No 4 one of H2R favourites - a mare by Fürstenball / Windspiel sold for 125.000 euros.
Also the 3 most expensive foals were on H2R top list.
VIDEOS - 6 year old preliminary test with strong test from Hesselhøj Donkey Boy and Jan Møller Christensen
Hesselhøj Donkey Boy and Jan Møller Christensen - photo credit: Thomas Bisgaard
Hesselhøj Donkey Boy and Jan Møller Christensen with top performance
From the start list it was once again with a World Champion combination, D´Avie with Severo Jurado Lopez. Today D´Avie was just a bit too much on the toes for the trot tour even though Severo is a master to present a horse, the tensions just crept in for the trot tour, but still scoring same level at today’s winner Hesselhøj Donkey Boy with 9,2 for the trot.
Jan Møller Christensen and Hesselhøj Donkey Boy are defending national champions, but said that it is almost a totally different world moving from 5 year old top class to 6 year old top class, of course not when the horse has both the qualities and abilities.
The walk….
Hesselhøj Donkey Boy showed a top performance together with Jan Møller Christensen today, super balance all the way. Very obedient, 100% concentration about the job and supple. Nice frame and easy light contact without any technical issues.
The “big” question from a lot of people has always been “but what about his huge walk”?
It´s never been an issue when performing, as it has always been with a clear beat with huge over track, and now as 6 year old you can just sit back enjoy every walk step from today’s rein back and forward with clear beat from the first step till the last step (just with some excited steps before the transition to canter today). The “tricky” phase when picking up the rein from extended walk does not becomes tricky at all, Donkey Boy (and Jan) just manage to add activity for the more collected walk, and at the same time maintaining the clear beat - this is just outstand and well deserved without any doubt a clear 10 for the walk.
No doubt the 2018 champion will be either Donkey Boy or D´Avie - tomorrow will tell us.
New to H2R is the stallion Adoro by Ampere / Donnerschwee with Helgstrand Dressage rider Manuel Springhetti. Super nice expressive performance with a lot of qualities and easy effortless.
Today’s best flying changes
New Blue Hors rider Nanna Merrald and Blue Hors Zirrus shows a very solid test and without any doubt today’s best flying changes.
A couple of “different” scores
One combination with the comments from the judges about just one clear change and to much on the forehand = 8,2 for ride ability.
Both changes with error and short/long walk = 8 for potential.
No Consolation finals
The format without consolation final does not really suit a young horse final. Going to the finals with one of the highest scoring young horses and then having the test destroyed like Rikke Dupont today with Hayden KS today. It looked like he got very scared from the applauding audience for the combinations before, and that became the end of the finals for Rikke and Hayden without getting the chance again via the consolation final.
Winner:
2nd
3rd
VIDEOS - 15 combinations ready for 5 year old final at Danish national federation championship for Young Horses
Revolution and Andreas Helgstrand - photo credit: Lily Forado
Revolution and Helgstrand himself with another top performance
The big impressive stallion Revolution with Andreas Helgstrand in the saddle is a very successful combination, and today without exception and with a clear well deserved 10 for the canter.
Helgstrand Dressage also dominates the 5 year old
2nd today was Kenneth Damgaard with For Emotion, for sure not an easy ride knowing that there was no room for tensions or on the toes walk today, but much better control than for the qualifier at Vilhelmsborg.
The new combination Severo Jurado Lopez and Devenport does really show great development also since Vilhelmsborg qualifier.
Videos of top 3 are posted below.
Difficult to be “happy amateur”
Just two non professionals are ready for the final, no 4 Pernille Elten Sigsgaard with Møgelvang Farrari by Sezuan/Come Back II, they are like Helle Wibe with DD Benissima by Belissimo M/Don Romantic well known from Danish Warmblood Young Horse championship finals earlier this year in Herning.
Words of praise for “just” 9,1
For Daniel Bachmann Andersen with the Zack son Zampalo it might have been kind of weird when the judges just had words of praises for the trot work and then just rewarded with 9,1. From the sideline it definitely sounded like closer to 10.
One horse is for sure missing for the 5 year old final tomorrow
From the start of this preliminary 5 year old class it became somewhat weird with scoring from the judges. But without watching the individual marks the conclusion is that 15 horses are ready for the final with just one missing.
The light footed and expressive chestnut mare Straight Horse Sezuanna by Blue Hors Zack / Blue Hors Don Schufro (full sister of Sezuan) with Kenneth Damgaard in the saddle was first to go this morning. They were just rewarded with a total of 75,200, without a single mark over 8,0!
This is a young horse competition and it is also about ride ability and potential. For Sezuanna it was clearly not a question about not being ride able, as she was nice obedient all the way, just showing some “baby” tensions throughout the test today. The way this mare moves is for sure for the future, and the general qualities of the gaits are clearly for at least 8 even with today’s tensions, and then of course with a smaller deduction for the ride ability today, but the huge potential is obvious. The marks were: Trot 7,8 - walk 7,2 - canter 7,6 - ride ability 7,2 - potential 7,8
Another combination with a very weird judging was Delizia with Anne Troensegaard. This mare has never been shown as balanced and powerful as for today’s trot tour, and yes she is still missing the final strength for the extensions but still keeping the balance. Every single step for the rest of the trot tour was spot on, and more like a 9,5-9,7 and not as scored just 8,5. The walk itself was good with clear beat, but could have shown more relaxation. Score from judges just 7,3, at least 1.0 too low for today’s test. The canter was today’s “problem” as tensions were shown throughout the entire canter tour and starting with error for the transition to canter where the rider trying twice before Delizia taking the signal. But bringing the ride ability mark as low as 7,2 seems to be out of line. At the same time the potential is obvious even with the tensions for the canter today, and the deduction down to a 8,8 level instead of the scoring 7,8 had been much more correct.
These two mares shows something very exciting when you wear the “future glasses”.
Winner:
2nd
3rd
UPDATED with day 2 results - OLD pre-selection
JJ Horses in Norway with their stallion by Sezuan / Don Romantic selected as a reserve for the OLD licensing.
The pre-selection will continue tomorrow and monday.
Danish national Young Horse Championship finals has started today
Heiline´s Danciera / Carina Cassøe Krüth - photo credit: Thomas Bisgaard
Today with preliminary tests for 7 year old and 4 year old horses
The 10 best placed from today’s preliminary 7 year old test are qualified for Sunday´s final. And for the 4 year old 22 combinations will be qualified for the final.
Unfortunately there is no live streaming from today’s qualifier, but from tomorrow morning Zibrasport.dk will be live - (pay per view) for both Saturday ad Sunday kr. 79,- (about 10 euros).
All links for start lists and results are available via H2R calendar.
Tomorrow is with preliminary 5 year old and 6 year old, where 15 from both 5 year old and 6 year old will be qualified for Sunday´s finals.
Worlds best Young Horses at start but still no foreign judge
The majority of Worlds best young horses are at start for the national championships, among them World Champion for 5 year old Revolution and World Champion for 6 year old D´avie.
The field of top horses deserves a combination of national judges, and for sure also a pair of international eyes for this very international field of top young horses. The recent Swedish Breeders Trophy was ones again successful with international judge Isobel Wessels as a part of the judging team.
7 year old horses ready for the final from today’s preliminary round:
(entire collection is online) Small but TOP collection for DWB World Cup Foal Auction
Danish Warmblood Top foals
A small but very exclusive collection of just 11 dressage foals for the upcoming auction during World Cup in Herning.
Focus foal today
This is the best Asgard´s Ibiza foal ever seen. This colt just shows something extra and at the same time with a strong dam line.
For more informations and full collection LINK.
Frydenssangs Imola is a leggy and refined dressage colt with a lovely masculine expression. A foal with open frames and very agile. He has an excellent movement in trot and canter with up-hill tendency and good impulsion.
He is out of well-bred dressage blood and derives from a very successful mare line. This line includes three elite mares within the first four generations and the granddam is also a bronze medal mare. She produced the stallion Hot Shot, which was approved for the stallion performance testing, and the silver medal mares Wrigley’z and Waikita.
Her 3rd dam has produced the elite mare Blue Hors Rositta and the medium level dressage horse Hopkins. The medium level dressage horses Tiki and Smedegaardens Butler also derive from this lineage.
The Grand Prix "PILOT test" for CDI-W London Olympia is now available
Very interesting “new” Grand Prix test
No halt with rein back, very short half passes in both trot and canter, just two extended trot tours, shorter walk tours.
The test is now part of the approved schedule for London Olympia.
DRESSAGE ARENA
14 - 17 October with NRW pre-stallion selection with full live streaming
Nearly 200 young dressage stallions are ready for the pre-selection at NRW
Baccardi is the stallion with most offsprings, a total of 8, while both Benicio, Borsalino and Bon Coeur will be represented with 7 offsprings each.
Full list of stallions for pre-selection here.
The main licensing takes place from 26-28 November at Münster-Handorf.
Schedule:
The entire pre-selection will be available via live stream at Clipmyhorse.
VIDEO - Top Franklin filly is ready for auction at World Cup Herning
Friday 19 October in the afternoon at 16.45 Danish Warmblood will for the first time present World Cup Foal Auction during the World Cup event in Herning.
The first Dressage foal is already online and it is another extraordinary offspring by Franklin.
Worres Nina is a beautiful, light-footed filly with excellent movement, carriage and form.
She is extremely well breed - the father Franklin has already showed that he produces offspring which possesses his own excellent carriage and movement.
The mother Valløs Nikita competed at M level at 6 year, and so did Worres Nina´s halfsister Valløs Natalja, before the went in to breeding.
Grandmother on the mothers side is ERDH mare Nichoel Damgaard who decends from the wellknown Damgaard mareline, which have produced several approved stallions and medal awarded mares.
Nichoel Damgaard ERDH is out of the same mare as Moonlight Damgaard EDH - Silver Medal mare Finette Damgaard ESRDH by Donnavan. Moonlight Damgaard EDH is - among others dam to ERDH hoppen Valløs Finette by Blue Hors Future Cup and to Silver Medal awarded mare Valløs Miss Doolittle SRDH by Dr. Dolittle.
Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final getting closer - just one qualifier in Nürnberg is missing
The list of well known names with young talented horses are nearly completed, as it is only the last qualifier event at Nürnberg end of October before the total field for the prestigious final has been found.
And from the list this year will be without exception - a high quality field of young talented horses under some of the best German riders.
Lately the very well moving KWPN stallion Eclectisch by Olivi under Susan Pape secured a ticket for the final by the qualifier at Schenefeld. The final takes place from 13 - 16 December in Frankfurt.
Neu-Anspach: Thomas Wagner QC Fillipo Niro 72,122%
Verden: Ingrid Klimke Bluetooth 74,707%
Donaueschingen: Isabell Werth Descolari 74,480%
Schenefeld: Susan Pape Harmony´s Eclectisch 73,756%
(Full results) NRW Elite auction - most expensive riding horse sold for 100.000 euros and most expensive foal sold for 20.000 euros
Most expensive riding horse sold for 100.000 euros
Most expensive colt sold for 20.000 euros.
VIDEO - Enjoy the entire testing of 4 year old stallion Springbank II VH by Charlotte Dujardin
Springbank II VH and Severo Jurado Lopez
Yesterday’s top scoring 4 year old stallion Springbank II VH by Skovens Rafael / De Niro was just showing outstanding qualities under World Class rider Charlotte Dujardin,
Vivaldi blood lines tops the OLD Elite Auction
Part of OLD press release
2,5 Mio Euro for Oldenburg Horses
Golden price peaks in Vechta: The Fall Elite Auction shined with brilliant horses and excellent prices. Customers from all over the world secured their future champions in the Oldenburg Horse Center Vechta for 2,5 Mio Euro in total.
The most expensive horse at the 89th Fall Elite Auction at the Oldenburg Horse Center Vechta was Vivat Rex by Vivaldi - Samarant - Rubinstein I, bred by Heinrich Gerriets, Wilhelmshaven. This dancer with awesome movements was sold to customers from the Netherlands for 200,000 Euro. The second most expensive horse Silver Black OLD by Sandro Hit - Donnerhall - Classiker, bred by Georg Sieverding from Emstek, was knocked down by Fabian Kühl for 150,000 Euro. The Brillantring Mare Tara by Tomahawk - Hotline - Rubinstein I, bred by Maike Krause from Hameln, changed hands for 110,000 Euro to Switzerland.
The price statistics of the foal collection was led by Vardy by Vitalis - Florencio I - Feinbrand, bred by Hans and Britta Scherbring from Visbek. This highly noble colt was sold to a well-known stud in Lower Saxony for 120,000 Euro. “Apart from long-term customers we were able to win many new Oldenburg friends who secured their champions for the future in Vechta”, rejoiced Auctioneer Fabian Kühl.
Dujardin testing the 4 year old horses at Swedish Breeders Trophy
For the third year in a row Charlotte Dujardin is test rider at the final for the 4 year old horses at Swedish Breeders Trophy at Flyinge.
10 young horses were qualified for today’s testing. Even though the qualities were somewhat limited from the preliminary round, Dujardin just manage to get the best out of every single horse, and at the same explaining and commenting all the time about what she feels and likes and where she sees the abilities and weaknesses.
From the first part two horses were showing super qualities, the first horse by Blue Hors Don Romantic / Hohenstein. Lovely frame, easy and quick off the ground, super nice contact, scoring 8,5 for ride ability and 9,0 for potential. And then a smaller mare by Skovens Rafael / Quaterback with a bit of not so clear contact, but superb engine and willingness to work combined with lightness for the gaits, as Dujardin prefers, and with the comment we already know from Dujardin “I wanna take her home”.
2nd part with the stallion Demand by Ampere / Blue Hors Don Schufro. Some of the comments from Dujardin during her ride “Great qualities of the transitions, very even in the contact and not “man like” at all, really really impressive - by far my best ride, and big applause for the rider”. (Yvonne Österholm).
Just some of the comments from Dujardin about Springbank II VH “like getting in a Rolls Royce cruising, I just don’t know what to say that´s incredible, love love love him, his the best 4 year old I’ve ever sat on, 10 is just not enough, I give Severo a 10, and I give the breeder a 10, Springbank is my ideal man”.
Another Franklin foal with top price at yesterday's Swedish Warmblood Elite auction sold for 30.000 euros
Olympia launches new FEI DRESSAGE WORLD CUP™ competition
Media Release: 05 October 2018
HPower Group, organiser of Olympia, The London International Horse Show, host to the UK leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™, has worked in consultation with the FEI and international dressage riders to revitalise the FEI Dressage World Cup™ competition by making it more interesting to a wider audience. The two evenings of the newly designed competition will be seen at Olympia on Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th December 2018.
Agreed by the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Committee, this will form a two-year pilot project, which seeks to actively engage the audience and broaden the discipline’s appeal, particularly during the Grand Prix Test.
The changes to the existing dressage format include significant alterations to the Grand Prix phase, although the test will still be judged and ridden in the same format as all other FEI technical tests and will continue to demand the highest level of technical ability, accuracy and precision. The Grand Prix changes include
A shorter Grand Prix technical set Test of five minutes
Music will be selected for each rider, by a professional Musical Director, for the Grand Prix Test, which will reflect each combination’s personality and interests
After the Grand Prix, riders will remain in the arena to watch the Judges scores, which will provide immediacy and instant reaction
During the Grand Prix, spectators will be able to assess their own marking skills against the professional Judges
After each Grand Prix Test, riders will discuss their performance in a short interview in front of the audience. Collectively, it will give the audience a Masterclass from the rider’s perspective over the entire competition.
Richard Davison, Dressage Consultant to the Olympia Organising Committee, who has been working together with the FEI on the project said, “The World Cup series is a really important opportunity for us to showcase dressage and widen its appeal. This pilot project is an exciting initiative aimed at adding considerably more spectator appeal, while maintaining traditional dressage values and a highly competitive format.”
Simon Brooks-Ward, Show Director, said: “This new format is not a gimmick or a theatrical experiment. I have been convinced, for some time, that Dressage in the World Cup Series has been underperforming against its potential. Unashamedly – and I believe quite rightly – we want to make the Grand Prix evening at Olympia as meaningful, relevant and exciting as the Freestyle night. Two cracking nights of elite competition will do a lot to improve Dressage’s visibility amongst those who have not been initiated into the complexities of the sport.”
Adding to the dressage entertainment will be The Reprise Des Douzes from La Garde Republicaine, who are renowned for their balletic dressage moves and technically difficult group riding. The Olympia Grand Prix evening, on Monday 17th December, is set to be an evening where the audience can immerse themselves in the highly skilled sport of dressage.
For more information on how to purchase tickets, please visit www.olympiahorseshow.comor telephone the box office on 0844 995 0995.
Springbank II VH and Severo Jurado Lopez showed outstanding qualities
Springbank II VH and Severo Jurado Lopez - photo credit: H2R
A huge class of the best 4 year old Swedish Warmblood horses
From watching the entire class the over all impression was unfortunately with lack of basic qualities for the Swedish young horses.
Lack of power, expression and suppleness, and for the majority also lack of balance. Of course the environment is very different as they are all qualified at the outdoor season, and now has to do the final indoor.
Once again Swedish Warmblood has invited British international judge Isobel Wessels as part of the judging team. Super nice and constructive comments, as it often became somewhat difficult the express clear enthusiasm, when the qualities obviously were missing.
From H2R point view the offsprings by Skovens Rafael just brings something extra. And of course the combination of Severo and Springbank is something special. The walk was definitely worth more than and 8,5.
Brilliant Blend by Blue Hors Don Romantic / Hohenstein also showed nice qualities and nice natural frame, and is the last horse qualified for Saturday´s test riding by Charlotte Dujardin, as the 10 best horses will be tested. Testing starts at 17:00.
Listen to the comments here below:
New short Grand Prix test will part of pilot phase in London Olympia 2018
FEI Dressage World Cup™ Western European League (WEL) - Pilot phase in London Olympia 2018
Further to the meeting held with the WEL Dressage World Cup™ Organisers and our brainstorming session in June, we are pleased to inform you that, as proposed, the OC of the CDI-W London Olympia (GBR) will conduct a pilot test for the Grand Prix, by using a shorter Grand Prix test. The aim of this pilot phase is to maintain a pacey and interesting competition on the first day, keep the audience engaged, expose emotions with direct interview of the athletes still mounted at the end of the test.
The short Grand Prix test will be published as an annex to the approved schedule of the FEI Dressage World Cup qualifiers, CDI-W London Olympia 2018.
Source: Informations from FEI
A few very interesting horses for the upcoming HANN elite auction in Verden 13 October
Huge collections for the upcoming HANN elite auction with both riding horses, young stallions and foals.
Before the auction takes place there will be different days to watch the presentation of the horses via live stream.
H2R favourites are:
Young stallions
Very limited when you just see the stallions in trot and walk by the hand, as they all must be prepared for lunging.
Foals
Here you find the entire collections.
One super star at OLD elite auction for riding horses 6 October
Unfortunately nearly half of the video time on each horse is in slow motion, and at the same time a lot of the horses are shown direct from the front which doesn´t make any sense.
Absolute top price from H2R point of view is this 4 year old gelding by Dimaggio - Brentano II. He just brings the whole package for the future. Super expression, lovely balance, sharp hind legs and suppleness in the body for all three gaits.
Also for H2R top list is no 1 by San Amour. Light-footed mare with good balance and nice expression.
See the entire collection here.
Best elite foals from H2R point of view:
Total list of foals here.