Contact Details:
Midland Equestrian
Hermitage Farm
Klondyke Lane
Thorpe Satchville
Melton Mowbray
Leicestershire
LE14 2TB
TEL: +44 (0)7786 853930
Age: 6
Height: 16.1 Hands
Breeding: Stakkato / Cantus
Details: Dennis is a top quality gelding with real quality, perfect conformation and exceptional jumping ability.
He is by the top class stallion Stakkato who was the Hanoverian Stallion of the year. Stakkato was also awarded best jumper at his Stallion performance test and won the federal championships of german showjumpers in Werendorf. He also won the German championships under rider Eva Bitter and has been a member of many german nations cup teams. Stakkato has 17 approved sons and 26 daughters awarded state premium status, he also has many off spring jumping at international level. Stakkatos Dam Pia was herself a successful international showjumper and at her mare grading she was awarded a perfect 10 for her jumping skills.
Dennis' dam is sired by the world famous Cantus. Cantus' sire, Caletto I, ridden by Michael Riing, was one of Germanys most successful jumping competitors, winning a bronze at the European Championships at Hickstead, most successful Nations Cup horse of 1983, and wins in the Grand Prix of Aachen, Switzerland and Calgary. Cantus was from Caletto I's first crop in Holstein.
His dam, Monoline was by the tough competitor, Roman and out of the international showjumper, USA. Cantus, who died far too early in 1994, was a successful sire of showjumpers right from the start. Come On, his internationally best-known approved son, won many Grand Prixs and Nations Cups. Cantus produced 25 approved sons, including Cassius Clay (1992 Viernheim champion stallion), Cascavelle, Colbert GTI, Canaletto (both private stallions in Holstein), Cyrano (private stallion Hesse) and Celestial (private stallion Oldenburg).
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, the Cantus son Calvaro won the silver medal with the Swiss team and his rider Willi Melliger.
In 2004 Cantus progeny life winnings totalled to Euro 1.35 million. According to Thomas Mohr, manager of the Maas J Hell stallion station, where Cantus stood: "Cantus was for 15 years one of the most successful showjumping sires - with horses like Calvaro with Willi Melliger. The horses by Cantus were very powerful, easy to ride, scopey and very willing to perform."