El.St. Cinderella

Oldenburg line of Cinderella

  • A swap

    Cinderella, who was born in 1968 in the Netherlands and came to Garrel in 1975 through a swap, became a line-founding mare in the Wendeln breeding endeavors. This chestnut daughter of Armand (by Amor) had Oldenburg blood in her veins. Her dam Condrina was by the Oldenburg stallion Camillo. The granddam Monodia, a "Sterstute", was the result of breeding Ivaro to the Groningen Stud Book mare Conaria, a daughter of the imported Oldenburg stallion Brinio. The great granddam Gouvernante, also an import from Oldenburg, was deemed an especially beautiful mare in the Netherlands.

    Paul Wendeln:

    "Cinderella came to us by chance. After discovering her at a Dutch breeder, a farm animal trader from Borken brought her to his stables. While I was there to purchase some cattle, he said to me, 'I have a super mare for you' - and how right he was about that. Expression, temperament, movements ... this mare simply had everything that I had always been looking for. And since she was in estrus, I brought her to the stallion right away, even though the swap deal hadn't been quite concluded. When I presented Cinderella with her first foal, Chinchilla, a year later, the Stud Book Manager told me that she would be a Champion Mare some day. He was also right."

  • With Zeus

    For Paul Wendeln, only a chestnut stallion would be acceptable as a partner for his Cinderella - to ensure that her offspring were also chestnut. Georg Vorwerk persuaded him to try his still young Anglo-Norman stallion, Zeus. With Zeus, Cinderella produced six State Premium and Elite Mares: Chinchilla, C'Est la Vie, Cleopatra, Chin-Chin, Cabarett und Chrystal and their licensed full brothers, Zymbal I and II.