Sandro
Hit
Black born 1993 169 cm
Breeder: Gabriele Harder-Brune
Licensed
in 1993 in Neumünster
| Sacramento Song xx | |||
| Sandro | Duerte | ||
| Sandro Song | Gepard |
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| Antenne II | Antenne | ||
| Sandro Hit | |||
| Ramiro | |||
| Ramino | Dombuche | ||
| Loretta | Welt As | ||
| Lassie | Lucie |
After an indifferent stallion test
at Medingen in 1997 – finishing 16th out of
33 with a score off 99.8 – Sandro Hit became
a star under the guidance of Dr Ulf Möller,
the manager of the PSI dressage barn. The pair won
the six year old dressage championship at the Bundeschampionate,
and also the World Championship at Arnheim that
year.
Sandro Hit’s dam, Loretta has been an excellent
stallion producer – bred to Don Schufro, she
produced Diamond Hit who was Reserve World Champion
Five Year Old Dressage horse and Bundeschampion
in 2002; bred to the Rohdiamant son, Royal Dance,
she produced Royal Hit, the 1-c premium stallion
of the 2002 Oldenburg stallion licensing. Loretta
is by Ramino, who was champion of his performance
test at Adelheidsdorf in 1983. He stood in Oldenburg
from 1983 to 1987, while at the same time competing
in showjumping with Melanie Kötter. The pair
won team gold at the European Junior Championship
in 1987, before he joined up with the Italian rider,
Loris Pujatti, again with international success.
Ramino has proven an exceptional sire of broodmares
– he is the damsire of the jumping stallion,
Gio Granno; the 1997 Oldenburg licensing winner,
Ronaldo, and his full-brother, Rubin Star W, who
won his stallion performance test and was a finalist
at the Bundeschampionate; Sergeant Pepper, two time
Bundeschampionate finalist is also out of a Ramino
mare. Loretta’s dam, Lassie is by Welt As
who was the sire of international showjumping star,
Leroy Brown, and dressage star, Bonfire.
Sandro Song is by the influential Oldenburg based,
Holsteiner stallion, Sandro. Sandro competed in
international showjumping competition with Franke
Sloothaak. Sandro Song is out of Antenne II by Gepard,
who left a lasting imprint on Paul Schockemöhle’s
mare band – Gepard was a son of the great
sire of showjumpers, Gotthard. The grand-dam Antenne
won numerous Grand Prix with George Ahlmann. Her
sire, Adlerorden was a top jumping sire in Westfalia,
siring stars like Argonaut 7 with Bernard Kamps.
Sandro Song is one of the few stallions to have
been both Champion Oldenburg Junior Stallion as
well as main premium winner. He himself competed
in both dressage and showjumping to intermediate
level.
Despite the versatility of his sire, on his breeding
most people would expect that Sandro Hit would have
been headed for the jumping ring – trouble
was, he couldn’t jump, but Ulf Möller
found the way to bring out his dressage ability
and establish a new dressage dynasty.
Let Ulf take up the tale:
Here was a stallion that had done a poor performance
test, he was not bred for dressage, but you saw
something there and ended up with a World Champion,
and now it seems a champion sire?
“ Maybe that has something to do with the
test. Now they don’t have to do that 100 day
test and I think that is very good decision. Some
stallions are too weak to do a 100 day test, and
to do all those things like cross country jumping.
Now we have a 30 day test and then it goes on their
competition record, that is much better for the
future. Okay he might be bred like a jumper, but
he cannot jump. He makes a nice jump but he has
no scope.”
“ I think he is really a revolution in the
breeding. An absolutely new bloodline – he
has more that 65 sons now. Maybe Weltmeyer did this,
but no other stallion.”
What qualities does he give his young stock?
“ He is really stamping his offspring. He
is producing uphill horses, producing pretty horses,
even with some ugly mares. He gives his colour,
and he gives outstanding rideability, and he gives
something that is difficult to say in words, he
makes proud horses. This is what is important –
but it also gives a responsibility to the rider
that he understands this proudness, and don’t
try and press this proudness out. The rider must
allow this pride to come out of the horse –
maybe it was a bit the same with him at the stallion
test, they pressed him and I let him live.”
What mare lines does he cross on?
“ That is the really good thing with Sandro
Hit, we have outstanding offspring from Donnerhall
mares, from Rubinstein, from Weltmeyer, from Brentano,
from Holstein bloodlines, like Calypso. This is
what makes Sandro super super interesting because
this is a line that fits all the prominent lines,
so now you have a new choice.”
San Rubin
Sandro Hit has already sired the Bundeschampionate winners Poetin, Showtime, San Rubin and Sir Donnerhall, as well as Grand Prix World Cup qualififier winner, Salieri with Victoria Max-Theurer. One of his first sons, Samba Hit (full brother to World Champion, Poetin) is a very successful competitor at Prix St Georgres / Inter I level.
Samba Hit
In the 2007 Hanoerian Stallion Book, Sandro Hit, is recorded at the sire of 507 competition horses, with winnings of Euro 84,935, with 5 'S' level progeny. His FN raninkgs are 140 (dressage) and 96 (jumping). On the Hanoverian rankings, his is equal 10th for type, with 146, with a dressage ranking of 130 as against a jumping index of 92. He scores well for canter (147) and trot (142) but less well for walk (98).