Description
Half-brother to the World Championship team third Catch me if you can OLD/Laura Klaphake
Come and catch me Z was the top offer of the Flanders Foal Auction. The half-brother to Catch me if you can OLD has developed into a model athlete whose jumping knows how to inspire: characterized by great uniformity, excellent technique, smooth running and remarkable overview. He always makes the jump suitable for himself in an almost playful way and thus brings a whole bundle of outstanding qualities with him.
The sire Comme il faut, himself the result of the mating of the Olympic stallion and European team champion Cornet Obolensky/Marco Kutscher to the team Olympic champion, world champion, World Cup winner, European champion and Aachen winner Ratina Z/Ludger Beerbaum, was licensed in Münster-Handorf in 2007. The following year, he became the jumping winner at his stallion performance test at the same place. Under Franz-Josef Dahlmann, he won silver at the World Championships for young show jumpers (5y.o.) in Lanaken/BEL in 2010 and silver at the German Championships (6y.o.) in 2011. From 2013, Comme il faut took off internationally under Marcus Ehning. The pair’s sporting record includes team silver at the 2019 European Championships in Rotterdam/NED, victories in the Grand Prix of Madrid/ESP, Vienna/AUT, Brussels/BEL and Paderborn, winning the Nations Cup final in Barcelona/ESP as well as top placings in the Grand Prix of Dortmund, Rotterdam/NED and Rome/ITA. In 2021, Comme il faut was ceremoniously bid farewell to the sport at the European Championships in Riesenbeck. 140 sons of Comme il faut were licensed worldwide. Also current
he is once again among the top ten of the world’s best show jumping sires according to the WBFSH ranking, thanks to the successes of his offspring, especially the 2024 Olympic champion in Paris, Checker/Christian Kukuk.
The dam agent placed herself in the course up to class M and is the mother of Catch me if you can OLD (by Catoki). Under Laura Klaphake, she won team bronze at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon/USA and the Nations Cup in Aachen. With Anna Kellnerova/CZE, Catch me if you can OLD took part in the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo/JPN. Other offspring are successful in show jumping competitions.
Through the dam’s sire Acordplus, the Holstein stallion performance test winner, Vice German Champion and performance sire Acord II comes into play. In the third and fourth generations, Gloucester and Canaris are lined up.
The great-granddam Casablanca also produced the M** show jumper Attention (by Acordplus).
The fourth dam Leidenschaft produced the licensed Primas (by Pilot).
Hanoverian mare line of Sudette, from which also the stallion Reinicke (by Remus I) and several sport horses.
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His father also sired the Olympic champion Checker
Pedigree
Comme Il Faut | Cornet Obolensky | Clinton |
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Rabanna van Costerveld | ||
Ratina Z | Ramiro | |
Argentina Z | ||
Agentin | Acordplus | Acord II |
Primana | ||
Giana | Gloucester | |
Casablanca |