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.