Van Olst Horses online stallion show on the 1st of April

Mark your calendar 1 April at 7.30 pm

The annual stallion show at Van Olst Horses will be broadcasted online on the 1st of April. You’ll be able to follow the show via Clipmyhorse, KWPN.TV and the website of Van Olst Horses.

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Daniel Bachmann Andersen with 3 victories today at Vilhelmsborg

Zippo M.I. by Blue Hors Zack / Blue Hors Don Schufro and Daniel Bachmann Andersen

Final day at Danish national event with three victories for Daniel Bachmann Andersen

The young and pretty inexperienced horses Daniel Bachmann showed this weekend looked as if they gained some real nice experience.

Talented youngsters

The 7 year old stallion Zac Efron MT OLD by Blue Hors Zack / Don Larino was shown at small tour (MA1) Saturday where Zac was showing some tensions during the test, especially at entering halt and more times during the test but well managed by Daniel and without major technical issues. Today a much more relaxed test, and no doubt there is a lot of power and qualities for the future, just need some more competition mileage.

The beautiful 9 year old grey Holsteiner stallion Caracciola MT by Chin Champ / Calido I, was last year in the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final also together with Daniel. This weekend at start twice in Intermediaire II and today with victory. Still some green moments but also lovely expression and qualties.

Last win today was Grand Prix Special with 10 year old Danish Warmblood gelding Zippo M.I. by Blue Hors Zack / Blue Hors Don Schufro, which recently moved to Daniel. Yesterday they came 3rd in the Grand Prix, showing some body tensions especially at the beginning of the test. Today he started out much more relaxed and does show clear highlights for the canter tour, with super nice series and very good pirouettes. The trot tour was more supple today, showing good expression for the passage, but not yet the clear piaffe beat and balance, the walk is clear but lacking bit more suppleness. Today scoring 70,883% and with clear potential for a 75% test.


VIDEO - Helgstrand makes impressive national Grand Prix debut with two just 8 year old horses

Andreas Helgstrand is back at Grand Prix level with two young horses

8 year old KWPN stallion Jovian and 8 year old Danish Warmblood mare Queenparks Wendy both made their national Grand Prix debut today at Vilhelmsborg with impressive 83,700% and 77,233%.

Both horses produced from youngsters to now as just 8 year old at Grand Prix level by Andreas Helgstrand.

Jovian & Andreas Helgstrand - Super halt, power expressive diagonal balance push uphill, good balance and bending for both half passes, super balance left, good halt with rein back, WOW extension, super into passage, very expressive passage, bit unbalance into piaffe, good steps but forward, good into walk, clear extended walk lack bit more over track, good collected walk, nice into passage, 10-11 piaffe steps forward, good passage, bit tense hind piaffe, good into canter, good 2 times, super extended canter, bit unbalanced tension hind zigzag, LOST signal, until final piaffe, much forward, super passage, nice halt.

From H2R point of view judge at B, Christine Prip was pretty much spot on with 80,200%

Queenparks Wendy & Andreas Helgstrand - Bit open halt, good power and balance for diagonal, good balance for half passes, good halt tense rein back, nice diagonal, super into passage, good passage, becomes tiny bit slow steps and travel bit forward, good transition to walk, super extended walk, good collected walk, clear up into passage, bit forward 2nd piaffe, nice expressive passage, tense into canter, error mid 2 times, super nice extended canter, bit unbalanced zigzag error end, good 1 times bit short, good 1st pirouette, 2nd becomes bit big, good into trot, good diagonal, need bit more clear push start of passage, forward final piaffe, lack bit more impulsion for final passage meters.

Placed as no 3 Daniel Bachmann Andersen & Zippo M.I. - great improvement of the piaffe tours from last time. Starting the test with some tensions and uneven steps, but becomes clearly more relaxed at the end of the test.

Michael Søgaard and Fredendals Fountain showed a very nice overall test with just an error for the two times. Nice expressive test with good power and balance. Good angle for piaffe and passage tours. Still need a bit to much help for the series, but well managed.

Placed combinations:

Stallion shows this weekend LIVE at Clipmyhorse with Isabell Werth showing two stallions

3 stallion shows live this weekend

Team Nijhof Saturday at 2 pm with 6 dressage stallions among them the very well moving Fontaine TN by Finest / Samarant

Hengststation Schult Saturday at 2.30 pm. Very interesting to see the two stallions Valdiviani by Veneno / Fidertanz and Majestic Taonga by Toto Jr / Jazz, both presented by Isabell Werth. Also Flash Bang by Fürst Jazz / Sir Donnerhall I and Escaneno by Escamillo / Veneno will be presented.

Sunday with Landgestüt Nordrhein Westfalen at 11 am. Here you find the entire list of stallions.

Stud fee vouchers auction for Ukraine at HORSE24 running until 27 March

Auction of stud fee vouchers

In a very short time Horse24 succeeded to sign up with 40 stallion stations throughout Europe in order to raise money to help Ukraine.

Stud fee vouchers for a total of 112 stallions are in the auction.

For the breeders this auction gives you a great possibility to search for some of the best stallions in Europe and at the same time check out both videos, predigree and informations, and make your bet.

“Together we must help the suffering people and animals in Ukraine. The full auction prices without any costs will be donated directly to Equiwent Hilfe”
— HORSE24

Two different lots are running until 27 March

The first part of the auction will end 27 March at 2 pm, while the second part will end 27 March at 5 pm.

Current dressage top prices in lot 1:

Current dressage top prices in lot 2:

Check out both running auction lots here.

World Cup final 7 & 9 April LIVE from Leipzig at Clipmyhorse

World Cup final

A very exciting World Cup final comes up in April. Will Dalera and Jessica remain unbeatable and which combinations will at the podium this year.

Schedule:

  • World Cup Short Grand Prix Thursday 7 April at 6.30 pm

  • World Cup Grand Prix freestyle final Saturday 9 April at 7.10 pm

There will be full live stream at Clipmyhorse, and for the Danish viewers also with Danish commentary.

Entries:

FEI PRESS RELEASE - Being more Jessica......

Olympic and European champions, Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Wendl and TSF Dalera BB, will be chasing gold once again at the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 in Leipzig, Germany in just over two week time. (FEI/Liz Gregg)

With two Olympic and three European gold medals all collected over the last eight months, Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB look hot favourites to take the FEI Dressage World Cup™ title when the 2021/2022 Final gets underway on home ground in Leipzig (GER) in just over two weeks’ time.

While driving her lorry full of horses home from CDI*** in Ornago (ITA) yesterday where she steered the ever-improving 13-year-old gelding Ferdinand BB to win both the Grand Prix and Freestyle and where her student-rider, Raphael Netz, won three U25 competitions, she talked about the path that has taken her to where she is now in her career, and her future plans. But when it comes to predicting results she won’t be drawn. She doesn’t take anything for granted.  

“Of course you have to have a clear vision and you must set your goals, but over the last 20 years there were times when I didn’t believe in myself anymore. However I always tried to push myself and I held on to my dreams and hoped the opportunities would come”, says the 36-year-old based at Aubenhausen in southern Germany who holds the No. 1 spot in the Dressage World Rankings.

Key to success

Jessica says that the key to her success was the decision “to stop trying to be someone else”. By the age of 19 she had already earned six gold and two silver medals at European Championships, but it all went wrong in her early 20s. “I had some difficult years with hardly any success and I struggled a lot. I had been Junior and Young Rider champion many times so I dreamed of it at Senior level. But for more than five years it didn’t happen”, she says.

It was a light-bulb moment during which she decided to just “be more Jessica” that turned everything around.

"I stopped trying to imitate other riders and began to focus on doing things my own way - the way I always loved to do it, going back to being the little girl who loved to play with her horses. The horses began to enjoy it more and I don’t ever want to lose that joy again!"

she explains.

She describes herself as “very lucky” that Beatrice Bürchler-Keller entrusted her with Unee BB in 2012. This was the horse that would turn her life around. In 2015 the pair were on the bronze medal winning team at the FEI European Championships in Aachen (GER) and they finished third at three FEI Dressage World Cup™ Finals in Las Vegas (USA) that same year, in Gothenburg (SWE) in 2016 and again in Paris (FRA) in 2018. 

“Unee was one of the most important teachers for me”, Jessica says. “He wasn’t interested in me when he first arrived so I had to find a way to make myself interesting to him. He was nearly ready for Grand Prix when I got him and I really wanted to win his heart but I couldn’t do it the way I used to do it because I always grew up with the horses I’d ridden before. He already knew what he was doing and had his own way, so I had to learn his language before we could both learn a common language. I learned that it’s not just about the horse doing things my way but about doing what is best for each individual horse and being more flexible”. 

Top trainers

Along the way she worked with many top trainers including Paul Elzenbaumer, “a very patient, loving and calm man” and then Stefan Münch, compatriot Isabell Werth who will be defending her title at the 2022 Final with Weihegold, then Jonny Hilberath, Morten Thomsen, Andreas Hausberger and Monica Theodorescu. “However I always have my own ideas, and I rely also on my brother Benni (Benjamin Werndl) who is very important to me - it’s our goal to be in the German team together some day!”, Jessica points out.

Now of course her career at top level revolves around the brilliant 15-year-old TSF Dalera BB who she has been riding since the mare was eight years old. “It was when she was 10 and we won the Louisdor Final in Frankfurt that I realised she could be very special, and when she was third in the Freestyle in 2019 (at the FEI European Championships in Rotterdam) that was the day I thought everything is possible. Then two years later (at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and FEI Dressage European Championships in Hagen) we proved it!” 

And making their prospects even more exciting is the fact that Jessica believes Dalera has further room for improvement. “She feels she can give even more and when I enter the arena I always know she will try her heart out and give her best. I think she loves me and the life she is living. She loves travelling and she’s a real showgirl! But we both enjoy cantering through the forest as much as competing. She’s grateful for that, and so am I”.

Many talents

Jessica is a woman of many talents. During lockdown she wrote a book - “Heaven on Horseback” - about her life, her struggles, her inspiration and her positivity, and she’s currently working on a second publication, a children’s book. She says a near-death experience, when she almost drowned, changed her view on life and helped her become more reflective and to move forward. She wants this latest book to be “a nice story, with a lot of learning”. 

Her five-year-old son, Moritz, may be a little too young to enjoy it as yet because it will be aimed at children aged 10+. Moritz travelled with her to Ornago and it was the first weekend Jessica was without the support of her husband or parents, but it worked out well thanks to the help of grooms and riders. With another baby on the way - due in August and therefore negating any possibility of a tilt at the World Championship titles - she knows she’s going to have even more on her plate in future. “I’ll have to manage my life even better and I’ll need more help for sure. It’s really important to have a good work/life balance”, she says. However she’s aiming to return to action as quickly as possible after baby number two arrives. “I was competing four weeks after giving birth to my first son, so hopefully I can do that again!”, she says with a laugh.

For now however, the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2022 final has her full attention. For Dalera the preparation will be kept very simple - “nothing special, just keeping her motivated, healthy and happy, hacking in the forest and if the weather is good then going on the gallops”, she explains.

And as for preparing herself, it will be about focusing on the reason she does what she does. “Sometimes we need to remind ourselves why we started in the sport - because we love horses. So many people focus too much on the outcome - the success rather than how to get there. I try to focus on how to get there, rather than the outcome”.

Being more Jessica….that seems to work…..

More information about the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final 2022 

4 nykårede DV hingste klar til bedækningssæsonen

Blot 4 dressurhingste blev indsyet til den obligatoriske 10-dages test i Tørring efter hingstekåringen i Herning.

De øvrige godkendte hingste vil blive præsenteret til de kommende tyske 2-dages test i hhv. 6. - 7. april i Vechta, og 26. - 28. april i Münster-Handoff, for at opnå deres endelige godkendelse for i år.


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OLD saddle Licensing and Riding Horses for Online auction - videos online

Videos of 11 dressage stallions for the up-coming OLD saddle licensing and 20 dressage horses are online.

2 April at 3 pm to 10 pm with Online & Live OLD Auction

Among the stallions for the saddle licensing no 46 by Glamourdale / Londonderry look like a top price stallion.

Among the riding horses and older licensed stallions Morricone III look like to absolute top price.

Here you find the entire list of horses for the auction.

There will be online presentation of the collection 27 March at 6 pm at Clipmyhorse.

Vaderland, Von und Zu and Venido highlights at Celle stallion show

Friday evening with huge stallion show from Landgestüt Celle.

Both Vitalis sons Vaderland (ds Krack C) and Von und Zu (ds Floriscount) showed themselves with very nice qualities. Both with lovely expression and a supple uphill front. Vaderland with better canter than Von und Zu, but best walk of the day from Von und Zu. Also Blue Hors Veneziano son Venido looks like a quality stallion.

You have the possibility to catch up on the entire show at ClipMyHorse archive.

FEI PRESS RELEASE - Exciting contest for Final qualifying spots

The FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2021/2022 qualifying season came to an exciting conclusion at Motesice in Slovakia last Sunday where Freestyle victory secured a place at next month’s Final for former champion, Helen Langehanenberg, while Moldova’s Alisa Glinka was confirmed winner of the Central European League.

Only top spot would be enough to help Langehanenberg make the cut to the 35th showdown of the series that dates all the way back to 1986. The German rider, who won the FEI Dressage World Cup™ title with the great Damon Hill back in 2013, was lying ninth on the Western European League leaderboard with 33 points going into yesterday’s last-chance competition. 

Compatriot, Frederic Wandres, was holding third place on the league table with 52 points, so she needed the maximum 20 cross-over points from the Central European series to overtake him and to clinch that last of three qualifying slots on offer to German riders. 

Having steered the 14-year-old mare Annabelle to a narrow victory over Poland’s Katarzyna Milczarek in the Short Grand Prix, Langehanenberg put more distance between them when posting 77.905 in Sunday’s Freestyle. She will now fly her country’s flag alongside defending champion Isabell Werth and reigning Olympic and European champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl when the Final kicks off on their home turf in Leipzig (GER) in three weeks’ time.

Final standings

Saturday’s win in the last leg of the Western European League at ’s-Hertogenbosch in The Netherlands boosted von Bredow-Werndl to pole position in the final standings while success in Slovakia saw Langehanenberg rocket up to second place ahead of Denmark’s Cathrine Dufour in third. 

A total of nine athletes can qualify from this league but only a maximum of three from any country, so Wandres, who finished fourth, has missed out by an agonising single point.

Sweden’s Patrik Kittel, Denmark’s Nanna Skodberg Merrald and Spain’s Juan Matute Guimon fill the next three placings ahead of French rider Morgan Barbançon and The Netherlands’ Thamar Zweistra who finished in equal-eighth place. As Wandres cannot compete, tenth-placed Briton, Charlotte Fry, has made the cut.

Just two slots are available to athletes from the Central European League which kicked off in Minsk (BLR) in April 2021 with victory for the eventual league winner, Glinka. The 35-year-old athlete then went on to win three more rounds of the 19-leg series, at Zhashkiv (UKR) and Kunkiai (LTU) in May 2021 and in Kharkiv (UKR) in June partnering her super-consistent horse Aachen, and the impressive pair also posted two runner-up finishes during the season. 

Katarzyna Milczarek finished eight points behind on the final leaderboard but showed just how competitive she is when putting former champion, Langehanenberg, under plenty of pressure over the weekend. The veteran Polish athlete who, with Ekwador, represented her country at the London 2012 Olympic Games posted a win with Guapo at this season’s fifth qualifier in Samorin (SVK), and last weekend’s second-place result with the 11-year-old stallion bought her ticket to the 2022 Final. 

Across the globe

Meanwhile across the globe Ashley Holzer and Anna Buffini claimed the two qualifying spots on offer in the North American League. 

Former Canadian Olympian Holzer, who took up American citizenship five years ago, posted a double of wins in Ocala, Florida (USA) in October and December 2021 and added further points in Wellington, Florida (USA) in January and February this year with her 15-year-old mare Havanna to top the league standings.

Buffini’s FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final ride is also a 15-year-old mare, FRH Davinia la Douce. Victory and a personal-best score at the last of the eight qualifying legs in Wellington earlier this month sealed second place in the North American rankings and has confirmed a slot for the 27-year-old amongst the total of 18 world-class Dressage athletes who will battle it out for the coveted series title at Leipzig Exhibition Centre from 6 to 10 April 2022.

FEI PRESS RELEASE - Dalera does it again for Jessica at Den Bosch

Germany’s golden girls - the Olympic and European champions Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and her 15-year-old mare TSF Dalera BB - were the undisputed winners of today’s sixth and last qualifying leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2021/2022 Western European League at ’s-Hertogenbosch in The Netherlands. Another outstanding performance from the pair who bagged two gold medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games last August and another three at the FEI European Championships the following month saw them awarded the winning score of 90.555 to leave the result beyond doubt when last to go.

The harmony between the dynamic duo was more palpable than ever today, the mare perhaps taking extra care of her dancing partner because this week the World No. 1 athlete announced that she is expecting her second baby to arrive in August. Last time out they also won on home ground at Neumünster despite a giddy moment from Dalera in extended canter. Today however the mare was the picture of calm and control. “I’ve never had this feeling with her before, it was like doing the test in there was the most normal thing in the world and it was so much fun to ride her!”, said von Bredow-Werndl who pinned defending series champion and compatriot Isabell Werth into runner-up spot ahead of Sweden’s Patrik Kittel in third.

Contrast

The busy atmosphere in the Brabanthallen at ’s-Hertogenbosch was in stark contrast to that experienced at many of the previous rounds of the series which were restricted due to pandemic regulations. The Dutch venue was buzzing so it was all-the-more pleasing for British veteran, Richard Davison, to find himself holding the lead with Bubblingh at the half-way stage.

The 17-year-old gelding is sometimes inclined to boil over due to tension, but today he really held it together to present a lovely steady picture during a pleasing Freestyle that clocked up a score of 77.205 that would prove plenty good enough for fifth place at the end of the day.

Kittel was the first to break the 80 percent barrier when fourth-last to go with the charming 10-year-old mare Forever Young HRH. He said this evening that he had no great expectations for her coming to the show “but she gave me the best feeling!”. With her big ears pricked and listening to his every prompt she seemed to grow through the test, showing lovely elevation and great power in passage before striding home to the strains of Billy Idol’s “Hot in the City”. When 82.500 went up on the board then his was the mark to beat, but Werth and DSP Quantaz posted 84.870 to dethrone the Swedish duo right away.

The German superstar is chasing her fourth consecutive FEI Dressage World Cup™ title and her sixth in total - her very first recorded exactly 30 years ago in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is very happy with the progress she is making with the 12-year-old stallion. “He felt very well today and it was a super test for him”, she said. When Great Britain’s Charlotte Fry and Dark Legend were awarded 82.325 then only von Bredow-Werndl could edge the reigning champion, and they succeeded with a masterclass in communication.

The Olympic and European champion might have expected a bigger score, but as she pointed out afterwards she doesn’t fret about that. “I decided a few years ago I don’t care too much about the score because I can’t influence it - the only thing I can influence is my riding and my performance and today Dalera was just incredible!”, she said. 

"Technically I think it was the best Freestyle I’ve ever ridden, it felt so effortless and so smooth, there was not a single second when I was not 100% sure that we were going to make it!"

Jessica von Bredow-Werndl  (GER)

Fully assured

So now she is fully assured of a place at the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2022 Final next month. It’s no easy job being German and booking one of the three places on offer to your country because defending champion Werth is automatically entitled to one of them, so a sub-plot of fierce competition is playing out in the background as the rest of the super-talented German contingent try to make the cut. 

Today’s result boosted von Bredow-Werndl to the top of the Western European League rankings so she has safely booked the second spot. However tomorrow will be a nervous day for Fredric Wandres who lies third in the rankings after a successful winter season.

Because Helen Langehanenberg, series champion with Damon Hill back in 2013, lines out at Motesice in Slovakia tomorrow and, should she win and collect those precious 20 qualifying points, then she will edge Wandres out of his chance of a tilt at the coveted title by just a single point. That’s all still to play out….

Result 

Standings 

Did you also follow the Helgstrand / Schockemöhle Online stallion presentation?

KWPN Premium stallion Opoque by All at Once / Davino VOD.

Highlights from Helgstrand / Schockemöhle stallion presentations

A marathon program for both Saturday and Sunday evening with online presentation of the Helgstrand / Schockemöhle stallion collection 2022.

It is for sure an impressive list of stallions from both Helgstrand and Schockemöhle, but said that the 2022 presentation becomes more like quantity instead of pure quality.

Theres just too many stallions shown at the same time and the combination with the jumping stallions does make the entire presentation a kind of less interesting for the dressage breeders, and must be the same feeling for the jumping breeders when waiting for their favourites to show up.

The collaboration Helgstrand & Schockemöhle

Helgstrand Dressage has for the last years been one of the absolute leading stallion stations with their continuously purchase of the Champion stallions, Reserve Champion stallions, Premium stallions and other high quality stallions. Common for the Helgstrand stallions are that they will show up as youngsters at Bundeschampionate, Young Horse Championships and of course with the best at World Championships for Young Horses. This is definitely interesting for the breeders.

For Schockemöhle stallions it has for many years been with a huge collection of stallion but with small hand full making their imprint in breeding and sport.

The young stallions 🤩 - pedigree - under saddle

When watching the young stallions as a breeder there are of course many perspectives, but the first impression must be 🤩, secondly the pedigree and third must be the basic gaits under saddle.

3 year old

From watching both days non of the young ones from Saturday caught H2R attention. Sunday more interesting young stallions were shown and one stallion stood out from all the other stallions KWPN Premium stallion Opoque by All at Once / Davino VOD. Already from the pre-selection this stallion was something very special and again at the KWPN licensing he showed that. And he did for not disappoint under saddle. Lots of power and mechanic for the trot, super nice walk and still some kind of unbalanced running canter.

Escanto PS by Escamillo / Fürstenball - a super attractive son of the young successful Escamillo with lovely balanced uphill frame in all 3 gaits. Without any comparison the most beautiful long front legs.

Vogue by Vitalis / Fidertanz look like an impressive big stallion, showing good balance and power in all three gaits - a real Helgstrand stallion.

4 year old

Total Diamond PS by Totilas / Sir Donnerhall is a really interesting Totilas son as he is clearly more big framed than we usually see the Totilas sons.

5 year old with first crop in 2021

Fürst Zonik PS by Fürstenball / Zonik is a really nice supple mover, good hindlegs and also looking strong from his pastern. Lovely natural balanced uphill closed frame. Definite one to keep an eye on.

My Vitality by Vivaldi / D-Day already proved himself winning both Danish Warmblood stallion performance test and 4 year old Danish national championship. My Vitality shows clearly a better canter and walk than his famous and very successful full brother Vitalis.

Remember you can watch the full presentation or just find your favourites at the archive at Clipmyhorse.

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