Brentano II is an influential stallion who has sired several dressage

Dressage

Dressage is a competitive equestrian sport, defined by the International Equestrian Federation as "the highest expression of horse training." Competitions are held at all levels from amateur to the World Equestrian Games...

 horses. His offspring include the Olympic medalist Brentina

Brentina

Brentina is an Olympic-level dressage horse ridden by Debbie McDonald.*Foaled: 1991*Color: Chestnut*Markings: Star, sock off fore, half-stocking off hind*Sex: Mare*Breed: Hanoverian...

, and now-deceased Poetin

Poetin

For the President of Russia, see Vladimir PutinPoetin was a world-class dressage horse that was the 2003 World Young Dressage Horse Champion in the six-year-old division, and sold for a record amount at the PSI Auction in Germany....

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• Foaled: 1983
• Height: 16.1¾ hh
  Hand (unit)
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• Color: Chestnut
  Chestnut (coat)
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• Markings: Star, sock LF, half-stocking both hind
• Breed: Hanoverian
  Hanoverian (horse)
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• Breeding: by Bolero
  Bolero (horse)
  Bolero was a dressage horse and an influential sire.*Height: 16.1½ hh*Sex: Stallion*Color: Chestnut*Markings: Star*Breed: 3/4 Thoroughbred, registered Hanoverian...
  
  , out of Glocke by Grande
• Breeder: Dr. Max Schulz-Stellenfleth

Breeding

Brentano II is by the stallion Bolero

Bolero (horse)

Bolero was a dressage horse and an influential sire.*Height: 16.1½ hh*Sex: Stallion*Color: Chestnut*Markings: Star*Breed: 3/4 Thoroughbred, registered Hanoverian...

, who was a very successful dressage horse and sire, and a foundation sire for the B-line. His dam, Glocke, by Grande and is from a notable mare line from Hanover. The combination of Bolero and Grande is well-known to produce dressage horses.

Success

As a two-year-old, Brentano II was champion at his stallion licensing held at Verden. In 1986, he was second at his stallion performance test, finishing with a score of 129.97. At four, he finished in fourth place at the Federal Championships of the German Riding.

Brentano II was trained to the Grand Prix level of dressage

Dressage

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. He was later named Hanoverian Stallion of the Year in 2003.

Results from his stallion performance test

Performance Test: 1986, Adelheidsdorf:

• Overall score 129.97 (2nd of 32)
• Dressage score 141.41 (1st)sex
• Jumping score 105.20 (15th)

Progeny

• Brentina
  Brentina
  Brentina is an Olympic-level dressage horse ridden by Debbie McDonald.*Foaled: 1991*Color: Chestnut*Markings: Star, sock off fore, half-stocking off hind*Sex: Mare*Breed: Hanoverian...
  
  : Team & Individual Gold at 1999 Pan Am Games, 2001 achieved highest Grand Prix score for an American horse. Part of silver-winning US Dressage Team at the 2002 Olympics.
• Poetin
  Poetin
  For the President of Russia, see Vladimir PutinPoetin was a world-class dressage horse that was the 2003 World Young Dressage Horse Champion in the six-year-old division, and sold for a record amount at the PSI Auction in Germany....
  
  : One of the most expensive dressage prospects to date (sold for over $2,000,000), winner of the World Breeding Championships Dressage of Young Horses and the Federal Championships, before her death. Brentano II was her dam-sire.
• Bone Dea II: Champion mare at the 2000 Ratje-Niebuhr-Show (Hanoverian Broodmare Show)
• Brasseur P
• Bandito
• Bon Jovi
• Barclay: Olympic competitor with rider Swen Rothenberger
• Bernstein
• Brendan Braveheart (1999) Grand Prix dressage horse provided by Libby and Jules Anderson for Lise Yervasi, para-dressage rider, to compete on towards the 2012 Olympics in para dressage.
• Brentanus (2005) Weltmeyer (Dam-sire) - 2009 Region 2 Training Level AA Champion (76.4 %) at Lamplight Equestrian Center
• Brentano Ultimo : Last Offspring of Brentano II (Sire) and Weltmeyer (Dam-sire) which both retired in 2006. Chestnut Colt born May 2006 (Video Clip and photos available at http://www.vonhermsdorf.com/fohlen/brentano_weltmeyer.htm).