Michael Jung's World Champion Rocana with a colt by Arezzo Man

The first foal at the Jung stable was born a few weeks ago—a filly by Darry Lou named Daisy. Her mother is Jung’s former show jumping star, Chelsea by Check-In. Now Daisy has a little brother.

On the night of July 7–8, 2026, Michael Jung’sformer champion mare in cross-country, Rocana by Ituango xx, gave birth to her fourth foal, a little colt. The sire is the seven-year-old Württemberg DSP stallion Arezzo Man by Arezzo VDL-Last Man Standing, who, as Sophie Hinners’ horse, now goes by the first name Iron Dames. The gray stallion, who stands at Gestüt Birkhof and was bred by Christian Kraus, was the Bundeschampion at age five, won show jumping classes at age six with scores as high as 10.0, and is currently competing on the international Youngster Tour.

At Rocana, this talented show jumper met a half-blood mare bred in Saxony (breeder: Mirko Glotz), who had already demonstrated her cross-country skills as a young horse by winning the world championship title for six-year-olds in Lion d’Angers. Three years later, she represented the great Sam at the “real” World Championships—the World Equestrian Games in Normandy—and performed with great distinction, winning silver in the individual competition and gold with the team. Later, she won the CCI5*-L in Kentucky (then still CCI4*) three times on her own. She also earned a third-place and a second-place finish at the CCI4* in Pau, as well as a second-place finish in Luhmühlen. In addition, she was the 2017 runner-up at the European Championships in Strzegom.

And here she is now, back home with her family in Horb, out in the pasture, as Michael Jung reports in his Instagram Story: