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Tzigane *Pb* - The Pedigree Tzigane *Pb* is one of the last approved sons of the ATA foundation sire Graditz *E*. He also hails from an old and very proven mare family. Please click on the horse names in yellow for photos and more information!
Mare family of S9A Sabine (Gohlke - Reden); also known as old Toga family
Schabernack, the background of this stallion line, was a State Stud stallion at Marbach in Germany and besides his most important son Rondo, also sired a number of exceptional daughters. For the ATA, the CCI** winner and Olympic Longlist member Amethyst II gained significant influence - his dam was Aschenbrödel by Schabernack, a multiple in hand Champion mare in Germany. The mare family of Graditz *E* goes back to the mare Gitarre (by Keith) and also produced such important stallions as Grandezzo, Giscard, Grande Planeet, Görlitz, Gelria, Grimsel, Griset, Gregor, Grossfürst and most recently in Neumünster 2007, Georgenberg.
Rondo also bred in the Hanoverian breed and his best known offspring is porbably the gelding Rendezvous, who won Individual and Team Gold at the 1990 European Dressage Championships for Young Riders with Michael Klimke in the saddle. Through his dam, Rondo was a descendant of the East Prussian mare Reni, who was on the trek. Rondo's dam was a maternal half sister of the DLG Champion mare Rastenburg, dam of the approved Ricardo and gran dam of the two exceptional stallions EH Ravel and EH Rockefeller.
Condus' daughter were foundation mares for the lines of the ATA approved Baron Verdi, the excellent German FEI dressage stallion Enim Pascha, outstanding sporthorse families like that of Bellinda III, Lavinia, Thila II and Toffiee. Condus is also the sire of the two German approved, US-imported FEI dressage stallion Tempelritter and Tarim. In fact, both are full siblings to Tzigane's dam Tekoa. More about that mare family can be found further down. Condu's sire Ramzes AA was an Angloarabian stallion of profound impact on worldwide sport horse breeds. The "R" of his line exists in Holstein via Ramiro and in Oldenburg and Westfalia via Rubinstein - clearly two very diverse and athletic lines, all tracing back to one stallion. Ramzes AA influence on the Trakehner breed was slim, but wherever he appears, athletic horses were the result. E.g. the Klosterhof Medingen jumper family of Caravelle also goes back to Ramzes AA. The old Toga-family, which today is named after Toga's dam Sabine, stands for a number of very important stallions and especially mares that helped to create a very athletic family that is represented at advanced levels in both dressage and show jumping today. Toga by Totilas was dam of the approved Thor, a Trakehner that was predominantly used in the Hessia breed with long-lasting success. His sons Fiothor and Tango still have an excellent name for the performance ability of their offspring - Thor's Trakehner son Mandant is known as a top notch show jumper producer, and despite little usage in the Trakehner breed, is sire of the Trakehner stallions Arc de Triomphe (sire of the FEI show jumper, and now approved stallion Picobello), Machandel (Puissance level show jumper for Poland) and Pondor and it seems that the line is about to be resurrected by Picobello, at least for the show jumper branch of Trakehner breeding. Another approved son of Thor was Hagedorn II, and the mare Heraklia not only produced the outstanding in hand driving mare Helena, but also the ATA's approved Hailo *Pg*E*. Also out of Toga was Heros, a full brother to Thor. What Thor did for Hessia, Heros did for his own breed by siring the very important Tümmler and Tiparillo, as well as foundation mares of such caliber as Tertia III, Luna, Lonka, Lisett, Limona, or Herbstnacht II. Tümmler alone, through his sons EH Tenor and EH Tivano, helped to shape the young Trakehner breed after WWII. Later, as a stallion in the US, he continued to produced highly athletic horses with a dominant talent for eventing - wonderfully represented by his son Alladdin, Natalie Rooney-Pitt's CCI**** evening gelding who competed at Rolex and Burghley. Last but not least, Toga also produced the two approved full brothers Tornado I and II. And again, a predominant jumping gene was passed on. Tornado I is sire of the stallions Kopernikus, a strong jumper producer in the breed, Polar and Ingo. The latter was at home at Trakehner Gestüt Kesselfeld - where generations later our foundation mare Hennie *M* was bred. Toga's grand daughter Themse II finally put the female line of this family on a much bigger basis, mostly though her sons Tarim and Tempelritter, and her daughter Thila II, also by Condus *E*. What Tekoa did for the line in North America, Thila II did for the line in Germany. Her daughter Thiara by Falke, a brood mare at Gestüt Hämelschenburg, produced the Grand Prix dressage horse Thimur (by Enrico Caruso *Ps*E*) and exceptional elite mare Thirza by Karon, who in 2008, had her 19th (!) foal. Among them the FEI dressage gelding Tylord, the 1996 NMS Reserve Champion Trocadero, and the Trakehner Verband premium mares Tavolara (by Exclusiv), Teresita (by Alter Fritz), Thalia (by Exclusiv), Taormina (by Freudenfest), and Theresa (by Schwadroneur). Elite mare Thirza
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Graditz *E* was one of the ATA's most popular and successful sires over the past 20 years and produced Grand Prix performers for both dressage (e.g. Ibsen) and show jumping (e.g. Advocate *Ps*). Graditz also left a legacy through his many excellent daughters. He was originally approved as a premium stalliion in Germany and stood at stud at Klosterhof Medingen for one season before he came to the US. His parental half brothers were the outstanding sport horse sires Arthus and EH Friedensfürst, the latter a successful international dressage stallion with Nicole Uphof and Lisa Wilcox. Graditz *E* sired several approved sons for the ATA, such as the mentioned Advocate *Ps*, Dichter, Donnerkeil, Ibsen, Lausbub, Pennent, and most recently, A'Osiris.
Rondo passed his 100 day test in 1973 at Westerecelle with the best training scores of the lot - and finished 6th overall in the end. His outstanding rideability and overall athleticism received lots of praise back then. He was successul at lower levels in dressage and Hunter tests (Field hunter) before his true talent was discovered and he won and placed at S level in show jumping (e.g. at the Dobrock Grand Prix). Three Trakehner sons were approved over the years. Graditz *E*, the excellent sport horse sire Arthus, and the international Grand Prix dressage winner EH Friedensfürst, who put the Schabernack/Rondo line back on track in Europe. 
Schabernack stood at stud in South Germany, at famous Main Stud Marbach in the State of Baden-Württemberg. He had 12 approved sons - but Rondo was by far the best and most important. The true value of Schabernack came through his many very good daughters, among them stallioon mothers like Konstanz (dam of Kolumbus by Habicht), Isola, dam of Immortelle, who in turn produced Impressionist by Herzbube, and the Donauwind-son Isolan, Faschine, dam of Feldspat by Persaldo, Aschenbrödel, dam of the approved CCI** eventer Amethyst II, Almrausch, dam of the very good Agent (by Gharib ox), Akelei, dam of Akonit by Kastor, and Hildesheim, the foundation mare for the ATA's approved Happy Hour.
Condus *E* was one of those stallions that left Germany and a few years later, the early departure was an apparent loss for the breed in Europe. Condus had made a name of himself as a good dressage sire and being one of only two direct sons of the century sire Ramzes AA in the Trakehner breed, especially his daughters were regarded with a lot of interest. In the US, he became a very important stallion due to the fact that he sired tremendously athletic horses that were naturally dual talents and several of his daughters left significant offspring in North America. Possibly the most important offspring in his approved son Leonidas *Pg*, who is a consistent producer of dressage horses up to FEI levels. 
