Sire Buddenbrock was approved in 1996. He turned out to be the breed's most popular stallion in a very short time. He was an event horse prior to his breeding career and comes from the ultimate line of event horses: the Habicht line. Buddenbrock offsspring have since then appared at a number of National events, e.g. the Bundeschampionat, in both dreswsage and eventing. On top of that, he produced several good sons, e.g. the 2000 champion King Arthur TSF, the dressage stallion Connery, the full brothers In Petto and In Flagranti (champion in 2003), Epernay, Ippon or Inamorato (ATA). Buddenbrock's dam, the elite mare Ballerina, is a daughter of the elite mare Blinklicht, whose approved son EH Benz is not only an accomplished Grand Prix dressage stallion, but who also has one of the breed's highest overall conformation and movement index scores (based on his daughters at their inspection). Ballerina also produced the mare Batida, dam of the 2004 crowd favorite Blitz und Donner (by EH Lehndorffs), the premium mare Biskaya (by EH Sixtus), dam of the premium Baracuda (by EH Friedensfürst) and the National Champion mare Bandera (by EH Friedensfürst), who also placed 4th at the Bundeschampionat in Warendorf. Dam sire Diamant stood in Austria and sired several highly recognized dressage horses for the upper levels. His sire Erzsand also had quite an influence on the ATA breed. The big Blinklicht family is known mostly for great, athletic sport horses, and apart from Buddenbrock and Benz, also the younger Bellheim (by Saint Cloud) comes from this line.

The dam Katharina comes from one of the breed's most successful dressage lines and already had a stallion candidate in Neumünster (NMS 2002, Kantharos by Buddenbrock). This particular line has also produced the FEI dressage horses Komponist, Königsberg and Komplice. The second dam Kandida II was also the dam of the ATA approved König (by EH Bartholdy).

Inbreeding chart: The proven performance sire Burnus AAH appears twice in the pedigree of the sire Buddenbrock.