​Sakura Hill Farm

Calvados is bred from the best French performance bloodlines. He is bred to  produce sport horses and is the product of some of the most well-established  bloodlines of show jumping. His sire Uriel has been leading sire for several  years (index 211, the highest index figure ever in France). Uriel contributed to  French breeding through 26 sons and he produced more than 100 international  showjumpers!! His dam Gold Rose (index 186!) was a 3 year old French  Conformation Champion and on the French Showjumping Team from 1979 until 1982,  during which time she won, inter alia, the Grand Prix of Paris and Madrid and  came second in Lisbon, Barcelona and Hamburg. Although Calvados has bred on a  very limited scale, he has many international offspring jumping at Grand Prix  and World Cup levels. The jumping index of Calvados is extremely high with 152  points. Calvados produced the highest percentage of star mares in 2003. 
 

Ushiniki is a half-sister of the KWPN sire Ekstein and the last progeny of the  great mare Zaniki, a grand-daughter of the legendary Niki, for whom one of  Holland's most distinguished marelines is named. 

    Ultra Niki comes from the extremely successful niki-stam lineage mareline 11.  Ushiniki's dam, Zaniki is a full-sister to the 
international showjumper  Palfrenier and she herself produced national champion showjumpers, a KWPN  stallion champion, and international showjumpers. Zaniki's sire Joost represents  an excellent stamm (no. 242) as well as the bloodlines of his renow sire  Consul. Joost carried the blood of Thoroughbred foundation sires Cottage Son xx  and Anblick xx on both sides of his pedigree, making him a modern stallion. He  himself even excelled as a show jumper with Franke Sloothaak. 

    Aniki, is  half-sister to Nick Skelton's Apollo, twice winner of the Aachen Grand Prix.  Individual Bronze Medalist at the World Championship, Individual Bronze Medal at  the European Championship, and twice European Championship Team Gold Medalist.  The Niki line is represented in the United States by such greats as the Iron  Spring Farm stallions Consul and Judgement. In Holland, the lineage 1907- the  "Sineada lineage" produced stallions such as Consul and Colino and also World  Cup Champion Anka ridden by Markus Ehning. Ushiniki is owned in partnership with  Morningside Stud and will remain in Europe. *Click here to read more about the Niki mareline. 

 Ushiniki's grand dam Aniki the half-sister to Apollo (twice winner of Aachen  Grand Prix, Individual Bronze Medallist at the World Championship, Individual  Bronze Medallist & twice Team Gold Medallist at the at the European  Championships). 

Aniki's daughters & grand-daughters have produced  the sires Ekstein, Consul & Equador, the International Jumpers Nebraska,  Promise Me & Galveston, & the International Dressage horses Consul,  Hercules, Feliki & Fellini 
 

Kassander's damsire the Preferent Gröninger stallion Sinaeda, was one of the  foundation sires of the modern Dutch sporthorse. Sinaeda produced 14 approved  sons for the NWP and two for the VLN. The full brothers Senner and Sportman (out  of Ritta by Tello) were the most valuable for the breed. Lineages rooted in a  Sinaeda-, Senner- or Sportman daughter are still expensive assets.” And they  could jump. American rider, Armand Leone finished 11th at the 1985 World Cup  Finals in Berlin, riding Jonker, a fifteen year old gelding by Sportman, out of  Tondria by Senator by Camillo. No Mercy, the silver medalist at the 2005  European Championships, is by Libero H but out of a mare by Dillenburg - and  Dillenburg is out of a mare by Naturel by Lucky Boy out of a mare by the Sinaeda  son, Sportman.