The Belgian Warmblood stallion Clair de Lune SE has traveled east from his breeder and owner Rose Sullivan’s SE Farm in Camarillo, Calif., to Florida. There, he’ll be stabled in the barn of eventer and show jumper Marilyn Little-Meredith, who will further his competitive career in both eventing and show jumping.

Clair de Lune SE, who turns 8 in 2012, won the Spalding Labs/USEA West Coast 5-Year-Old Young Event Horse Championships in 2009. He began his competitive career in eventing with Robyn Fisher riding, and in 2010 he won three preliminary level events. Sullivan bred Clair de Lune SE via embryo transfer (Contender—L’Vienna, Largo Z).

“Marilyn is a very talented show jumper and in the last year has proven that she’s also a very talented eventer. I actually bred [Clair de Lune SE] to be a show jumper,” Sullivan said. “I put him in training with an eventer for a couple of years, and then I always had the intention of putting him in training with a show jumper, because that’s what he was bred to be.” A mutual friend put Sullivan and Little-Meredith in contact.

“The horse is incredible—truly a competitor with an enormous future in either discipline,” said Little-Meredith. “What an asset to U.S. breeders to have a stallion such as this both standing on U.S. soil and also competing here, so they have the opportunity to both watch him develop and also call him truly ‘made in America’—bred, born and developed. Rose and I are both really excited for the new partnership, and have incredibly high hopes for this stallion. He’s an eventing athlete, a show jumping rising star and a stallion with the quality of bloodlines to rival that of any future producers.”

Little-Meredith’s parents, Ray and Lynne Little, have been breeding horses for many years. One of the stallions they offer is Lynne’s former grand prix ride Ommen. At their Frederick, Md., farm, they also maintain a herd of embryo transfer recipient mares and offer those services.

Clair de Lune SE did not compete in 2011 because Sullivan was focusing on resolving some family issues, but he stayed in work at her farm, trail riding. Sullivan also spent time collecting and freezing semen from Clair de Lune SE, since she does not plan to breed him while he’s competing.

Little-Meredith plans to show Clair de Lune SE both in the jumpers at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Fla., and in events in the Ocala, Fla., area.