23/08/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗯𝘆𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱 𝗘𝗹𝘃𝗶𝘀
A few days ago, I did a post about the stallions behind Kirkbys Stud Elvis and the double cross of ABDUL – IS HSH and WARRENBRI OMEGA – IS HSH. This one is about the mares, because 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 is just as important on the dam side. Every mare in the third generation of Elvis’s pedigree carries an Impact or Foundation classification.
Let’s look at the mares on his sire’s side.
Elvis's sire’s dam, KIRKBYS STUD ORCHY – HSH, won ten campdrafts and placed second in the Canning Downs at Warwick. Orchy was by Omega out of KIRKBYS STUD EPAULET – IM HSH (by ELLIOTTS CREEK CADET – FS HSH), making her a full sister to KIRKBYS STUD OFFICER – HSH. Officer won the 1999 Warwick Stallion Campdraft and sire of 319 registered foals. Orchy only had two foals. Firstly, Elvis’s sire, KIRKBYS STUD ECHO – HSH, a prolific open and ladies' campdraft winner, ASH National Working 3 year old Champion, and ASH National Reserve Champion Working 4 year old. Secondly, KIRKBYS STUD MIRACLE – HSH, who won multiple open and juvenile campdrafts, is the dam of EZZYS SPECIAL - HSH who sold for $50,000 a the Classic in 2023, and the dam of KIRKBYS STUD MARVEL - HSH, a young mare who has just starting her campdrafting career for us.
BARONA AMY – FM HSH produced ADIOS REFLECT – IS HSH, the Abdul son who is Elvis's paternal grandsire. Amy was a prolific producer. She had 10 foals with all but two of them being by Abdul. They include BARONA SELECT – HSH who won over 200 campdrafts including the World Cup Campdraft, placed in the Warwick Gold Cup and Canning Downs as well as numerous junior and juvenile drafts, BARONA DIRECT – IS HSH who sired SHAMROCK NADIA, the winner of both the Gold Cup and the Canning Downs, and BARONA ELECT – HSH who was a multi-open winner.
If you’re counting along, that makes three Gold Cup Winners, one Canning Downs winner, one Canning Downs runner-up, and one World Cup winner all related to Elvis within the first three generations.
Now, for the mare strength on Elvis’s dam’s side.
His dam, KIRKBYS STUD MADONNA – HSH, was a novice campdraft mare from limited starts, and she’s been a producer. Other than Elvis, Madonna is the dam of KIRKBYS STUD CATNAP – HSH, whose son ARMADA RAYCON – HSH was exported to Japan after jumping 120cm at the 2022 World Cup Showjumping Qualifier, SHEROS VOGUE – HSH, a novice campdraft mare after only her second start, and SHEROS CONNIE, who has played World Cup Polocrosse and is a novice-winning campdrafter.
Madonna’s dam, POLO LASS – IM HSH, as I understand, represented Australia for Polo. She’s by Abdul and produced 10 foals and five of them were by Warrenbri Omega. Other than Madonna, she produced KIRKBYS STUD THEO (AUS) – HSH, who won the National Futurity in 2004 and the National Maturity in 2005 and the first ASH stallion to sire progeny on the USA, KIRKBYS STUD PEARL – HSH, the much admired multi-open campdraft winner, KIRKBYS STUD MODEL – HSH, who left the open campdraft winning mares WOODRIDGE HENRYETTA – HSH and BOBADIL FASHION.
Madonna is by Omega, and because Omega appears twice in Elvis’s pedigree, so does V BAR N BONNET – IM. Bonnet produced five full siblings to Omega, including two Impact mares in WARRENBRI EVE – IM HSH (dam of open campdraft sire BOONARA MENTOR – HSH) and WARRENBRI ROSIE – IM HSH (maternal granddam of open campdraft sire BONLAC GI**LO – HSH).
There is a symmetry to Elvis’s pedigree that Dad would have arranged on purpose. Elvis's dam, Madonna, is a full sister to Theo and his granddam, Orchy, is a full sister to Officer. Both of the mares have a full brother who won at the highest level. Then, for the sires, Omega is a full brother to Eve and Rosie who both have produced prolific producing stallions, and Reflect has a full sister who won over 200 campdrafts. This is why Dad called it stacking genetics.
So far, I’ve only touched on the first three generations of horses in Elvis’s pedigree. So, let’s dig a little deeper.
KIRKBYS STUD EPAULET – IM HSH (Orchy’s dam) is considered an elite campdraft producer, as per Dan Redgen’s statistical analysis. Epaulet is out of KIRKBYS ABALEEN – IM HSH, another mare that was a prolific producer. These mare’s progeny performance are so extensive that it deserves a post of its own (which hopefully I get to one day). Abaleen was out of KIRKBYS STORM GLORY – FM HSH, a foundation mare with over 800 descendants in the studbook. Abaleen, Epaulet, Orchy and Miracle are all open winning mares. That is four straight maternal generations of them.
KIRKBYS STUD ELVIS – HSH does not just have a double cross of two Gold Cup winning stallions in his pedigree. He comes through mare lines that have produced Gold Cup winners, open campdraft winners in every generation, and both of the mares standing immediately behind him are full sisters to stallions that won a National Futurity/Maturity and a Warwick Stallion Campdraft. Plus, nearly all these horses were campdrafted by junior or juvenile competitors, or have competed at the highest level of polocrosse and showjumping.
Elvis is also as versatile. He started his career as the 2019 King of the Ranges Novice Challenge Champion, won the ABCRA Maiden and All Round Campdraft Horse of the Year titles in 2020, was the ABCRA Championships Ladies Campdraft Runner-up in 2022, won the 2022 Paradise Lagoons Stallion Campdraft, and was a 2025 Nutrien Classic Charlie Maher Young Guns Campdraft finalist. And he loved to jump before he broke his knee!
KIRKBYS STUD ELVIS – HSH will stand at GVEH, Shepparton VIC, until early November, and then at Kirkbys Stud, Hahndorf SA. $2,200 inc GST. LFG. Chilled and frozen semen available Australia wide. Call Liz on 0427 936 213.
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