the dam’s sire of Michael Jung’s Olympic and World Champion La Biosthetique Sam FBW, among others. Tabasco, whose pedigree contains a high percentage Toroughbred and Arabian blood (73.24 percent), is a product of the same historically successful mix of strong Trakehner genetics combined with “blood horses” to produce the ideal upper-level eventers – the same recipe that has been used in varying degrees for over 200 years by Trakehner breeders. Karl-Heinz Schulenburg sold Tabasco as a weanling and didn’t
hear anything more about him until 2009 when Ingrid Klimke contacted the Trakehner Verband looking for Trakehner horses by Heraldik xx. Te Verband quickly put her in touch with Karl- Heinz who did an extensive search to find Tabasco again. He and Ingrid formed a partnership to buy back Tabasco and by early that year he was in her barn in Münster, Germany. “Because of his interesting breeding, I found and bought ‘Tab-
bi’ with his breeder at the beginning of 2009,” Ingrid says. “From the beginning we got the financial assistance from the Trakehner Förderverein [a special program called Trakehner Sportpferde Förderung, hence the horse was named Tabasco TSF]. Tabbi is a large, high-withered, long-legged horse who is still athletic and agile on the cross-country. In jumping he is careful, very handy, and gives me a very good feeling. His gaits are fluid and smooth, so in the dressage arena he shows a lovely presence.” Ingrid and Tabbi competed successfully in regional events
Marilyn Little of the U.S. and the Trakehner gelding RF Tabasco (Heraldik xx – Heling), competing in their first CIC3* together at Schenefeld in Germany in late September 2103.
III’s sire was Heling, a German-born son of the international three- day event horse Bukephalos. Aſter standing in Germany for several years, Heling was exported to Canada where he is at stud at Galten Farms in Ontario. Titania III’s dam Tussi (Tabasco’s grand dam) was the only
mare of 80 competitors of all breeds who scored a 10 in free-jump- ing at her Mare Performance Test in Traventhal in 1991. She was also the winner of the test group. Tussi’s dam, Tertia III (Tabasco’s great grand dam), a Ger-
man Premium Mare, took first place in the Family Group at the German National Trakehner Show in 1975 and second at the Deutsche Landwirtschaſts-Gesellschaſt Exhibition (German Agri- cultural Society Show) in Frankfurt in 1978. Tertia III had a total of eight foals, one of them being the approved stallion Timber. Tussi by Parforce was the last of her foals. Parforce was sired by the international eventer Habicht (also the sire of Olympic eventer Windfall *Pg*) who was in turn sired by the Anglo-Arabian Bur- nus who also competed as an international eventer. Tabasco’s sire was the Toroughbred stallion Heraldik, who is also the sire of Ingrid Klimke’s Olympic horse Buts Abraxxas and
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at Advanced level and at the CCI one- and two-star levels from 2009 through 2011. In 2012 and 2013 they made their mark at the CIC3* level, winning or placing in the top four at Wiesbaden (Germany), Malmö (Sweden), Schenefeld (Germany), Boekelo (Te Netherlands), Bredeneek (Germany), Marbach (Germany), Houghton Hall (U.K.) and Sahrendorf (Germany). In August 2013, top U.S. show jumping and event rider Mari-
lyn Litle convinced Ingrid to sell Tabbi. Marilyn talks about how she came to first notice Tabasco and ultimately to purchase him. “It’s hard not to notice Tabasco. Tat said, I actually ‘noticed’ Tabasco two and a half years ago and tried to buy him in the sum- mer of 2011,” Marilyn explains. “I was stuck in traffic driving from Belgium en route to Ingrid Klimke’s stable in Germany to try him. Unfortunately she had to leave for a training session at the German Federation in Warendorf before I could arrive at her stable to ride him. I was living in Belgium at the time, but my schedule was jam packed and I couldn’t wait the five hours until she returned. By the time I was able to find time to get back to her stable the following week, she had changed her mind and I had missed my chance!” Ten Marilyn found out he was possibly for sale again in
mid-2013. “Within 24 hours of hearing that Tabasco could be purchased, I was at Ingrid’s stable with my boots on,” she says. “As luck would have it, almost exactly two years aſter the first time I atempted to see him, I was once again in traffic at rush hour en route to Ingrid’s stable and was once again afraid she wouldn’t let me try him if I was late! She must have thought I was a lunatic, be- cause I kept calling to tell her my exact location. Tabasco is a very exciting addition to the RF Eventing Team and I am thrilled to
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