Clinic at Danish Warmblood stallion show 2020 "A complete horse - the art of preparation"

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One moment in time - two young men with a mission

Spanish international top rider Severo Jurado Lopez and Australian horseman Will Rogers will be our hosts at the 2020 edition of Danish Warmblood stallion show clinic, taking place Thursday 5 March 2020.

Severo and Will are wellknown and highly respected around the World, and the combination of Severo´s knowledge from educating the horse in saddle, with Will´s knowledge starting the education from the ground brings the two experts together for this special clinic evening.

Did you know that Severo and Will actually has been working together for more than a year, learning and inspiring each other towards developing the complete horse? Their common mission is to develop every single horse both mentally and physically in order to reach the full potential.

During the night Will and Severo will explain about their different ways of approaching each horse, and they will of course show how they work together and individually with the horses.

  • What does Severo focus on when sitting in the saddle of a young horse for the first time?

  • What does Will focus on meeting the young horse at the ground for the first time?

  • Which behaviour is easy to handle, and will they be able to fully “read” the horse at first try/handling?

This evening will be much more than development and education of horses, it will also be a possibility to experience two hard working and very dedicated horse people bringing everyone into their daily horse universe.

Asking Severo and Will about which horse they see as “a complete horse”, they say at the same time without hesitation Valegro. The way Valegro was able to at one moment enter the Olympic centerline with full focus and full power to the moments meeting his fans in the middel of Central Park, New York all being able to pat him, and also doing his weekly hacking with a lady in her late 70´s - this is a complete horse.

Severo and Will are ready with a mission - they want to share their experiences with all of us, and surprises will for sure be part of this special clinic evening.

Follow “danskvarmblodshingstekaaring” at Instagram, after New Year Severo and Will are ready with a Q&A session, and video clip where they will reveal small parts from their program for the clinic.

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Hvem passer hvilke pladser i DV´s sekretariat og på Vilhelmsborg

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Nyhed på Varmblod.dk 2.12.2019

Personaleændringer og Omstruktureringer

Der er stor travlhed på Dansk Varmblods sekretariat, og direktør Casper Cassøe har mange dage med møder udenfor huset. Derfor sker der en omstrukturing på sekretariatet.

– Mange kender flere af de ansatte på sekretariatet og flere opdager muligvis at nye kommer til personalerækken, og det er der en enkel forklaring på – Vi har meget at lave, indleder direktør for Dansk Varmblod, Casper Cassøe.

I praksis arbejder de ansatte på sekretariatet med opgaver, der enten relaterer sig til avlen/medlemsservice, markedsføring eller økonomi. Og det er nu besluttet, at den opdeling skal tydeliggøres både internt og i forhold til medlemmerne.

– Vi har følt, at det er tid til at kridte linjerne op, også i forhold til omverdenen. Min souschef og arrangementschef Susanne Hvid og jeg har rigtig meget at lave. Og vi må bare sande, at vi ikke kan nå hele vejen rundt – altid. Derfor skal vi på sekretariatet bære stærkere og bredere, forklarer Casper. Dette også set i lyset af, at Casper og Dansk Varmblods sekretariat får administrative opgaver i forbindelse med VM i Herning i 2022 i lighed med de opgaver, sekretariatet løser for World Cup Herning.

– Den nye organisation er en naturlig følge af, at vi har fået så mange flere opgaver end tidligere, forretningen er blevet så meget større, indleder Dansk Varmblods formand Jan Pedersen, og han fortsætter: – Vi har derfor valgt at give nøglemedarbejdere større ansvar og mere kompetence. Jeg tror, det vil vise sig at være en effektiv organisationsstruktur, der afhænger af, at man er god til at kommunikere på tværs af organisationen, men det forventer jeg, at man kan, slutter Jan Pedersen.

Organisationsændring

Den nye organisationsændring vil træde i kraft pr. 1. december, med en måned, hvor tingene lige skal falde på plads og finde det rette leje. Og så forventer Casper, at den nye struktur vil være fuldt implementeret ved årsskiftet.

Sekretariatet bliver opdelt i afdelinger, og vigtigst af alt i alle afdelinger er medlemsservice:

Avl og medlemsservice, med avlskonsulent Karina Christiansen som afdelingsleder og med Christina Brogaard Lund og Lene Rasmussen i samme afdeling, begge med stor erfaring og styrke netop på dette område. Christina kommer fortsat til at arbejde primært med hoppe- og hingstekåring samt med WBFSH, der ligger under denne afdeling, mens Lene fortsat vil sidde med ansøgninger om brug af udenlandsk hingst, hingsteliste, følskuer, egnethedstester og unghestechampionat. Som medlemmerne kender det i dag.

Marketing og auktion, med marketingchef Louise Ringsbo som afdelingsleder. Louise har udfyldt den opgave de seneste par år, og det har styrket forbundets profil og givet noget nytænkning i forhold til markedsføring. I den afdeling vil de udadvendte aktiviteter også ligge, som f.eks. planlægningen af fejringen af H.K.H. Prinsesse Benediktes fødselsdag på Koldinghus sidste år. Josefine Gade, der har været ansat i et vikariat, bliver nu fastansat og tilknyttet denne afdeling. Sammen med Lene får hun en større rolle i forhold til afviklingen af følskuer og egnethedstest, med fokus på marketing og SoMe. Praktikanter vil også typisk høre ind under denne afdeling, som det nu er tilfældet med Mathilde Feidenhansl.

Bogholderiet bliver fortsat styret af Lise Willemann og nyansatte Mette Kristensen, som bl.a. står for at implementere nyt regnskabssystem og medlemsdatabase. Mette vil også komme til at stå for implementeringen af DV Event, og hun er set som Lises efterfølger, når hun går på en seniorordning.

 Souschef og arrangementschef Susanne Hvid og direktør Casper Cassøe kører et tæt parløb på de store arrangementer, og da Susanne har fået tiltagende mere arbejde med de store arrangementer, vil hun blive trukket væk fra projekterne, hvor lederne i de enkelte afdelinger nu skal tage en langt større del af ansvaret i det daglige.

Også i forhold til det daglige arbejde på Vilhelmsborg bliver der ændringer. Arrangementskoordinator Heide Gautschi har valgt at opsige sin stilling, og hendes job vil i fremtiden bliver varetaget af Monica Forrest. – Monica har været en vigtig del af arbejdet på kontoret, og det vil hun i høj grad fortsat være, men dog i sin nye rolle som arrangementschef for Vilhelmsborg. Vi ønsker Heidi alt det bedste i fremtiden, og så glæder jeg mig til at se Monica udfylde den nye rolle.

– Jeg kan mærke, at det er vigtigt for de ansatte på sekretariatet, at vi lige havde behov for at stoppe op og præcisere, hvor tingene hører hjemme, og hvem der har ansvaret. Det gør det langt lettere at løse opgaverne, også når jeg er så meget ude af kontoret til møder, som det er tilfældet, forklarer Casper Cassøe.

​Press Release - Cathrine Dufour crowned SAAB Top 10 Dressage champion in Stockholm

Spectacular prize giving ceremony in the Friends Arena in Stockholm. Isabell Werth (GER), Cathrine Dufour (DEN) and Patrik Kittel (SWE). Photo credit: Roland Thunholm

Spectacular prize giving ceremony in the Friends Arena in Stockholm. Isabell Werth (GER), Cathrine Dufour (DEN) and Patrik Kittel (SWE). Photo credit: Roland Thunholm

Eight riders over 80 percent, six personal bests and a new champion. What a final the SAAB Top 10 Dressage in Stockholm turned out to be!

Cathrine Dufour (DEN), riding Atterupgaards Cassidy, could hardly believe what she saw when the results came up after her ride. 89.445 percent is not only a new personal best for Dufour, it is also the winning score in a SAAB Top 10 final, with 0.1 percent! 

- I thought; is this really happening. The numbers were coming in and the results were flipping between me and Isabell in the top, says Dufour.

- This is of course huge for me and I’m so happy with my little chestnut pony. He’s 17 and people ask me if I will retire him, but he loves to compete and I think he really showed that today - nope, this is not the day. 

Isabell Werth (GER) is runner up in the freestyle with 89.310. She is happy with her horse Weihegold OLD.
- I’m super happy with “Weihe” today. She didn’t make any mistakes, but this time it wasn’t my luck with the numbers. I think this is really good sport. When we are this close it gets really exciting.

Home rider Patrik Kittel (SWE), produced not only a personal best, but also a new Swedish record in Grand Prix Freestyle: 86,115% with Well Done de la Roche CMF.
- I’m so happy, not only for me, but for this whole competition and what we have built together with Saab. Six riders produced personal bests here today. And everybody who goes into the arena wants to win. This is top sport and how dressage should be; the public leaving the arena wanting to see more.

Full results

FEI Press Release - Schneider makes it three-in-a-row for Germany when topping Madrid leg with cheeky Sammy

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Dorothee Schneider secured the third successive German victory in this season’s FEI Dressage World Cup™ Western European League when coming out on top with DSP Sammy Davis Jr. in Madrid, Spain today. (FEI/Thomas Reiner)

Dorothee Schneider secured the third successive German victory in this season’s FEI Dressage World Cup™ Western European League when coming out on top with DSP Sammy Davis Jr. in Madrid, Spain today. (FEI/Thomas Reiner)

Castilla Ruiz and Alcaide are runners-up again for Spain; Netherlands’ Minderhoud moves to top of League table

Dorothee Schneider secured the third successive German victory in this season’s FEI Dressage World Cup™ Western European League when coming out on top with DSP Sammy Davis Jr. in Madrid, Spain today where Claudio Castilla Ruiz (Alcaide) lined up second for the host nation ahead of The Netherlands’ Hans Peter Minderhoud (Glock’s Zinardi) in third.

At the opening leg of the 2019/2020 qualifying series in Herning, Denmark in October it was the home side’s Cathrine Dufour who reigned supreme, but Schneider’s compatriot’s Isabell Werth and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl dominated at the next two rounds. Today Schneider made it a back-to-back German hat-trick, but it wasn’t all plain sailing for the partnership whose record includes European team gold in 2017, World Championship team gold in 2018 and a fifth-place finish at the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final in Paris (FRA) three years ago. Because Sammy was really on his toes this evening….

“He was very good in the Grand Prix yesterday, but in the beginning of the Freestyle today he felt really fresh and we made one mistake in the extended trot and then in the two-tempis", Schneider said.

"I know him so very long now, I’ve been riding him for five years and he has a lot of his own ideas about how we should be doing things! But that’s one of the reasons I love him - he has so much character, we have a great feeling together and he just keeps getting better all the time!”

Dorothee Schneider (GER)

Spain was well-represented with five starters in the 13-strong field, and it was Jose Daniel Martin Dockx and Manchego Arb who were in the lead on a score of 73.265 at the halfway stage. But fellow-countryman Juan Matute Guimon steered Don Diego out in front as the final group of competitors took their turn, only for his mark of 74.460 to be immediately overtaken by Great Britain’s Richard Davison and Bubblingh who put 74.615 on the board.

Castilla Ruiz blew the competition wide open however with a spectacular ride on his handsome 14-year-old stallion Alcaide when fifth-last to go. When Madrid joined the Western European League series for the first time last year this pair wowed the home crowd with a really enjoyable performance to take runner-up spot behind Spanish legend Beatriz Ferrer-Salat and Delgado. And they didn’t disappoint this time out either. Once again kicking off their floorplan with one-handed one-tempi changes, and consistently producing quality piaffe/passage, they completed with a confident final halt to raise the bar all the way up to 80.230. 

That was always going to be challenging, and when Schneider’s average was hovering around 79 percent it wasn’t clear if her double of errors was going to leave the double-Olympian vulnerable in the final analysis. But the pure quality of Sammy’s work, including his grace and elevation in passage and his fabulous pirouettes along with strong artistic scores edged the pair up to a final tally of 82.295 which clinched it definitively. 

Second-last to go, Dutch star and 2016 FEI Dressage World Cup champion, Hans Peter Minderhoud, was pleased that his 15-year-old grey stallion, Glock’s Zinardi, coped with the arena atmosphere. “It wasn’t easy for him because he’s a bit spooky, but it was great to be here for the first time in Madrid and with today’s points I’m now almost qualified for Las Vegas - I’ve been there three times before and I would love to ride there again!” he said after slotting into third place on 78.350 and moving up to the top of the Western European League table. Last to go, Morgan Barbancon Mestre from France (Sir Donnerhall) finished fourth which leaves her lying joint-fourth in the League moving on to the next leg in Salzburg, Austria next Saturday.

The top nine in the WEL rankings will qualify for the 2020 FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final and Schneider, now in joint-seventh after four of the 11 qualifying legs, has qualification clearly in her sights. But it’s not easy being German it seems, because as it stands her compatriots Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, Frederic Wandres and Benjamin Werndl are ahead of her on the league table and they all want the same thing - to be one of the two Germans who will join defending champion Isabell Werth for the season finale in the Thomas & Mack Arena in Las Vegas, USA next April.

“We have so many very good riders, and we all want to go!” said Schneider tonight. 

Result here 

WEL Standings here

Weihe and Werth winner of SAAB Top 10 CDI5 Grand Prix today at Sweden International Horse Show

Atterupgaards Cassidy and Cathrine Dufour - photo credit: Lily Forado

Atterupgaards Cassidy and Cathrine Dufour - photo credit: Lily Forado

SAAB Top 10 - a very special event

More riders from the absolute top of the World Ranking were again this year ready for this special event, and it became a high quality class today.

Imagine to say “another day at the office” when commenting about Isabell Werth with Weihegold OLD winning today’s Grand Prix with impressive 83,652%, but it was really the fact. No technical issues, high quality piaffe/passage tours, super pirouettes, and not least the timing from Werth throughout the entire test makes it still very interesting to follow.

Today the second place went to 🇩🇰 Danish Dufour and her nearly 17 year old partner Atterupgaards Cassidy. It was a top motivated Cassidy and super sharp Dufour dancing through their Personal Best 80,870% Grand Prix (former top score from 02/2018 Göteborg with 80,674%.

Atterupgaards Cassidy DEN - super halt, uphill balance and power diagonal, nice half passes, bit tense halt with rein back, super diagonal, good 1st piaffe good transitions, good walk tour, super 2nd piaffe where Cassidy waiting for signal to go forward, good transition to canter, super 2 times, sharp extended canter, easy smooth zigzag with super flow, superb 1 times, supple tiny pirouettes with huge sit and balance, good transition at M, WOW diagonal, tiny resistance begin of piaffe, super final.

Three combinations at 77%

Another very experienced pair Jessica von Bredow-Werndl with Zaire E showed a very strong performance with an overall very harmonious and elegant picture.

Kittel the man behind SAAB Top 10 showed again that his mare Well Done de la Roche now really has settled for the piaffe tours and this brings them direct into the top of the field today.

Therese Nilshagen and Dante Weltino OLD keep improving for their piaffe tours, and it´s a pleasure to watch the power and suppleness for the trot tour and then the extended canter today was just WOW!

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KWPN getting ready for dressage stallion pre-selections taking place from 3rd to 7th December in Ermelo

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About 300 KWPN dressage stallions getting ready for 1st inspection

Glock´s Toto jr is represented with 29 sons for the pre-selection, so you will definitely have the opportunity to see how he stamps his offsprings and which mare lines that suits him best. Again this year Daily Diamond is represented with sons for the inspection, 17 in total, while the Apache son Indian Rock will be represented with 12 sons.

The KWPN stallion show will take place from 29 January to 1 February in Den Bosch.

The entire pre-selection will be available to follow live at Clipmyhorse.

Dressage stallions

Dressage stallions are evaluated specifically for carriage, stride length, rhythm and regularity, balance in turns, body use in the trot and canter, and the ease with which they perform flying changes when changing direction. In the free movement evaluation, the selection committee also observes the attitude of each dressage stallion. Following evaluation in the chute, the stallion is also judged on his walk and trot in hand. Because the walk is an important basic gait for a dressage stallion, the selection committee places great value on its purity, stride length, and suppleness.

Lunging
In between the first and second round viewing, the dressage stallions will be lunged on the KWPN-center in Ermelo. The lunging will be done by the owner/trainer themselves. The lunging is not a separate selection moment, but it provides the stallion selection committee with relevant additional information about the stallions.

Source: KWPN

Another outstanding stallion purchased by Helgstrand Dressage and Family Kasprzak

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The 2019 Champion stallion by Dream Boy / Sir Donnerhall I from Westfalian stallion licensing was sold at the auction today for 1.900.000 euro to Helgstrand Dressage and Family Kasprzak.

This young stallion stood out from first step together with two other stallions the Revolution / Christ and the Livaldon / Fürstenball, and as non of them were available via the auction it was pretty clear which stallion would take to top price. From the spectators seats it became a close race between the two big Danish studs Helgstrand Dressage and Blue Hors, and at the end with Helgstrand Dressage as the highest bidder.

The Dream Boy son shows super suppleness with power and elegance all the time, with 3 outstanding paces with a surplus for a very very good walk. Can’t to see him at Danish Warmblood stallion licensing in March.

Enjoy some moments for the Champion stallion during the licensing days here below.

From the pre-selection:

Full list of auction prices:

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Presentation under saddle for saddle licensing, hard surface and lunging today at Westphalian stallion licensing

Exciting day with lunging at Westphalian licensing

Exciting day with lunging at Westphalian licensing

9 Absolut top stallions and ONE extraordinary “spider horse”

No 59 is just out of this world - what a horse this Revolution / Christ son - judge for yourself (video below captured by Horsetelex).

  • No 26 by Ibiza / Fürst Piccolo - super modern light footed uphill stallion with top expression.

  • No 57 by Livaldon / Fürstenball - expressive uphill mover.

  • No 70 Vivaldi / First Dance - super model with good expression.



No 32 by Bon Coeur / Fürst Nymphenburg - lovely balanced stallion

No 64 by Sir Heinrich / Foundation - well balanced in a lovely natural frame.

No 25 by Ibiza / Fidermark (Helgstrand Dressage) - supple uphill mover

No 40 by Dream Boy / Sir Donnerhall - supple and super modern.


No 59 by Revolution / Christ - pure spider horse 🤩 (Have you seen anything like this one before?)


No 63 by Sir Heinrich / Floresco (Helgstrand Dressage) - super balanced and supple.




Atterupgaards Barcelo winner of Danish Warmblood 35-days stallion performance test

Atterupgaards Barcelo by Bon Coeur / Caprimond / Donnerhall bred by Stud Atterupgaard and co-owned between Stud Atterupgaard & Helgstrand Dressage

Atterupgaards Barcelo by Bon Coeur / Caprimond / Donnerhall bred by Stud Atterupgaard and co-owned between Stud Atterupgaard & Helgstrand Dressage

914,5 point at 35-days testing

Atterupgaards Barcelo just won Danish Warmblood stallion performance test with an impressive score of 914,5. Sharp followed by Danciero, Global Player and Vivino.

Barcelo is out of the top dam line by Caprimond-Donnerhall, which also has produced the approved stallions Fassfinder by Fürst Heinrich and Atterupgaards Seebach by Sandro Hit, and not least is Barcelo’s dam Dicte also full sister to International GP horse Atterupgaards Cassidy.

Breeder Kristine Munch Sinding is of course proud, and tells a the same time that she is has a very lovely 2 year old full sister filly. In 2020 Dicte is expecting a foal by Bon Courage.

Only stallions with more than 800 point will automatically be invited for final approval at Danish Warmblood stallion show in March 2020. Stallions scoring between 700-800 point can be approved for 1 year and can be invited for the stallion show.