Sire EH Sixtus

Damsire EH Caprimond

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COURACIUS

Couracius was the Reserve winner of the 2003 Stallion Approval. He comes from a very good lineage and excellently represents the Trakehner horse, being very true to classical type.

Beautiful in type and conformation and with a very well developed neck, this horse shows elegance and nobility in all 3 gaits. A stallion with refining qualities and with a pedigree that will satisfy even the highest demands.

In 2004 Couracius successfully completed his 30 day Performance Test at Neustadt Dosse.

Also in 2004 he passed the 70 day Performance Test with a total index of 129.01 (performance class 1), which placed him 3^rd out of 48 stallions. With a score of 141.75 for the dressage phase he was placed 1^st. His jumping index was 106.77.

Sixtus is an Elite Stallion and was Reserve Champion of his approval in 1991. He competed successfully as a Grand Prix jumper and is the leading sire of his age group of money winning offspring in all equestrian disciplines and of provincial inspection Champion and show Grand Champion Mares. He has already produced 14 Approved sonsand countless high scoring studbook mares. He also holds the breeds highest showjumping index in terms of successfully competing offspring and also has several top event horses and FEI dressage horses among his progeny. His get are dynamic, strong movers of noble, lean Trakehner type, they are athletic and move in an uphill fashion.

The Damsire, EH Caprimond, was 1998 Trakehner Stallion of the Year,he is an exceptional stallion with a stellar career as both a performance horse, and a sire. His pedigree is outstanding, not only through the male side, which contains phenomenal stallions like Arogno, Flaneur, Ibikus, Mackensen, and Herzbube, but also through his grandmother, Coeur-As, a full sister to Uwe Sauer's Grand Prix horse, Caro Bube. Caprimond was reserve champion of his keuring, champion of his stallion test and reserve winner of the Bundeschampionat for three year old riding horses. After Caprimond's Championship at the Adelheidsdorf test in 1988, he began his dressage career, and was very successful at the "S" level by seven years of age. In 1996 he achieved the first of several Grand Prix wins. The Elite Caprimond is valued for siring talented, rideable offspring with beautiful heads and necks, and may be considered as a type useful for refinement.  He is ranked the number one sire of "type" for Hanoverian mares, a typical Trakehner "improver." Of Caprimond's twelve approved sons, Hohenstein has also risen to be one of the most sought after stallions in Germany, and was 2002 Trakener Stallion of the Year. Other sons have also earned top marks at stallion performance tests, demonstrating the rideability and trainability of their sire's dominant dressage genetics. Caprimonds daughter's include Donaumaerchen II, best three-year-old mare at the Federal mare show in Warendorf in 1994. The success of Donaumaerchen I and II as broodmares, have secured Caprimond a special position in breeding, with a top breeder's value of 138 points.