Competitive Success through World Class Breeding
The Gemini Stud was founded in Leicestershire in 2005, with a passion for breeding Champions going through three generations of one family.
We have bred multiple Advanced Event Horses and licensed stallions and continue to invest in both 1.60m jumping genes and full thoroughbred sports horse bloodlines.
Whilst we use the most modern bloodlines, we still have the same respect for outstanding conformation and trainable temperaments as when our family first started breeding full Thoroughbred foals back in the 1950’s.
Visitors are welcomed all year round to see both the Gemini Stud stallions and our competition foals on a by appointment basis.
If you are interested in buying a foal from us, then please do contact us early in the year as we sell all of our foals at weaning each autumn.
The Gemini Stud is based at The Oaklands in Somerby, just six miles from the market town of Oakham and 15 minutes from Burghley Horse Trials. We are 20 minutes from Junction 21A of the M1 and 15 minutes from the A1 at Stamford. We are just over the Rutland border into Leicestershire.
Stallions
Classic Opera & Churchill III
The Gemini Stud currently stands two the two graded stallions Classic Opera and Churchill III.
Classic Opera is full brother to the Advanced Eventer The Classic Composer and via his sire line is related to 3 further CCI5* winners:- On Cue (Maryland CCI5* winner), Kings Temptress (Kentucky CCI5* winner) and Cool Mountain CCI5* winner.
Classic Opera is also a HOYS Cuddy Finalist himself and sired 21 winners in the Show Ring at County Level in 2021 along with 3 Supremes of Show. In 2021 all of Classic Opera’s foals achieved Premium Graded status with the Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain Stud Book.
Through their dam line breeding both Classic Opera and Churchill III are related to Team GBR Eventer Monkeying Around who was the 6 year old World Young Horse Eventing Champion at Mondial Du Lion with Izzy Taylor. Monkeying Around is the 2021 British Eventing Open Champion, has won at both CCI4*-S and CCI4*-L and represented Team GBR at the European Eventing Championships in Switzerland in 2021.
In addition to Team GBR Eventing genetics from his dam line; Churchill III has the very best of International Show Jumping genes being a grandson of Christian-25 who show jumped for Team GBR in 2018 with Jamie Gornall at 1.60m.
Both sires have DEFRA Licences for export and are available via both chilled and frozen semen.
Home to Champions
Horse of the Year Show Cuddy Finalist
British Eventing In Hand PAVO Champion.
British Equestrian Federation Futurity Overall National Champion (Dressage)
British Equestrian Federation Futurity Overall Reserve National Champion (SJ)
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In the 1960’s my grandfather, a farmer, developed a passion for breeding Thoroughbreds at his farm a few miles from Belvoir Castle.
He had his own mares and used a variety of what was then the Hunter Improvement Society Stallions (HIS) and the progeny of these were then shown in Hand in Hunter Classes and went on to either go Showing under saddle, Point to Pointing or Eventing.
He had great success with his show horses as Lightweights and Middleweights both in Hand and under saddle, his pointers were often rather attractive but not the fastest! and he had a credible record producing eventers with a 4 star horse sold to the Swiss Event team.
He was fastidious about confirmation, movement, correctness of limbs and feet; forever sharing the importance of these not as traits for success in the show ring but for longevity as ridden horses in their future field under saddle.
After leaving Newcastle University I developed the same passion as my grandfather and having now been enjoying breeding horses for 11 years. We have had great fortune from with the progeny from our yard in Leicestershire and since we started Gemini’s home bred youngstock have won The PAVO British Eventing In Hand Championships (two year old), The British Equestrian Federation Futurity Overall National Champion (Dressage), The British Equestrian Federation Futurity Overall Reserve National Champion (Show Jumper) and we have had a Horse of the Year Show Cuddy Finalist.
We have had multiple winners & Champions in the Show Ring as Hunters, Sports Horses, Small Hunters, Sports Ponies and Show Hunter Ponies. In 2016 our first home bred competed at a British Eventing 3* Three Day Event.
We stand our own homebred stallion Classic Opera who was a 2015 Horse of the Year Show Cuddy Finalist and was unbeaten at County Level in his last season In Hand Showing. He won his age class and went overall Champion on every occasion that he was shown at County Level. He has a full Thoroughbred grand dam and his grandsire is also the sire of the 2016 BETA CIC*** Equi-Trek Bramham International Horse Trials Winner Chico Bella P who was also selected to represent Team GB for Eventing at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
