[QUOTE=baywithchrome2;5488717]
Excellent to know! Thank you :)[/QUOTE]
Welcome ! Another great example is Cumano. Cassini I / Landgraf / Caletto II / Marlon xx…double Marlon xx.
If anyone is looking for carthago blood in the US I have a stallion by cartano that we are breeding. He is a 5 year old and has been quite successful in the jumper ring so far( 5th in the country right now), but is an amazing hunter mover and jumper. I am breeding him this year to a jumper mare and a hunter mare of mine and am quite excited to see the hunter baby as they are both excellent movers and jumpers.
Baywithchrome, I was also thinking that with your mare you could end up producing a super-duper dressage horse with extra power from behind and great freedom through the shoulder (the influence provided by this stallion)… or you could end up with a really nice jumper. The bonus would be if you had a horse that actually went equally well as both, but probably not as likely. I would be extraordinarily surprised if you ended up with a hunter. HanV recommends judicious use of jumping blood in a dressage breeding to improve the power for dressage. Sometimes if the mare has a bit of both dressage and jumper you end up with either/or for offspring.
You won’t know until you try. Either way, he’s an exceptional stallion. I was very impressed with the video.
My experience
I trained a just-gelded 5 YO Colman son in 2009 for several months. He was a tell, leggy, modern-type (mother was an imported Verband mare, don’t recall the lines). He had a beautiful head and neck, a “sausage” body (not the big barrel I prefer) and weak hind ends (took him quite a while to learn changes). He had been mismanaged so his behavior was not ideal when he came here - but was an incredibly quick learner and progressed incredibly fast. So much so that a year later, this past winter, he was doing big EQ and hunter derbies (he was NOT a hunter mover though) with the new 16 YO owner.
