Capital Campana is a sister to Capital Curtesy, also in this sale, both out of Capital Hiroshia, the dam of Capital Kosmo (1.30m). A buyer able to take both would secure two branches of the same producing mare, which is worth weighing when planning a broodmare band rather than a single purchase.

Her damsire is Capital Hitoshi, who was by Winningmood out of a Sioux de Baugy mare. Winningmood is a Darco son, and Sioux de Baugy is a son of Grand Veneur, the foundational French sire credited with more than 300 showjumping winners and 74 licensed sons. Darco, Cassini I and Grand Veneur inside two generations is a concentration of jumping blood few pages in this catalogue can match. Her granddam, Palyssa, is the dam of Capital Chicoletto Z, the 1.50m jumper and stud sire, so this is a dam line that has produced a breeding stallion as well as jumpers.

She is in foal to Capital’s Barnardini JT Z, a Zangersheide stallion by the Olympic gold medallist Baloubet du Rouet. Barnardini’s dam, Happy Days Z, is a full sister to the Olympic horse Hardrock JT Z and has produced four black-type performers; his second dam, Carte Blanche Z, is by Carthago out of Ramiro Z. Nicole Horwood rates Barnardini as ‘quick off the ground, naturally athletic and highly responsive, combining blood, agility, speed and power in a very modern type while staying balanced and light in the bridle’. Baloubet’s brilliance over a mare whose family has already produced a 1.50m stallion is destined to create exceptional offspring.