CAROUSEL

Carousel is an outstanding sire of successful sporthorses in all disciplines. His most successful offspring Carousel Quest, was the winner of the prestigious Burghley CCI****, one of the most difficult Three-Day Events in the world. Carousel himself, was champion of his AES grading, out of a record 93 entries, and has been granted Elite Life Approval by Sport Horse Breeding (GB).
Carousel strength as a sire lies in the heritability of his exceptional jumping ability, the blood qualities drawn from his Thoroughbred ancestry and his strong limbs.

Pedigree

Carousel’s bloodlines combine the phenomenal jumping ability of the renowned Holsteiner sire Cor De La Bryere with the refining blood qualities of the Thoroughbred through Consul, a son of the influential Thoroughbred stallion Cottage Son. Carousel is also line bred to Consul on his sire side, through Caletto II’s dam Deka. It is the influence of this Thoroughbred blood that has led Carousel to become an excellent producer of horses with the stamina and strength to compete at top level three day eventing.

Carousel’s sire Caretino, is the last active Holstein stallion by the legendary Caletto II, himself described as a stallion that embraced all the breeding goals of the entire Holstein breed. Caretino has proven his outstanding combinations of genes in the sport. After successful participation at the Bundeschampionat as a 5 and 6-year old, he could already demonstrate his talent in international competitions at the age of 7. He has since represented Denmark at Nations Cup level.

As a sire Caretino is in a League of his own, siring 59 graded stallions to date. Furthermore, successful show-jumping horses by Caretino include:

Ballerina (Markus Merschformann) Team Gold European Championships 1997, Charlottenhof’s Chandra (Soren von Ronne) Team Bronze European Championships 2001, Bottger’s Calando (JanneFriederike-Meyer) German Champion 2006, Chianti La Silla (Rolf-Goran Bensgtsson) winner World Cup Qualifier in Monterrey 2006, Cristallo (Richard Spooner) winner of the Grand Prix Monte Carlo, Chupa Chup (Bernardo Alves) winner of the Grand Prix Hamburg as well as the international show-jumping horses Caretano Z, Caridor Z, Crocodile Dandy, Conally, Cathleen, Caresino and Calestino.

Despite his obvious talent as a jumper he also proved to be a valuable sire siring top class international dressage horses such as Cockney, Grand Prix horse with Nadine Capellmann (GER)

Performance

As a young horse, Carousel enjoyed a successful competition career, competing in the BSJA four year old final at Hickstead. After retiring from show jumping, he went on to compete in British Dressage.,/p>

Progeny

The most famous of Carousel’s progeny is undoubtedly Carousel Quest, winner of Burghley 2009 with Oli Townend. There are however, many others reaching the highest levels of their sport including Quixotic, 17th in her Badminton debut in 2011; Clockwork III, a grade A show jumper and Foxhunter finalist, and Cascasde, a Grand Prix dressage horse.

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