Champion trakehner stallion sells for €250,000

Rising three-year-old colt Kissinger thrilled the crowds at the weekend’s 2013 Trakehner Licensing in Neumünster, too was after sold for €250,000 at auction.

Kissinger (Singolo/Arogno), was named champion stallion earlier existence bought yesteryear Joop van Uytert of the Netherlands. The colt descends from ane of the oldest studbooks of the Trakehner breed, that of Alexandra Countess of Dohna (Bispingen). Breeding managing director Lars Gehrmann described Kissinger equally having: “steadfast temperament, valuable lineage, e'er consistent inwards his movement, too exceptionally motivated”.

But the Countess of Dohna set it rather differently: “He is such an intelligent horse, he is cleverer than me,” she said.

The immature stallion was acquired yesteryear Hans Kinzler (Heiligenloh) equally a foal, was reared yesteryear the Heinrich Ramsbrook Stables inwards Menslage, too presented at the licensing yesteryear Philip Klingbeil.

The get-go reserve champion was two-year-old colt Scaglietti (All Inclusive x Schneeflocke VI, yesteryear Michelangelo) whom Gehrmann said was: “Large too strong, amongst fine contours too skillful pedigree. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 stallion amongst harmonious trunk balance, he is e'er consistent too is clearly the best Trakehner stallion from Schleswig-Holstein.”

Scaglietti started life inwards the Gestüt Tasdorf, close Neumünster, amongst breeder Petra Wilm, Chair of the Trakehner Verband.

He was the side yesteryear side highest cost at the sale, amongst a buyer from Berlin going to €170,000 to secure him.

The tertiary most expensive Equus caballus was the newly-licensed Gallardo (Imperio x Gute Zeit, yesteryear Consul), who was bred yesteryear Hubertus Poll inwards Hörem. The stallion was sold to a buyer from Lower Saxony for €70,000.

The 10 licensed stallions upwards for sale netted €674,000, amongst an average cost of €67,400.

The twenty unlicensed stallions upwards for auction realised a amount €149,500 too an average cost of €8794, which the Trakehner Verband was non exclusively satisfied with.

“We must analyse just where mistakes may have got been made,” said Chairperson Petra Wilm inwards regard to the weekend’s auctions, too colleague Lars Gehrmann, agreed: “We volition compass our homework, that is our responsibility”.

Stallion licensing

Also receiving special recognition at the stallion licensing were Empire State too Luxor. Empire State (Imperio x Eviva, yesteryear Kaiser Wilhelm) was bred inwards the Netherlands yesteryear Jikkie Willemsen-den Biemann. Hubertus Poll from Hörem purchased the aspiring stallion too presented him inwards Neumünster for licensing. Empire State impressed amongst his stimulate too has a fantabulous lineage behind him.

Luxor (Redecker x Leandra, yesteryear Lehndorff) impressed inwards the costless jumping amongst his physique too energy. “He is a stallion who embodies immense lineament too fantastic sporting characteristics,” Lars Gehrmann said. He is owned too bred yesteryear Wilhelm too Renate Dettmering from Neuenkirchen on the isle of Rügen, too was co-owned yesteryear Gestüt Hohenschmark – at to the lowest degree until Dominicus afternoon. Luxor sold for €35,000 to Wiesbaden, the regional upper-case missive of the alphabet of Hesse.

Rusticus (Favoritas xx x Rispe IV, yesteryear Bartholdy), born inwards Schleswig-Holstein, was too licensed too was awarded the championship of best half-breed stallion. He was bred yesteryear Horst-Dieter Jäger from Hennstedt, too owned yesteryear Hauke Jäger, of Lütjenwestedt. He volition before long refer residence inwards the USA.

In total, the Trakehner Verband licensed 12 of the 42 Trakehner colts presented inwards 2013. “We for sure kept an oculus out for athleticism, equally nosotros know that amid breeders at that spot is a dandy bargain of news equally to how much athleticism costs us inwards damage of character,” Gehrmann said. “Nevertheless, inwards the interests our breeders nosotros must hold out aware of which horses are bought amongst the appropriate stimulate potential.”

Riding Equus caballus auction

Three-year-old Trakehner colt Standing O’Vation topped the auction of riding horses at the 51^st Trakehner Stallion Market inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany at the weekend, fetching €100,000.

Standing O’Vation, a 163cm boy of Imperio from the Consul mare Seeconda, was offered yesteryear breeder Sabine Oberdieck from Wietzendorf.

Imperio too sired the side yesteryear side highest lot inwards Hannah, a three-year-old mare out of the Münchhausen mare Herzlicht II. She was sold yesteryear breeder Kristine Gehrmann-Arp of Brodersdorf to a novel dwelling inwards Hamburg.

Three-year-old dark mare Cera (Axis/Spirding), owned too bred yesteryear Stefan Gerber (Brumby), sold to the USA, piece four-year-old mare Polarlicht (Irdenkreis/Schönbrunn) was sold yesteryear breeders Takehner Gestüt Krotenbach inwards Altenhof to a buyer inwards Singapore.

The xiv riding horses sold netted a amount of €390,500, amongst an average cost of €27,892.

Ten foals were sold at the auction on Saturday, netting a amount of €99,700. The occur cost of €30,000 was achieved yesteryear the colt foal Homeyer, a boy of Millenium out of a Hofrat mare. Born inwards May too bred yesteryear Ilsemarie Peters of Möhne, the immature colt was purchased yesteryear a buyer from Lower Saxony.

The average cost of the foals was €9970.

Ten Trakehner mares sold for a amount of €139,000. Top cost of €27,000 was achieved yesteryear reason premium mare Inside (Krokant/Connery), bred yesteryear Andrea Ritter (Schwanewede) too owned yesteryear Frank Scharffetter (Schwanewede). Inside volition at in ane trial refer residence inwards a stable inwards Bavaria.

The average cost for the mares was €13,900.

Tanzmusik named champion mare

State Premium mare Tanzmusik was named Trakehner Champion Mare at the show.

By Herzruf and out of Tanzsport (by Grafenstolz) Tanzmusik was also champion mare for the Schleswig-Holstein/ Hamburg breeding region.

Judges Helmut Mayer (Trakehner IG Austria), Matthias Werner (Trakehner Stuteneintragungskommission) too Martin Spoo, Breeding Director of the Rheinischen Pferdestammbuch, had the chore of choosing betwixt 7 especially selected mares.

Martin Spoo described Tanzmusik as “a real special Equus caballus too the type of champion ane doesn’t consider all the fourth dimension – she has all the attributes of an especial mare”.

Tanzmusik’s breeder, Prince Heinrich Donatus von Hessen, director of the Hessische Hausstiftung, accepted the trophy.

Reserve champion was reason premium mare Alte Zeit (Le Rouge x Alte Art, yesteryear Kasparow), whom Spoo described equally “a noble Equus caballus too a mare whose lineament of stimulate is inwards a league of its own”. The elegant mare is bred too owned yesteryear Sächsische Gestütsverwaltung inwards Graditz.

Two other mares were too commended: Kasandra (Axis x Karlotta, yesteryear Lehndorff), is owned too bred yesteryear Herbert-Stefan Schümann, Kirchhain, too Schnessprinzessin (Elfado x Schneeflocke VI, yesteryear Michelangelo), bred yesteryear Udo Koch, of Tasdorf, too owned by Gestüt Tasdorf.

Herzensdieb named Elite stallion

Leatherdale Farm’s licensed Trakehner stallion Herzensdieb (Tambour) received the championship of Elite Stallion from Prince Donatus Von Hessen too Trakehner Verband breeding director Lars Gehrmann.

Prince Donatus Von Hessen too bred Herzensdieb, who is owned by Doug too Louise Leatherdale. Herzensdieb’s progeny have got received numerous accolades, amongst 2 immature stallions approved yesteryear the Trakehner Verband, including ane who was approved yesteryear the Hanoverian stud book, too 36 daughters who have got successfully produced foals introduced into the Trakehner studbook.

It is the tertiary honorary championship received yesteryear Leatherdale Farms after Damsey was awarded the FRH championship from the Hanoverian Verband too Fairbanks was awarded the championship of Champion Stallion at his licensing inwards 2009.

The proclamation was made inwards forepart of a crowd of almost 15,000 spectators.

The presentation too marked the coming together of a novel generation of breeders along amongst the oldest German linguistic communication breeding families.

“Herzensdieb embodies the perfect spousal human relationship betwixt the most traditional German linguistic communication Trakehner blood lines founded 300 years agone too the Trakehner equally it exists too equally it is bred since 1945,” said Erhard Schulte, a Trakehner specialist too writer of reference books almost the trakehner studbook.

Created inwards the early on years of the 18th century yesteryear the Prussian families descending from the Teutonic knights, Trakehner horses are the products of the armed services horses trained for war. Often owned too bred yesteryear the German linguistic communication aristocracy,they stay the ultimate root of warmbloods for out-crossing amongst traditional studbooks.

The president of the North American Hanoverian Society for 10 years too a recognized specialist of Hanoverians, Doug Leatherdale was looking for the best means to create a modern sport horse, able to compete inwards jumping, dressage or other equestrian sports. When he saw Herzensdieb, he knew this stallion was the means to ameliorate the already outstanding Hanoverian breed.

“Herzensdieb owns all the grandeur too the qualities to ennoble in ane trial again the Hanoverian breed,” said Doug Leatherdale. “Impeccable bloodlines, noble, elegant too distinguished, Herzensdieb proved, at the historic catamenia of but 10, that he was – too manifestly even too then is – ane of the best stallions inwards the world.”

Situated twenty minutes from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Leatherdale Farms is dedicated to Hanoverian, Trakehner too Oldenburg breeding. The Leatherdale identify unit of measurement owns several licensed stallions, all based inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany at Hengstation Jens Meyer.

Champion trakehner stallion sells for €250,000