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Seacookie TSF Trakehner gelding by Helikon xx, out of
Sonnenwende III by Onassis *E*
Foaled 6/2/1999, Bay, 16.3 hands Bred by Walter Elxnat, Hohenkirchen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Current Owner – Catherine Witt, Rookery Park Stud, Worleston, Cheshire, U.K. (Purchased in December 2007 from Ingrid Klimke)
Current Rider – William Fox-Pitt, Fox-Pitt Eventing, Hinton St Mary, Dorset, U.K. Highest Level Completed So Far: CCI4*
Top Performances with William Fox-Pitt: won Pau CCI4*, October
2013, France; second at Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI4*, April 2013, U.S.; won Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials CCI3*, Sep- tember 2012, U.K.; second at Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials CCI4*, September 2010, U.K.; second in Advanced Division at British Festival of Eventing, August 2010; seventh at Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials CCI4*, September 2009, U.K.; second in Advanced Division at British Fes- tival of Eventing, August 2009; sixth at Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI4*, April 2009, U.S.; tenth at Boekelo CCI3*, October 2008, Sweden; third at Barbury International CIC2*, July 2008, U.K. Seacookie TSF was named Trakehner Horse of the Year by the German Trakehner Verband in October 2013.
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Profiles of International Eventing Stars Seacookie TSF and RF Tabasco By Kim MacMillan
ultiple wins at the top international levels over the last few years have put Seacookie TSF and RF Tabas- co on the radar of eventing fans worldwide. Since the
2008 season Seacookie has been ridden by Great Britain’s Wil- liam Fox-Pit for owner Catherine Wit. More recently, in Au- gust 2013, the big news was that U.S. eventing and show jumper rider Marilyn Litle, along with a syndicate that she and friend Karen O’Connor put together, had purchased Tabasco.
Both Trakehners were obtained from Ingrid Klimke in Ger-
many. Her eventing and dressage stable in Münster has been the launching point for numerous successful horses over the years including a good number of upper-level Trakehner eventers. In addition to Seacookie TSF and RF Tabasco (formerly Tabasco TSF), Windfall *PG*, a U.S. Olympic team bronze medalist in eventing at the 2004 Athens games, was ridden by Ingrid before being sold to New Spring Farm in the United States.
Top Earlier Performances with Ingrid Klimke: won Marbach CIC3*, 2007, Germany; third at Kreuth CIC2*, 2007, Germany; seventh at Aachen CICO3*, 2007, Germany; seventh at Luhmühlen CIC2*, 2007, Germany; eighth at Le Lion de Angers, 2006, France. Seacookie also won the Bundeschampionat (German National Young Horse Champion- ships) for eventing in 2004.
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eacookie was foaled at Walter Elxnat’s farm in Lower Saxony, Germany, in the late spring of 1999. Te Elxnat family has a
long history of breeding quality Trakehner horses dating back at least to the 1950s. Te mare family of Stelldichein (Mare Family # O 170 A 3, foaled 1959 in Germany) comes from that farm and is the family that produced Seacookie through his dam Sonnen- wende, a great great granddaughter of Stelldichein. Stelldichein’s dam was the East Prussian mare Schwindlerin (foaled in 1940) who was highly prolific and was cited by breed expert Dr. Fritz Schilke in his book Trakehner Horses – Ten and Now as being “of great toughness and faithfulness.” Schwindlerin’s mare line pro- duced at least three approved stallions (Saturn, Sleipnir and See- adler) and a large number of mares who were known for harmoni- ous body type, hardy constitutions and very good movement.
Top of page: Seacookie TSF (Helikon xx – Onassis *E*) showing his workmanlike trot under William Fox-Pitt’s guidance during the dressage phase of the 2013 Rolex Ken- tucky Three-Day Event CCI4*.
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