Leading stallion Sir Shutterfly has died aged 19, in what has been described as a “great loss to British breeding”. Sir Shutterfly (Silvio I x Forrest XX), a full brother to Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum’s legendary ride Shutterfly, qualified for Germany’s Bundeschampionate for five-year-olds and went on to compete to 1.50m in showjumping, before moving to a career as a breeding stallion.
Fairlight Stud bought Fly seven years ago when he had finished a two-year loan period at Drumhowan Stud in Ireland and had been due to return to his owner Paul Schockemöhle in Germany.
Sir Shutterfly has produced a number of successful offspring competing in international eventing and showjumping. Csf Sir George and Darragh Ryan took silver in the five-year-old class at the 2018 World Breeding Federation (WBFSH) Championships for young showjumping horses in Lanaken, Belgium. In 2017 Sir Papillon and Laura Collett were fourth in the six-year-old class at the young horse eventing championships at Le Lion d’Angers, France, and in the same year Shutterflyke and Mirsolav Trunda took eighth in the seven-year-olds’ class.
