Sandro Hit

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Sandro Hit has been one of the world's best dressage sires in the WBFSH ranking for twelve years. In 2021 he was even number one. Sandro Hit has left his lasting mark on modern dressage horse breeding with his brilliantly typed and extremely light-footed offspring. He is considered the founding stallion of our station – and line founder.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Showtime FRH/Dorothee Schneider and Salvino/Adrienne Lyle were on the gold and silver teams from Germany and the USA. This was the second Olympic gold for Showtime FRH, after European Championship team gold and double individual silver. Salvino was also part of the US dressage silver team at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, USA. Also at the start in Tokyo/JPN: Sir Donnerhall II OLD/Morgan Barbançon/FRA, Sebastien/Lindsay Kellock/CAN and Scolari/Shingo Hayashi/JPN. Sintano van Hof Olympia/Gareth Hughes/GBR was an Olympic reservist and then won in Hagen a.T.W. European Championship team silver. Statesman/Naima Moreira Laliberte/CAN was also a reservist and secured team bronze at the 2023 Pan-Am Games in Santiago/CHI.

The hereditary performance of the polished black nobleman, who was himself a dressage horse world champion and federal champion, is unparalleled. There are no less than 190 licensed sons in Germany alone, far more than any other sire has ever been able to produce. The list of his licensing winners, premium stallions and stallion market leaders would go beyond any scope. Many of them also made careers in sport, such as our vice dressage horse world champion and federal champion Sir Donnerhall I, the Grand Prix-winning Sancisco OLD, the federal champion, auction price record holder and advanced level winner San Francisco OLD, the Burg Cup finalist Sorento and the World Dressage Horse Championship placed Sir Skyfall OLD.

His daughters, an incredible 519 of them awarded the state premium, are led by the dressage horse world champion and double federal champion Poet, who was auctioned off for a record sum of 2.5 million euros at the P.S.I. auction. The Oldenburg champion mare Silberaster OLD also won double gold at the Federal Championships and bronze at the World Dressage Horse Championships. Sisters Act MT OLD/Dorothee Schneider was Federal Champion, placed fourth, sixth and fifth in the World Dressage Horse Championship finals, came second in the Burg Cup final and sixth in the Louisdor Prize and won international Grands Prix. In addition, a Sandro Hit daughter produced the Olympic and three-time World Cup winner and four-time European champion Weihegold OLD/Isabell Werth.

The descendants of Sandro Hit have long since conquered the major championship stages around the world. Five of them competed at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio/BRA, including the aforementioned eventual team gold winner and individual sixth place in dressage, Showtime FRH/Dorothee Schneider, and the team bronze winner in eventing, Santano II /Christopher Burton/AUS. Showtime FRH again won team gold and double silver in the two individual finals at the European Championships in 2019. In 2018, Salvino/Adrienne Lyle was part of the USA dressage silver team at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon/USA. Sir Donnerhall II OLD/Morgan Barbançon/ESP placed in the World Cup finals in Paris/FRA, Leipzig and Omaha/USA. Selten HW/Andres Dahl was part of the placed Danish team at the Olympic Games in 2016 and the World Equestrian Games in 2018.

Sandro Hit delivered a record number of eleven federal champions. In addition to those already mentioned, Polka Hit Nexen (2008 silver 6-year-old), Soliere (2010 silver 6-year-old) and St. Emilion (2011 bronze 6-year-old) were on the podium at the Dressage Horse World Championships.

The winnings of his offspring, which are registered in Germany alone, 219 of which are successful in advanced dressage up to Grand Prix, amount to over 1.8 million euros.

The father Sandro Song was licensing winner in 1990 and main premium winner in 1992.

From the dam El.St. Loretta also has two other licensed sons: the Grand Prix successful Diamond Hit (by Don Schufro) and Royal Hit (by Royal Dance).

From the dam line comes Bluetooth OLD (by Bordeaux), 2023 EM under Frederic Wandres

Team silver winner in Riesenbeck.

Epochal inheritance performance.