{"id":1821,"date":"2010-08-31T13:39:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T03:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.130\/~thehors5\/thm\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2017-02-27T22:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T11:07:34","slug":"sandro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2010\/08\/sandro\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

1974 – 2005 171 cm Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breeder: Klaus Delef Harbeck<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sandro\u2019s sire, Sacramento Song xx was born in Ireland in 1967. He had 23 race starts as a 2, 3 and 4 year old, for four wins, and the moderately successful winnings of \u00a34,241.<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0Sacramento Song<\/em><\/p>\n

Sacamento Song was royally bred. His sire, Sicambre won both the French Derby and the Grand Prix of Paris while his dam, was by Sayajirao, a St Leger winner.<\/p>\n

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

Sicambre\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sicambre (born 1948) ran in nine races, won eight with one place. Sicambre was the leading sire of winners in 1966 (at the age of 18!) and the following year was runner up to his son, Prince Taj. He was ranked three times amongst the top ten sires of broodmares. His sons were influential throughout the world: Shantung in Britain, Prince Taj and Roi Dagobert in the USA, Moutiers in Japan, Cambremont in the Argentine, Sertorious in Chile, Pharamond in Australia.<\/p>\n

Sayajirao sired the winners of 410 races. Mares by Sayajirao foaled the winners of 261 races. Sayajirao’s dam, Rosy Legend, is a daughter of Dark Legend by Dark Ronald by Bay Ronald.<\/p>\n

Sacramento Song stood successfully in England before coming to Germany\u2019s Holstein region when his owner, Charlie Munford decided to retire from the breeding game due to old age.<\/p>\n

According to that great expert on Holstein breeding, Jasper Nissen in a fascinating article in Z Magazine<\/em> (August 2004): \u201cSacramento Song\u2019s career in Holstein seriously suffered from the fact that he was not studbook owned but privately owned and was active precisely in the period in which the Thoroughbred had fallen into complete disgrace with the studbook. In addition, he was stationed in not the best breeding district. Nevertheless he soon proved himself a top class sire. He produced a large number of first class showjumping horses, several event horses, no dressage horses. He often passed on his own type. He was a purebred bay, often with a dark shade, he produced tall horses, somewhat light in the bones, with an excellent character and eager workers with an energetic temperament, often a little hot. Geldings and stallions lasted longer in the sport than his daughters, who often needed \u2018instructions for handling\u2019. Many of his daughters however, proved quality broodmares. Unfortunately his only licensed son, Symphatico (licensed for his results in showjumping) died after one breeding season. Another son who proved himself in the sport was Sandro, stationed in Oldenburg.\u201d<\/p>\n

Certainly it is through Sandro that the line is becoming increasingly influential \u2013 both in jumping and in dressage.<\/p>\n

Sacramento Song stood in Holstein from 1973 until his early death in 1979. He is described in Dr Dietrich Rossow\u2019s Stallion Book of the Holsteiner Warmblood Breed<\/em> as: “A classically bred, English Thoroughbred, with beautiful, smoothly harmonious topline. Beautiful head, rather low set on neck, impressive shoulder with good coupling to the croup. Well-muscled, strong legs and feet, sufficient gaits. Tremendous jumping ability, very tight with front end and good with knees.”<\/p>\n

Dr Rossow was of the opinion that he bred: \u2018Very good temperaments, keen, energetic dispositions, often rather hot. Stallions and geldings steadier in competition than mares, who were often \u2018witchy\u2019. Top jumper sire!\u2019<\/p>\n

Alas as Jasper Nissen has pointed out, as a private stallion he was only sparingly used by the Holstein breeders to their later regret. By 1990 with progeny earnings of DM696,000 he was the 8th most successful post-war Thoroughbred sire in Germany! Sacramento Song had 31 competitors with placings, 29 of which were showjumpers. After his death, three exceptional sons were licensed on the grounds of their competition results: Sympatico, Sacramento Son and Sandro. And it is through Sandro, that the influence of Sacramento Song lives on\u2026<\/p>\n

Bent Neergaard is a respected Danish breeder, he is also the man who \u2018discovered\u2019 Sandro.<\/p>\n

“I first saw Sandro when he was two and an half years old, he was presented at the Holsteiner stallion selection and was not accepted. So with one of my friends we bought him and took him to Denmark,\u201d he told me. \u201cWe presented him at the licensing and he was approved and then did a very good 100 days test. A couple of years later he went over to the famous eventing rider, Nils Haagensen. He did quite well with him, but he was probably better for showjumping, so he was handed over to my partner who took him jumping internationally.”<\/p>\n

“In Denmark, he was based at Fumen, but it wasn\u2019t really the right place for him. There were a lot of old Oldenburger heavy horses \u2013 we thought it would be the right place for him but it wasn\u2019t. Then he moved to the southern area of Jutland, close to Germany, a Holsteiner area. He covered some Holsteiner mares and with them, he was really good. But still he wasn\u2019t accepted all over Denmark \u2013 he only had a few progeny from the first years and it wasn\u2019t easy to get him accepted by the breeding association or the breeders.”<\/p>\n

“He was sold to Paul Schockem\u00f6hle, and he understood the quality of the horse. There is quite a lot of Thoroughbred in this horse, and they can be a little bit loose in front, but it was a modern horse. I think he was ten years in advance of his time, even in Denmark. Schockem\u00f6hle could see exactly the potential of that horse, the modern type with long legs, good riding capability \u2013 and he mixed him with the right mares, the mares with the German \u2018G\u2019 blood. Now you can see Sandro blood in all the major breeding associations all over the world.”<\/p>\n

What caught your eye?<\/em><\/p>\n

“I had been in the army for many years, and also worked with horses for many years. I liked lighter horses than most of the breeders in those days. I liked his eyes and his beautiful head, I liked this very fine looking horse \u2013 and I liked the blood also, I thought he could be a very good performance horse. In those days, the breeders didn\u2019t look enough at performance, and I thought he would bring in some performance.”<\/p>\n

“In a stallion the most important thing is performance. But as a breeder you cannot sell horses unless you have good-looking horses. So you have to look for performance, for a good-looking horse, and you have to look for a horse that is very calm and good in the head as well. You cannot say \u2018only performance\u2019 or \u2018only beautiful\u2019 or \u2018only temperament\u2019 \u2013 you need all these things.”<\/p>\n

When he moved to Paul Schockem\u00f6hle\u2019s stud, Sandro also met up with Franke Sloothaak who continued his jumping career for lifetime winnings of DM55,000.<\/p>\n

As a sire, Sandro has also been a considerable success, with three of his progeny competing at the 1994 WEG in The Hague \u2013 Sandro Song (Ante Smlesa), Safari (Michael Abo) and Paradiso (Rolf-G\u00f6ran Bengtsson). Sandro is the sire of more than 40 licensed sons, the most successful being Silvio 1 and II, Sandro Song, Sao Paulo, Sandro Boy and Salido Z.<\/p>\n

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

Sundance Kid and Franke Sloothaak<\/em><\/p>\n

Successful competitors include; Salido Z (Debbie Stephens), Sagrat (Guy Goosen), Sakrus (Debbie Winkler), Sympathico (Ersting-Engemann), Silas M (Yanix Elad), Sheila and Sundance Kid (Franke Sloothaak) and Santorin F (Fritz Fervers) and of course, the World Cup Champion, Sandro Boy.<\/p>\n

As a broodmare sire Sandro has also been exceptionally successful: Lasango (Kurt Reinacher), San Serai Funky Town (Bj\u00f6rn Nagel), Lausano (Ren\u00e9 Tebbel), Risandro (Samantha McIntosh), Filias (Arnoldo Bologni), High Class (Royne Zettermann), Cappucino and Santa Fe (Marco Kutscher), Grand Soso (Markus Fuchs), Grand Soso II (Ulrik Kjaer) and High Stepper (Maria Gretzer) \u2013 all Grand Prix showjumpers, all out of daughters of Sandro.<\/p>\n

Sandro is unique in that he is the only stallion son of the cross of Sacramento Song and Wahnfried \u2013 a cross that has also been very successful in producing dams of stallions. The stallions Lavell I and II, Atlantas Z and Campione, as well as international jumping horses, Cathleen (Meredith Beerbaum \u2013 then Michaels) and Zigeunerin (Rodrigo Pessoa) all came from that cross. Sandro\u2019s dam, D\u00fcrte is the full sister of one of the most successful Puissance horses ever \u2013 Wabbs. Durte is also the dam of Harvey Smith\u2019s Salvador.<\/p>\n

What is slightly more surprising is Sandro\u2019s influence on dressage breeding. If we look at the stallions represented in the 2008\/9 Eylers\u2019 German Stallion book, we find there were 19 stallion great grandsons promoted as dressage sires \u2013 all sons of World Young Horse Dressage Champion, Sandro Hit. There are also two stallion grand-sons promoted in Eylers\u2019 book.<\/p>\n

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

Satchmo and Isabell Werth \u2013 top of the world for dressage\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Of Sandro\u2019s dressage descendents, Isabell Werth\u2019s Satchmo by the Sandro son, Sao Paulo, is the most successful.<\/p>\n

Sandro \u2013 re-christened Sandro Z \u2013 stood the last years of his life at the Zangersheide stud, where he died in August 2005.<\/p>\n

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

Shutterfly and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum \u2013 top of the world for showjumping\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The 2007 World Breeding Championship for Sport Horses saw firsts for the Hanoverian studbook in both jumping and dressage, with Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum\u2019s Shutterfly (Silvio \/ Forrest xx) the number one in the jumping rankings, and Isabell Werth\u2019s Satchmo (Sao Paulo \/ Legat) number one in the dressage. What a triumph for Sandro, the grand-sire of both the champions!<\/p>\n

In the survey of the world’s top 75 jumping sires that appears in the French publication, Monneron<\/em> 2007-2008, Sandro is 37th with 8 CSI winners including World Cup Champion, Sandro Boy. His best stallion son, Silvio I is 56th with 6 CSI winners, including World Cup Final winner, Shutterfly.<\/p>\n

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