Coco Berlini, six-year-old Jumping Horse Champion<\/em><\/p>\n Caspar aka Eurocommerce Berlin There are a few new stallions whose progeny made the top ten in this class: Carrico (Catoki \/ Capitol II \/ Lord), Quinta Real (by the Quidam son, Quite Easy, out of a Caretino mare), Cachas (Caretino \/ Corrado \/ Lord), Stakkatol (Stakkato \/ Capitol I), along with the more familiar names: Ferragamo (Freigraf \/ Ehrensold), Catoki (Cambridge \/ Silvester), Casall (Caretino \/ Lavall) and Chacco-Blue (Chambertin \/ Contender).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chacco Blue<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Cornet Obolensky Only Lordanos (by the Lord grandson, Landos out of an Ahorn Z mare) breaks the undisputed rule of the \u2018Cs\u2019 in the Five-year-old Championship \u2013 he is the sire of the 6th<\/sup> placegetter, Lord Cassini, out of a Cassini I mare.<\/p>\n The champion, Caroly, is by Calido I out of a Contendro I mare. Indeed on his pedigree, three of his great grandsires names begin with the letter, C, with only the Pilot son, Peter Pan, on the bottom line breaking sequence. The Reserve was Clide 2 (Cassini \/ Cash and Carry), followed by Cellestis (Celestial \/ Figaro), Cassanova (Clinton I \/ Stakkato), Charming\u2019s Special (Charming Boy \/ Espri), Cascadello (Casall \/ Clearway), Lord Cassini, SIEC Chicago (Cornet Obolenksy \/ Acord II) and Cairon (Comme il faut \/ Charisma).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Caroly, five-year-old Jumping Horse Champion This year was the first for many where there was not one single young dressage competitor by the erstwhile dominating sire of young horse stars, Sandro Hit, although in the Six-year-old class, he was represented by his son, Sir Donnerhall I, who sired the champion, Sir Heinrich (out of a F\u00fcrst Heinrich mare), and another son, San Amour (out of a mare by the Pik Bube son, Plaisir d\u2019Amour) who sired the 3rd<\/sup> placegetter, Solitaire (out of a mare by Davignon I). San Amour also sired the 12th<\/sup> placegetter, Stern von Africa OLD (Harvard).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sir Heinrich, six-year-old Dressage Champion<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Don Frederico Hotline (Hofrat \/ De Niro) won the Hanoverian licensing in 2005, and after being sold to Paul Schockem\u00f6hle and Blue Hors stud for \u20ac800,000 at the Hanoverian auction, was rumoured to have covered 800 mares in his first season; he supplied the Reserve Champion, Hollister (out of a Don Frederico mare), and the equal 12th<\/sup> placegetter, Hermes (Lanciano).<\/p>\n The F line is again well represented with finalists by Fidertanz (4th<\/sup> and =6th<\/sup> place), Farewell III (=6th<\/sup>), while the most successful D line sire is Don Frederico, sire of the 8th<\/sup> placegetter, and dam sire of the reserve champion. The Don Frederico son, Don Henrico is the sire of the 11th<\/sup> placegetter (out of a Fishermans Friend mare).<\/p>\n The Five-year-old class was won by a particular favorite of mine, DSP Belantis. The elegant grey is by Benetton Dream (Brentano II \/ Rotspon) out of the divine Philharmonie who is by the Holsteiner Expo\u2019se out Pirouette, who is by Sandro Hit out of Pamina. Pamina, like her cousin, Poesie (dam of the Poetins and the Samba Hits, and grand-dam of Quaterback) traces to the foundation mare of the Neustadt stud, Pauline, and she was purchased from a local farmer as a harness horse back in 1946\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Philharmonie with a young Belantis<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Poetin San Amour is responsible for two of the placegetters, the Reserve champion, Soiree d\u2019Amour OLD (Latimer), and Saphira Royal NG (Monteverdi) in 5th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Latimer<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n I think the third placegetter, Bodyguard, is another horse that deserves watching. He is by Burlington who has been a star with German young rider, Charlott-Maria Sch\u00fcrmann. In 2012 (when the rider was just 19) they won the prestigious N\u00fcrnberger BurgPokal, and in 2014, the pair took out the under 25 Grand Prix K\u00fcr at Aachen. Burlington covered a few mares before taking up his full-time career as a competition horse, and Bodyguard, out of a Pik L mare, is one of the results. Bodyguard\u2019s grand sire, Breitling has been an astonishingly successful sire of Grand Prix dressage horses but his get tend to be a bit plain \u2013 Bodyguard, like his dad, is a good looking individual.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bodyguard, third in the five-year-old Dressage horse event Other stallions represented in the Five-year-old final are Quaterback (4th<\/sup> placegetter), F\u00fcrst Hohenstein (5th<\/sup>), Belissimo (7th<\/sup>), Zack (the Dutch invasion? By Rousseau out of a Jazz mare = 8th<\/sup>), Dimaggio (=8th<\/sup>), Fidertanz (=10th<\/sup>) and Ehrenwort (=10th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n In the Three-year-old Stallion ring, after the first part of the final, three stallions clearly dominated the class, Baccardi (Belissimo \/ De Niro) was in front with a 9.1, followed by Lilliano with a 9.0 and Nymphenburg\u2019s First Amp\u00e8re on 8.9 but Baccardi consolidated his lead when test riders Bettina Hoy and Kim Pfeiffer tried the trio and awarded Baccardi a total of 19 points.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Baccardi, Champion of the three-year-old stallions<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Lilliano’s sire, Lissaro competing at the Bundeschampionate The Reserve, Lilliano OLD, is out of a Sir Donnerhall I mare, and by \u2018the accidental dressage horse\u2019 Lissaro, who despite being purchased by the Belgian stud, Stoeterij v\/d Helle as a future jumping sire, went on to win the Three and Four-year-old Stallion Championship at the Bundeschampionate, and then the Five-year-old Dressage title.<\/p>\n Again we see the KWPN influence creeping in with the third placegetter, Nymphenburg\u2019s First Amp\u00e8re, by the Dutch sire of young superstar, Amp\u00e8re, out of a mare by the Weltmeyer son, Weltruhm.<\/p>\n The Three-year-old mares and gelding Championship went to the mare, Special Diva, by Sir Donnerhall I out of a Diamond Hit mare, with the reserve to the gelding, Lordswood Dancing Diamond, by Dancier out of a Wolkenstein II mare.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Special Diva, Champion of the three-year-old mares and geldings<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0Sir Donnerhall The Champion of the Four-year-old stallions was Equitaris, the son of 2006 Westfalien licensing champion, Estobar who went on to be sold for \u20ac550,000. Equitaris sold for a \u2018mere\u2019 \u20ac176,000 at the 2013 Hanoverian Elite Auction, but his blood is concentrated Westfalien. Equitaris is by Estobar by Ehrentusch, out of a Rubiloh mare, which means he has two crosses of Ferragamo, and one of Rubinstein, who would have been a Westfalien had their licensing commission not rejected him and passed him on to Oldenburg. The stallion was bred by Stephan Borgmann who is very much his own man when it comes to selecting his bloodlines: \u201cI am not thinking like a lot of breeders today, only to the modern stallion star of this year, and next year we have the next star stallion\u2026 I know my mares for ten generations and I know what stallions I need for those mares.\u201d Indeed so far his own man, that he recently told me: \u201cWe have 100 horses and not one with the blood of Sandro Hit\u2026 no Sandro Hit, no Sir Donnerhall, no San Amour, no Show Star\u2026 and in the future I can advertise \u2013 no Sandro Hit here!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Equitaris, Champion of the four-year-old stallions<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Coco](\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Coco-Berlini-09-14-02_1235.jpg\")
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