Mares Petruschka Canterbury Court

Canterbury Court

Petruschka is the last foal from one of our
foundation mares, EM Babuschka by Bolero. She
was my personal favorite and I am hoping to
keep her blood going through her daughter
Petruschka. Pet is a larger framed mare with
powerful movement. She reminds me of the
great German brood mares with her strong
maternal qualities. She comes from one of the
best damlines in the Hanoverian region, the line
ridden as I really do consider her my Pet.
However, her full brother Prescription has been
a very successful dressage stallion with
multiple dressage and breed show
Champioships. He was the Oldenburg Horse of
the Year at Second Level in 2005 and is
continuing his career in dressage. Petruschka's
sire Presidio has been a very successful sire
and described in our Stallions section.

Elite Mare Babuschka was my personal riding
horse. She had an elastic forward reaching trot
(I would see her forefeet with every step) and a
canter with so much jump that you felt as
though you were about to go over a fence. She
caught on her foal heat every year and
produced six foals in six breeding seasons. She
was the full sister the 1984 Bundeschampion
Borushkin who was sold at the Verden Elite
Auction for the then record price of 110,000 DM.
Her father Bolero, a 3/4 throughbred, produced
numerous stallions, States Premium mares, and
dressage horses. He founded the Hanoverian B
line and was the grandsire of three horses in the
Athens Olympics - Brentina and Barclay
(brentano II) and Bonaparte (Bon Bonaparte) as
well as being the sire of Beauvallias.
This wonderful mare line progresses back
though two more generations of States Premium
mares ( SPS Anuscha by Argus and SPS Duscha
by Duellant) to the half Shagya Arabian
Fooundation mare SPS Schatznorne. SPS
Schatznorne's damline has been written up in
Der Hannoveraner. She is the mother of the
stallion Derby and the grandmother of the
stallions Antritt (private stallion Rhineland),
Derby (Celle State Stud), and Fleiner (Marbach
State Stud). Lawrence of Arabia (private stallion
Bavaria), Rabentanz, Reflex (private stallion
Bavaria), Wilano (private stallion
Baden-Wurrtemberg), Wolfschatz (private
stallion Bavaria) and the Southern German Vice
Champion Stallion Bootsman also descend from
this line. This line progresses on today with the
sale of Sky Gate Hit at the Verden foal auction
for the record price of 75,000 Euros. Watch for
him in the stallion licensing and riding horse
championships.

Petruschka combines two great damlines -
Fusion II and Schatznorne. With a full uncle a
Bundeschampion, a full brother a national
champion, and in foal to another
Bundeschampion she is proving herself as a
dam worth of her heritage. Her first foal is in
training for the Young Dressage Horse
Championships. Her second foal Querida C by
Quaterback was the 2010 West Coast Future
Event Horse Yearling Filly Champion and High
Point for the West Coast.