Berlin

Berlin's sire Cassini I was, in his years in sport, the trump card of the German/Frisian international rider Franke Sloothaak. The pair won, among other things, the Grand Prix at Champion Gelderland, the former CSI at the national sports centre in Papendal and the Grand Prix at CSI Modena, the pet project of Luciano Pavarotti the tenor who died in 2007. Cassini's sire, Capitol I, forms the genetical bottleneck where the stallion line of the legendary Cottage Son xx had to squeeze through to have the space to broadly spread out for a second time throughout the breeding world. Cassini's dam, Wisma, is from the small stock 3389 that, since Cassini I, has received more interest from the Holstein breeders. Expect for full brother Cassini II, out of this stock Caloeri (sire:CalidoI), Cassaro (sire: Coronado) and Lovari (sire: Lasino) have since been licensed.

From the point of view of sport, Berlin's dam is just as interesting. His dam Estia (out of the famous Caretino) was the show jumping horse of both Alois Pollmann-Schweckhorst and Marc Wirths. However, these international riders brought her out under other names: respectively Coba and Cathleen-W. Pollman-Schweckhorst rode her drandam Ostia as well and also using another sports nhame: Frimella. From her sotck 890 also come, among others, the show jumpers Corcodile Dandy of Alison Firestone and Feodora of Fritz Fervers. In November 1997, Berlin had a good test as an unlicensed stallion in Adelheidsdorf; in the jumping index he scored 133.21 points and thus, in this section, came in second place just behind Acorado who has since also become equally famous. After successive approvals in both Holland in March 2003 and, under his former name Caspar, in Oldenburg in January 2j005. Berlin, ridden by Gerco Schroder, established his reputation by contributing to the winning of gold medals by the “Oranje” team in both the WC in 2006 (Aachen) and at the EC in 2007 (Mannheim).

The WC gold was sufficient to give him a permanent license by his stud book of birth, Holstein. The EC gold was the icing on the cake. Now the wait for the ultimate gold – that of Hong Kong 2008.