Champion stallion Splendid by San Amour I - Dream Boy. (Photo: LL-Foto)
Small field for today’s OLD saddle licensing
From watching both the stallion video presentations and today’s licensing, today’s champion stallion made a great picture by first hand, but already from the video presentation you could see that the stallion clearly became very wide behind for more moments, this fact was also clearly shown by today´s presentation at hard surface and under the rider, but did not seem to be considered as an issue for today´s Champion title. The canter itself was huge but lacking more balance, and it was obvious that the quality improved a lot when test rider chose to stand up in the canter.
Today’s most well balanced and well moving stallion for the licensing was from H2R point of view no 48 by For Romance I / Rock Forever.
Test rider Charlott-Maria Schürmann did a great job, with Oliver Oelrich doing the guidance from the ground, as every single stallion clearly became better during the very short testing.
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The stunning Champion Stallion of the 10th Oldenburg Saddle Licensing was the strong moving Splendid by San Amour I out of N-Infinity by Dream Boy - Friedensfürst/T., bred by Rob Zandvoort from Belgium, and owned by Rlz Bvba, Belgium. "A majestic appearance when he enters the ring: black, very swinging and long-legged with a lot of shoulder freedom and good mechanics. We expect a lot from this stallion for the upper dressage sport, who is equipped with the necessary sensitivity and the right attitude," Oldenburg's licensing commissioner Bernhard Thoben described the winner. The test rider Charlott-Maria Schürmann enthused: "The feeling is mega, I have never ridden such a great stallion before". The exceptional talent with his noble bloodlines comes from a successful dressage dam line: Dam N-Infinity was already successful at advanced level at the age of seven. Granddam Fatinitza was a Grand Prix winner under Tatyana Makarova, RUS. Out of the dam line: European Champion Rendezvous under Michael Klimke. The stallion is for sale in the Online Auction.
Today, 19 April, from 9:00 p.m. you have the opportunity to bid for the Champion Stallion as well as some licensed and non-licensed stallions of the Oldenburg Saddle Licensing. The Online Auction ends on Wednesday, 21 April. Trying out of the stallions will take place on Tuesday, 20 April, and on Wednesday. Trying out by appointment only.
The Reserve Champion title went to a son by Foundation out of Gwendolyn by Wynton - Ferro - De Niro, bred by M.C. van’t Hoff from the Netherlands, and exhibited by Gestüt Bonhomme from Berlin. Dam Gwendolyn is the sister of the licensed stallion Le Formidable by Bordeuax. His second dam Vienna is the sister of the star sire Bretton Woods by Johnson under Matthias Alexander Rath.
The Ic-premium was awarded to a stallion by Frascino out of Fahra-Diva by Lauries Crusador xx - Dormello - Placido, bred by Frank & Christine Lange, Porta Westfalica, and exhibited by Peter Aringer from Herford. His third dam Farena is the sister of the World Cup winner Delaunay OLD by Dr. Doolittle under the Swedish rider Patrik Kittel. A highlight of this performance was a very ground covering, tactful walk. The stallion is for sale.
All in all, the licensing committee of the Verband der Züchter des Oldenburger Pferdes licensed nine out of 14 stallions.
Please click here to go directly to the auction lot: https://oldenburg.auction/auctions/10th-saddle-licensing