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After an indifferent stallion test at Medingen in
1997 – finishing 16th out of 33 with a score off
99.8 – Sandro Hit became a star under the
guidance of Dr Ulf Möller, the manager of the PSI
dressage barn. The pair won the six year old
dressage championship at the
Bundeschampionate, and also the World
Championship at Arnheim that year.
Sandro Hit’s dam, Loretta has been an excellent
stallion producer – bred to Don Schufro, she
produced Diamond Hit who was Reserve World
Champion Five Year Old Dressage horse and
Bundeschampion in 2002; bred to the
Rohdiamant son, Royal Dance, she produced
Royal Hit, the 1-c premium stallion of the 2002
Oldenburg stallion licensing. Loretta is by
Ramino, who was champion of his performance
test at Adelheidsdorf in 1983. He stood in
Oldenburg from 1983 to 1987, while at the same
time competing in showjumping with Melanie
Kötter. The pair won team gold at the European
Junior Championship in 1987, before he joined
up with the Italian rider, Loris Pujatti, again with
international success.
Ramino has proven an exceptional sire of
broodmares – he is the damsire of the jumping
stallion, Gio Granno; the 1997 Oldenburg
licensing winner, Ronaldo, and his full-brother,
Rubin Star W, who won his stallion performance
test and was a finalist at the
Bundeschampionate; Sergeant Pepper, two time
Bundeschampionate finalist is also out of a
Ramino mare. Loretta’s dam, Lassie is by Welt
As who was the sire of international
showjumping star, Leroy Brown, and dressage
star, Bonfire.
Sandro Song is by the influential Oldenburg
based, Holsteiner stallion, Sandro. Sandro
competed in international showjumping
competition with Franke Sloothaak. Sandro
Song is out of Antenne II by Gepard, who left a
lasting imprint on Paul Schockemöhle’s mare
band – Gepard was a son of the great sire of
showjumpers, Gotthard. The grand-dam Antenne
won numerous Grand Prix with George Ahlmann.
Her sire, Adlerorden was a top jumping sire in
Westfalia, siring stars like Argonaut 7 with
Bernard Kamps.
Sandro Song is one of the few stallions to have
been both Champion Oldenburg Junior Stallion
as well as main premium winner. He himself
competed in both dressage and showjumping to
intermediate level.
Despite the versatility of his sire, on his
breeding most people would expect that Sandro
Hit would have been headed for the jumping ring
– trouble was, he couldn’t jump, but Ulf Möller
found the way to bring out his dressage ability
and establish a new dressage dynasty.
Let Ulf take up the tale:
Here was a stallion that had done a poor
performance test, he was not bred for dressage,
but you saw something there and ended up with
a World Champion, and now it seems a
champion sire?
“ Maybe that has something to do with the test.
Now they don’t have to do that 100 day test and
I think that is very good decision. Some stallions
are too weak to do a 100 day test, and to do all
those things like cross country jumping. Now we
have a 30 day test and then it goes on their
competition record, that is much better for the
future. Okay he might be bred like a jumper, but
he cannot jump. He makes a nice jump but he
has no scope.”
“ I think he is really a revolution in the breeding.
An absolutely new bloodline – he has more that
65 sons now. Maybe Weltmeyer did this, but no
other stallion.”
What qualities does he give his young stock?
“ He is really stamping his offspring. He is
producing uphill horses, producing pretty
horses, even with some ugly mares. He gives his
colour, and he gives outstanding rideability, and
he gives something that is difficult to say in
words, he makes proud horses. This is what is
important – but it also gives a responsibility to
the rider that he understands this proudness,
and don’t try and press this proudness out. The
rider must allow this pride to come out of the
horse – maybe it was a bit the same with him at
the stallion test, they pressed him and I let him
live.”
What mare lines does he cross on?
“ That is the really good thing with Sandro Hit,
we have outstanding offspring from Donnerhall
mares, from Rubinstein, from Weltmeyer, from
Brentano, from Holstein bloodlines, like Calypso.
This is what makes Sandro super super
interesting because this is a line that fits all the
prominent lines, so now you have a new choice.”
1997 – finishing 16th out of 33 with a score off
99.8 – Sandro Hit became a star under the
guidance of Dr Ulf Möller, the manager of the PSI
dressage barn. The pair won the six year old
dressage championship at the
Bundeschampionate, and also the World
Championship at Arnheim that year.
Sandro Hit’s dam, Loretta has been an excellent
stallion producer – bred to Don Schufro, she
produced Diamond Hit who was Reserve World
Champion Five Year Old Dressage horse and
Bundeschampion in 2002; bred to the
Rohdiamant son, Royal Dance, she produced
Royal Hit, the 1-c premium stallion of the 2002
Oldenburg stallion licensing. Loretta is by
Ramino, who was champion of his performance
test at Adelheidsdorf in 1983. He stood in
Oldenburg from 1983 to 1987, while at the same
time competing in showjumping with Melanie
Kötter. The pair won team gold at the European
Junior Championship in 1987, before he joined
up with the Italian rider, Loris Pujatti, again with
international success.
Ramino has proven an exceptional sire of
broodmares – he is the damsire of the jumping
stallion, Gio Granno; the 1997 Oldenburg
licensing winner, Ronaldo, and his full-brother,
Rubin Star W, who won his stallion performance
test and was a finalist at the
Bundeschampionate; Sergeant Pepper, two time
Bundeschampionate finalist is also out of a
Ramino mare. Loretta’s dam, Lassie is by Welt
As who was the sire of international
showjumping star, Leroy Brown, and dressage
star, Bonfire.
Sandro Song is by the influential Oldenburg
based, Holsteiner stallion, Sandro. Sandro
competed in international showjumping
competition with Franke Sloothaak. Sandro
Song is out of Antenne II by Gepard, who left a
lasting imprint on Paul Schockemöhle’s mare
band – Gepard was a son of the great sire of
showjumpers, Gotthard. The grand-dam Antenne
won numerous Grand Prix with George Ahlmann.
Her sire, Adlerorden was a top jumping sire in
Westfalia, siring stars like Argonaut 7 with
Bernard Kamps.
Sandro Song is one of the few stallions to have
been both Champion Oldenburg Junior Stallion
as well as main premium winner. He himself
competed in both dressage and showjumping to
intermediate level.
Despite the versatility of his sire, on his
breeding most people would expect that Sandro
Hit would have been headed for the jumping ring
– trouble was, he couldn’t jump, but Ulf Möller
found the way to bring out his dressage ability
and establish a new dressage dynasty.
Let Ulf take up the tale:
Here was a stallion that had done a poor
performance test, he was not bred for dressage,
but you saw something there and ended up with
a World Champion, and now it seems a
champion sire?
“ Maybe that has something to do with the test.
Now they don’t have to do that 100 day test and
I think that is very good decision. Some stallions
are too weak to do a 100 day test, and to do all
those things like cross country jumping. Now we
have a 30 day test and then it goes on their
competition record, that is much better for the
future. Okay he might be bred like a jumper, but
he cannot jump. He makes a nice jump but he
has no scope.”
“ I think he is really a revolution in the breeding.
An absolutely new bloodline – he has more that
65 sons now. Maybe Weltmeyer did this, but no
other stallion.”
What qualities does he give his young stock?
“ He is really stamping his offspring. He is
producing uphill horses, producing pretty
horses, even with some ugly mares. He gives his
colour, and he gives outstanding rideability, and
he gives something that is difficult to say in
words, he makes proud horses. This is what is
important – but it also gives a responsibility to
the rider that he understands this proudness,
and don’t try and press this proudness out. The
rider must allow this pride to come out of the
horse – maybe it was a bit the same with him at
the stallion test, they pressed him and I let him
live.”
What mare lines does he cross on?
“ That is the really good thing with Sandro Hit,
we have outstanding offspring from Donnerhall
mares, from Rubinstein, from Weltmeyer, from
Brentano, from Holstein bloodlines, like Calypso.
This is what makes Sandro super super
interesting because this is a line that fits all the
prominent lines, so now you have a new choice.”
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