He then switched codes in 1990 to Eventing and had immediate success, being part of the gold medal team at the World Equestrian Games in Stockholm riding Enterprise. Jefferis purchased Bounce in 1994 and rode the horse for the remainder of his international career. They won the world individual title in 1994 at The Hague. Then a bronze medal in the team event at the 1996 Summer Olympics, as well as the team gold at the 1998 World Championships in Rome.
Unlike the majority of his team-mates, such as Mark Todd, Andrew Nicolson, and Blyth Tait, who based themselves in England, Vaughn remained in New Zealand at Arundle Farm throughout his career. After retiring in 2000 he has concentrated on producing and training horses and riders.
He has heavily supported the equestrian industry, both teaching and sourcing great horses.
In 2019 he was inducted into the Equestrian Sport New Zealand Hall of Fame, for is outstanding contribution.
With a profound understanding of the type of jumping horse our riders in NZ crave Vaughn found Balou Barbados in Australia and imported him to NZ as a young unbroken Colt. Over the past three year he has carefully produced him. Recently Barbados has had his first outings at a show and behaved beautifully. (video below at this first event at Takapoto)
Balou Barabados is proving to be quite the head turner, both for his incredible jumping technique, his striking colour, marking, and his ridable nature. Making him an ideal sire for the NZ market.
Arundel Farm is excited to present for the first time to the public, Balou Barbados at stud for this upcoming breeding season. 2025/26 He will be available to a limited number of special mares.
This exciting young Stallion By Balou du Rouet out of Balido by Bellini`s Boy.
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BALOU BARBADOS (AKA Eye Candy)
Balou Du Rouet – Bellini’s Boy – Monte Bellini
Height: 16hh
Date Of Birth: 4/10/18
Colour: Roan
The eye catching Balou Barbados is conformationally correct, has great presence, power and three floating expressive gates. He is a mid – size Stallion and his beautiful roan colour and stylish markings are only out shone by his incredible intelligent nature. He is truly a versatile New Zealand stallion, perfect for our breeders and riders as he possesses incredible ridability without compromise to his outstanding jumping technique. He is the perfect stallion for larger famed mares giving them physical strength and ideal over smaller mares as we don’t all want to ride giants!
The stud Fee for Balou Barbados is $1700 –
Booking fee of $700 and then $1000 on a positive pregnancy scan.
“Balou Barbados frozen semen quality is excellent he has a 95% pregnancy rate with first dose inseminations.” – CryNZ
Quote from Vaughn Jefferis
“Balou Barbados is a really good example of a young horse produced really well. He has been with us since he was two years old and was always very talented and super careful. When young horses have this much talent you know you need to give them plenty of time to develop. We have really just taken our time with that, he did a lot of 80cms season classes until he was really relaxed. This has given him confidence and we just keep slowly progressing with him. When it is popular to jump them around the series classes, we don’t, instead we pop around a metre class, just working on as rideability. The result is He is such an exciting young performance stallion and his ridability is outstanding he just gets better all the time!”
Quote from Ben Weir
“Balou Barbados is a pleasure to ride and train. He shows all the right traits of being a successful jumper and has proven that with his textbook style technique, carefulness and brain. The feeling Balou Barbados gives over a fence is second to none. He has very good instincts to be careful and has a textbook style technique so as a rider makes my job very easy to produce a good jump. He is a natural!”
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