{"id":1534,"date":"2010-08-23T17:26:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T07:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.130\/~thehors5\/thm\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2017-02-27T20:33:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T09:33:58","slug":"cantus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2010\/08\/cantus\/","title":{"rendered":"Cantus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cantus<\/a><\/p>\n

1981 \u2013 1994 Grey 174 cm<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breeder: Ramus Boyschau<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cantus was from Caletto I\u2019s first crop in Holstein.<\/p>\n

His dam, Monoline was by the tough competitor, Roman and out of an advanced showjumper, USA.<\/p>\n

Cantus, who died far too early in 1994, was a successful sire of showjumpers right from the start. Come On, his internationally best-known approved son, won many times at Grand Prix and Nations Cup level with Ralf Schneider and the Princess Haya of Jordan.<\/p>\n

Cantus produced 25 approved sons, including Cassius Clay (1992 Viernheim champion stallion), Cascavelle, Colbert GTI, Canaletto (both private stallions in Holstein), Cyrano (private stallion Hesse) and Cellestial (private stallion Oldenburg).<\/p>\n

At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the Cantus gelding Calvaro won the silver medal with the Swiss team and his rider Willi Melliger.<\/p>\n

\"One<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0One of the Cantus\u2019 stars – the gelding Calvaro – silver at Sydney in 2000<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2004 Cantus\u2019 progeny had winnings of \u20ac1.35 million.<\/p>\n

According to Thomas Mohr, manager of the Maas J Hell stallion station, where Cantus stood:<\/p>\n

\u201cCantus was for 15 years one of the most successful showjumping sires – with horses like Calvaro with Willi Melliger. The horses by Cantus were very powerful and easy to ride, sometimes not the prettiest horses, but very willing to perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Another of those wonderful grey stallions that keep the Holstein horses at the top of the sport of showjumping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[192,1246],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-great-stallions","tag-cantus","tag-great-stallions"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33142,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/33142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}