7. TAKE ME

Take Me will make somebody very happy.

This very special horse combines stunning looks with a perfect temperament, and performances that never fail to impress. Take Me is an exceptionally willing, uncomplicated gelding with a positive attitude. It’s no wonder his riders love him. Ears pricked, Take Me waits for the rider’s aids, keenly but calmly doing whatever is asked of him.

Take Me is a dependable partner – smart and careful over jumps, listening to his rider’s aids and coming along very well in his training. With his dynamic style of jumping, as well as great technique and flexibility, he clears obstacles of all heights with remarkable confidence.

Always a dominant contender at shows, Take Me canters past opposition in his supple, dynamic way of moving to capture the hearts of the judges with his amazing technique. This five year old already has 14 placings (after only 18 starts!) in young horse classes up to 1.15m, 78% in the top three and six of them wins. In 85% of the classes he scored between 8.2 and 8.7. Take Me completed two impressive clear rounds at his international debut in a youngster tour class, which came as no surprise since he has a family tree full of top quality sport horse sires.

Casallco is a ten year old stallion whose international competition career with Philip Rüping is starting to take off. He already has his first Grand Prix wins and placings. Although his offspring are still very young, they have all inherited his seemingly endless scope. Examples include Cavoiro (Tobias Meyer), Cajulio (Simon Nizri), Cancun (Richard Vogel) and Caskkato (Scott Dollemore). Sire Casall (Rolf-Göran Bengtsson’s world-class showjumper and one of the world’s leading sires), together with Contender, Carthago and Calypso II, contribute some of the very best Holstein genes to Casallco’s pedigree. The dam Zelda IV is full sister to internationally placed Chocoprince (Loewie Joppen) and half-sister to World Equestrian Games show jumping finalist Chasseur Ask Z (Simone Buhofer).

The dam’s sire Verdi is the ultimate example of a horse that excels in both worlds: sport and breeding. He is Maikel van der Vleuten’s former international show jumping partner, successful competitor at two Olympic Games and one World Equestrian Games, three World Cup finals and in various Grand Prixs, gold medal winner at the WEG and the Europeans, as well as a team silver medal winner at the Olympics. This stallion’s pedigree is just as impressive as his competition track record. His sire Quidam de Revel is one of the most influential breeding stallions of recent decades, as was Verdi’s legendary grand sire Landgraf I. Verdi’s dam line, Holstein 474a, has also produced many top horses. Verdi’s breeding track record makes him a genuine ‘foundation stallion’ who will continue to stamp his genetic mark on the international jumping horse breeding scene for many years to come.

Holstein sire Celano contributes the valuable genes of Capitol I to Take Me’s bloodline back in the third generation.

Let him take you into a brilliant future.