The sire
Schiffon was approved in Neumünster and sold to Gestüt Hof Heithom in Holstein, where he quietly started his dressage career and bred only a few mares. The impressive black stallion, who carries all the positive rideability traits of his famous stallion line, had a career up to Prix St Georg in Germany. In 2006, he sold to Glamorgan Dressage, Lea Ann Hansen, in the US, where he simply continued his career with impressive wins and excellent scores all the way to Prix St Georg. Schiffon's dam sire Mago xx is a phenomenal TB stallion of great importance in Denmark, and competed on the Danish National Dressage team at the 1994 World Equestrian Games in The Hague (!). The dam line of Sternblume is a branch of the big Schwinderlin family.
The dam
Tanzstunde is a full sister to the soon-to-be elite stallion Tambour and his brother Thalys. Their dam Tänzerin is also dam of the prmeium stallion Travell (by Abisko. And more exceptional genetics follow with the famous mare Tilsit III, dam of the elite stallions Tuareg, Tenor and Tivano. Tilsit's dam Tip-Top was a direct daughter of the foundation sire Totilas (by Pythagoras), and produced the approved EH Tipperary and Tipparillo. The Tatiana family is a branch of the big Tapete family, which is also standing on a broad foundation in North America with approved stallions like Tigre, Tradition *Pb* and Timotheus.
Photo by Gräfin A. Dohna
