DSP stallion licensing starts today with 49 young stallions selected

Today starts 2025 DSP stallion licensing with an interesting collection of stallions.

Absolute top candidates from the video presenation are 58 Floricello / Stedinger and 61 For Romance / Floricello.

Live stream will be available from Thursday morning with presentation on hard surface.

H2R favourites for licensing/auction:

50 Donier / Don Olymbrio

51 Donkey Boy / San Amour

55 Ellis / Diamond Hit

58 Floricello / Stedinger

61 For Romance / Floricello - NOT FOR SALE

64 Fürst Zonik / Borsalino

Link for the full collection.

Successful Inter II debut for 10 yr old Kjento with Lottie Fry

Kjento & Lottie winner of Word Championships 7 yr old - photo credit: Timo Martis

Next GP stallion in the making from Van Olst Horses

Yesterday 10 yr old Kjento by Negro / Jazz with Lottie Fry in the saddle made their Inter II debut with a winning score of 69,78%.

The talented stallion already proved himself as a youngster at World Championships young horses winning gold both as 6 yr old and 7 yr old, successful at small tour level winning last year Prix St. Georg in Aachen with 75,294%.

Clip from yesterday´s winner performance at national event in Deurne, Holland ⬇️

66.500 euro top price Secret/Swarovski mare at Westfalen Winter Auction (riding horses)

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A total of 26 dressage-orientated auction candidates were on offer. From recently started young horses to highly placed competition horses, everyone could find a suitable partner here. The 19 dressage horses sold for an average of 26.197 euros. The most popular offer of the day was the Secret/Swarowski daughter Unforgettable Feeling (breeder and exhibitor: Gerhard Beeken, Bösel). The strong-moving black mare can already boast numerous placings in dressage tests up to medium level. She will remain in Germany for further training at the top price of 66,500 Euros. Head number 4 Roberta Hill also cracked the 60,000 euro mark. Breeder and exhibitor Frederik Vekens had paired his home-bred stallion Robert Downey junior to the Inter I successful performance mare Dana by Dancing Dynamite. Roberta Hill's granddam is none other than the Rubinstein daughter Romanze, who is the dam of Olympic silver medallist Damon Hill NRW. The talented mare moved to good hands in Switzerland for the hammer price of 62,000 euros. The lot of dressage horses was completed by two broodmares in foal to Fürst Samarant and Qaside. Both found new owners at this auction.

A total of eleven unridden youngsters were included in this Westphalian auction lot. Among the youngsters with an emphasis on dressage, a son of Lord Europe/Hofrat with the head number 32 advanced to the top price. The beautiful black stallion (breeder: Gestüt Schultenhof, Norden-Norddeich; exhibitor: Sportpferde Beckmann GmbH & Co, Wettringen), who comes from the dam line of the top-priced foals at the 2022 and 2023 Westphalian OnLive Foal Auctions, was worth 29,000 euros to his new owners from Germany in the end.

Dressage prices:

Internationality Pays Off

Two premium stallions sold for €300,000 each: The Reserve Champion of the Verband der Züchter des OldenburgerPferdes (OL), by Kingston JZ out of Revanche by Don Olymbrio L - Don Schufro, bred by Blue Hors Aps Dressage, Denmark, exhibited by IB Berger and Beckmann, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, was sold for €300,000 to long-time client Kamil Iwicki from Poland. The stallion will now stand at the Pape Stallion Station. His granddam, Rebelle by Don Schufro, was the 2007 Oldenburg champion mare and achieved international success under Danish rider Maria Anita Andersen. The dam line also produced the Grand Prix winner Denoix PCH by Destano/Katharina Hemmer and the renowned sire Pik Bube.

Another premium stallion, by Secret out of Bellissima by Benaggio - De Niro, bred by Caterina Schulz-Beelitz, Behrensdorf, exhibited by Hans Henning Grönwoldt, Schleswig, also sold for €300,000. From the same dam line come the famous dressage horses Rubinstein I, Bordeaux, and Olympic champions Rembrandt and Ahlerich. This Secret offspring will now reside at Lövsta Stuteri in Sweden.

The Ic premium stallion, by Total Diamond PS out of Valencia S by Vitalis – Rosario, bred and exhibited by ZG Antonia Lüder-Senf and Julian Senf, Hildesheim, was purchased for €160,000 by Gut Schönweide in Grebin. His sire, Total Diamond PS, was the Ib Main Premium winner in 2022. This mare family has produced numerous Grand Prix horses.

Another Total Diamond PS son, out of Dakati by De Niro - Sevillano xx, bred by Gerd Pigge, Lastrup, exhibited by Ifversen and Schwierking, Barver, sold for €120,000 and will move to Italy. His dam line includes Grand Prix horses such as Foundation by Fidertanz/Matthias Alexander Rath, Glock’s Flavio by Fidertanz/Ruben Mengual Reig (ESP), Crystal Friendship by Fidertanz/Anabel Balkenhol, and Apache OLD by Alabaster/Isabell Werth.

A licensed stallion by Be Sure out of MSJ Secretly by Secret -Totilas, bred and exhibited by Mount St John Equestrian LLP Emma Blundell, UK, sold for €100,000. His granddam, Top Secret, competed successfully at Grand Prix under Amy Jean Woodhead, GBR. He will now shine at VDL Stud in the Netherlands.

A licensed son of Majestic Taonga out of Fancy Nova XT by Franklin - Davignon II, bred by Dr. Stefan Tietje, Alfhausen,exhibited by XT-Pferde GmbH, Alfhausen, sold for €92,000 to the Celle and Neustadt (Dosse) state studs. The dam lineincludes Grand Prix horses Levados by Levantos I/Wolfgang Schierloh and Don Cartier by Don Schufro/Rachael Hicks, USA.

Celle State Stud also acquired a premium stallion by FynchHatton out of Ekita by Charmeur - Voice, bred by A.G. and J.W.M. vd Kraats, Netherlands, exhibited by Quality Stables Bv, Netherlands, for €90,000. This dam line includes the Grand Prix horses Victor by Gribaldi/Michael Barisone, USA,and Elegance by Negro/Beatrice Ferrer-Salat, ESP.

The most expensive unlicensed stallion, by Vitalis out of Ivolia PB by Everdale – Jazz, bred by R.J.A. van de Crommenacker & G.M.H.J. van der Wijst, Netherlands, exhibited by Julie Good and Steve Wolgemuth, USA, sold for €61,000 to repeat clients from Sweden.

A highlight was the fact that several renowned Olympic stables secured high-quality dressage prospects at the Oldenburg Stallion Days in Vechta.

Complete Auction Results:

Stallions of Verband der Züchter des Oldenburger Pferdes (OL): https://oldenburger-pferde.com/upload/News/Auktion/Preisliste_Korung_OL_2025.pdf

Photo: The reserve champion and price top by Kingston JZ - Don Olymbrio L - Don Schufro. (Beelitz)

OLD Reserve Champion sold at Blue Hors youngster auction in February 2024 and today top price at OLD stallion auction

300.000 euro top price for the black boys which stood out from day 1

Both the Secret / Benaggio and the Blue Hors Kingston/Blue Hors Don Olymbrio were sold for 300.000 at the auction. Both awarded as premium stallions, the Secret with 1D and the Blue Hors Kingston as Reserve Champion.

The story about the son of Blue Hors Kingston / Blue Hors Don Olymbrio / Blue Hors Don Schufro

Blue Hors Kingston / Blue Hors Don Olymbrio - photo: Blue Hors, February 2024.

This stallion is bred by Blue Hors and was offered for sale through the “sale out” of the youngsters from Blue Hors stud back in February 2024. Here IB Berger discovered the young stallion and purchased him for 28.000 euro. Today 1 year later sold for 300.000 euro to a Polish buyer at OLD stallion auction.

Video as foal ⬇️

Top dam line

Back in November 2023 at Blue Hors Broodmare auction, MLJ Horses secured the dam of now new OLD reserve champion and top price stallion by Blue Hors Kingston/Blue Hors Don Olymbrio/Blue Hors Don Schufro.

The dam Revanche was purchased for 14.500 euro by MLJ Horses, Loa Pedersen and Julie Kruse Hansen (sisters) and Martin Klavsen (boyfriend of Julie and breeding manager at Blue Hors).

Revanche is out of former OLD Champion mare Rebelle (Don Schufro/Regazzoni), showed at international small tour levet with Maria Anita Andersen in the saddle.

Revanche is now expecting a foal by Va Bene, due to end of April.

Day 1 at OLD stallion licensing (summary from H2R Facebook posts)

Two stallions with absolute TOP scores from H2R today.

For the presentation at the triangle the Kingston/Don Olymbrio son showed himself in a very convincing style, where the Secret/Benaggio son as also was on H2R top list from the video presentation showed himself as a bit shy for the triangle presentation.

Both black boys were in a league of their own for the lunging part.

Tomorrow Friday at 3pm with free running, walk ring and announcement of licensing results.

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Rising Star - 10 yr old mare Shiva NRW by Sir Heinrich / Fürst Grandios with Nadine Plaster

It it not the first time this combination caught H2R attention, as they already showed something special from the preliminary round for DERBY STARS VON MORGEN and at Louisdor Preis final.

First of all it is a super cool horse. The environment in the quite small arena is pretty tense as the audience are really close to the arena, and at the same time with lot of noice through out their performance.

Easy, effortless, super nice contact and frame and still with some green moments. A pleasure to watch.

Comments after the performance by Christoph Hess:

“Ladies and gentlemen have you also been riding the test like I did? The first word as I wrote was WONDERFUL, and until the end I had the word wonderful in my head. And have you seen the final line, those stupid one times, it was not as if it should happen, so nice into, the horse was straight, in front of you, uphill, everything in top and now she will do 15 one times, but then two times error, but better for one exercise than errors for two exercises.

Isn´t a super horse, isn´t it a super combination. Like she goes in walk now, how she does the piaffe, a dream, how is does the passage, a dream, like the transition in and out of passage, a dream. How she is able to make the transition from piaffe, passage to total relaxation to the walk, a dream horse. If I have to point out kind of weakness was the first pirouette, 2nd you´ve executed super, a little bit bigger.

You must not forget the mare is just 10 years old or will be 10 this year. She has made her qualifier and a few weeks ago in Frankfurt where they were placed 3rd in Louisdor Preis final, now here today. In Oldenburg they have won the half final, a top sympathetic horse, but the rider is likewise sympathetic. A really nice and harmonious combination. How is the feeling the saddle? Shiva is always nice, she always wants to please me.”

Oldenburg Stallion Days: schedule & livestream

Photo: Oldenburg main premium winner 2024 Escanto PS OLD by Escamillo with owner Paul Schockemöhle and his rider Brandi Roenick. (OLD Art)

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The highlight of the year is just around the corner: The Oldenburg Stallion Days from January 16 to 18 await outstanding dressage and show jumping stallions. Only the best stallions will be admitted to the Oldenburg licensing. If you do not have the opportunity to come to Vechta in person, you can follow the Oldenburg Stallion Days live on the Internet on the Oldenburg homepage or at Clipmyhorse.tv.

 

The Stallion Days will be broadcast live from Thursday morning both on the homepage of the Oldenburg website and at www.clipmyhorse.tv. You will also have the opportunity to view archive recordings of already completed stallion sections during the event. Use the following link to access the archive: https://www.clipmyhorse.tv/de_DE/events/15275

On Thursday, January 16th, the presentation of the show jumping stallions on the triangle will open the Oldenburg Stallion Days at 9.00 a.m. At 11.00 a.m. the jumping stallions will present themselves at their 1st free jumping. From 2.00 p.m. the presentation of the dressage stallions on the trianglewill take place, followed by the lunging at 4.30 p.m. 

On Friday, January 17th, the stallions will show themselves in their disciplines. The free jumping of the show jumping stallions begins at 8.30 a.m. The dressage stallions will fascinate from 3.00 p.m. Afterwards there will be a party with DJ in the tent.

Saturday, January 18th, is packed full of highlights. First of all, at 9.30 a.m., there will be an exciting award ceremony with the selection of the champion stallions. Afterwards, the best four-year-old stallions, who have already presented their first crop of foals in a post-breeding inspection, will compete for the title of main premium winner. The Oldenburg Stallion Market will start at 1 p.m. with an exciting auction in which the licensed and unlicensed stallions will be auctioned off. In addition to bidding on site, you can also bid by telephone or online via the HORSE24 platform. If you do not yet have a valid HORSE24 account, please register in advance. Technical support for questions about online bidding is available on +49(0)172-7267334 or by e-mail to support@horse24.com.

The crowning finale of the exciting Oldenburg Stallion Days is the fantastic Stallion Gala on Saturday at 6.00 p.m. Stallion legends and promising newcomers will present themselves to give breeders a first insight into the stallion selection for the coming breeding season.

Here you can find H2R favourites and collection - https://www.horse2rider.com/seneste/latest/2024/12/27/old-stallion-collection-for-licensing-and-auction

Oldenburg Stallion Days: schedule & livestream

Photo: Oldenburg main premium winner 2024 Escanto PS OLD by Escamillo with owner Paul Schockemöhle and his rider Brandi Roenick. (OLD Art)

PART OF PRESS RELEASE

The highlight of the year is just around the corner: The Oldenburg Stallion Days from January 16 to 18 await outstanding dressage and show jumping stallions. Only the best stallions will be admitted to the Oldenburg licensing. If you do not have the opportunity to come to Vechta in person, you can follow the Oldenburg Stallion Days live on the Internet on the Oldenburg homepage or at Clipmyhorse.tv.

 

The Stallion Days will be broadcast live from Thursday morning both on the homepage of the Oldenburg website and at www.clipmyhorse.tv. You will also have the opportunity to view archive recordings of already completed stallion sections during the event. Use the following link to access the archive: https://www.clipmyhorse.tv/de_DE/events/15275

On Thursday, January 16th, the presentation of the show jumping stallions on the triangle will open the Oldenburg Stallion Days at 9.00 a.m. At 11.00 a.m. the jumping stallions will present themselves at their 1st free jumping. From 2.00 p.m. the presentation of the dressage stallions on the trianglewill take place, followed by the lunging at 4.30 p.m. 

On Friday, January 17th, the stallions will show themselves in their disciplines. The free jumping of the show jumping stallions begins at 8.30 a.m. The dressage stallions will fascinate from 3.00 p.m. Afterwards there will be a party with DJ in the tent.

Saturday, January 18th, is packed full of highlights. First of all, at 9.30 a.m., there will be an exciting award ceremony with the selection of the champion stallions. Afterwards, the best four-year-old stallions, who have already presented their first crop of foals in a post-breeding inspection, will compete for the title of main premium winner. The Oldenburg Stallion Market will start at 1 p.m. with an exciting auction in which the licensed and unlicensed stallions will be auctioned off. In addition to bidding on site, you can also bid by telephone or online via the HORSE24 platform. If you do not yet have a valid HORSE24 account, please register in advance. Technical support for questions about online bidding is available on +49(0)172-7267334 or by e-mail to support@horse24.com.

The crowning finale of the exciting Oldenburg Stallion Days is the fantastic Stallion Gala on Saturday at 6.00 p.m. Stallion legends and promising newcomers will present themselves to give breeders a first insight into the stallion selection for the coming breeding season.

Here you can find H2R and collection - https://www.horse2rider.com/seneste/latest/2024/12/27/old-stallion-collection-for-licensing-and-auction

Danish Warmblood stallion Sarai L now also approved for Dutch NRPS

Sarai L finished NRPS performance test as no 3 with a total score of 84,67.

Sarai L is an attractive, striking large-framed stallion who does his work with great dedication. The stallion has a beautiful and appealing leg technique and shows that he has a lot of ability to change tempo and candence. The walk is clear, four-beat, sufficient of space but could be a bit more suppleness with more over track. The trot has a very beautiful movement technique with a strong use of the hind leg and shows that he can easy switch in tempo and candence. What stands out in Sarai L is absolutely his big outstanding canter in which he has a very powerful uphill jump with a lot of space and a very good self-carriage.

Sarai L has developed very well during the test and has shown that he has a lot of ability to both go forward and collect and a very good attitude and willingness to work. The guest rider was also very enthusiastic about the stallion and praised him about his canter, workability and ability to go forward and to collect.

Stable behaviour: Honest, reliable stallion, easy to handle and quiet in the stable.

Sorry when translation is not fully correct, but hope you get the context. (made by H2R)

The performance test was won by Final Dream by Fontaine TN / Johnson / Florencio with a top score of 93 p.

2nd placed with 86p Danny Boy by Dream Boy / Tolando.

CDI3 Grand Prix freestyle debut victory for Dieudonne & Raphael Netz today in Basel

Grand Prix freestyle debut victory for Germany´s Raphael Netz and Dieudonne

From their international debut back in October in Herning they really caught H2R attention.

The power and elegance from 12 yr old gelding Dieudonne by Dante Weltino/Sir Donnerhall I combined with the lightness from Raphael and at the same time a super strong seat, without looking strong is a pleasure to watch. This is of course still a very green combination at international level, but the way Raphael is able to improve and give Dieudonne confidence in the arena definitely brings high hopes for the future.

Today was only their 6th international start together and their first ever Grand Prix freestyle, where they also managed to keep the Queen of dressage Isabell Werth on 2nd position.

Judges at long side at E Maribel Alonso de Quinzanos (MEX) and at B Hans Voser (SUI) clearly on point!

From looking bit insecure before at the end by A, Raphael had full attention from Dieudonne in the test even though some minor tensions were creeping in for the canter tour, it was a very expressive and soft trot tour with super passage tours and good piaffe, good walk tour and well managed canter tour. Lovely soft connection between hand and seat.

Here you can find the detailed scores.

From Foal to Grand Prix

A unique opportunity for breeders, riders and anyone interested in dressage horses

What to look for when selecting foals and young horses with Grand Prix potential? 

This and many other questions will be answered on Thursday, February 6, 2025.  

This unique and stand-alone event will be hosted by the Hanoverian Club of Denmark in cooperation with Randbøl Dressage Academy in their new beautiful (former Blue Hors) facilities.

The legendary Danish dressage and breeding expert Bjarne Nielsen will be our guide through the process of breeding successful foals, from recognizing the potential in young horses, through to turning them into highly trained, winning dressage horses. 

We will look at foals, young horses and horses under rider, excellently presented by Sophia Obel and Dennis Fisker, and commented on by the always engaging and entertaining Bjarne Nielsen, who will share his infinite expert knowledge with us.  

Please come and join us for this marvelous event: An opportunity to see the magic put into practice and to enrich your (breeder's) toolbox.

It is also a rare and unique opportunity to experience the Randbøl Dressage Academy and its vision and mentoring program.

Everyone is welcome to an exceptional and inspiring evening: DKK 200 per person (members of H.V. can register online at DKK 150).

Headset translation will be available if required.

Superb and Werth takes the CDI3 Grand Prix in Basel today

Supeb & Isabell Werth - photo: screenshot/Clipmyhorse

It was comeback for the now 13 yr old mare Superb, as Werth has not shown her since March 2024.

It is a big moving mare, but also look as if she is “struggling” at bit being fully able to carry from behind under the body all the time. Today without any technical issues, as Werth clearly supporting the mare throughout the entire test in order to balance as good as possible. For the canter tour some tensions creeping in, and even when doing the line of one times Werth is a true master to keep it all together. Very nice qualities for the canter pirouettes.

Final days for Dutch NRPS stallion performance test 9 & 10 January (live stream on YouTube)

20 dressage stallions are ready for end of NRPS stallion performance test taking place Thursday and Friday this week, including Danish Warmblood stallion Sarai L by Secret / Belissimo M, bred by Stutteri L, Denmark and owned in partnership with Stal van de Sande.

Schedule:

9 January

  • 08.30-09.15 - presentation on hard surface

  • 14.45 - 17.45 - dressage test

10 January

  • 13.45 - 17-10 - presentation of stallions with awards

You have the possibility to follow the event LIVE at Youtube from the riding arena.

Thursday: nrpsvodag12025
Friday: nrpsvodag22025

Here you find the entire catalog.

Viva Vegas & Donkey Boy topper listen over antal bedækninger i DV i 2024

Tilbage i marts måned 2024 blev Viva Vegas præsenteret for første gang under Nanna Merrald til hingste fremvisningen på Stutteri Ask, og her efterlod den unge hingst et særdeles godt indtryk både gangarts- og temperamentsmæssigt.

Donkey Boy & Jan Møller Christensen, DV hingstekåringen i 2020. Foto: H2R

Igen i 2024 hittede Donkey Boy hos avlerne. Han har med sine afkom bevist at ridelighed med tre gode gangarter, og et stort plus til skridten - aldrig fornægter sig. Stort antal afkom i diverse championatsfinaler, det jo taler sit eget sprog, og vidner om at Donkey Boy er en klar ridehesteproducent.

Stallions from Van Olst Horses dominated last stallion competition yesterday in Groningen

Secret Lover & Lottie Fry

With the final KWPN stallion competition of the year heading up to the KWPN stallion show, Van Olst Horses stallions were dominating the final stallion competition yesterday in Groningen.

The judging team was Janine van Twist, Floor Dröge and Alex van Silfhout.

Winning with 7 yr old Everest by Especial/Negro with 88,6 p. Some of the judges comments were:

“He is a very high-quality horse, who moves through the performance with a lot of rhythm and shows a nice consistent approach. He has a good walk and trots with a lot of balance, suppleness and impulsion. He also shows a good rhythm for the canter and the image is very expressive. We have a lot of confidence in him for the future.”

In the 6 yr old class Secret Lover by Secret/Fürstenball won with 89,8.

Some comments from the judges:

“This is a complete and willing horse with a bright future. The walk has good rhythm and is active with plenty of space. At times it was a bit hurried. The trot has a lot of cadence, rhythm and impulsion. We also saw a lot of impulsion in the canter and with a lot of ground cover.”

In the 5 yr old class Pjethro by Kjento/Desperado came second to Pina Colada with equal score of 87,4 p.

Some comments from the judges:

“A willing horse with a lot of quality that was presented very nicely. He gets into the rhythm well with a lot of space, but was sometimes a bit hurried. The trot has a lot of impulsion in good cadence. We saw a lot of jump and impulsion in the canter.”

Link for full results here.

🌟FEI Top 50 World Rankings 31 December 2024🌟

🇩🇪Werth and Wendy finish the year in top of FEI World Ranking, follow by 🇩🇰Freestyle and Laudrup-Dufour with 🇬🇧Glamourdale and Lottie in 3rd position.

Danes in top 50

2 - Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour

6 - Daniel Bachmann Andersen

7 - Nanna Skodborg Merrald

37 - Nadja Aaboe Sloth

🇩🇰🇩🇰Denmark in top of U25 and YR rankings

1 - U25 - Sophia Ludvigsen

1 - Young Rider - Frederikke Gram Jacobsen

CDI1 Ranking

Danish Susanne Barnow ranked 18.

U25

Young Rider

Junior

Pony

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