S-CASSINA

Padre : QUICK STAR

The Selle Français stallion, Quick Star, was a tough, little (just 159 cms) competitor with American rider, Meredith Michaels, who has based herself in Europe long enough to marry Markus Beerbaum and find herself in the German jumping team! The pair won the Grand Prix of Maastricht and Munich in their illustrious career - and now Quick Star is making a name for himself at stud.
Quick Star’s sire, Galoubet A was also a performer, winning an astonishing 19 Grand Prix in his career - Galoubet is by one of the all time jumping sires, Almé, and out of the French trotter, Viti.
On his dam’s side, Quick Star is again bred to perform. His dam, Stella, a 7/8th Anglo-Arab, jumped internationally with Nelson Pessoa. Quick Star was originally owned by American businessman, Isaac Augetty but he was purchased in Christmas 1997 by French film distributor, Alain Katz. The stallion had covered a few mares in the United States in 1989 (resulting in the birth of his showjumping star daughter, also called Stella). From 1989 to 1994 he bred a few mares in the States belonging to friends of the original owner who imported Quick Star to the USA at the age of 6 months, and then sold him to Augetty at the age of 6 years.
According to Mr Katz: "From 1991 to 1994, during the time he was stationed with Meredith Micheals at the Paul Schockemöhle stables, he was used by the latter for his own breeding purposes and covered around 400 of his own mares, however this number remains roughly approximate because it was never possible, nor for the American owner that took Paul Schockemöhle to court for this period of exploitation, nor for us, to obtain any information from either Paul Schockemöhle or from the Oldenburg stud-book where he is omnipresent and very powerful and who refuse to respond to our several demands up to this day." (quoted in Annuaire Monneron 2003 - www.monneron.com ).
It took a while for Quick Star's breeding career to take off. Mr Katz made the mistake of parading him at St-Lô in 1998 along with two other sons of Galoubet - Quatoubet du Rouuet and Caloubet du Rouet, and there was much derision from the Normandy breeders at the sight of the 'midget' who had been acquired by an outsider from Paris.
Now Quick Star is distributed in 14 countres and is approved by 21 recognized stud-books.
Mr Kaitz feels that Quick Star combines the qualities of his top and bottom lines: "He has inherited the best of both. From Galoubet, his force, his energy and his courage; from Stella, her elegance, her intelligence and her technique, which resulted in this llittle rounded stallion, standing 1 m 59 being 'a genius over the bars'. Quick Star produces bay coloured horses with spirited and easy characters, voluntary, winners with lots of strength in a short back catapulted by sprung hind quarters, but he also has some aesthetically weak points, for he is capable of giving a pretty Anglo head but also a thick jowled head, inherited from his sire, Galoubet. By the way, certain of his products have perhaps a less than perfect front gesture but as a great international rider once explained to me, 'in front can always be corrected especially if there is a true motor behind' which is perfectly the case with the offspring of our stallion."

Quick Star’s most successful competitor so far has been Stella, who was ridden by American showjumper, Will Simpson until Meredith Beerbaum took her over, and the pairing has had a string of good placings in top competiton - including a second in the Grand Prix at Stuttgart.

Quick Star is proving a good sire of stallions with Quinticus, Quebec and Cardinus in Germany, Quincy Z (ex-Omnistar), Quilot Z and Quick Lauro Z in Belgium; Quick Star CH in Switzerland, Qualitative in Denmark, Quality in Ireland, Quality Touch Z in Chile, and Indy Star in France.

The list of riders on Quick Star horses right now reads like a who's who of international jumping: Otto Becker & Qualandro, Rolf-Goran Bengtsson & Quick Silver BZ, Marcus Ehning & Quick Roxette DH, Jos Lansink with Quincy Z and Quick Lauro Z and Franke Sloothaak & Quilfilio.

In June 2002, Quick Star was bred to Ratino Z - the ultimate accolade for the game little jumper!

Abuelo paterno : GALOUBET A

Galoubet A (1972-2005), selle français, , 173 cm, fue montado por el jinete francés Gilles Bertran de Balanda, un padrillo legendario tanto como a nivel internacional como padre de caballos de gran premio, incluidas las superestrellas internacionales Baloubet du Rouet, Taloubet Z y muchos más.

Galoubet fue visto por Gilles Bertran de Balanda cuando tenía cinco años, y unos meses después lel binomio ganó la final de cinco años en Fontainebleau.

En cuatro años de competencia, Galoubet A se ubicó primero o segundo en 22 Grandes Premios o en Copa de Nations a nivel internacional. Fue nombrado Campeón de Francia en 1977, 1979 y 1982.

Galoubet A, que ocupó el décimo puesto. en la WBFSH como mejor padrillo de salto de los años 1992/2001, fue un reconocido saltador francés. Ganó el Campeonato de Francia de cinco años en 1977, el Campeonato de Francia en 1979, el Campeonato del Mundo por equipos en Dublín en 1982. Ha llegado a ser un padre muy influyente de caballos deportivos con más de 30 compitiendo a nivel internacional. Liscalgot, miembro del equipo de la Copa de Naciones de Irlanda, Quick Star, Skippy II y Caloubet du Rouet, así como Baloubet.

Abuelo materno: CAPITOL I

Nació en 1975 y murió en 1999. Sus actuaciones nada tienen que ver con su mas que estimable descendencia. Aprobado en 1977 (Neumunster). Obtuvo 82.56 puntos en los sementales de Mendingen.

La producción de CAPITOL ha sido enorme tiene más de 150 hijos con clasificaciones internacionales en salto, los mas destacados son:

Cardento(madre por Lord), que ha sido medalla de plata por equipos en los JEM de Jerez 2002 y en la olimpiada de Atenas 2004 con el sueco Peter Eriksson. Carthago (madre por Calando I-Cor de la Bryere), olímpico en Atlanta y Sydney, europeísta en Hickstead (bronce por equipos), finalista en la Copa del Mundo de 1997 con Jos Lansink.

Cassini (madre por Caletto II-Cor de la Bryere) finalista en la Copa del Mundo de 1998 con Frak Sloothaak, con dos hijos muy destacados:

• Cumano (Campeón del Mundo con Jos Lansink) es hijo de Cassini, la madre es por Landgraf, y la segunda madre es por Caletto II (Cor de la Bryère).
• Berlin con el holandés Gerco Schroder ganó la medalla de oro por equipos en el Campeonato del Mundo 2006 y en el Campeonato de Europa 2007 y es hijo de Cassini (también hijos CDE). AlPapillon Armanie, oro por equipos en el Campeonato de Europa 2007 con el holandés Vincent Voorn, su madre es por Cassini.

Otros hijos destacados son Carolus I (madre por Roman-Ramzes x),Calato (madre por Landgraf ) ,Celano (madre por Lord), Centauer Z (madre por Lord), 

Cento (madre por Caletto II),Christo , Colino (madre por Calypso I-Cor de la Bryere), Canadian River (madre por Lord), Gitania (madre por Sacramento Song xx). Indoctro (madre por Caletto II), padre de muchísimos caballos de gran nivel, siendo hoy uno de los sementales de mayor importancia.