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After a successful 2024-season with Germany’s Kendra Claricia Brinkop, the 9-year-old gelding Tabasco de Toxandria Z (Thunder vd Zuuthoeve x Cento Lano) is back with Ireland's talented Wachman-brothers at Coolmore Showjumping. 

As a 6-year-old, Tabasco de Toxandria Z was acquired by Cian O’Connor and Stephan Conter after the gelding had finished 6th at the FEI WBFSH Jumping World Breeding Championship for Young Horses with Belgium’s Werner Dierckx – who is also the breeder of the horse. 

The following year, Tabasco de Toxandria Z was developed by Brinkop at Stephex Stables, before he was sold to Coolmore Showjumping in the fall of 2022. After being competed by Max Wachman for most of 2023, Brinkop again took up the ride on the gelding in the fall that same year. In March this year, Brinkop and Tabasco de Toxandria Z finished 4th in the CSI5* 1.60m Hermès Grand Prix in Paris, before they went on to help Germany win the CSIO5* Intesa Sanpaolo Nations Cup in Rome in May and then the CSIO5* Barrière Nations Cup in La Baule in June. In July, the pair jumped double clear in the CSIO5* Mercedes-Benz Nations Cup in Aachen, which was their last international show together. With several strong results during the spring and summer, the two were also short-listed as one of the potential German reserve combinations for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

Now, Tabasco de Toxandria Z has returned to Coolmore – this past week Tom Wachman competed the gelding at the Gassin Polo Club in St. Tropez, France, jumping clear in two out of three rounds.