Highvalley Z	Sire Ahorn (NL)	Sire Nimmerdor (NL)	Sire Farn (Holst)
			Dam Ramonaa (NL)
		Dam Hyazinthe (Holst)	Sire Ladykiller XX
			Dam Alpenblume (Holst)
	Dam Urika Holst)	Sire Conte (Holst)	Sire Cottage Son XX
			Dam Pari (Holst)
		Dam Erika (Holst)	Sire Colt (Holst)
			Dam Irmtrud (Holst)
Dam Slainte (Old)	Sire Sandro (Holst)	Sire Sacramento Song XX	Sire Sicambre Fr XX
			Dam Easter Gala XX
		Dam Duerte (Holst)	Sire Wahnfried (Holst)
			Dam Velour (Holst)
	Dam Colombine (Old)	Sire Colorado X	Sire Courlis AA
			Dam Bellina X
		Dam Jenny	Sire Ofelus v. Mesnil
			Dam Raby

Highvalley Z combines two much valued families, lineage 242 and 776. His sire Ahorn had a fine international jumping career himself under Roelof Bril and produced several products who have been successful at the international level themselves.

Highvalley’s dam Urika was a mare imported from Holstein into the Netherlands. She was from lineage 776. Besides Highvalley she also produced the successful S- level jumper Aljosha and the German licensed stallion Nobel Boy. Urika’s sire Conte also was an international jumper and is the son of the legendary Thoroughbred Cottage Son from lineage 95.

The granddam of Highvalley is the famous Erika, who left the world several top class products through her daughters.

Highvalley has won the prestigious title of Sire of the World on two occasions. Highvalley also won the 98 Dutch national champion with Jos Lansink, came in 3^rd in the Brussels Grand Prix, 6^th in the Maastricht Grand Prix, and 2^nd in the American Grand Prix.

Highvalley died at the early age of 12 years. I am sure this list would have been very long had his career continued.

Ahorn (not to be confused with Ahorn Z) was a reputable show jumping horse and his abilities earned him the title “Olympic” when he was short listed for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. He frequently jumped in the World and Grand Prix competitions. Not only was he a prolific show jumper on the International circuit, but he then went on to become a top sire renowned for being a producer of quality sport horses.

Sandro-It is through Sandro that the blood of Sacramento Song lives on and daily grows more influential in both dressage and jumping breeding. Sacramento Song was a classically bred English Thoroughbred, who stood in Holstein from 1973 to his early death in 1979. After his death three exceptional sons were licensed on the grounds of their competition results: Sympatico, Sacramento Son and Sandro. Sandro was sold to Paul Schockemöhle, and he understood the quality of the horse. Schockemöhle could see exactly the potential of that horse, the modern type with long legs, good riding capability – and he mixed him with the right mares, the mares with the German ‘G’ blood. Now you can see Sandro blood in all the major breeding associations all over the world. When he moved to Paul Schockemöhle’s stud, Sandro also met up with Franke Sloothaak who continued his jumping career.

Sandro is the sire of many licensed sons, the most successful being Silvio 1 and II, Sandro Song, Sao Paulo, Sandro Boy and Salido Z.
Successful competitors include; Salido Z (Debbie Stephens), Sagrat (Guy Goosen), Sakrus (Debbie Winkler), Sympathico (Ersting-Engemann), Silas M (Yanix Elad), Sheila and Sundance Kid (Franke Sloothaak) and Santorin F (Fritz Fervers) and of course, the World Cup Champion, Sandro Boy.

What is slightly more surprising is Sandro’s influence on dressage breeding. The stallions promoted for dressage are sons of World Young Horse Dressage Champion, Sandro Hit. There is Samba Hit (Reserve Champion at the 2002 Bundeschampionate in the 3 year old stallion class – and a full brother to World Six Year Old Young Dressage Champion, Poetin), Show Star (who was Champion in that 3 year old stallion class in 2002), the Westfalien state stud stallions, Sir Bedo and Sterling, the exciting young Danish stallion, Blue Hors Soprano, and Stedinger, a winner at the 2002 Oldenburg Stallion Days, and being out of a Landadel / Furioso bred mare, Stedinger might be that rare creature, an all-round stallion.
Of his dressage performers, Isabell Weth’s Satchmo by the Sandro son, Sao Paulo, is the most successful.
Sandro – now re-christened Sandro Z – stood the last years of his life at the Zangersheide stud, where he died in August 2005.