Product Description
Name: Pistachio QSH
D.O.B: 17/11/2018
EMH: 16.1hh
Sire: Cassiano
Dam: Baby Doll
Gender: Mare
Colour: Light Bay
Athletic, light, beautiful!
Pistachio is a full package being a fantastic type, with stunning looks and a top pedigree.
One to watch for the future she shows plenty of spark and an inquisitive nature. Careful, blood and brave she free jumps very well with good technique and a loose, scopey jump. Paired with lovely movement to complete the deal this athletic mare is a triple threat with a lot of star power.
Pistachio has been DNA verified and microchipped. She has a passport and has been registered with the New Zealand Warmblood Association.
Sire: CASSIANO
Cassiano is one of the top Cassini I stallions of the Holsteiner Verband. He combines Cassini I and Calypso II, two legendary stallions of the Holsteiner breed.
Cassiano is a superbly athletic type with a tremendous jump and exceptional technique. He also has extravagant movement. He has produced many licensed stallions and numerous premium mares both in New Zealand and Europe. Cassiano’s progeny speak for themselves having left a real stamp on the New Zealand showjumping and eventing scene.
Cassiano’s mother, Zivia, produced six offspring, four of which were successful jumping Grand Prix. One of these six was Chim Cristo, by Carthago who jumped nationally with Karsten Lauch and later internationally with Andrea Ripke and then on with the Korean rider Son Bong Bak who had an individual 14th placing at the Athens Olympics. Cassiano’s mother has two approved sons, the other one is Carambo now ridden by Arnaud Dobber of Holland.
Dam: BABY DOLL
Pistachio is out of the outstanding imported mare Baby Doll. A fantastic jumper herself with a huge amount of scope Baby Doll is a valuable breeding mare with proven bloodlines combining Aldatus Z and Clover Hill, a well-known, winning combination in Ireland. Baby Doll was imported into NZ from Ireland as a 4 yr old, she competed successfully through the grades until injury put her in the brood mare paddock.
Dam Sire: ALDATUS Z
Aldatus Z is a very good winner in CSIO . In 1994, he was European Vice-Champion for Individual Young Riders with Christian Ahlmann. He also won the “Sires of The World”. In 1995, he was Dutch Champion under the saddle of Jos Lansink. He also won the World Cup stage in Monterrey. In 1996, he was classified in the GP of Aix-la-Chapelle, Calgary and St Gall. He is 2nd in the Rotterdam Nations Cup.
He notably produced the very good international winners Penelope (Jeffrey Welles) winner of many Grands Pris in the USA, Abba Z , GP winner with Judy-Ann Melchior, Loro Piana Hamlet very good international winner with Guy Williams, A la Ballerina very good international winner with Katharina Offel, Aldatus Son Daonjo winner in GP in Brazil, Hamlet Van St. Maarten CSI, Jacqueline CSI, Marone CSI, Wilywonty finalist of the 7 years old World Championship … as well as the NLS stallions Coole Al Clover , Champion of the World of 6 years, Ovidius (Peter Geerink) father of good winners in CSI, Aledo, Kingstone.
Aldatus Z has sired many international jumpers and approved sires who will leave their mark in years to come.
Dam’s Dam Sire: CLOVER HILL
Clover Hill’s achievements as a sire were outstanding; he ranked 4th in the 2001-2002 WBFSH showjumping rankings, with 39 offspring jumping at International levels.
In Irish, US and UK top sporthorse pedigrees, Clover Hill’s name crops up with amazing frequency. The level of influence that he has had on the quality of the Irish Sport Horse is the equivalent to that of a Cor de la Bryère or Ladykiller in Warmblood breeding; his blood flows in almost all of the great showjumpers of his era, and continues to be reflected in the success of subsequent generations of showjumpers and eventers.
General screening x-rays of horses in the Quality Sport Horses Dispersal Auction were acquired by Matamata Veterinary Services on the 16th and 18th of March 2021.
A declaration of health for all 12 horses and x-rays (of yearlings and older excluding the broodmare) are available upon request.
When a request for has been received by Equus Auctions it will be passed on to Matamata Veterinary Services who will then send the x-rays directly onto the prospective bidders chosen veterinarian. This information is confidential and will only be sent to a qualified veterinarian for examination.
Please note this does not constitute a pre-purchase examination and Matamata Veterinary Services, Quality Sport Horses and Equus Auctions take no legal responsibility. If you wish to conduct a pre-purchase examination you are able to do so at your own expense prior to the auction date (Monday 12th April 2021). The sale of the horse is unconditional from the close of the online auction and pre-purchase examinations cannot be done retrospectively.
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Quality Sport Horses is a boutique breeding program run by the Barker family. Quality Sport Horses oldest progeny are only at the start of their jumping careers but they are already impressing with top riders throughout New Zealand and multiple having been exported to Australia, a testimony to their class.
The boutique size and nature of the Quality Sport Horses breeding program means their impressive bloodlines and lovely progeny are a rare commodity, this auction will be bidders last chance to secure them as their breeding program comes to a close.
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