Lady Bird Ducaet
Lady Bird Ducaet (before her accident) during the free jump.
Argentinus (V. Argentan I)
LadyBird Ducaet is the full sister of Kahlúa Ducaet (by Arko III, out of Génépi Ducaet, by Parco), a mare who enjoyed considerable success under Sanna Olsson of Sweden.
A career as a show jumper was not to be hers. A single unfortunate fall left her with a fractured knee joint, bringing her competitive ambitions to an abrupt end.
Her sire, Arko III, descends from the same dam line as the world number one, Darco, and was himself sired by the world-famous Argentinus. For three consecutive years Arko III was the highest-earning show jumper in the world. Among the highlights of his extraordinary record: he carried the colours of Great Britain at the 2004 Athens Olympics, won the Dubai Classic, and finished second in the Grand Prix of Dubai in 2006. He was victorious in both the CSIO Grand Prix of Rome and the CSIO Grand Prix of Lucerne, and won the celebrated Grand Prix of Calgary, Canada. His achievements were such that the FEI named his owners Winning Owners in two successive years. His offspring are uniformly distinguished by their exceptional technique over a fence.
On the dam side, LadyBird Ducaet traces to the great Parco, winner of an unending string of top international competitions. Parco’s sire was Darco, the legendary world number one, while Parco’s dam descends directly from the great foundation stallion Almé Z, whose influence has produced countless champions in both breeding and sport.
Lys de Darmen, LadyBird Ducaet’s maternal grandsire, carries one of the finest bloodlines in the history of the Belgian Warmblood (BWP). In recognition of this, Lys de Darmen was honoured with the title of BWP Ambassador, taking his place among the great names of the studbook. Given her valuable pedigree and her exceptional promise as a prospective jumper, we have chosen to stand LadyBird Ducaet as a broodmare.
Lys de Darmen (V. Et Hop X)
Arko III (V. Argentinus)
The name Lady Bird
LadyBird Ducaet takes her name from Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Johnson (1912–2007), wife of Lyndon B. Johnson, the thirty-sixth President of the United States, who succeeded John F. Kennedy in November 1963 following his assassination in Dallas, Texas.
She was given the nickname “Lady Bird” in early childhood. As the story goes, her nursemaid remarked that she was “as pretty as a ladybird” — and the name never left her. It came, in time, to eclipse her given name, Claudia, almost entirely; in both private and public life she was known simply as Lady Bird Johnson.
As First Lady of the United States (1963–1969), she took an active role in a number of civic causes, becoming especially well known for her advocacy of conservation and landscape beautification — most notably through the Highway Beautification Act of 1965.
Lady Bird Johnson (1912–2007)
The name Lady Bird Ducaet thus honours a woman whose presence in twentieth-century American life was both visible and lasting.
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