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D´avie and Severo Jurado Lopez at Danish Warmblood stallion show 2018 - photo credit: H2R

Nyhed på Helgstrand Dressage i dag

Hos Helgstrand Dressage sker der hele tiden nyt – selv på den digitale front, hvor Helgstrand nu er klar til at lancere en webshop med salg af sæd fra de mange tophingste, som stalden huser. 

Helgstrand Dressage så dagens lys tilbage i 2008 og har sidenhen udviklet sig til at være en af verdens mest anerkendte salgsstalde. Parallelt med salgsstalden har stedet etableret en hingstestation, som tæller 23 avlshingste af højeste kvalitet. Deriblandt et utal af fløjhingste og præmiehingste. 

- Vi har længe gået med tankerne om at lave en webshop, for at optimere vores service og gøre sædbestillingen endnu nemmere og mere fleksibel for vores kunder, fortæller Lene Birkemose, der er ansvarlig for hingstestationen i Danmark. 

- Selvom vi efterhånden har opbygget os et godt forhandlernetværk, er der stadig rigtig mange, der bestiller direkte hos os. Det er et stort arbejde at administrere de mange daglige sædbestillinger og derfor er webshoppen også et tiltag, der skal gøre arbejdet lidt nemmere for os, tilføjer Lene. 

Helgstrand Dressage pointerer, at selvom webshoppen gerne skulle hjælpe mange hoppeejere nemmere gennem sædbestillingen, så kan sædbestillingen stadig ske direkte til Lene Birkemose, ligesom hun og Helgstrands to hingsteansvarlige, Christian Springborg og Jesper Bisgaard Nielsen, stadig står til rådighed i forhold til rådgivning omkring rette valg af hingst. 

Helgstrand Dressage fejrer lanceringen af webshoppen ved at tilbyde 10% rabat på 1. rate ved bestilling af sæd fra en af stedets mange nye lovende 3-års hingste ved at benytte rabatkoden "stallions2018". Webshoppen finder du på www.helgstrandstallions.dk. Shoppen vil i første omgang være tiltænkt de danske kunder, men vil udvides med både en engelsk og tysk side.

Lene Birkemose 

Sædbestilling og rådgivning

Mail: stallion@helgstranddressage.dk
Tlf.: +45 22 57 44 11

Christian Springborg 

Rådgivning

Mail: chbreeding@helgstranddressage.dk
Tlf.: +45 41 47 50 00

Jesper Bisgaard Nielsen 

Rådgivning 

Mail: jebreeding@helgstranddressage.dk
Tlf.: +45 26 29 43 05

Good mood, very nice horses and lovely presentations at HP Horses Open House (videos)

Highlight of the day was 7 year old Fürsten-Look and Isabel Freese. Photo credit: Horsenews.dk

Nice quiet but still a bit grey Danish spring weather for more than 500 people attending yesterday´s Open House at HP Horses in Hillerød.

Lovely facilities, beautiful setup for the day with among other champagne and small special made HP Horses cakes for the audience. 

A warm welcome from Lone Bøegh Henriksen herself telling a bit about the program for the day, and not least that she was actually wearing spring colors, as green is the color of the hope associated to her newly acquisition the stallion Total Hope. 

As usual Per Springborg, owner of Stutteri Springborg was in charge of the running comments and informations about every single horse, and for the day Dennis Fisker, pro rider, young horse judge and Danish national coach for junior and young riders was doing the comments about the horses shown under saddle. 

Fürsten-Look, Delizia, Dollar Girl, De Bryune, Best of Mount St. John and Be my Beauty Queen H2R highlights of the day

High qualities combined with the best bloodlines including huge success for both sport and breeding is the stamp of the collection from HP Horses. 

Great to be able to se the handsome and very well moving Fürsten-Look which now has become much stronger, and recently very successful at German national S-level.

Fürsten-Look checking out his new neighbor Total Hope - photo credit: H2R

The super mare Delizia by Fürstenball/De Noir from Lotte Liv Kulle and Anne Tronsegaard, was shown by HP Horses rider Maria Falkner Hansen, as Anne was unable to take part herself as she was at a wedding. 20 minutes in the saddle before showing her for the audience. This is just a very special mare. (video below)

The full sisters De Bruyne (2 year old stallion) and Dollar Girl (3 year old mare) by De Niro/San Amour also brings something very special, like the 3 year old Best of Mount st. John by Fürst Romancier/Bordeaux/Sir Donnerhall I. She is now going to Germany to be prepared for the mare performance test where Wibke Hartmann-Strommel is going to show her. 

De Bruyne by De Niro / San Amour - photo credit: Horsenews.dk

Last year Be My Beauty Queen by Bonds/San Amour became filly of the year in Germany and she is still something very special (video from last year below)

Remember you can catch up at the archive from the entire Open House, and for more uploads of Total Hope, De Angelo and Sansibar AK you can check out HP Horses Youtube channel.

Super nice Open House at HP Horses (photo impression)

Well organised and shining horses and riders for yesterday´s Open House at HP Horses.

A lot of people found their way to HP Horses for 2 hours of intensive and well organised presentation of mares, foals, youngsters and stallions. 

FEI press release - America’s Laura Graves chases her right to the line

In a dramatic conclusion to an extraordinary battle between two mighty forces, Germany’s Isabell Werth (48) posted a back-to-back victory at the FEI World Cup™ Dressage Final 2018 in Paris, France today. 

America’s Laura Graves (30) and Verdades put all the pressure on the defending champion when pinning her into runner-up spot in yesterday’s Grand Prix, so in this afternoon’s deciding Freestyle Werth had it all to do to put that behind her and come back out fighting. But with her trademark steely determination, the phenomenal athlete produced a pristine performance to see off the challenge and lift the coveted trophy for the fourth time in her incredible career. 

It was right down to the wire however, and she knew that the slightest error was out of the question when second-last to go. Graves had already posted a massive score of 89.082 which, the US rider admitted, surprised even her. “I knew anything was possible. I knew it would take a score like that to possibly get a win and it was a huge personal best for me!” Graves said.

However Werth mustered all the skill and experience of a lifetime to squeeze her rival out of pole position with the winning mark of 90.657. She described yesterday’s Grand Prix defeat as “motivating“, and simply used it to spur herself on to better things with the help of team coach and manager, Monica Theodorescu. “Like I said yesterday I was not really disappointed or sad, I was just thinking about how I had to prepare for today and how I had to make it better and analyse what went wrong. So Monica and me, we decided to go in the big warm-up arena today, to bring her (Weihegold) forward and to make her free again, and that worked, and today she was the horse I wanted to show yesterday.” 

"This is life, a lot of people think it’s easy, you win and you win again, but it’s not like that. You have to think about it all the time and keep listening to your horse. Yesterday was not our day, but today we could solve it. And this is what I really like to do, and that’s the reason why I love to compete!"

Isabell Werth (GER)

And today’s result was another reminder of the continuing resurgence of the German Dressage powerhouse, with Werth’s compatriots Jessica von Bredow-Werndl (Unee BB) and Dorothee Schneider (Sammy Davis Jr) slotting into third and fifth places. Von Bredow-Werndl’s success was at the expense of Sweden’s Patrik Kittel who, as always, had the crowd right behind him when producing another one of his toe-tapping performances with Deja but who just missed a place on the podium when having to settle for fourth.

Graves threw down something of a challenge at this evening’s press conference. “I never practice my Freestyle as much as my other tests, so I think now I have a bit of homework to do and I think there are many more points to be earned in the future”, she said, so she is clearly marking Werth’s card for the next time they meet.

Today however the lady taking centre stage was one of the great role models in the sport whose accomplishments are so many they may never be matched. Werth is taking great satisfaction from her fourth FEI World Cup™ Dressage title, not just because it’s another success but because of the way she achieved it. 

“To have experience is an advantage if you use it in the right way, and I think we did that from yesterday to today,” she said. “After a lot of years in the sport you know how many things can happen, how things can change very quickly. It gives you the confidence to go in the ring and to try your best - you know what your horse can do and you know what you can do. This was just a great day today!”, said the happy German star.

Result:

1. Weihegold OLD (Isabell Werth) GER 90.657

2. Verdades (Laura Graves) USA 89.082

3. Unee BB (Jessica von Bredow-Werndl) GER 83.275

FULL RESULTS

Verdades and Graves sharper than Weihegold and Werth at today´s World Cup final Grand Prix

Daniel Bachmann Andersen and Blue Hors Zack, Danish Championships 2017 - photo credit: H2R

One big miss out for H2R prediction for today´s top 5 was Swedish Patrik Kittel with Deja. And also underestimated Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and Unee BB. Verdades and Weihegold as predicted in the top battle, while Glock´s Zonik was lacking the last routine, and Blue Hors Zack with Daniel Bachmann Andersen showed great form and finished as no 6.

H2R top 5 before today´s class:

(1)Verdades
(2)Weihegold
(9)Glock´s Zonik
(4)Sammy Davis Jr
(6)Blue Hors Zack 

H2R comments during the Grand Prix

Verdades USA - open halt, power extended trot, super supple half passes, super nice halt rein back, extended trot smooth, bit tension for 1st passage/piaffe/passage tour, good walk, nice transition to passage, ditto 2nd piaffe/passage, super nice 2 times but bit rolling canter rhythm, supple zig-zag, big changes 1 times but could show more airtime, good sit for pirouettes, power extended trot, hot final piaffe, want to make final halt bit early but kept on.

Weihegold OLD GER - small tension halt, bit hold back extended trot, good half passes lack bit expression, bit tense rein back, 1st part of 1st passage bit tense hind, superb piaffe including sharp transitions, 2nd part passage super, good walk, nice 2nd piaffe/passage tour, small tension transition to canter, nice 2 times, change going into extended canter, lost balance a bit for zig-zag, error 1 times, super nice pirouettes, more like medium trot for final extended trot, sharp final, open halt.

Unee BB GER - good start, zig-zag bit unbalanced in the contact, lack bit more clear forward search for 1st piaffe, good walk tour, not clear transition into passage, ditto 2nd piaffe, dropping pole a bit for 2 times, lack bit uphill for zig-zag, becomes bit hind for both pirouettes, a bit take self turns, good final centerline. 

Sammy Davis Jr GER - super halt, ups bit small steps forward, lovely easy diagonal, nice flow for half passes, bit tense halt for rein back, travelling a bit for piaffe, nice bouncy passage, bit short walk, good 2nd piaffe, good 2 times, good zig-zag, nice 1 times, stays a bit down in the hand for the pirouettes, expressive diagonal, lost trot a bit for turn into the centerline, bit forward final piaffe.

Deja SWE - power expressive start, nice balance for zig-zag, lovely reach/crossing, super extended trot, nice transition to passage, piaffe on the spot small unbalance at the end, super relaxation for extended walk, good collected walk, super transition to passage, bit tense 2nd piaffe, nice 2 times, full risk extended canter, small unbalanced zig-zag, good 1 times, good pirouettes, super extended trot, bit tense piaffe super nice passage final.

Blue Hors Zack DEN - good halt, super extended trot, nice smooth zig-zag trot, bit unbalanced halt with rein back, nice extended trot, nice passage and good transition in and out of piaffe, very nice walk tour, good into passage, nice transitions and good 2nd piaffe, good transition to canter, super 2 times, bit concervative extended canter, good zig-zag, super big 1 times, nice pirouettes, good extended trot, travelling forward final piaffe, super halt. 74,130%

FEI PRESS RELEASE - It looks set to be “the Laura and Isabell Show” in tomorrow’s title-deciding Freestyle

America’s Laura Graves pinned defending champion Isabell Werth from Germany into runner-up spot in today’s Grand Prix with a personal-best score from her gelding Verdades at the FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2018 Final in Paris (FRA). (FEI/Liz Gregg) 

Laura Graves (30) has been threatening the supremacy of German superstar, Isabell Werth (48), for some time now and today, when it really mattered, the American pinned the most medalled athlete in the history of equestrian sport into runner-up spot in the Grand Prix at the FEI World Cup™ Dressage Final 2018 in Paris (FRA). 

Riding her beloved gelding Verdades, Graves was runner-up to Werth and her brilliant mare Weihegold at the 2017 Final in Omaha (USA) a year ago, and a few months later they actually pipped the German duo on Werth’s home turf in Aachen so there was always a question about whether they could do it again. This afternoon they proved that indeed they could, as the big horse she calls “Diddy”, and who she has owned since he was a foal, carried the Florida-based rider to a personal-best winning score of 81.413 with a performance that just oozed everything that’s great about a long-established partnership. 

But when Graves was asked at this evening’s press conference how it felt to have Werth sitting beside her in second place, she replied -

"it feels very scary, especially with such a fierce competitor because I know she’s going to ride even harder tomorrow!"

Laura Graves USA (1st)

and she’s probably right about that. Werth didn’t flinch when asked what it was like to be runner-up for once - “well since we are in France I just say, c’est la vie!” she replied. But all joking apart you could tell that today’s defeat may well be turned to her advantage, because this is a lady with ice in her veins. 

She had to follow the US rider into the ring so the pressure was on, and although Weihegold’s piaffe and passage work was as spectacular as ever there was a lack of concentration and the mare didn’t respond to her rider’s leg aids as she normally would in canter. “It’s nothing serious, it happens and it makes it quite exciting! I didn’t plan it like this, but we will try to make it as hard as possible for Laura tomorrow!” Werth said after posting a mark of 78.261. 

When asked if she had made the right decision about which horse to bring to Paris, since she could also have chosen to defend her title with her gelding Emilio, she giggled and said “when I call him (Emilio) tonight he will laugh and say it’s your fault that this has happened!”. But Werth pointed out that Emilio is scheduled for the forthcoming outdoor season, “and that’s why I took Weihe here, and I hope tomorrow we will show that it was the right decision”.

German riders Jessica von Bredow-Werndal with Unee BB and Dorothee Schneider with Sammy Davis Jr claimed third and fourth places, while Sweden’s Patrik Kittel finished fifth ahead of young Dane, Daniel Bachmann-Andersen with Blue Hors Zack, in sixth. 

However tomorrow’s Freestyle competition, which will decide the fate of the 2018 title, looks set to be a fascinating clash between just two mighty forces - the rising American star who took team gold and individual fourth place at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and who was only five years old when Werth won the first of her three FEI World Cup™ Dressage titles in 1992, and the German legend whose six Olympic, five World Championship and nine European gold medals are only the tip of the most extraordinary iceberg. 

It’s game on - and it’s going to be a fascinating finale. Don’t miss a hoofbeat!

Result, Grand Prix:

1. Verdades (Laura Graves) USA 81.413

2. Weihegold OLD (Isabell Werth) GER 78.261

3. Unee BB (Jessica von Bredow-Werndl) GER 75.667

FULL RESULTS

Asgard´s Ibiza and Juliane Brunkhorst winner of debut L test with 8,7 (video)

Trot 9,0 - walk 9,0 - canter 8,5 - submission 8,0 - overall impression 9,0 = 8,7

5 new stallions approved today at Danish Warmblood late licensing

3 year old approved for testing:

• De Angelo by Blue Hors Don Schufro/Stedinger (presented by Paul Schockemöhle, Helgstrand Dressage and HP Horses, Hillerød). 
• Sansibar AK by Sandro Hit/Fürst Heinrich (presented by HP Horses, Hillerød).

Older stallions were shown under the rider

• 7 year old Bøgegårdens Alphabeat by Rousseau/Blue Hors Don Schufro (presented by Jørgen Schmidt, Bolderslev), former passed performance test and now B-horse (based on competition performance, Danish rules) and approved among other things based on more very good offsprings. 
• 6 year old Total Hope by Totilas/Blue Hors Don Schufro (presented by Paul Schockemöhle og HP Horses, Hillerød), approved Swedish performance test and successful at Swedish dressage championships. Approved for 2 years.
• 4 year old Janeiro Platinum by Sezuan/UB40 (presented by Helgstrand Dressage, Vodskov) approved for testing.

Source: Dansk Varmblod

Right now British NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships 2018

Again this weekend is Charlotte Dujardin ready for competition with some of her young and rising stars, and she just won the Prix Sct. Georg with the 9 year old mare River Rice Escarla by Lord Leatherdale / Ferro with 75,57%. (test below) 

Link for start and results here. 

Link for live stream here. 

Catch up on both stallion shows from Helgstrand Dressage and Blue Hors last weekend

Blue Hors Fifty Cent

Valverde

Both stallions show are now available via the archive at Clipmyhorse. 

Helgstrand Dressage

Blue Hors

Et succesfuldt følprojekt

Næsten alle ved hvem Lotte og Per Skjærbæk er, og umiddelbart er stikordene Skovens Rafael eller Morsø Rideklubs gigantiske stævne i Kristihimmelfartsdagene, men parret har en årrække også været særdeles aktive på følauktioner på i Danmark og i udlandet. Derfor har H2R fanget avler- og rytterparret til en lille historie om deres følprojekt.

Priess Stutteri startede i 1995, hvor Lotte og Per flyttede til Mors.

Temaet har været uddannelse af heste til konkurrence og salg, og parret har været og er succesfulde med salg af veluddannede heste af god kvalitet, og har solgt heste til alle verdensdele, hovedsageligt dressurheste.

"Gennem de sidste 10 år er det blevet vanskeligere at finde og købe de gode ungheste. Vi begyndte i stedet at købe flere føl hvert år. I 2013 havde vi en hel del føl opstaldet forskellige steder i landet og vi tog beslutningen om at købe en gård, som vi indrettede til vores føl og plage."

"De sidste par år har vi købt ca 20 føl hvert år. Vi køber føl med god funktionalitet i alle 3 gangarter. Sidste år købte vi overvejende føl efter vores egen hingst Skovens Rafael, da han havde mange føl i Sverige det år. Ellers er vores køb ikke bestemt efter blodlinjer."

Det er gået godt med udvælgelsen af føl

"Vi har solgt super dejlige ungheste gennem årene, og vi syntes stadig kvaliteten er stigende i vores beholdning både på de der er redet og den yngre generation."

"Vi kan tydeligt mærke, at der er efterspørgsel på heste af top kvalitet, så vi tror forsat på, at vores føl projekt er en god ide."

"Det er en stor fordel at have hestene i egne hænder fra de er små, følger deres vækst, lærer om deres temperament osv., og på den måde kan vi starte med at håndtere hestene tidligt og starte deres indlæring." 

"Føllene går i løsdrift, og det har vist sig at fungere rigtig godt. Vi tror på at opvækst i flok og tilgang til masser af daglig motion er nøglen til sunde/stærke heste både mentalt og fysisk." 

Løsdriftstalden

NB. Den opmærksomme læser har sikkert bemærket at alle hestene har halsrem på. Halsremmen er lavet med et nummer så hver enkelt hest kan identificeres nemmest muligt. 

"Vi var spændte på om løsdrift systemet ville betyde, at vores heste ikke blev tillidsfulde og håndterbare nok, men grundet at vi har dygtige ansatte, som står for den daglige kontakt med hestene, så fungerer det super godt, og alle kommer tidligt i hænder."

Unghestelivet

"Grundtræningen starter tidligt. Når hestene er 3 år bliver de tilredet. På gården er der et lille ridehus som fungerer perfekt til formålet. Fordi vi selv ejer langt de fleste heste er der ikke noget tidspres når vi starter tilridningen, og det er en stor fordel. 

"Som en del af træningen af de unge heste, har vi bl.a. også mulighed for at træne dem på vandløbebånd."

"En af de unge heste som er startet så småt med træningen er Askari Pilekær, født 2016 e. Apache/Florestan I/Bernstein som vi købte på følauktionen i Hammelev. Turen i ridehuset for ca. 2 uger siden giver os forventninger om en super spændende fremtid." 

Når hestene er trygge ved rytteren flytter vi dem til vores træningsfaciliteter på Legindvej, hvor den videre uddannelse foregår." 

Succes fra følprojektet

Mange semifinale og finale deltagere ved danske championater. 

• Agamemnon efter Akinos, succesfuld dressur hest på S niveau i Tyskland. 
• Respekt efter Skovens Rafael championatsvinder i Norge. 
• Rio El championatsvinder i Norge og deltager ved UVM.
• Naturgårdens Monique efter Tailormade Temptation, som Jane Cleveland USA, købte af os som plag er en af de mest vindende ekvipager i lilletur. 
• Heilines Lord Romantic efter Tailormade Lancelot, som fik 2x10 med Charlotte Dujardin ved fremmedryttertesten i Herning, nu ejet af Linda Holste og trænet af USA´s førende rytter Laura Graves. 
• Campari efter Concetto, som har været succesfuld med Per i championater både i DK og Sverige. Nu GP klar med Henri Rouste. (video herunder) 

Følprojekt årgang 2018 er skudt godt i gang

Årgang 2018 e. Skovens Rafael / Blue Hors Hotline / Blue Hors Don Schufro - avler Priess Stutteri. 

Mange tak til Lotte og Per for det spændende indblik i følprojektet. Bliver super spændende at følge nye kommende stjerner som har haft deres opvækst på Mors. 

Temptation - Lorentin I daughter most expensive at NRW elite auction (total list of prices)

Most expensive riding horse by Temptation / Lorentin I sold for 145.000 euros. 

Most expensive dressage foal by Vitalis / Dream On sold for 20.000 euros. 

The countdown to the HP Horses open day has begun

We are extremely exited and currently with more than 350 signups we have sat the stage for an amazing day. The enthusiastic and competent Per Springborg will, as usual, take us through the program of the day. Dennis Fisker has taken the challenge of commenting on the shown young horses, while our dearest commentator will judge at the World Cup final in Paris.

This year’s program will for sure be filled with some of the best stallions in the ownership of HP Horses. We will experience Fürsten-Look, who have just won his debut in S-Dressage at a national competition in Germany, Total Hope, who will take the journey from Flyinge, De Angelo, Sansibar AK and Damon Gold.

As a tribute to the almighty Fürstenball we will present 3 outstanding sport mares, including the 5-year-old Deliza, who achieved a top ranking at the young horse championship in Herning and two times 10 from the test rider, Patric Kittel. The 7-year-old Grosse Freude, who have just arrived back from her debut on international junior level with 2 top rankings. At last, the 4-year-old HP Tiramisu, who is a promising prospect for the future.

We will also show some of the stud’s top mares under saddle, hereby A la Fasine, Emperadora, HP Elfenliebe, Dollar Girl, Best of Mount st. John and HP Elderflower.

Some of the stud’s other quality stallions and mares will be shown by hand.

Nevertheless, we would like to show some of this season’s foals after Vitalis and Fürstenball.

The show has additionally received big support from Danish Warmblood Region 1, Hestens Værn, KVL together with our collaborator of feed supplements, NAF.

The whole event will be livestreamed through Clipmyhorse.de, likewise the journalist from Horse2Rider, Charlotte Mogensen, will comment on English through Clipmyhorse.de.

We look forward to an amazing day with everybody interested.

Huge Zack quality imprint at today´s stallion show

Daniel Bachmann Andersen and Blue Hors Zackerey at Danish Warmblood stallion show 2018 - photo credit: H2R

Blue Hors stallion show

Two hours stallion presentation with a packed arena at Blue Hors stud today, and where more breeders, also from abroad, made this weekend as a "stallion show weekend", going to Helgstrand Dressage yesterday and Blue Hors today. 

Busy afternoon for Daniel Bachmann Andersen and Allan Grøn, while Martin Klavsen was the man on the ground showing by hand. All stallions shown under saddle made a nice impression, but especially the 4 year old Danish Warmblood gold medal stallion Blue Hors Zackerey by Zack / Sandro Hit / Solos Carex showed himself with lovely qualities in all 3 gaits moving quick and supple off the ground under Daniel.

In addition two foals Zackerey was shown where the chestnut colt with Don Romantic as damsire showed top qualities (video below) - this colt was also purchased by Blue Hors.

Zackerey will for sure be a very interesting stallion both for future sport and breeding. 

Both Blue Hors Zepter and Blue Hors Don Olymbrio were shown under their daily rider Daniel, and they are both getting ready together with Blue Hors Veneziano to start their outdoor season at Horses & Dream in Hagen end of April. Blue Hors Zack was not shown as he will start his journey towards the World Cup final in Paris tomorrow.

Allan Grøn showed 7 year old Blue Hors Farrell by Fürstenball / Dicaprio. He is getting older and stronger and is now at small tour level, like Blue Hors St. Schufro which all the way has shown great potential for the future, and today with a few "expensive steps" training towards Grand Prix.   

The entire stallion show is available at Clipmyhorse archive. 

OLD Champion stallion by Zack / Don Laurino sold to Max-Theurer for 82.000 euros (total list of auction prices)

Most expensive horse sold to Spain for 185.000 euros

Oldenburg Girls for the World (press release)

At the 88th Oldenburg Elite Auction two top mares were knocked down for premium prices. The brilliant dressage mare Karabella and the jumping mare and Champion of Rastede La Marron will start their journey to the Mediterranean. 

Future star Karabella by Zack - Sunny-Boy - Donnerhall was the most expensive horse with a price of 185,000 Euro and will change into the dressage stable Dos Lunas Dressage Sotogrande in Spain. This beautiful four-year-old mare will move in the box next to WC bronze medal winner and auction star Sir Olli OLD. This beauty queen was bred and exhibited by Johann Kiep from Surwold, Germany.

The second most expensive horse at the Oldenburg Horse Center Vechta was jumper star La Marron by Christian - Landor S - Argentinus. The Champion Mare of the Elite Broodmare Show in Rastede, bred by Elke & Franz Josef Herff from Herzogenrath, Germany, and exhibited by Helmut Osterkamp from Lindern, Germany, was sold for 141,000 Euro to a jumping stable in Italy. 

The hammer fell at 82,000 Euro for the Champion Stallion of the Oldenburg Saddle Licensing Zac Efron by Zack - Don Larino - Duntroon. The noble Champion Stallion bred by Hermann Schildt from Ovelgönne, Germany, and exhibited by Blue Hors Aps from Denmark was sold to a world class dressage stable in Austria. 

Oldenburg is not only international in the pedigrees of the horses, but also the breeders, exhibitors and buyers are from all over the world. Foreign customers showed great interest in quality horses from Oldenburg. More than half of the collection was sold to international Oldenburg friends. Customers from the USA (7), Sweden (4), Austria (3), Switzerland (3), South Korea (3), Italy (2), Serbia (1) as well as Spain (1) will be taking home talented Oldenburgs to ride in the future. 

The total sales reached 1,922,000 Euro. The average price of the horses ranged around 44,000 Euros. Licensed stallions cost around 62,000 Euros on average. 

Extraordinary stallion show today at Helgstrand Dressage

Welcome by the boss himself, Andreas Helgstrand

3 hours intensive top stallion show this afternoon from Helgstrand Dressage

Not a single spot was free, and everything was top polished for today, and all effort was put into this big afternoon in the name of the stallions and the breeders. 

“Lets breed some horses that people wanna buy”

— Andreas Helgstrand

23 stallions with extraordinary qualities were shown under saddle. 

So many super stars at the same place - qualities for World Championships for Young Horses

In 2017 Helgstrand Dressage young horses were major players at World Championships for Young Horses, and from today´s presentation the excitement for 2018 is obvious.

H2R favorite list is just getting too long. Here are some of them: 

Valverde - 4 yr old. This young stallion has developed so much the last year, and looks like a boy with the whole package. My personal top favorite.

Kadans - 3 yr old reserve champion from KWPN licensing and from the 1st crop of Franklin offsprings, shows super qualities in all 3 gaits.

Tørvesletten Sylvester - 4 year old with a lot of natural suppleness in the body and at the same time he looks like there are small step too. 3 supple super gaits.

Springbank II VH - open framed positive power mover. 3 extra gaits. 

New and never seem before was a 4 yr old stallion James Helena PP by Zack / Laudabilis. Lovely confirmation and super supple mover. He will be presented for Danish Warmblood late licensing. 

Well known and very well educated

Grand Galaxy Win - he is now 7 year old and has proved himself as a very attractive producer of quality offsprings. Today with a very good presentation with Severo, where Severo was telling a bit about his riding and training of Grand Galaxy (video clip below). 

8 year old Franklin was shown under Kenneth Damgaard, and they seems to fit eachother very well. You just have to watch out for Franklins offsprings, as he is such a strong horse himself (body wise) and is also very well under way with his education. 

You can of course watch the entire show at Clipmyhorse archive. 

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Kadens

Valverde

Franklin

The entire team at the final 

Nordic International Sales (NIS) auktionen var en succes der bliver gentaget

Photo credit: H2R

Følauktionen Nordic International Sales var under Equitour Aalborg 2017 en massiv succes, der nu skal gentages. Endnu engang kan Dansk Varmblod deltage med en eksklusiv kollektion af elitedressurføl i Nordic International Sales sponsoreret af Stutteri EVO

Dette års følkollektion vil samlet komme til at indeholde ca. 20 føl, hvor henholdsvis Dansk Varmblod og Helgstrand Dressage igen i år har mulighed for hver at invitere 10 føl af enhver afstamning. Føllene skal have en afstamning med kårede individer i fire led og dermed en afstamning, der giver føllet mulighed for selv en dag at kunne kåres i højeste kåringsgrad.

Procedure ved tilmelding af føl til besigtigelse

Der kan udelukkende tilmeldes dressurføl, der er født i april eller tidligere. Alle tilmeldinger til besigtigelse skal sendes til lrb@varmblod.dk. Ved denne mail medsendes afstamning, evt. billede, kort videoklip og evt. resultater på stammen. Tilmeldingsfristen til besigtigelse er den 1. maj 2018.

Auktionsudvalget vil sammen med Helgstrand Dressage gennemgå tilmeldingerne, hvorefter der vil komme en tilbagemelding om føllet skal møde op til besigtigelse og endelig udtagelse.

De føl der skal møde op til besigtigelse sker på tre pladser i landet, hvorefter auktionsudvalget vil udpege føl endeligt til auktionen, der finder sted lørdag den 26. maj om aftenen.

Besigtigelser

• Mandag den 7. maj kl. 10.00-12.00 på Vilhelmsborg
• Mandag den 7. maj kl. 16.00-18.00 på Atterupgaard
• Tirsdag den  8. maj kl. 12.00-14.00 hos Helgstrand Dressage

For yderligere spørgsmål er man velkommen til at kontakte Louise Ringsbo på 61679493 eller Per Jensen fra Helgstrand Dressage på +31 6 30 98 56 31

Tomorrow afternoon at 15:00 stallion show from Helgstrand Dressage

Saturday afternoon at 15:00 you can follow this years stallion presentation from Helgstrand Dressage via live stream at Clipmyhorse. 

About 22 stallions will be presentend during the afternoon, among them some of Europe´s absolute top young stallions, and of course other high quality stallions.

At Clipmyhorse German Michael Schmidt and Danish Christian Springborg will be guiding the audience. 

The statistics are stacked against them, but the five male athletes competing at next week’s FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2018 Final in Paris (FRA) won’t be intimidated by that….

Defending champion, Germany’s Isabell Werth, may be clear favourite to reclaim the title with her fabulous mare Weihegold, but as the lady herself so often says, “with horses you just never know what’s going to happen!”, and there isn’t an equine expert in the world who will argue with that. 

A total of 18 combinations from 12 nations will be strutting their stuff at the AccorHotels Arena when the FEI World Cup™ Dressage 2018 Final kicks off in the heart of the City of Lights on 11 April. Today’s final start-list (HERE) shows a single change, as Australia’s Mary Hanna has withdrawn with Calanta and is replaced by Great Britain’s Hayley Watson-Greaves and Rubins Nite. This means that four countries, Great Britain, Netherlands, Sweden and USA, will field two riders each, but Germany continues to have the largest representation as Werth is joined by Dorothee Schneider riding Sammy Davis Jr., and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl with Unee BB, giving their country a very strong hand. Making waves as the very first rider from the Philippines to qualify for the Final will be 26-year-old former model, Ellesse Jordan Tzinberg, whose captivating back-story includes a determined recovery from a life-threatening accident, and who is likely to attract plenty of attention throughout the week. 

In the history of the FEI World Cup™ Dressage series, which is celebrating its 33rd Final, only four men have ever claimed the coveted title.

First was Germany’s Sven Rothenberger with Andiamo in 1990, and it would be another 19 years before America’s Steffen Peters followed suit with Ravel in 2009. Edward Gal and the amazing stallion, Totilas, were champions in 2010 and then his Dutch counterpart, Hans Peter Minderhoud, came out on top with Glock’s Flirt in 2016. 

Otherwise however the ladies have been the dominant force, and the most dominant of all was the incredible Anky van Grunsven who posted nine victories over an extraordinary 13-year period between 1995 and 2008, a record unlikely ever to be challenged. To a large extent she is responsible for bringing the sport to the level of popularity it enjoys today, as she championed the early development of Dressage Freestyle to Music which has become so popular with audiences all around the world over the intervening years. 

Watching horses “dance” to the rhythm of their Freestyle musical score is quite an experience, the sense of symmetry and the depth of understanding between man and horse is spine-tingling stuff. Edward Gal and Totilas were one of those mesmerising partnerships that left audiences with goose-bumps during their relatively short, but hugely successful, career together, and the Dutchman, the only previous male FEI World Cup™ Dressage champion in contention this time around, brings another really exciting horse to Paris next week, Glock’s Zonik whose extravagant movement has been delighting spectators throughout the winter season.

At 27 years of age Denmark’s Daniel Bachmann Andersen will be one of the youngest competitors at the Final, earning his place with three great performances from the stallion, Blue Hors Zack. And although Britain’s Emile Faurie just squeezed into a qualifying spot after having to withdraw at the last leg in ’s-Hertogenbosch (NED), he has been showing tremendous form with Delatio who shot to centre-stage when runner-up behind Sweden’s Patrik Kittel at Olympia in London (GBR) in December. 

Kittel of course is a master show-stealer. If you want to easily understand the appeal of Freestyle Dressage then he’s your “go to” rider right now, as his gift for combining crisp, quality choreography with the most toe-tapping music is second to none. And his unbounded enthusiasm is, quite simply, infectious. It was no surprise when he galloped to the top of the Western European League table this season, and he brings the brilliant Deja to Paris in a few days time where the host nation will be represented by Rio Olympians Ludovic Henry and After You.

Girl-power will be out in force, but while the boys will be fewer in number they won’t be overwhelmed.

The FEI World Cup™ Dressage Final 2018 - bring it on!!

Stjernespækket felt ved Aalborg Dressage Event

Hos Sportsrideklubben Aalborg er forberedelserne i fuld gang forud for det kombinerede CDI*3 og landsstævne i dressur fra 25.-29. april. Stævnet har fokus på talentudvikling med internationale klasser helt fra pony til U25 samt stor- og lilletur for seniorerne. 
 

De nationale klasser har ligeledes fokus på udviklingen af ungdommen. Aalborg Kommune er sponsor for en Cup for hhv. juniorer og youngrider, hvor ryttere der ikke er udtaget til de internationale klasser kan ride med og lære af den internationale stemning. Landstræner for junior- og youngrider Dennis Fisker får et travlt stævne. Ud over at skulle holde øje med de ryttere, han har udtaget til CDI-klasserne er han nemlig selv meldt til start med hesten Rosenstolz. 
 

I skrivende stund ser det ud til, at stævnet bliver helt fyldt ud. 12 nationer har givet tilsagn om deltagelse i CDI*3-klasserne: Australien, Tyskland, Finland, Norge, Sverige, Holland, Japan, Rusland, Sydafrika, Storbritannien, Letland og selvfølgelig Danmark. 
 

Fra Australien skal vi se Kristy Oatley, Mary Hanna og Simone Pearce. Emma Hindle fra Storbritannien kommer med to heste. Danmark stiller også i en stærk opstilling med blandt andet med Agnethe Kirk på Atterupgaards Orthilia. Fra Danmark kommer også Allan Skov/Midtgårdens Showhit og Mai Tofte Olesen/Rustique, der alle tre var med helt fremme ved CDI-stævnet under hingstekåringen i Herning. Det er bestemt ikke mange rideklubber, der har en berider, der selv rider international dressur. Den lokale berider og daglige leder i Sportsrideklubben Aalborg Nikolai Kowalski er klar til stor tur med Gevelts Donna Tella. De har en frisk placering fra CDI-stævnet i Vestfold her i foråret med i bagagen. 
 

U25-klasserne bliver også fyldt med spændende ekvipager, hvor indtil videre Storbritannien, Finland, Sverige og Danmark har tilmeldt sine ryttere. Fra Sverige får vi et gensyn med den dejlige danskavlede hest Herbie Hancock Graftebjerg med Alva Lander i sadlen. Fra Danmark er Nanna Merrald med Gørklintgårds Quantico en af de spændende ekvipager, vi skal se.

Til deltagelse i de nationale klasser er der meldt en del svenske og norske ryttere, der tager en yngre hest med. Det giver også et internationalt touch for de ryttere, der skal starte her. Ponyrytterne, junior- og youngriders er ikke tilmeldt endnu, men også her forventer ansvarlig for CDI-stævnet Jesper Holst Hansen fuldt hus. Han udtaler: 
 

”Der er en overvældende interesse for at deltage i Aalborg Dressage Event fra både danske og udenlandske ryttere. Især stor tur er der efterspørgsel på. Jeg er meget glad for og stolt over, at Sportsrideklubben Aalborg på få år har formået at skabe et så populært stævne, som rytterne er glade for at vende tilbage til. Hele stævnet er bygget op udelukkende om frivillige kræfter fra rideklubben, der igennem lang tid har arbejdet med at arrangere stævnet. Vi er den eneste rideklub i Danmark, der arrangerer et internationalt dressurstævne baseret på frivilligt arbejde. Det giver en særlig stemning og godt sammenhold i klubben.”

Der er sidste frist for tilmelding til CDI-klasserne d. 10. april og til landsstævneklasserne d. 16. april. 
 

• Kontakt: Jesper Holst Hansen, tlf. 2244 6931, hrholsthansen@gmail.com
• Stævnets website: http://aalborgdressageevent.dk/DK.aspx
• Schedules til CDI: http://aalborgdressageevent.dk/files/DS_DEF_NF_Aalborg_(DEN)_26-29_April_2018_Updated_II(1).pdf
• Tilmelding til landsstævneklasser her: http://go.rideforbund.dk/staevnekalender/vis-staevne.aspx?EventId=Prop00030480