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Legion of Supreme Honor *DISCOTECA +/ was bred by Stanley Ranch in Spain and imported at the age of two.

*DISCOTECA +/ began her show career in Halter and English Pleasure, immediately showing her winning colors by capturing  blue ribbons and Championships.
 

When Lisa needed a horse to ride in the hunt field, *DISCOTECA +/ was trained to jump and it became clear that she had enormous talent in this area, and  soon catapulted to new heights in the show ring, winning major Championships in Working Hunters and Jumpers.
 

After a few years off from showing to produce several offspring (her only daughter was ISABELLA I by *PADRE) and as a Field Hunter, she re-entered the show ring in 1996. 

*DISCOTECA +/ was Grand Champion High Score Sport Horse of the inaugural Pacific Coast Arabian Sport Horse Classic 1996, with firsts in Mares in–hand, Jumpers, Working Hunter Amateur Owner and Open.

*DISCOTECA +/ and her daughter ISABELLA I were shown in Sport Horse Mares in-hand, always placing at the top of their classes, often Champion and Reserve Champion.

In 1997, *DISCOTECA +/ was Champion Mare and Champion Jumper  of the Pacific Coast Arabian Sport Horse Classic, Region II Champion Jumper and Reserve Regional Champion Working Hunter, Region III Reserve Champion Working Hunter AAOTR.

At the US Nationals, *DISCOTECA +/ prevailed in the Jumper class, and on into the second and third jump-offs with clean rounds in the fastest time to become US National Champion Jumper 1997.
 

Note: *DISCOTECA +/ was also US National Champion Working Hunter AAOTR, with unanimous first places from all three judges in all three hunter rounds, two over fences and one under saddle, for a total of nine first places to win the National Championship.

*DISCOTECA was fifteen years old in 1997   She spent five seasons as a field hunter, winning her Certificate as a Recognized Field Hunter with Los Altos Hounds.

*DISCOTECA +/ and daughter Lisa Stapleton were ‘Totally Tops’ for the Arabian Horse World’s 1997 Honor Roll.  Lisa wrote:
“I enter the arena full of jumps and lean over to whisper to my exhausted Arabian mare “Just give me 30 more seconds of your life – we can win this!”.  “We have made it to the final jump-off round in purebred Jumpers.  Five other finalists have completed two clean rounds in the time allowed to earn the right to compete in this round.  The whistle blows and we get up to speed and cross the starting line that trips the electric timer.  We are fourth to go in the jump-off order, there were three clean rounds with good times ahead of ours, there are two that will follow us.  I know we need to go fast and clean to pull this off.  I clear my mind of all distractions (the stands are packed, the jumps are huge, my horse is tired) and we’re off.

"The course is well designed and tricky.  The first jump has been raised several inches so we take a forward-moving, steady approach that will send us on a straight line to jump number two.  I encourage my mare to increase her speed and stride around the corner and we are onto the number three combination.  This was a vertical jump with a short one stride to a big Swedish oxer.  *DISCOTECA is very athletic and negotiates it easily and we race to jump number four.  While in the air over four, I am already looking around the corner and thinking ‘whoa’.  Two horses have slipped on this corner, one badly.  We power out of the corner to jump number five and with only one jump left I am leaning forward into the final turn and grinning ear to ear as she clears it.  Our time is announced as the fastest so far at 27.65 seconds and we have done it!  The final two horses have very respectable rounds, but we have won the first Championship of the 1997 Nationals by six-tenths of a second.  As we take our victory lap I recall the long road we have traveled to win this spectacular award, a team effort by my family and trainer Michelle Mahoney.”
 

*DISCOTECA +/ had a wonderful show career, accumulating two National Championships, a National Reserve Championship, three Top Tens, two Regional Championships, two Regional Reserve Championships and a Top Five.  She had wins in Halter, English Pleasure, Hunter Pleasure, Hunter Hack, Working Hunter, and Jumper.

*DISCOTECA’s heritage lives on through the offspring of her daughter ISABELLA I.  Granddaughter SARASATE is US National Champion Hunt Seat Equitation.
 

*DISCOTECA +/ AHR320032 1982 chestnut mare	HAON IIB	MAQUILLO	GANDHY tail male to URSUS
			FAMULA
		IMPEDIDA	GANDHY
			VERALINA
	SABA	DANDI II	CONGO
			GALATIFE
		JALEA III	ZANCUDO
			ULTRA tail female to DAMIETTA

Famous ancestors in *DISCOTECA’s pedigree:

HABON II (MAQUILLO X  IMPEDIDA) Grey YM stallion, wheel horse in tandem driving exhibition at the Yeguada Militar.  Sire of *DISCOTECA +/.

MAQUILLO (GANDHY X FAMULA) Chestnut YM stallion, founded a dynasty of athletic Arabians who were also good producers.  Grand sire of *DISCOTECA +/.

IMPEDIDA (GANDHY X VERALINA) Grey YM mare, one of the three famous GANDHY daughters out of CONGO daughters, IMELINA, IMPEDIDA and GALATIFE.  Grand dam of *DISCOTECA+/.

DANDI II (CONGO X GALATIFE), Grey YM stallion, sire of  Halter Champion *AVILA and Spanish National Champion Mare  (twice) DALILA.  DANDI II is *DISCOTECA +/.’s grandsire.

*JALEA III (ZANCUDO X ULTRA by MAQUILLO) Chestnut YM mare, who is also dam of *PANDORA and JALEA’s ET.  *JALEA III founded a line of beautiful mares with great heart, stamina and jumping ability.  Grand dam of *DISCOTECA +/. 

Daughter ISABELLA I, 22 years, (*PADRE [Spanish Supreme Champion] x *DISCOTECA +/).
CH Sport Horse mare.  CH Hunter Pleasure.  Recognized Field Hunter.  Dam of 10 foals.

Great-granddaughter DEJAA, 2 months,  daughter of U S NATIONAL CHAMPIONS - EXODUS I +// x SARASATE.

Granddaughter SARASATE, 17 years, (Belmonte x Isabella I), US NATIONAL CHAMPION Hunter Seat, CH Sport Horse Mare, Field Hunter.

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