted into the Spruce Meadows Hall of Fame when he was presented with an Honorary Life Membership.  The award was in recognition of his efforts to introduce the Hanoverian horse to Canada and introducing the Southern family to the sport of show jumping.

Over the years, Joe has gone on to achieve many more successes.  He has imported some magnificent warmbloods.

Josef and Edda Selinger

He has seen his son Frank; succeed as a grand prix rider, representing Canada at the Pan Am games in Mexico City and on for nations cup teams.  Most recently, Joe became a Grandfather to Josef Olaf Selinger.

Joe’s intent has been to improve the standards and quality of horses in Canada.  He considers his greatest accomplishments to be his current Holsteiner stallion, Carthago Sun 1.  “Sonny” was the top stallion at the first ever Canadian Warmblood Horse Breeders Performance Test in September 2000.  “Sonny” is the result of years of breeding for performance.  Joe believes it is essential to breed for perfomance and not just conformation.  “When you breed for performance, everything else seems to fall into place”.  Joe’s work has taken him years to get where he is today.  He believes that he was “at the right place at the right time”

On January 11, 2003, Joe received the "Distinguished Service Award" of the Alberta Horse Industry Association. 

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