The sire
Buddenbrock will be named "Elite stallion" in Neumünster in 2007. He was an event horse prior to his breeding career and comes from the ultimate line of event horses: the Habicht line. Buddenbrock offspring have since then appeared at a number of National events, e.g. the Bundeschampionat, in both dressage and eventing. On top of that, he produced several approved sons, e.g. the 2000 champion King Arthur TSF, the dressage stallion Connery, the full brothers In Petto and In Flagranti (champion in 2003), Epernay, Ippon or Inamorato (ATA). Buddenbrock's dam, the elite mare Ballerina, is a daughter of the elite mare Blinklicht, whose approved son EH Benz is not only an accomplished Grand Prix dressage stallion, but who also has one of the breed's highest overall conformation and movement index scores (based on his daughters at their inspection). Ballerina also produced the mare Batida, dam of the 2004 crowd favorite Blitz und Donner (by EH Lehndorffs), the premium mare Biskaya (by EH Sixtus), dam of the premium Baracuda (by EH Friedensfürst) and the National Champion mare Bandera (by EH Friedensfürst), who also placed 4th at the Bundeschampionat in Warendorf. Dam sire Diamant stood in Austria and sired several highly recognized dressage horses for the upper levels. His sire Erzsand also had quite an influence on the ATA breed. The big Blinklicht family is known mostly for great, athletic sport horses, and apart from Buddenbrock and Benz, also the younger Bellheim (by Saint Cloud) comes from this line.
The dam
Maserati xx is the daughter of one of the TB world's most interesting stallions: Mago xx was an accomplished international Grand Prix dressage stallion and represented Denmark at the World Equestrian Games! He is a well respected sire in the Danish breed, where he also stood at stud, and has had excellent offspring in the Trakehner breed. Among highly registered mares, he is also the dam sire of the very accomplished FEI dressage stallion Schiffon, now in the US. Schiffon is presenting 64 Tanzpartner in Neumünster this year. The pedigree further shows very interesting line breeding to the stallion Hornbeam xx, whose son Beam xx stood at Stud in Germany at various locations (Holstein, Warendorf, Lower Saxony) and whose offspring have won over 160.000€ in competition to this day.
