Canterbury Court
Presidio is a 1994 black-brown stallion
who stands 16.2 hands. He has
substantial bone (9 ½ “) while retaining
a very modern elegance. He comes
from a family renowned for its
performance horse and stallion
production. Presidio's pedigree and
performance show great promise for
him as a modern sporthorse sire. Due
to an unrecognized fetlock injury in his
100 Day Test, Presidio himself was
unable to enter competition. His
offspring are showing what might have
been.

Research in Germany has shown that
free jumping is the only portion of the
stallion testing which predicts the
jumping ability of a stallion’s offspring.
Presidio’s free jumping is exemplary,
shown by his ability to clear five-foot
oxers easily. He received a 9 in jumping
form and a 9 in jumping potential from
the Hanoverian Commission. Presidio
also has shown talent for dressage,
with great ridability and a very correct
piaffe in hand and under saddle.
Additionally Presidio comes from one of
the most revered dam lines in German
Warmblood breeding.

Presidio’s sire, Palladium, is by the well-
known Hanoverian sire Pik Solo whose
offspring are winners in competition
and breed shows. Palladium has
continued this tradition by siring
Prophesy, 1997 CDS Freestyle
Champion at First Level and 1996
Futurity Champion, Pallas Athena and
Palisade, Olsierlea Breed Show
winners, and the Elite Mare Palladia.
Palladium himself is now placing in
Grand Prix. He still finds time to
participate in breed shows and was the
Grand Champion at the Mid-South
States Combined Training and
Dressage Breed Show.

Presidio’s dam, Windsong, received an
8 at her inspection. While never in
competition herself, she produced
Neptune, a winning event and dressage
horse on the West Coast; Niersteiner,
Golden State Champion Three Year Old,
winner of numerous breed shows and
now starting a career in dressage;
Pathfinder, showing dressage in Texas;
Ganador, a stallion prospect in North
Carolina; and Samarai, an Oldenburg
colt who was awarded First Premium
and the champion out of 24 foals at his
inspection site. Windsong is by the
famed Spruce Meadows stallion Wodka
who was shown to Grand Prix under
the name “Young Wolfsburg”. He
counts among his progeny the Grand
Prix jumpers Concorde and Windfall as
well as the top hunter Bavaria.

Windsong’s mother, States Premium
Mare Garina by Graphit, is from one of
the most distinguished dam lines in
Hanoverian breeding. She is the
grandmother of the German Nation’s
Cup mare Sprehe Stella. Garina is also
a full sister to the Rhinelander State
Stallion Grandus (sire of the reserve
Canadian Olympic jumper Ghino), the
States Premium Mare Gina (dam of the
German Olympic Jumper Prestige and
the approved sire Piccadilly), and the
States Premium Mare Grace (dam of
the approved stallion Marsflug). Graphit
is well known to Americans through his
sons Grundstein, Graf George, and
Grannus, the producer of top class
jumpers Gland Slam, Top Gun, and
Grannush, and as the dam sire of the
Grand Prix stallion For Pleasure.

SPS Gotenmädel by Gotthard, besides
being the mother of outstanding
offspring, is also the full sister to Gaby,
the mother of the famous Celle Stallion
Picard and the private stallion
Wendengott. Gaby also produced the
States Premium Mare Phillipa who was
still in active breeding at age 17 and
who is owned by the Pape family,
breeders of Pik Bube, Davignon, and
Bergamon. SPS Phillipa has produced
the Celle Stallion Dobrock, the Flynge
Stud Stallion De la Gardie and two
other approved stallions.

Fusion is by the great dam sire Frustra
II. His daughters appear on the mother’
s side of the stallions Pik Bube I and II,
Graphit, Drosselklang I and II, and the
Hanoverian Horse of the Year
Gralsritter. Daughters of these horses
also seem to retain the ability to
produce great performance horses.  
Besides the stallions mentioned above,
Fusion’s other famous descendants
include the jumper Garlic, the
Oldenburg stallions Donatelli and
Placido, the Hanoverian stallion
Daimler, the RSPI stallion Der Graf, the
ISR stallion Isaiah, and the Belgian
stallion Lanthanid. With so many
descendants placed in stud in so many
different countries, Fusion is honored
as a top foundation mare for both the
Hanoverian and Oldenburg breeds.

Presidio’s foals out of both warmblood
and Thoroughbred mares  are very
typey with improved head and necks,
deeply muscled hindquarters and
wonderful attitudes. They also show
very elastic movement. His first foal
Prescription was Champion Stallion at
the 2004 Northwest Sporthorse
Breeder’s Classic. He  been Champion
or Reserve Champion Oldenburg at
every breed show he has been entered
in - over a dozen to date. He was also
placed 2nd in the Training Level and
5th at First Level in the USDF 2004 All
Breeds Awards and was Pacific
Northwest Dressage Champion at First
Level. In 2005 Prescription was the
GOV Horse of the Year at Second Level.


                     PIK KÖNIG        PIK AS XX
            PIK SOLO            ------------------------------------    
                   SPS DORFBRAUT        DUENKEL
PALLADIUM           _________________________         
                    LOMBARD        LUGANO II
            SPS LUISELLA           ----------------------------    
                    SPS CALLAS        CARDINAL XX
                            LANDMAID
             --------------------------------------------------------------
                    WOLFSBURG        FLORENTINER II
            WODKA                      ---------------------------
                   ELMFREUNDIN        ELM
WINDSONG         --------------------------------------------------               
                   GRAPHIT        GRANDE
            SPS GARINA       ----------------------------------       
                    GOTENMÄDEL        GOTTHARD
                                                   FUSION                FRUSTRA II
Prescription
Presidio - Bolero
Owned by Letter Perfect Farms
Piper
Presidio - Lemon Park
Owned by Katy Doty
Patronus
Presidio - Walter Scott
Pamona
Presidio - Cordalme

Presidio
1994 Black-Brown Stallion
16.2 Hands
Approved German Oldenburg Verband