1987 – 2013 1.71 cm Grey
Breeder: Erhard Krampitz
Carthago is the son of Capitol I, out of a mare by Calando I, who stood at several breeding stations in Holstein before pursuing a performance career that culminated in a German Championship with Karsten Huck. After jumping successfully in Luxembourg, Calando I returned to breeding duties in Holstein.
Carthago’s dam, Perra (Calando I / Mambo) was a super broodmare, producing eleven foals including four licensed stallions: Lord Calando I (Lord), Carthago, Cinnamon (Corrado), a 1.50 competitor and licensed in the Austrian studbook, and Leonce (Limbus), a 1.30 competitor and licensed in Holstein.
Perra’s daughter Werra (Corporal) is the dam of Markus Beerbaum’s 1.60 jumper, ABC Charleston (Capitol), while another daughter, Cover Girl (Capitol) produced Lactic (Landjunker) who jumped 1.60 with John Whitaker.
At his performance test, Carthago earned a 9.5 for free jumping and a 10 for jumping talent.
As Carthago Z (he acquired the ‘Z’ being leased to Zangersheide) he finished in 11th place at the Atlanta Games with Jos Lansink and the pair were members of the Dutch team at the Sydney Games. In all the combination competed in 15 Nations Cups.
In 2001, the stallion, who had been leased to Leon Melchior since 1995, returned to his birthplace in Schleswig-Holstein and the Holsteiner Verband.
Carthago was already the sire of numerous approved sons and although for the latter years of his life he was no longer fertile he continued to sire foals for a while, thanks for the stock of frozen semen.
He was retired on an island in the North Sea, with a couple of mares for company just in case... before his death in 2013.
His progeny includes international showjumpers, such as Cim Christo at the 2004 Olympics under the Korean Bong Gak Sohn, as well as Kira III with Belgium’s Ludo Philippaerts, the Dutch horse VDL Groep Spiga with Leopold van Asten, Caitano and Ulrich Kirchhoff, Campus and Steve Guerdat, Cristallo with Alois Pollmann-Schweckhorst, Caya and Sheila Burke, K-Carrera and Michael Aabo, Charlottenhof’s Classix Girl and Sören von Rönne, and Hofgut Liederbach’s Cathleen with Pia-Luise Aufrecht.
On the 2013 German FN jumping stallion rankings, Carthago was in 12th place with an index of 158. On the WBFSH jumping stallion rankings for 2013, Carthago was in 22nd place with 34 international competitors, the most successful of which were Old Chap Tame, Cash 63, Coltaire Z and Mylord Carthago.
Mylord Carthago is not only a member of that country’s Nations Cup team but he is also an influential stallion in France, and he is currently 4th on the WBFSH jumping stallion rankings.
The chestnut stallion Old Chap Tame is out of a Quidam de Revel mare, and ridden by Eugenie Legrand Angot, was 2nd at San Gallo***** and a member of the French team at Calgary in 2013. In 2014, the ride was taken over by Edwina Tops-Alexander.
In his survey of the top 16 stallions in France in the 2012 season, on the basis of the number of winners in CSI classes, Bernard le Courtois found Carthago in 7th with three winners. In his analysis of the top stallions on the basis of the proportion of winners to foals in the period 1999-2003, Carthago came into 4th place with three winners out of 43 foals, or 3.97%. Bernard notes that all three winners were out of mares of Jalisco breeding – and that he is also proving a very fine sire of broodmares.
On the 2014 German FN breeding values, Carthago has a value of 157, which put him into 13th place.
