I agree Carpaccio is nicer but he’s only offered with frozen.
Any updates on his offspring, now that the these babies are of riding age?
My Cabardino baby (Dino) is now 5. Mother is TB who was competitive as an AA horse. Dino has the most balanced and comfortable canter I’ve ever ridden and he is a metronome to the fences. I’ve just started showing him and he won a huge pleasure division at the SWVHJA finals show, and won the even bigger Hopeful Hunter over fences class. Got a third in the flat. On the down side, he is small…15.2 or 3 at best, which is fine for me, but it could affect resale if I actually ever sold a horse. And he is the lowest on the herd totem pole which makes him worry about other horses so he will at times pin is ears when horses come at him. But all in all, a delight to have around and great on trail as well.
Oh, love to hear that Jody. My filly is just a weanling but I adore her. On the flip side from yours, mine is going to be HUGE. She’s 14hh at 7 months.
The height thing could be his mother, she throws small.
I bred Cabardino to a big 16’2h thoroughbred mare. The filly was huge - 17 hands as a 2 yo. As a baby I used to joke that she was part Clydesdale. Always in your pocket - easy and sweet. She’s now doing the hunter derbies under Maggie Jayne. If you read the article in COTH about the show in Central Park, while everyone else was taking their most experienced horses to handle the atmosphere, Maggie took her first year green horse due to her bravery! She finished third.
My friend had a gorgeous filly out of a Ster Dutch mare. The filly looked to be more of a dressage mover as a youngster… but turned into a stunner of a hunter. She placed very well in last years Cup Classes. and did some over fences this year. definitely dont hate the jump on her! I handled her as a yearling and taught her line basics… super easy and she went to sleep on me in a line clinic lol
I’ve got one who’s 6 now (by Cabardino, out of an Oldenburg mare). He’s a hack winner, awesome ground manners, also a metronome to the fences, and very, very scopey. Currently showing in the younger AA, will eventually move up to the AO’s. I just had him at the Jump Alberta Symposium this weekend and he was great, one of the local BNR asked if he was for sale, but I said no.
This year and last year he had full siblings place in the LG cup at the Royal. I definitely regret not taking my guy when he was 3. My mom and I were recently talking about buying another Cabardino baby as a resale project since they’re so simple. I’ve only had a pro on mine for maybe 30 rides total, I (an adult amateur) was even the first one to sit on him with no fireworks.
Does anyone know if Cabardino has good feet? Any conformation flaws (feel free to PM)? I emailed and called his owner but haven’t heard back yet. The mare I’m going to breed has typical TB feet.
My Cab/Tb five year old has the best feet in the barn. I don’t know how his mother’s feet were when she was showing since I got her retired and barefoot.
I’ve ridden many and seen a ton go at the line shows, the 3yr old cup classes and at the big A shows. I really like what he throws, they are all lovely with great brains. There are a few at my trainer’s barn, all ridden by amateurs. Most of them are hunters, but one of them is a jumper and has been very competitive in the young horse jumper classes, but could probably just as easily do the hunters.
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Mine was sound barefoot until we started jumping. His feet have a tendency to get pancake like so now he also gets pads and equipac, however, if we didn’t move across the country so often and have to switch farriers then I’m fairly confident a good farrier could get it under control and he would be fine with just front shoes.
I have a 2.5-year-old Cabardino baby out of my good LA/O champion mare (by a son of Salut out of a TB mare by Tell Oka) that I cannot rave about enough.
He is almost as tall as his 15.3hh-mother at this point. Handsome as 13 devils. A pocket pony who can also be told “look at the problem” and he will go figure it out.
He was dead simple to back by this older ammy, and is a phenomenal mover. We’ll put him through the chute for the first time between Xmas and New Years
I have a Cabardino filly that was born in May, out of a massive 16.3 Embassy I / Accord II mare. She is stunning in her conformation, moves like a dream, HUGE, and is super sweet and sensible. (She got her first bath at her hanoverian inspection and didn’t move a muscle!) She was champion jumper foal at Spruce Meadows this year. I plan on breeding to him in the future 
I have heard that he, tends, to throw small to small mares and large to large mares, but as some have already posted, he has added size to smaller mares. maybe a little unpredictable in that sense.
Hoping this link will work. My 2.5-year-old Cabardino son first time through the chute: https://www.instagram.com/p/_0mnvWOWKD/?taken-by=singlis23
Please note that the camera angle makes it look like he’s about to nudge a four-foot out of the way, but the very teeny vertical under his belly is his jump.
