Capitol unites in his pedigree two strong performance breeding lines: On his mother's side the breeding line stems from Breeding Line 173, the original mare being Rappel. Among her offspring you will find many successful international and national show jumpers. Capitol's father Capitano was the only one who was chosen to carry on the heritage of the Stallion Cottage Son xx to this present day. The quality in this breeding line is upheld by Garant, however it is because of his mother, the international exceptionally successful Retina, who was ridden by Fritz Tiedemann, who's wins include the German Derby in Hamburg. Up until now only two horses have ever won both the two qualification rounds and the Derby: Firstly Retina at seven years old, ridden by Fritz Tiedemann in 1959 and her great grandson Capriol from Capitol - Capitano - out of Retina, ridden by Holger Wulschner in 2000.

Romanus ridden by Hans Günter Winkler

His direct sister Vase (see picture) had 14 foals and all them were hits. With Maurus and Montreal she produced two top mark stallions. Famous offspring produced by Vase include Maurus, Montreal, Grand Vikar and Vaseline to name but a few. In 1969 Vase was covered by Maximus and produced a brown foal named Folia.

Vaseline

Vaseline (last daughter of Vase when she was 25 years old) won many Grand Prix and jumped the Nations Cup in Aachen for Italy in 1996.

Folia

Folia gave life to five top mark stallions: Capitol I, Capitol II, Latus I, Latus II as well as Cellebrio and was mother to the following premium mares Kausa, Lektion and U-Capitola. Lektion's wins include European Eventing Championship ridden by Imke Dehm. Kausa was covered by Caletto and produced the top mark stallion Cadillac.

U-Capitola, a direct sister to Capitol, has produced three top mark stallions: Lord Capitol (from Lord), Cevin (from Calando I) as well as Landcapitol (from Landadel). Her daughter Birte, from Landgraf, has herself produced four stallions: Casir Ask who is very successful on the international show jumping circuit, as well as the top mark stallions Quite Easy I, II, III (from Quidam de Revel) and the full siter Pretty Easy.

Capitol statue

Within a wonderful celebration the statue of Capitol was unveiled by president of the german federation Breido Graf zu Rantzau at the studfarm of Harm and Ingela Thormählen in May 2008.

Vase

During the years 2000 and 2001 Capitol I (Capitano-Folia, 1975-1999) was on the top of the WBFSH (World Breeding Federation for Sporthorses) ranking lists. There are 25 approved stallions by Capitol in Holstein (for example Cento, Cassini I und II, Carthago, Carolus I und II. Calato, Carano, Clearway). All over the world there are 34 approved sons by this stallion. In germany there are 564 registered sporthorses (for example Capriol, Cardento, Carthago, Cento, Gitania).

Quite Capitol

His in germany registered offsprings won about 5,3 Million Euro. At the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000 there were three offsprings of Capitol: Carthago, Cento und Campari M. At the Olympic Games in Athen 2004 there were thirteen offsprings of Capitol: f. e. Cardento, Casita, Gitania und Cöster.

Quite Capitol, (Quidam de Revel – U-Capitola, born 1999) was second reserve champion of the Holstein stallion approval in the year 2001. When he was five and six years old he won both final qualifications at the german young horse championships in Warendorf. He was placed on the 8. and on the 6. ranks in the finals.

Quite Easy I

Quite Easy I (Quidam de Revel – Birte) is very successful in sport and breeding. He covered many mares in Sweden, while competing on international horse shows with Peter Ericcson. His offspring are successful in Dressage and Show Jumping. You will even find them in the ranking lists of FEI World Dressage and Show Jumping Championships in Verden and Lanaken. Since 2004 Quite Easy I covering mares in France with great results. All his offspring get a nice ride ability and attitude.

 

Quite Easy III

Quite Easy II in covering in Denmark and Quite Easy III lives in France as a sport stallion. He competed at the World Breeding Show Jumping Championships in Lanaken 2009.