EH Caprimond, 1998 Trakehner
Stallion of the Year, 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,
has secured Caprimond a special position in breeding, with a top
breeder's value of 138 points.
