Sampras

2008 Hanoverian Stallion imported from Germany

This Hanoverian Stallion was purchased as a foal from the Verden Elite Auction in 2008. Developing into a one-of-a kind natural jumper, the result of his first outing at the 2011 Stallion Performance Test in Adelheidsdorf amply illustrates Sampras’s extraordinary qualities. Placed in the apex group of a very strong field, he was rewarded with a 9.75 out of 10.00 for his ability to jump and 9.5 for rideability.

His pedigree reads like pearls on a string…Stakkato, Libero H, Calypso II, Furioso II and then Inschallah…all rooted in a dam-line which has produced a mind-boggling number of International jumpers. His two full brothers, Safran and Wallenberg, are also licensed stallions and uterine sister, Escada (Escudo I) as well as his dam’s half-sister, Caracalla (Cantus) are all 1.60m International jumpers. It’s small wonder that this stallion, truly an outlier and now sadly deceased, produces extraordinary jumpers with such consistency. Slower to reveal their prodigious talent, they nevertheless mature into superb jumpers befitting their sire’s heritage.