Dinello

Description

Dinello, impressive future star from Holstein

Dinello was one of the highlights at the Holstein stallion approvals in 2023. He was awarded as premium stallion due to his good performance and origins, and was purchased by Paul Hendrix. “Dinello sticks in your mind because of his type, personality and way of jumping. We are giving him all the time he needs to develop as a sport horse, and under saddle, he stands out for his fantastic character, commitment, and exceptional jumping technique. His first foals are also very promising: they are modern, blood-made, and have a good, light-footed canter.”

Dinello comes from the same dam as the 1.60m-Grand Prix stallion Quadros 3, with whom Marco Kutscher was successful in Grand Prixs and GCT competitions. Another half-brother of Dinello is the 1.45/1.50m-level competing Cees 5 of Philip Koch. Dinello represents Holsteiner damline 741 and is closely related to top sire Cardento. Under Peter Eriksson this stallion contributed to the silver medals for Sweden at the Olympic Games, WEG and EC. In breeding he has made his mark as the sire of outliers such as Catch Me Not S, H&M Cue Channa, Kilkenny, Fiber Fresh Popeye and Grand Slam VDL. Dinello’s granddam is a half-sister to Cardento and therefore also to the Olympic stallion VDL Cartello ridden by Darragh Kenny.

With his premium award, Dinello follows in the footsteps of sire Dinken and grandsire Diarado (Siegerhengst). Dinken made an astonishing impression in the young horse competitions, but an injury prevented him from a further sports career. As a breeding stallion he builds up a strong reputation and with this Dinello he presents an extraordinary future star.

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