A desire for performance

What makes a world-class athlete? Athletic ability is one thing. But a winner also needs a winning mentality, the right attitude. They have to love to make an effort. If they also have the necessary toughness, nothing stands in the way of a great career. Just like Cordess.

Winner type

For 13 years, ten of them at international level, Cordess proved all this. He placed at five-star level with Philipp Weishaupt and Christian Kukuk and jumped into the limelight at Global Champions Tour stages and World Cup qualifiers. Most recently, it was Robert and Saskia Conredel who enjoyed Cordess both in his daily work and in competitions at advanced (S) level.

Sire par excellence

Cordess' willingness to perform, his intelligence, his natural caution and his elasticity also characterize his offspring. In addition, Cordess also passes on his nobility and magnificent type to them. There are now many examples. Around 20 Cordess children jump in international sport, such as Cicero, born in 2015 and already successful in the World Cup and Nations Cup with Msciwoj Kiecon from Poland. Or Clever Boy Junior, who has competed up to CSI4* level with Irish rider Peter Moloney and is now collecting ribbons with Margareth Eikner (EST). Calvie has demonstrated the character and willingness to perform of the Cordess offspring in international junior and young rider sport.

The licensed sons of Cordess include the second reserve winner of the 2018 Westphalian licensing, Continent. The prize-winning Cordess daughters include the reserve winner of the 2022 DSP mare show, Fippoorwill.

Successful fathers, combined with successful lineage

Clinton - Heartbreaker? If this blood combination sounds familiar, you are right. Cordess and Cornet Obolensky have the same sire and dam's sire. However, Cordess' dam line is a different one - a Dutch one, probably the most famous of all: that of Freiminka, which has its origins in the Oldenburg breeding area as line 86. This line produced the dressage legend Totilas, for example. In addition, the international show jumpers Perlermo/Johan Heins (NED), Warrant/Chris Kappler (USA), Ego/Walter Gabathuler (SUI) and Limminka/Alison Firestone (USA). The 1.60 meter successful Coco Bongo Boy, who now jumps for Hungary, became famous under Otmar Eckermann. And then there is Caroline Bradley's Marius, internationally successful for Great Britain, who went down in the history books as the sire of John Whitaker's horse of the century, Milton.

His half-sister Aminka A stands out from Cordess' immediate family. The Ephebe For Ever daughter was brought into the sport by Willem Greve. She later jumped at the highest level for the USA with Michael Desiderio. Behind dam's sire Clinton, who himself was successful in top sport (including fourth place in the Grand Prix of Aachen with Peter Geerink/NED), the third stallion in Cordess' pedigree is the Holsteiner Burggraaf, one of the most influential Landgraf sons in the Netherlands, who has been awarded the "pref" predicate for "Preferent".

The falling pedigree includes the great-granddam Usminka, who is registered with the KWPN as a Keur, Preferent and Prestatie mare. She produced the licensed Lochnagar and the Nimmerdor daughter Bruminka. The latter in turn is the dam of Iowa by Achill-Libero H, who is also licensed and internationally successful with Emma Wester for Sweden.

The pedigrees of Cordess and Totilas meet in the next mare in the falling pedigree, Cordess' great-great-granddam Viola B by Farn. Viola B is also the great-great-granddam of Totilas through her daughter Wominka. Wominka and Cordess' great-granddam Usminka are full sisters, both of whom go back to Pericles xx, who himself was tested in racing.

Viola B, who was awarded Preferent and Prestatie, was a very special mare. Among others, she also produced the licensed Topas (by Marco Polo) and the Abgar xx daughter Zyminka. The latter in turn produced the stallion Jodokus with Ramiro. Topas and Jodokus can be found as sire and dam's sire in the pedigree of a very famous show jumper: Okidoki, who became team world and European champion for the Netherlands with Albert Zoer, won individual European Championship bronze and also jumped to third place in the World Cup final. Okidoki has now moved onto Viola B.

Cordess - pedigree, own and offspring performance fit together!