1994 165 cm Bay
Breeder: Harm Thörmahlen
Quite Easy is an example of one of Harm Thörmahlen’s favourite crosses – Quidam over his home bred Holstein mares. He is out of Birte II – by Landgraf and out of U-Capitol, the full sister to Capitol.
Once again, we have a discrepancy between the ‘blurb’ and the reality. While Quite Easy is sometimes described as successful at Grand Prix level, I can find no trace of him on the usually authoritative sja.it database. There is no doubt that ridden by Peter Eriksson, Quite Easy was 2nd in Sweden’s outdoor championships and was the winner of Sweden’s 7-8 Year Old Championships.
Quite Easy’s first foal crop went through the national performance testing for 3-year-olds in 2002, a test for all stallions’ progeny in both jumping and dressage. Of 48 foals born to his first foal crop, 14 were presented in the performance testing and 12 received Class 1 awards. Six of these received awards for jumping and three were highlighted with dressage awards. Quite Easy’s multi-talented son Qalle passed his stallion licensing in 2003, with high marks and went on to stand at Flyinge in Sweden.
Quite Easy has had Class 1 foals at all foal championships: the filly Philippa S (dam sire Caretino) won Sweden’s 2001 National Championship in Tingsryd. From the results of the 2003 Three-Year Old Performance Tests in Sweden, Quite Easy demonstrated a 70% rate of producing premium jumping offspring and 64% premium offspring in dressage. Quite Easy’s daughter Quillabamba J was the Champion three year-old jumping mare in 2003.
In Sweden, Quite Easy is the only stallion with winners in both dressage and jumping, ranking 3rd for dressage, and 2nd for jumping.
In yet another of those global moves, 2007 saw a swap – the exciting young French jumping stallion, Jaguar Mail went to Flyinge to be ridden by Peter Eriksson – with instant success taking out the stallion championship at Lanaken before going on to represent Sweden at the Beijing Games – while Quite Easy came to Bernard le Courtois’ Brullemail Stud in France.
He had already been available through frozen semen and his first French foals were born in 2005. According to Bernard: “Everyone is unanimous when judging their model. Several of the top breeders have already used him in 2004 & 2005 and have bred some beautiful foals. His foal Ramses Paluel was placed 4th at the French Championships for foals in 2005.”
As usual M le Courtois is fairly frank, even in the assessment of his own: “Quite Easy has seen a fabulous success throughout Europe and the demand was immediate when he came onto the French market since 2004. He is a pretty bay horse of an average size and very easy to breed with. He is athletic, well balanced out, with a beautiful top line and strong hips. He is virile but with a very handsome head (even though he is blind in one eye). Like many Quidam sons he could use a bit more bone. He develops a remarkable step, a very light and lovely airy trot and an excellent balanced and energetic gallop. When jumping he is very elastic with a good technique, with quick reactions and strength in his back. His products look very much like their father in every way.”
In 2013, Quite Easy was represented by some interesting performers. At Drammen***, there was Easy Contact (out of an Electro mare) with Mariano Maggi, 3rd in the 1.50 class and Miebello (Cardento) and Johan Lundh, 21st in the Grand Prix. Quiet Riot (Cortez) and Fabio Crotto, 9th in a 1.45 at Copenhagen. Spike Jones was a member of the Swedish Team that finished ninth in the Nations Cup at Rome with Sandra Carlsson. Qurint (Cardento) was 4th in a 1.50 class at Rome with Olivier Phillipaerts. Rico Revel (Zeppeln) won a 1.50 class at Canteleu CSI*** and was a member, with Eduardo Alvarez Aznar, of the Spanish team that finished 10th at the Lisbon Nations Cup. Quite Quick (A’Khan) and Karina Rie Truelsen won the six bar at Sopot***.
The star of the bunch was Harrie Smolders’ Jackson Hole (Robin I Z) who won the 6 bar at Vienna and was second in the Grand Prix.
