Caretino Glory ♂

About Caretino Glory

Caretino Glory is a Bay/dark bay BWP showjumping stallion foaled in 1998, by Cheenook out of a Glorieux dam.

Caretino Glory ('Ralph') is a Belgian-bred dark bay stallion by Cheenook out of Glorieuze (Glorieux), combining Caretino-Caletto II Holsteiner jumping blood on the sire side with Goldstern and Calypso I-Cor de la Bryere lines behind the dam. At four he swept the 2002 HOYS Young Horse Evaluations - overall showjumper champion on 85.76% with placings in the dressage and eventing divisions - and won Hickstead's British four-year-old championship with Joe Clee, later competing to 1.60m as an international Grade A horse. His breeding value runs deeper than a count of headline offspring: two direct 1.60m jumpers (Sussex Caretino and Blaze of Glory II), a CCI5* event horse and several 1.45-1.50m performers, and an unusually strong maternal-grandsire record - his daughter Sussex Caretino is the dam of CSI5* Grand Prix winner and double World Cup finalist Kick On, with the Warrior-over-Caretino Glory-daughter cross repeating across several branches. He is the sire of Seranno, out of the five-star Nations Cup mare Hello Winner. Accurately positioned, he is not a fashion sire on the scale of Kannan or Chacco-Blue but an undervalued British-based legacy stallion with credible sport proof whose daughters have become unusually effective breeding mares; he still stands at Brendon Stud at 28.

Direct: Sussex Caretino (1.60m, the most consequential daughter), Blaze of Glory II (1.60m), Glory B (1.50m), Electra IV, Baby David, Glory Rose, Que Sera III (1.45m), Caretino Jewel (1.40m, NZ), Seranno (international 1.40m, out of Hello Winner), Liberty and Glory (CCI5* eventing), Taffeta and Willy Be Dun (CCI3*). Second generation: Kick On (CSI5*/World Cup Final), Klaris Yee-Hah (1.55m), Klent Spot On, Klaris Ride On (1.50m), Warriors Glory (CSI4* Grand Prix winner 2025 after injury comeback), Warrior Special (1.50m). The repeated Warrior x Caretino Glory-daughter pattern is observational but consistent across different mares.

Temperament: Stud-described: careful, technically correct jump, elevated elastic movement, intelligence, trainability and a kind temperament; his 2002 ridden-jumping marks of 9.5 for both technique and temperament are cited by the stud as a first. These descriptions originate with the standing stud and are labelled accordingly.

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