The Oldenburg colt A La Dressage (Ampere x St Pr St Samira by Sandro Hit) has smashed all foal auction records with the hammer falling at an astonishing €200,000 to a mystery Swiss buyer. Update: the buyer is speculated to be Jerich, of Parcival fame. Bred by Klaus Tuchan, the colt is from an exceptional …
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A daughter of Chippendale has topped the auction price at Brabant auction with €29,000. Described in the catalogue as “The talented young stallion Chippendale combines the smoothness and lightness of father Lord Leatherdale and canter with the construction of a Negro dam sire. His first offspring seems very promising. This direct maternal line is known as the line of stallions San Remo (v.Wolkentanz I) and WeltGeist (v.Weltmeyer), two direct sons of great-Valente. Dam’s sire Sandro Hit was six year old world champion and is one of the most influential dressage stallions of the moment. Some products perform at Grand Prix level. In the …
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The first of five days of offspring testing began today with the foals from dressage stallions Chippendale and Bon Bravour. Summaries are below as follows: Chippendale (photo above) Uniform collection of adequately developed foals made in a very good type for dressage horses. The walk is pure with plenty of scope and plenty of flexibility. The trot is light, scopey and plenty of good behavior. The …
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The Foals The Borculo foal sales in Holland reported a significant increase in the value of foals sold in 2011. Top priced foal Gambo (Charmeur x Originel keur sport(dr) by Kennedy) bred by Marijke Kool was sold for €74,000 plus 7% premium to the Blue Hors stud in Denmark. (Shown above) Esben Moller was able to …
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With 82.568%, Carl Hester and Uthopia (Metall x Odelia sport(dr) by Inspekteur) may well have done enough to secure Gold for Britain. An expressive and error-free test for the KWPN stallion (Approved AES) with only the walk showing a little weakness scoring 6 and 6.5 in an otherwise 8 and 9 dominated score card. The …
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Photo : Gregwaard - winner of the national dressage foal title. The Foal (NVK) championships was won by Gregwaard (Florencio x Wintana Waard elite by Jazz pref – motherline 213), bred by Luuk van Rijn from Nieuwland, who was described by the jury chairman Petro Trommelen as “a very well developed colt that moves correctly and with …
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Photo: Borencio and Emmelie Scholtens www.melissen.net Charmeur (Florencio x Trendy elite by Jazz) is the winner of the 4 year old 2011 PAVO cup final with a very very good score indeed. Bringing 91.5 points forward from the first round and 92 from the semi finals, the test riders of Claudia Ruscher and Sander Marijnissen gave …
Read more »Photo : Chippendale (Lord Leatherdale x Negro) Pavo Cup four years finalists: President’s Cabola (v.Vivaldi) DTS Codette (v.Painted Black) Chinook (v.Vivaldi) and the KWPN approved stallions Charmeur (v.Florencio) Connoisseur (v.Con Amore) Chippendale (v.Lord Leatherdale) Carlton Hill VDL (v.Uphill) are through to the second part of the competition’s final phase where test riders Sander Marijnissen and …
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Photo : Woodlander Farouch is victorious © 2011 ilse schwarz/dressage-news.com A week of top competition has ended with a new world champion in the amazing Woodlander Farouche (Furst Heinrich by Dornroschen x Dimaggio hanover stamm 316), and the reaffirmation of Astrix (Obelisk x Upshot ster by Olivi kwpn motherline 27) as probably the best young horse …
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The British bred young horse phenomenon, Woodlander Farouche, has easily won the first round of the 5 year old WBFSH World Championships at Verden. The exceptional mare by Furst Heinrich out of a Dimaggio mare scored 9.28 – enough for more than 0.5 lead over her nearest rival Damon’s Divene. A lone British flag atop …
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