Che Guevara is a son of the famous Carthago Z. Carthago was successful with Jos Lansink at the Olympic games of Atlanta and Sydney, as well as the European championships in Hickstead in 1999. Hij also finished 2nd at the Grand Prix n Aachen and he won the Ntaions Cup in La Baule. But Carthago is even more famous as sire. Che Guevara is the first foal of the young breeding mare Betina van Paemel. Betina is a daughter of the BWP ambassador Darco. Darco is the best sire in the world following the WBFSH ranking in 2007. Betina has the same mother as the elite stallion Cicero van Paemel, who is jumping successfully at Grand Prix level with Dirk Demeersman.. He won the 6-bars competition in Dublin and the nations cup in Linz. Betina 's full brother Umberto is competing at 1m45 level in Italië and won for one the derby of Italy in Vinovo. The sister of Che Guevara's grandmother, Quechua, is the mother of Uncle Sam (Darco) who is jumping at world cup level with Eric Lamaze and Ashley Fleischhacker, Versace (Darco) who won the 5 year old championship in Canada with Yann Candele, Winona who jumps at Grand Prix level with Ignace Philips and Barbarossa who jumps at Grand Prix level with Aldrick Cheronnet. Granie's, sister Gromanique competed at S level in Germany and her other sister Goldene is th emother of the approved stallion Lord Charles as well as Goldbirke who jumped at Grand Prix level with Otto Becker.