In the presentation round of the three-year-old Verband stallions, it is the turn of a highly interesting Keaton son: "Kantato is beautiful and immediately catches the eye. He is willing to learn and has three very good basic gaits," says Jayke Junge, who has taken over his training.
Kantato by Keaton-Casall
HOL | *2021 | 166 cm | Bay | UELN: DE421000083021 | Mare family 104A | Breeder: Manfred Birchler, Bilten-SUI
About Kantato
Not fully grown yet, this distinctively marked Keaton son has been awarded premium status at the Holsteiner stallion grading in December 2023. Kantato is a second season Keaton offspring and represents modern breeding efforts combining the desired stallion type with athleticism.
Sire
The second crop of stallion candidates by Kannan son Keaton was absolutely convincing. Three sons had been accepted for grading, all of them have been licensed for breeding, as much as two of them have been awarded premium status. This result emphasises his quality as a sire. At five-year-old, Keaton himself shone in young horse jumping classes at M scoring up to 9.2 and finished sixth at the Warendorf National championships. Since last season, Keaton is being brought on by Rolf-Göran Bengtsson and has been placed at 1.35m level. He is continuing to confirm the great potential already shown at a young age at first international jumping classes.
Damline
Kantato is the first licensed son out of Hella BB in the Holsteiner breeding programme. She is also dam to Nubia BB (by Keaton), the first reserve champion of the 2023 Holsteiner elite mare show at Elmshorn. The produce of the second dam, Belinna BB, includes the full siblings BB Graziella, a successful sport horse up to 1.30m level and the licensed Casall son Cocomax. The third dam, BB Viola, was successfully shown up to 1.40m level by Niklaus Schurtenberger (SUI) and the fourth dam is none other than BB Corlandia by Cor de la Bryère, a full sister to Corland, who collected wins and placings up to 1.60m level under the saddle of Willi Melliger (SUI). Responsible for the successes of the recent dam line is Manfred Birchler from Switzerland, who had purchased the mare Corlanda from Prof. Dr. Hartwig Schmidt and then paved the way for her sport horse career. Kantato’s bloodline has as much as three ties to this performance mare family, through Contendro I and II and his dam’s family 104A. This mare family was made famous in particular by unforgotten mare Retina and Fritz Thiedemann (GER), but also by Corradina with Carsten-Otto Nagel (GER). Several licensed stallions such as Capitano (by Corporal), Caretano (by Caretino), Contendro I+II (by Contender) and Corland (by Cor de la Bryere) have also come from mare family 104A.
Considerations for breeding by Sebastian Rohde
"A Kannan grandson, Kantato is a very modern model athlete with good movement. His free jumping is characterised by good judgement and bascule. He is easy to handle and displays good work ethics in his day-to-day training. He is best bred to mares with sufficient frame and blood."
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