The final Rolex/WBFSH rankings for horses and studbooks, based on the 2018 FEI competition year, have been released. The Rolex award winning breeder in dressage is Dutch P. Crum for Verdades (KWPN) by Florett As / Goya with 2714 ranking points. At the 2018 WBFSH annual meeting in Budapest in...
Shiny Hanoverian Cha...
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
Verden. The horse show „Verden International“ is the perfect setting for Hanover’s best futurity prospects to determine their riding horse, dressage horse and show jumper champions. The stars of tomorrow regularly celebrate their first successes on the premises of the Hannoveraner Verband....
Ermelo WBDCYH: The next generation of superstars e...
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The Longines FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses 2018 certainly didn’t disappoint as 22,000 visitors from all across the globe enjoyed five days of spectacular sport. This was the third time for the event to take place in Ermelo (NED), and a total of 180 horses from 19 studbooks lined out in the three age categories. The Westphalian stallion, Revolution, claimed the Five-Year-Old title, the Hannoverian, d’Avie, topped the Six-Year-Olds and the KWPN, Glamourdale, clinched pole position in the Seven-Year-Old division. And as the Chairman of the Organising Committee, Aat Both, pointed out, “the overall quality was...
Countdown to Ermelo ...
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
In exactly 13 days, the Longines FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Dressage Championships for Young Horses start at the National Equestrian Centre in Ermelo. This third edition in Ermelo will undoubtedly entail incredible sport once again. Thursday the second of August, the first competitor will enter...
Glock’s Toto Jr. KWP...
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
Glamourdale led the rankings last year with almost 250 foals, this year Glock’s Toto Jr. definitely stands out with no less than 369 registered foals from him. The first approved son of Totilas (out of a Desperado-mother) sires the number three of the Championship ring of the KWPN...
Weltmeyer and Stakka...
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
It was the seventh time that the best young Hanoverian stallions tested in 2017 were honoured at the Hanoverian Private Stallion Show in Verden. Three particularly talented dressage stallions were decorated with the Weltmeyer-Prize, the Stakkato-Prize was given to three extraordinary young...
KWPN: Several nines ...
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
This week, the Wynton-son Imposantos gave his final presentation in the Stallion Performance test. Past summer, the stallion got third in the Pavo Cup. Now he is approved with top marks making a total of 89 points and is accepted into the studbook. The black stallion Imposantos (out of...
Sign of Freedom Pric...
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
Sign of Freedom, number one of auction collection, trotted to the top of the price rankings with an auction sales price of Euro 57,000. The Verden November Auction finished with an average auction sales price of Euro 15,649 – some Euro 1,000 more than last year. 94 horses were sold at the end...
Background Star
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
The Rubinstein/Argentan-son Rotspon was nominated “Hanoverian Stallion of the Year”. Breeder Christiane Müller from Stade was overjoyed when she accepted the award for her deceased husband Hans-Heinrich while the Celle state stud stallion went for his victory lap, much to the delight of the...
Convincing Stallion ...
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
The Verden stallion licensing and stallion sales were eagerly awaited. The convincing quality of the youngsters born in 2015 became already obvious at the preselection with the result that 108 stallion prospects in total – 24 more than last year – applied for the title “licensed” in the...
Stallion Licensing h...
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
Hanoverian stallion prospects of extraordinary quality It is one of the true highlights of the year: The Hanoverian Stallion Licensing and the Stallion Sales in Verden. The stallions, born in 2015, already impressed with extraordinary quality at the preselection. 111 young stallions qualified...
Dressage breeding sh...
posted by Greta Melanie Racca
The 2017 Baileys Horse Feeds/ British Breeding/British Equestrian Federation (BEF) Futurity resulted in a total of 25 dressage bred youngsters being awarded prestigious elite premiums. The popular Futurity series for foals to three-year-olds bred in the UK for competition in eventing,...