Qerly Chin ♀ †

About Qerly Chin

Qerly Chin is a (died 2015) bay BWP showjumping broodmare foaled in 1993, by Chin Chin out of a Pachat II dam.

Qerly Chin is one of Belgium's great foundation mares, and the specialist record supports that assessment on both depth and repeatability rather than on a single celebrated descendant. She began embryo production at two years old, making her an early proof-of-concept for combining an elite sport career with reproduction, and produced thirteen Belgian offspring between 1996 and 1999 - eight of them female - before her World Cup peak. A Hippomundo-derived snapshot dated 9 December 2024 recorded 26 direct offspring, 16 sport horses and eight Black Type horses; the Grand Prix historical feature separately records thirteen later foals at Haras des M plus two embryos sold to Haras d'Ick and Haras de Pléville. These counts use different definitions and should not be totalled. Five direct offspring are commonly classified at 1.60m: Merveille de Muze, Narcotique de Muze II, Exquis Walnut de Muze, Walloon de Muze and, depending on which database is consulted, either Narcotique de Muze IV or Mom's Werly Chin de Muze. Her importance lies in how many independent branches transmitted. Narcotique de Muze II by Darco is the dominant line, with five direct 1.60m offspring in Querlybet Hero, Boyante de Muze, Farfelu de la Pomme, Sea Coast Ferly and Giovani de la Pomme, and producing daughters including Azuela, Sauterelle, Teekitiezzie, Excellentia, Baraka and Fuga. Exquis Walnut de Muze won CSI5* Grands Prix at San Patrignano and Madrid with Harrie Smolders and produced I'm Special de Muze and Falaise de Muze. Walloon de Muze founded the branch containing Toupie de la Roque, Daytona de Muze, Freestyle de Muze, Horizon de Regor and Million Dollar. Mom's Werly Chin de Muze produced the Olympic mare Derly Chin de Muze, Everlychin de la Pomme and Kirschwasser SCF, and through them Killer Queen VDM and Kasanova de la Pomme. Narcotique de Muze IV produced Jenson and Denzel van 't Meulenhof, and Whyaway de Litrange XXXIII produced the five-star winner Ensor de Litrange LXIII. Nabab de Rêve was the defining direct cross, producing Merveille, Walnut, Walloon and Werly Chin; Darco, Quidam de Revel, Tenor Manciais and Mr Blue each produced a distinct transmitting branch, and the later French Dollar de la Pierre, Kannan and Jarnac crosses preserved sport value and opened new female routes. The line remains commercially and competitively active more than a decade after her death: nine descendants were candidates at the 2025 BWP stallion approval, and descendant embryos continued to sell internationally through 2025 and 2026. The honest qualification is that her value as a pedigree signal is strongest when the intervening daughter branch is identified and performance-tested; the name alone should never substitute for branch-level evidence, and 'from the Qerly Chin line' in commercial copy can mean anything from a direct daughter to a remote descendant.

Own record: International 1.60m showjumper. Qerly Chin was precocious in the Belgian young-horse cycle, producing seven clear rounds as a four-year-old with Christel Lenssens in 1997 and finishing sixth in the six-year-old final at Gesves in 1999 with Johan Lenssens after an earlier phase with Stephan Vandewalle. Her senior career came with the Swiss rider Christophe Barbeau for the owners Ursula and Vincent Stolz: eighth in her first 1.60m Grand Prix at Neuendorf, Swiss vice-champion, a Nations Cup victory at Zagreb and fifth in the Geneva World Cup Grand Prix in 2002; a 1.50m win at Gijón, third in the Bremen CSI4* Grand Prix and fourth at Geneva in 2003, with further major placings at Zürich, Bordeaux, Vigo, Drammen and Ascona. Across the 2003-04 World Cup season she was tenth at Leipzig, fourth at Amsterdam, seventh at Paris and ninth at Gothenburg to qualify for the Final, where she finished 18th in the overall classification at Milan on 21 April 2004. She was named reserve combination for the 2004 Athens Olympics, later won the Nations Cup at Poděbrady, and ended the Barbeau partnership at Mechelen on 30 December 2004; she was placed 51st in the WBFSH performer ranking for that year. Sold with Chatwin R to Jan Tops in 2005 and subsequently acquired by Haras des M, she had two partial seasons with Reynald Angot and final rounds with Timothée Anciaume before retiring from sport in 2007. Joris de Brabander remembered her as powerful and very respectful; Christel Lenssens described apparently unlimited scope alongside a very individual character that was initially difficult to steer. The FEI's public result history for this pre-2010 career is extremely incomplete: the Milan placing is official, while the wider chronology is reconstructed from contemporary and retrospective specialist reporting.

Muze/Qerly dynasty; 1.60m offspring incl. Walnut de Muze, Merveille de Muze, Narcotique de Muze II.

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Her stamp — performance traits

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Her conformation

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