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EH CAPRIMOND

Caprimond was vice-champion of the 1987 stallion approval in Neumünster. In 1988 he became vicechampion three-year old at the German Riding Horse Championship in Schenefeld and won the stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf. Then in 1989, Caprimond was awarded first prize at the DLG Exhibition in Frankfurt. He rapidly climbed the highest rungs of his career ladder in the dressage sport and had many wins and high placements in dressage horse tests at the intermediate and advanced levels, up to and including Grand Prix. He is meanwhile being utilised as a junior training horse by the teenager Theresa Wahler and has already had exciting appearances in the context of Gala Shows in Neumünster and Oldenburg. In 2002, the pair won their first advanced dressage events.

Caprimond has been covering at the Klosterhof Medingen studfarm since1988 and has become one of the most influential representatives of his breed since the Second World War. He has thus far, produced 13 approved sons, including the eminent pair of brothers Canaster I and II (both private stallions Oldenburg), Hohenstein I and II (Lower Saxony resp. Hungary) and Tanzmeister I and II (Rhineland-Palatinate-Saar resp. Lower Saxony). The son Caprigold, who was reared in Brandenburg was the approval winner of his age class in 1996, whilst Contucci, who was approved in Hanover, won a number of riding horse classes before he was transferred to the USA and Sponeck was a highly placed finalist at the Federal Championship. From today’s perspective, the most distinguished stallion son is Hohenstein I, who has already presented a number of approved sons in diverse breeds and is a successful sports horse up to Grand Prix. Apart from many first class premium mares, Caprimond also presented the best German three-year old mare Donaumärchen II, on the occasion of the Federal Mare Show, who was also a member of the Federal Champion Family. In 1995, Caprimond was declared “elite Trakehner stallion” and in 1998 he became Trakehner “stallion of the year”. His successful sports progeny have made him one of the most important transmitters of dressage for years now, according to the FN breeding value statistics. The Wahler family erected a life-sized bronze statue in his honour at the Klosterhof Medingen in 1996.

His Sire Karon initially covered at the Hämelschenburg studfarm and was promoted far as a riding horse. He covered in Oldenburg in 1989 and 1990 and thus managed to be represented in diverse state horse breeds before he dropped out of breeding due to a fractured pelvis. The approved riding stallion Chantilly is a full-brother of Caprivi’s dam Coeur-As, who is also a full-sister of Uwe Sauer’s Grand Prix horse Caro Bube. Caprimond’s lineage goes back to the mare family of Cajenne 6 (by Trara-Imbert-Cid-Hallore).

The Damsire Mackensen was decorated as an elite stallion of the Trakehner Association. This bloodline moreover produced six additional approved sons including the significant Carajan (private stallion Holstein, Rhineland- Palatinate-Saar), Carlton (private stallion Bavaria), Chateauneuf and Cordial (both private stallions Lower Saxony) as well as Cortez (private stallion Baden-Württemberg).

Körung: 1987 in Neumunster