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Thomas de Viger
Sire Line
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Thomas de Viger #3393 (Thomas x Sarcelle de Cap Rouge) sired 32 registered progeny, 17 sons and 15 daughters. Only 4 sons and 2 daughters bred on more than one generation. Of the four sons, two live on only through their daughters, and two sons, Tonka Wonka and Arnoldwold Viger, have direct male line progeny. Both these stallions were bred by Arnoldwold Farms, their dams were half-sisters, sired by Dolin de Cap Rouge.
With five generations actively involved in the horse business, the Arnold family became the most widely known breeders of working horses in Canada's history, and for decades, were one of the country's biggest horse operations. On their extensive holdings they raised several kinds of horses suitable for farm work, logging, commercial transport, and business or daily use - Percherons, Belgians, French Coach Horses, Canadian Horses, and a number of crossbreds. By 1947, the Arnolds offered over 3,000 purebred and crossbred horses for sale. The Arnolds, and the horses they bred, including their Canadians, were formidable competitors at the Royal Winter Fair, winning championships in all divisions, as this excerpt from their 1938 sales catalogue shows:
"On one of our farms we maintain a select band of French Canadian mares and we have been particularly successful in our breeding operations with this breed. In the last four years, two Grand Champions at the Royal Winter Fair have been bred, developed and exhibited by Arnoldwold Farms. This in itself is quite an accomplishment. Several other Grand Champion winners have been developed and exhibited by us, notably - PRINCE, Grand Champion at the 1933 Royal Winter Fair; LAURENT, Grand Champion at the 1934 Royal Winter Fair; ODINA DE CAP ROUGE, Reserve Grand Champion at the 1934 Royal; PRIMO DES LANDES, Junior and Reserve Grand Champion at the 1936 Royal Winter Fair; and the famous TOM, Grand Champion for several years at the Provincial Show, Quebec, and now chief herd sire in service at the Dominion Government French Canadian breeding station, was developed by Arnoldwold Farms."
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(Pictured left) The chestnut stallion Tonka Wonka # 3738, ( x Arnoldwold Katine) foaled in 1960 went to Gilles Whiselle, Lachute, QC. He sired forty-six foals, and is well represented in today's pedigrees through his twenty-two reproducing daughters, but survives in direct sire line through only one son, Wal-Ken Wonka Nimrod #4578.
Arnoldwold Viger #3770 ( x Arnoldwold Dolinorette) also foaled in 1960, was obtained in 1971 by the Deschambeault farm and remained there until his death in 1979. Even at 15.2 hh and 1200 lbs., he was more refined and elegant than any of the stallions previously used at Deschambeault. He also had the ability to pass these traits on to his get. ( Gladys Beattie 1981).
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Arnoldwold Viger (pictured right) sired thirty-eight registered Canadian progeny, and with nine reproducing sons, of which four still have direct sire-line offspring, he fares better in this area then his 3/4 brother, Tonka Wonka for tail-male line descendants. His direct male-line reproducing sons; La Gorgendiere Viger Coco, La Gorgendiere Viger Duc, and La Gorgendiere Viger Fablo were from the same mare, La Gorgendiere Miquette. His other two reproducing sons, La Gorgendiere Viger Heron and La Gorgendiere Viger Hugo were both from the lovely La Gorgendiere Victoire. Although later gelded, Hugo is still represented through the progeny of his son, Lambert Hugo Rocky.
Arnoldwold Viger has only half as many daughters (eleven) as Tonka Wonka, who live on in modern pedigrees. Nonetheless, through these daughters, this elegant black stallion occupies the maternal grandsire position in the pedigree of several of today’s prominent horses.
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La Gorgendiere Viger Coco f. 1971
Arnoldwold Viger x La Gorgendiere Miquette)
This stallion won halter championships as well as ribbons under saddle, including dressage. He has left many excellent offspring
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Trois Chemins Tony Hasard
1998 Bay stallion owned by Sherry Rochon, Delta, BC
Sire: Brandy Creek Coco Tony ( La Gorgendiere Viger Coco x Henryville Prince Sosie)
Dam: DesTrois Chemins Fablo Minon ( La Gorgendiere Viger Fablo x Henryville Lucie)
A handsome stallion competing at Level II Dressage, Hasard is reluctantly offered for sale.
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