Come And Catch Me Z

Biography

Come and catch me Z was the top offer at the Flanders Foal Auction. The half-brother of Catch me if you can OLD has developed into a model athlete whose jumping is sure to impress: characterized by great regularity, excellent technique, smooth movement and remarkable overview. He always adapts his take-off to suit himself in a playful manner and thus brings with him a whole bundle of outstanding qualities. The sire Comme il faut, himself the result of the pairing of the Olympic stallion and European team champion Cornet Obolensky/Marco Kutscher with the team Olympic champion, world champion, World Cup winner, European champion and Aachen winner Ratina Z/Ludger Beerbaum, was licensed in Münster-Handorf in 2007. The following year he became the show jumping champion at his stallion performance test at the same venue. Under Franz-Josef Dahlmann he also won silver at the 2010 World Show Jumping Horse Championships (5 years old) in Lanaken/BEL and silver at the 2011 Federal Championships (6 years old). From 2013 Comme il faut competed internationally under Marcus Ehning. The pair's sporting record includes team silver at the 2019 European Championships in Rotterdam/NED, victories in the Grand Prix of Madrid/ESP, Vienna/AUT, Brussels/BEL and Paderborn, winning the Nations Cup final in Barcelona/ESP and top placings in the Grand Prix of Dortmund, Rotterdam/NED and Rome/ITA. In 2021, Comme il faut was ceremoniously retired from the sport at the European Championships in Riesenbeck. 140 sons of Comme il faut have been licensed worldwide. Also currently He is once again among the top ten of the world's best show jumping sires according to the WBFSH ranking, thanks to the successes of his offspring, especially the 2024 Olympic champion in Paris, Checker/Christian Kukuk. The mother Agentin placed herself in the course up to class M and is the mother of Catch me if you can OLD (by Catoki). Under Laura Klaphake, she won team bronze at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon/USA and the Nations Cup in Aachen. With Anna Kellnerova/CZE, Catch me if you can OLD took part in the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo/JPN. Other offspring are successful in show jumping competitions. The Holsteiner HLP winner, Vice Federal Champion and performance sire Acord II comes into play via the dam's sire Acordplus. Gloucester and Canaris are in the third and fourth generation. The great-grandmother Casablanca also produced the M** show jumper Attention (by Acordplus). The fourth dam Leidenschaft gave birth to the licensed Primas (by Pilot). Hanoverian mare line of Sudette, from which also the stallion Reinicke (by Remus I) and several sport horses descend