Cascarpa

Cascarpa (Cassie) brings not only Holsteiner royalty to the pedigree, but combines it with injections of Shagya-Arabian blood. Cassie was bred in Germany, where she competed to 1.20m with an amateur, and was later exported to the Czech Republic before finally arriving in the US to compete as a hunter. She is a substantial mare with a large frame and lovely, floating gaits inherited from her damsire Carpaccio and her dam’s damsire, the Grand Prix stallion Loutano. Her sire Cassini II was a full brother to the renowned international competitor Cassini I. The Cassini brothers were, as described by Christopher Hector, the result of the breeding policy of one of those fabled traditional farmers—Johann Hermann Claussen, who ran two broodmares on his 140 hectare mixed farm. He sent his three-year-old mare, Wisma to the local stallion, Capitol I. The mare was by Caletto II out of a mare line that featured the Marlon xx son, Mahmud. The grey colt, Cassini I was born on April 1, 1988. Bred to Capitol again the next year, Wisma produced a filly, Donata. In 1992, she gave birth to Cassini II, who was injured after placing third in his performance test, and sent to the breeding barn where he produced a series of jumping competitors, including Holger Wulschner’s Cassius, Thies Luther’s Cassilo and Steffen Lutter’s Capriolo. Cassini II’s licensed son, Camarque was sold to Denmark for €230,000, where he was the showjumping champion of the Danish stallion approvals.

Top competitors by Cassini II include Steve Guerdat’s Athens finalist, Isovlas Olympic, Alois Pollmann-Schweckhorst’s Casello, Chatwin ridden formerly by the Swiss, Christoph Barbeau and now for Brazil by Alvaro de Miranda Neto, who also rides AD Baltic Carrera, Pikeur Calanda with Franz-Josef Dahlmann and Peter Wylde’s Inken. Cassini II was unfortunately euthanized in 2011 after he injured himself, but not before proving himself a superior producer than his older brother. From The Horse Magazine.