The sire
Long Deal (ex Parus) is sending his first sons to NMS. This bay stallion came to Germany via Russia, like to many excellent sport horses, and his FEI career in show jumping is testimony to the excellent selection on performance that our Eastern Trakehner friends have implicated a long time ago. Long Deal's sire Alarm III was actually German-bred, but leased to Russia as a breeding stallion and came from an excellent sport horse line from East Germany. Long Deal's direct dam line has produced a number of excellent and successful stallions in Russia, among them the great jumper and producer Poroch (out of the second dam Prichot). The pedigree again combines the substantial original Trakehnen lines of Piligrim, born in Trakehnen and a foundation sire in Russia, with the excellent Arabian blood of Pomerantes ox and his best son Hockey. At the peak of Hockey's career he had over 40 offspring competeing internationally, in dressage and show jumping!
The dam
Kavalkade VI stems from a family of top jumper producers, and her sire Couleur-Fürst also won as a jumper at M/A levels. As son of Sir Shostakovich xx, his jumping talent was no surprise. Interestingly, he is a maternal half brother to the second dam sire in this pedigree, Caanitz. Both were out of the multiple champion mare Couleur, a daughter of the Australian Three Day Eventing Champion Kassiber by Ibikus. Like Couleur-Fürst, Caanitz was a jumper. The third dam Königsinsel is also dam of the excellent S level show jumper mare Kadenz. Mare family of Kobalt, Komet and Königsstein. Very close maternal relation to stallion candidate 3 Keep Cool.
Photos by Beate Langels
