Capital Cassidina is one of the most proven broodmares in the sale. She has bred two open jumpers in Capital Campbell (currently 1.30m) and Capital Chaplin (currently 1.35m), along with youngsters Capital Cassiana and Capital Kennedy (currently 1.00m). Two horses at the open level from one mare is a record that speaks for itself.

The production continues through her family. Her dam, Capital Urina, is the dam of Capital Harmony (1.10m) and Capital Ryden (currently jumping 1.00m), while her granddam, Rose Cottage, produced Capital Untouchable, Capital Unforgettable and Capital Domino. Her damsire, Capital Ulior van het Wuitenshof, brings refinement and rideability.

Capital Cassidina is in foal to Capital’s Harton v/d Berghoeve Z, the 2019 Zangersheide stallion by Heartbreaker out of a Diamant de Semilly mare, from the Atoucha van ‘t Roosakker family. Heartbreaker’s carefulness and Diamant de Semilly’s scope and blood are precisely the qualities to add to a mare who has already proved she transmits jump. Nicole Horwood describes Harton as having ‘all the blood, presence and quality you want combined with a brain that makes him a pleasure to produce’. She notes that this is ‘an unusual and valuable pairing in a stallion of his power’.

This is not a speculative breeding: it takes a mare with a demonstrated open record and crosses her with a stallion bred to sharpen technique and add modern type. For a buyer who wants results rather than potential, Capital Cassidina is among the surest lots in the catalogue.