Lord Calando
Born 1985, 168 cm
Breeder - Erhard Krampitz

The career of this stallion is truly one of the signs of the times. Born and raised in Holstein, Germany, he now stands for the State Stud in France – previously the most chauvinistic of countries when it came to horse breeding.
Lord Calando’s sire needs little introduction – but his dam is something rather special: Perra is also the dam of Carthago Z, another of the great jumping competitors and sires. Her sire, Calando was himself an international showjumper, and went to the 1984 Olympic Games with Karsten Huck, he was also a good sire of jumpers with progeny with earnings of DM500,000 by 1994, and 180 state premium mares. Lord Calando’s grand-dam, Kerrin was also used as a competition horse for a short time. She was the only registered daughter of Mambo (by the Thoroughbred Marlon) of the famous mare line 730B, which also produced the Caletto brothers. Kerrin shares a dam sire with them – Consul, the sire of the great dressage horse, Granat.
After standing at the famous private stud farm of Maas J . Hell, Lord Calando, moved to France, where he stands at the French National Stud. He has covered 528 mares in seven years. In 2006, he was 47th on the list of the top 100 French stallions with 73 mares. His move to France marks also the return to that country of the blood of one of its most famous exports, Cor de la Bryère, Calando’s sire.
He is described on the Stud website as: “a handsome and athletic horse, with very good shoulders and haunches. Strong points: Looks, movement, genetics…His offspring are good looking with great movement. He should be crossed with mares who lack strength, movement, but have balanced temperaments. Because of the amount of blood on his father’s side, he will have a more refining effect.”
Indeed Lord Calando is rich in Thoroughbred blood, aside from his paternal grand-sire, Ladykiller, there are three crosses of Cottage Son, one of Rantzau, one of Furioso and one of Marlon.
Lord Calando hit the jackpot when he was ‘trial’ bred while awaiting his performance test, and produced his most famous son Lux Z.
He is also the sire of: Fabienne – 1st Final CN Samsung CSIO Madrid with Piet Raymakers; Locando – who competed with Marcus Ehning in international Grand Prix; Loradus & Jerry Smits, an international GP competitor; Lucy, a winner of 1.45m competitions in Europe; Nabob – who competes in the Nations Cup for Hungary and Rubynea who is now causing a sensation in France at Grand Prix level with Edouard Couperie.
He appears a number of times as the dam sire of some important stallions: Goldkueste, the dam of Chatman, an international GP jumper with Ludo Phillipaerts; Jolanda – dam of Numero Uno, an international GP jumper with Marco Kutscher