Sire: Eurocommerce Berlin
Dam: Kyra x G. Ramiro Z
KWPN 528003000802282
Stallion born 19 April 2008 Grey - To make 168cms


Sire Eurocommerce Berlin (Cassini I x Caretino) needs no introduction. In 2006, at the W.C. in Aachen, Eurocommerce Berlin jumped a super double clear as the anchor member of a superb Dutch team to secure the gold. His rounds from this and many other shows are watched again and again, with the sheer scope and talent of Berlin showing through. This prove himself; this grey stallion personifies everything that a horse needs to become a super star. A brilliant pedigree, matchless performances in the arena and offspring of which he may be rightly proud. Numerous are the breeders who are proud of their Berlin foals and many are the owners of a young Berlin. The road to success in sport and breeding is via Eurocommerce Berlin!
In 2011, the KWPN audience watched as 9 young potential stallions came forward to be graded - the highest number of any sire with offspring at the finals, with an exceptional 4 going on for final testing. Eurocommerce Berlin’s sire Cassini I was, in his years in sport, the trump card of the German/Frisian international rider Franke Sloothaak. The pair won, among other things, the Grand Prix at CHampion Gelderland, the former CSI at the national sports centre in Papendal and the Grand Prix at CSI Modena- the pet project of Luciano Pavarotti the tenor who died in 2007. Cassini’s sire, Capitol I, forms the genetical bottleneck where the stallion line of the legendary Cottage Son xx had to squeeze through to have the space to broadly spread out for a second time throughout the breeding world. Cassini’s dam, Wisma, is from the small stock 3389 that, since Cassini I, has received more interest from the Holstein breeders. Except for full brother Cassini II, out of this stock Caleri (sire: Calido I), Cassaro (sire: Coronado) and Lovari (sire: Lasino) have since been licensed. From the point of view of sport, Eurocommerce Berlin's dam is just as interesting. His dam Estia (out of the famous Caretino) was the show jumping horse of both Aloïs Pollmann-Schweckhorst and Marc Wirths. However, these international riders brought her out under other names: respectively Coba and Cathleen-W. Pollman-Schweckhorst rode her grandam Ostia as well and also using another sports name: Frimella. From her stock 890 also come, among others, the show jumpers Crocodile Dandy of Alison Firestone and Feodora of Fritz Fervers. In November 1997, Eurocommerce Berlin had a good test as an unlicensed stallion in Adelheidsdorf; in the jumping index he scored 133.21 points and thus, in this section, came in second place just behind Acorado who has since also become equally famous. After successive approvals in both Holland in March 2003 and, under his former name Caspar, in Oldenburg in January 2005, Eurocommerce Berlin- ridden by Gerco Schröder- established his reputation by contributing to the winning of gold medals by the 'Oranje' team in both the WC in 2006 (Aachen) and at the EC in 2007 (Mannheim). The WC gold was sufficient to give him a permanent license by his stud book of birth, Holstein. The EC gold was the icing on the cake.



Dam Sire G. Ramiro Z is one of the most famous breeding stallion who has ever lived. Over a period of of thirty years, the "Preferent" G Ramiro Z's performance as a sporthorse and breeding sire has clearly earned him the well deserved titles 'Stallion of the Century' and "King of Sires." Bred in Holstein, born in Westfalia, licensed at Neumünster, Ramiro Z was an international performer under Fritz Ligges, a stallion that has had a far reaching influence on the greatest acheiving sports horses of today. Ramiro was one of the first Holstein stallions to actually appear in competition unlike many others of that era. During his own sporting career he had numerous wins at all levels of show jumping including Nations Cups, Puissance (jumping over 2.2 metre) and in international Grand Prix competition.

It comes as no suprise that we find Ramiro's children and grandchildren at the top levels of showjumping and dressage today. A quick glance through the WBFSH rankings, some 15 years after his demise we can clearly identify the success of his descendants.From his first breeding season, he sired the fabulous mare, "Fatinitza" out of a the Holstein mare "Pommerantz" Loewnjaeger x Heidleberg) show jumping victory after victory under Fritz Ligges and Thomas Frühmann, and later mother of the Zangersheide stallion, Almiro Z when bred to Almez Z. Ramiro's second season saw him in Holstein where he produced three stallions: Rinaldo (out of a Trakehner x Holstein mare), Rio Negro, (Pernod x Zew xx) who became a Grand Prix dressage horse, trained by Willi Schultheis, and L Ronald out of a Heilbutt x Monarch mare. L Ronald was for many years a popular stallion in Holstein, where he sired five licensed sons and more than a hundred top broodmares, many of whom became mothers of sires such as Alcatraz, Lord Incipit, Larno, Le Grand - all exquisite and excellent sporthorses. L Ronald, like his famous father, went to Holland - where he stood for five years, and also sired, the KWPN show jumping sire Saluut who ppears in the pedigrees of Libero H by Landgraf x L Ronald and Hatttick, Ahorn x L Ronald.

In addition he became the strongest and most successful sire for Leon Melchior's performance breeding program at Zangersheide. Whilst at Zangersheide Stud Ramiro was presented with a selection of superbly bred jumping mares including the famous foundation mare, Heureka Z who competed successfully up to 1.60m Internationally. Huerka Z was bred to Alme Z and produced the daughter Argentina Z who when bred to Ramiro produced Ratina Z. Ridden by Piet Raymakers and Ludger Beerbaum, Ratina Z won World Cup Finals, the European Championships, the Grand Prix of Aachen, individual Olympic Silver, double Olympic Team Gold, Team Gold at the WEG, and twice team gold at the European championships. Argentina Z also produced the Ramiro Stallion sons sons: Rebel I Z, Rebel II Z, Rebel III Z and Rock Z none of which produced the same results in competition as thier full sister. Ratina Z Now a mother herself Ratina since produced the approved stallions "Crown Z by Carthago ridden by Judy-Ann Melchior in competition up to 1.40m at the young age of eight and more recently "Comme Il Faut" by the up and coming Cornet Obolensky approved by the Westphalian stud book in 2008.