Sire: SANDRO

Origins

In 1984 when Paul Schockemohle re-imported the then ten-year-old Holsteiner Sandro from Denmark, he wasn't counting on the fact that he had brought back the founder of a dresssage breeding line to Germany. Sandro was one of the only sons of the highly competitive Holsteiner Thoroughbred Sacramento Song xx, a rarity on the German horse scene but very convincing in the show jumping sport.  His qualification to breed was acquired under Franke Sloothaak, through  successes in the highest level of show jumping. Almost exclusively the pure bred dark stallion was put into Schockemohle's breeding program to refine the existing jumping stock.  He produced a whole line of approved sons before moving on to the Kathmann Holtrup station and the Stud Wiechenhof where a wider opportunity was opened to the breeders. After many attempts in pairing up Sandro and Gephard, besides Silvio I and Silvio II, the 1988 Sandro Song emerged.

Sandro Song (Sandro-Gephard) was bred and presented by Schockemohle at the stallion approvals in Oldenburg, where he became Young Stallion Champion 1990.  Sandro Song's excellent jump is  in accordance with his bloodlines and at the same time he shows fantastic movement and first class rideability for dressage.  In 1995, Sandro Song made his debut with his first two sons, one being Sandro Hit. It is worth noting that  Sandro Hit and dressage star Diamond HIt (Don Schufro- Donnerhall-Pik Bube) both have the same dam, Loretta, a Ramino/Welt As mare. Seemingly, the Schockemohle recipe for successfully creating horses with movement, suspension, conformation and of yes, jump, is worthy of emulation.

Sandro's sire, Sacramento Song xx, serviced for 7 seasons as a private stallion in Holstein. He is viewed as one of the best sires of show jumpers in Holstein since the war. In spite of a very limited number of off-spring, 40 jumpers were successful up to the highest classes, among them exceptional horses such as Societe (D. Hafemeister, Nelson Pessoa), San Siro (G. Muller, winnings over 30,000 DM) or, of course, Sandro himself with Franke Sloothaak.

The owner of the world record in jumping, Leonardo (1991 in Paris over 2.35 m) carries Sacramento Song xx as his dam's sire. Sandro's full brother, Salvador 51, was also a very good jumper. His dam's sire is the outstanding show jumper maker Wahnfried (Sir Caletto's great grand sire on the top side), whose most well known off-spring is without doubt the great puissance-specialist Wabbs (W. Mehlkopf, winnings over 350,000 DM) and Wabbs is a direct full brother of Sandro's dam Duerte.

Breeding Record

Sandro is one of the rising stallions of the last few years. To date he presented 15 approved stallions, including Sandro Song, the Champion Young Stallion of Oldenburg 1990 and Main-Premium Champion of 1992. A remarkable feature of his sons are their good results at the stallion performance tests. Sandro caused a stir at the Federal Championships in Verden in 1990 when his son, Subway 2, achieved a high placing in the conformation show class. Later on, Subway was sold through the 1990 Vechta Auction sales to the dressage stables of M. Otto-Crepin. In 1992, eight progeny qualified for the Federal Championships in Verden, several of whom were placed in the finals (Sandon, Sir Max, Sancerre, Sadenio, Salido etc.). In the FN yearbook breeding of 1992 he is placed 3rd in his age-class as a sire of show jumpers.