Capital Florida is a young mare carrying a page full of names that have shaped the sport. Her granddam, Olympia XIII, is a daughter of Carthago, the Holsteiner stallion who won Nations Cups at Aachen, Rotterdam and La Baule with Jos Lansink, competed at the Atlanta Olympics and became one of the most important sires of his generation, notably of Mylord Carthago. Olympia XIII jumped 1.30m herself, so she is a performer as well as a producer.

Florida’s dam, Nikita van het Keizershof, is by Numero Uno, an influential Dutch sire known for producing rideable, scopey horses. Her sire Capital’s Figaro d’Isigny jumped to 1.35m with Nicole Horwood prior to his sale, and Figaro’s full sister jumped at Grand Prix with Steve Guerdat.

Capital Florida is in foal to Capital’s Tandoori Pommex Z, by Tobago Z, twice winner of the Sires of the World and the earner of more than 2.7 million Euros in international prize money. Tandoori’s third dam is Fragance de Chalus, the dam of Mylord Carthago, who is himself a Carthago son. Crossing Tandoori with a Carthago granddaughter therefore linebreeds gently to Carthago, concentrating the scope and carefulness that family is known for. A well-conceived mating on a young mare with a long career ahead of her.