Charming Boy

Charming Boy, Champion Stallion of the 2005 Springpferdezuchtverband Oldenburg-International approval, is a modern Holstein stallion with good type, outstanding jumping talent and elastic movements with the right impulsion

Breeding

His sire, Contendro, won his stallion performance test in 2000 in Adelheidsdorf. Charming Boy's granddam is the dam of a young jumper stallion named Curly Sue by Caletto who now wins medium level/category B tests. The granddam, Parabella by Silbersee, was a successful show jumper herself up to medium level/category A and is also the granddam of Cherry Pie by Coriano. Caletto I was an extremely successful, international show jumper under Dr. Michael Rüping. They were members of the bronze medal winning German team at the European Championships in Hickstead in 1983 and Caletto I was the most successful German horse in Nations Cups that year. They were the highest winning pair at the CSIO in Geneva and also took first and other high places in the Grand Prix in Aachen, Switzerland and Calgary. During his career as a show jumper he won more than 100,000 DM in prizes – more than any other German breeding stallion before in those days. His grandsire, Silbersee, was also internationally successful under Dr. Michael Rüping, winning World Cups and Nations Cups. In 1985 they won the German Championships, in 1987 the Derby in Hamburg and also received the "Sport Horse of the Year" award twice. By the time his career in sport ended, he had won around 450,000 DM in total.

Performance

Charming Boy did an excellent job at his 30 day test in Neustadt/Dosse and received the fantastic score of 9.38 in the partial index for jumping with a 10.00 three times (aptitude, manner and ability) and an 8.25 for rideability. At his 70 day test Charming Boy overall scored 136.37 and was reserve champion with a Show Jumping of 144.32 he also showed great apptitude for dressage scoring 119.36. At the 70 day test in Neustadt/Dosse, Charming Boy received a score of 10.0 twice (for his talent in jumping and for his jumping ability on the cross-country course) and 9.5 twice (for his jumping technique and his jumping ability on the course) from the judges. All in all, Charming Boy received a score of 9.0 or better eleven times, six from the training director and five from the judges. In 2007 under Mario Stevens, Charming Boy won 15 tests for young jumpers up to medium (M) level and qualified for the Bundeschampionat in the class for 5-year old jumpers with a score of 9.0. He reached the final in Warendorf after having taken second place twice in the qualification rounds (8.5 and 8.6).

Progeny

On the basis of his first crop which produced several youngsters that were admitted to the auctions, Charming Boy received the Oldenburg I-c main premium for stallions with emphasis on jumping in 2007.

Pedigree

Amerigo Verspucci xx- Glander

Landadel- Roderich

Landjoker-- Grannus