Results 2-days stallion sport test at Münster-Handorf
4 year old winner Fürst Dior with Eva Möller - private photo.
The 4 year old Fürstenball / Sir Donnerhall son Fürst Dior was top presented by Eva Möller for the sport test and well deserved winner.
When looking down the scoring, and at the same been following the testing, both Viva Gold by Vivaldi / For Romance I and Valdiviani by Veneno / Fidertanz, were shown with really nice qualities.
4 year old
5 year old
By the 5 year old Gaitano by Goldberg was winner, and from H2R point of view the Dream Boy / Krack C son Kane was also interesting and he finished right after today’s winner.
First Vechta stallion show 2020
Total Hope OLD and Isabel Freese - photo credit: Lily Forado
First Vechta stallion show of the year was yesterday afternoon
A huge collection of top stallions were shown for the audience, as many of the spectators from around the world which just attempted the KWPN Stallion Show, and of course went to Vechta to add more exciting stallions at the list for the upcoming breeding season.
A lot of top stallions were shown from mostly Helgstrand Dressage and Schockemöhle, and a few others also impressed from the Videos captured during yesterday afternoon.
World Championship silver combination 2019 now 7 year old Revolution with Andreas Helgstrand showing top qualities - also for the future. Incredible angle for some piaffe work.
World Championship bronze winners and Nürnberger Burg-Pokal winner 2019, now 8 year old Total Hope OLD with Isabel Freese, also showing some impressive work for the future, with super expressive passage steps and a few one times.
3 year old Dynamic Dream by Glock´s Dream Boy / Sir Donnerhall I - first public presentation, also showing his super qualities under saddle.
3 year old Von und Zu (NRW Premium stallion) from Landgestüt Celle by Vitalis / Floriscount with his first public presentation - and he did definitely not disappoint.
Finals at the stallion competitions during KWPN stallion show
Results decided before the finals
Stallion competition finals at Den Bosch are mostly like presentations classes, or should turn into a pure presentation class, as the results obviously are decided before going into the finals.
H2R favourites by this years 5 year old were Glock´s King Karim by Glock´s Toto Jr / Painted Black presented by Hans Peter Minderhoud and Kjento by Negro / Jazz presented by Charlotte Fry.
During the preliminary rounds this year Glock´s King Karim has shown some various performances, while Kjento has been on a steady strong line all the way. For the finals Kjento and Lottie Fry stood out, while Minderhoud was struggling a bit with the fully focus and balance from King Karim. No doubt the winner was Kjento, unfortunately not on the scoreboard.
5 year old Kjento and Charlotte Fry - photo credit: Timo Martis
Jameson RS2 by Blue Hors Zack / Negro with Marieke van der Putten is just developing every time they are presented, and they have been sovereign over the year and well deserved winners by the 6 year old.
6 year old Jameson RS2 and Marieke van der Putten - photo credit: Timo Martis
Like also the 7 year old Imposantos by Wynton / Krack C with Bart Veeze has been in a league of his own for the stallion competitions during the autumn.
6 Premium stallions and no Champion named at KWPN in 2020
New concept for the KWPN licensing in 2020
Before this years licensing the lunging part was added as an extra day to the pre-selection at 21 January, but without consequences for the already selected stallions for the licensing, only as a part of the consideration when making further selection at the licensing. With this years experience going into the licensing, the lunging must for sure be part of the 2021 edition of the KWPN Stallion Show, as it is a very valuable tool in order to evaluate the balance, self carriage, elasticity and contact.
The “CHAMPION” was missing
6 Premium stallions were named, but the traditional excitement for the ranking at the final presentation was missing - no Champion named. Out of the 6 new Premium stallions, H2R picked 4 of them (already after the lunging) as they were showing obvious qualities.
314 by Bordeaux / Florencio (H2R)
342 by Desperado / Jazz (H2R)
362 by Dream Boy / United (H2R)
464 by Glock´s Toto Jr / Jazz
516 by Johnson / Negro
547 by Totilas / Krack C (H2R)
Another 13 stallions selected today - a total of 35 stallions invited for the performance test
VIDEO - "The road to Grand Prix"
Glamourdale and Charlotte Fry - photo credit: Timo Martis
Friday evening was part of the program “The road to Grand Prix” with more up-coming Grand Prix horses.
The most attractive stallions was for sure the 9 year old Glamourdale by Lord Leatherdale / Negro, showing some really nice moments for both passage and piaffe work, super series and top quality for pirouette work.
The 10 year old All at Once by Ampere / Gribaldi with Yessin Rahmouni already made their Grand Prix debut last year, and showing top qualities and angle for the piaffe and passage tours with strong transitions.
All at Once by Ampere / Gribaldi and Yassin Rahmouni - photo credit: Timo Martis
VIDEO - Top price selected stallion by Glock´s Toto jr. / Ferro sold to Helgstrand Dressage for 175.000 euro
454 - by Glock´s Toto Jr. / Ferro - photo credit: KWPN
H2R favourites at the auction:
381 by Ferdinand / United sold for 50.000 euro - photo credit: Timo Martis
344 by Desperado / Wynton sold to Bosson Dressage SWE for 90.000 euro - photo credit: Timo Martis
Some of the other top prices at today’s auction:
VIDEO - World Champion stallion Jovian and Andreas Helgstrand finished day 1 at KWPN Stallion Show with an amazing presentation
6 year old Jovian by Apache / Tango presented by Andreas Helgstrand - photo credit: Timo Martis
Not much to say, just enjoy the video here below and listen to Helgstrand himself when presenting his World Champion.
Videos captured by Peter Stojanow.
Impressions of the stallion presentations and competions during day 1
After the 2nd inspection of the young stallions it was time for presentation of last years approved stallions recently finished their performance test.
2019 KWPN champion stallion Le Formidable with Emmelie Scholtens - photo credit: Timo Martis
The highly frequented Le Formidable by Bordeaux / Ferro was presented by Emmelie Scholtens. Le Formidable is a lovely stallion, super type, a medium sized stallion show good movements, but said that the X-factor was missing.
Lantanas with Nordin Boukhzar - photo credit: Timo Martis
One of the best movers and strongest of the 4 year old was Van Olst Horses stallion Lantanas by Sir Donnerhall I / Hemmingway nicely presented by Nordin Boukhzar.
VHO Trophy - Inter I freestyle
VHO Trophy was won by Geniaal by Vivaldi / Biotop with Dinja van Liere, a very well trained stallion with three good paces. Placed as no 4 was the 10 year old Helgstand Dressage stallion Franklin by Ampere / Ferro with Betina Jæger Jensen.
Franklin and Betina Jæger Jensen - photo credit: Timo Martis
VIDEO - presentation of Gelder stallion Kardieno with Thomas Sigtenbjerggaard
Kardieno and Thomas Sigtenbjerggaard - photo credit: Timo Martis
The 5 year old Kardieno by Dante Weltino OLD / Parcival (gelderland dam line) was presented as the first horse for Friday evening program in Den Bosch.
Kardieno is approved for KWPN, DWB and OLD.
Video captured by Peter Stojanov.
Day 1 at KWPN stallion show with 3 Premium Stallions - a total of 32 stallions invited for performance test
H2R comments for the three Premium stallions during the presentation free today
314 - Bordeaux / Florencio - superb type, supple mover from behind. Still on H2R top list
362 - Dream Boy / United, super mover with nice expression - best of the Dream Boys
547 - Totilas / Krack C - still impressive supple mover
Top favourite Mansion by Totilas / Krack C did not disappoint for today’s presentation free.
547 - Totilas / Krack C - Premium Stallion. Photo credit: Timo Martis
314 - Bordeaux / Florencio - Premium Stallion
314 - Bordeaux / Florencio - Premium Stallion. Photo credit: Timo Martis
362 Dream Boy / United - Premium Stallion
362 Dream Boy / United - Premium Stallion. Photo credit: Timo Martis
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Ready for KWPN Stallion Show
Two intensive and exciting days comes up from tomorrow morning in Den Bosch
For the sharp “selector” you’ve now had two very valuable opportunities to watch the young KWPN stallions before the final selection takes place.
First the pre-selection days in December and lately the first ever lunging part for the stallions, which certainly made the picture much more clear in terms of both balance and suppleness.
H2R favourites:
314 - Bordeaux / Florencio
342 - Desperado / Jazz
362 - Dream Boy / United
554 - Vitalis / Bon Bravour
547 - Totilas / Krack C
587 - Vitalis / Sir Donnerhall I
But the next two days will tell much more.
Schedule for the 2 days:
Live stream schedule at clipmyhorse here.
2-days stallion performance test comes up from Münster-Handorf
First 2-days stallion performance test comes up 2-4 February from Münster-Handorf
As usual Clipmyhorse will live stream from both with own rider and the final day with test rider.
Live stream schedule:
4 year old
5 year old
Have you checked out the huge program for Danish Warmblood stallion licensing, CDI3, CDI5, show and much more
Biggest ever program
From Wednesday March 4 to Sunday March 8, Messe Center Herning will be transformed to a pure horse mecca.
The program is bigger than ever, and here below you can get the overview for each day.
You can order your tickets here, or get much more information about the entire event here.
CDI-W Amsterdam var en fantastisk oplevelse
Bakkely´s Onandt og Lone Bang Larsen - Photo credit: Timo Martis
Første gang til CDI-W i Amsterdam
For Lone Bang Larsen var weekendens World Cup stævne i Amsterdam et stævne på listen over et af “højdepunkterne” i karrieren sammen med hendes nu 13 årige DV vallak Bakkely´s Onandt e. Onassis / Michellino, avlet af Preben Hald, Tjele.
Som Lone fortæller efter hun er hjemvendt fra Amsterdam, så var det en rigtig god fornemmelse at få startet 2020 på det her niveau. Hun ærger sig selvfølgelig over en dyr indridning i Grand Prix klassen, hvor Onandt var noget imponeret over omgivelserne og stemningen i den flotte arena, men derfra glæder hun sig også over at han er med hende hele vejen og tingene lykkedes rigtig godt. Küren som Lone har lavet er med stor sværhedsgrad, hvor hun bl.a. laver serierne på buet spor. Et par spændingsfejl indløber i starten af to serier, mens hendes pirouetter mangler lidt mere kontrol og balance. Parret avancerede fra deres 15. plads i Grand Prix´en og slutter som nr. 14 i küren.
Photo credit: Timo Martis
“For Onandt var stævnet jo kæmpe stort, og det største vi har prøvet sammen til nu, og det var fantastisk at fornemme hvordan han stille og roligt vendte sig til de store forhold og den intense stemning, både på opvarmningen og i arenaen. Det er helt sikkert at stævnet har givet os begge super erfaring, og Onandt lærer i lyn hurtigt at sådan er det bare, og slappede rigtig fint af resten af stævnet efter vores Grand Prix start,” fortæller Lone. Så lige nu er næste kryds i kalenderen for Onandt og Lone det internationale stævne i Herning i forbindelse med hingstekåringen. “Det glæder jeg mig rigtig meget til, for der skal nok blive både top stemning og top sport”, siger Lone.
“Alle snakkede jo om, at det var nærmest et mesterskabsfelt i World Cuppen, så det var selvfølgelig super fedt at nå med i küren også. Stemningen var i top til stævnet, og jeg fik rigtig mange positive kommentarer med på vejen fra både dommere og rytterkollegaer,” fortæller Lone.
FEI-tv kommentatorer
For dem som fulgte med på FEI-tv var kommentering også med et ekstra niveau i Amsterdam. Normalt vil man som seer helst være fri for at kommentatoren snakker for meget i küren, men med de to co-kommentatorer, i første halvdel Carl Hester og i anden halvdel Richard Davison, gav det küren et helt særligt ekstra niveau.
Fra videoklippet herunder kommenterer Carl Hester på nogle af øvelserne i starten af küren, og senere med en del af kommentarerne fra hele deres kür.
“Strong music, strong trot work here, good degree of difficulty, you see with the music as a spectator you kind of know what´s coming there, I like this horse I haven’t seen it before, it´s expressive you know you want to watch it, it´s got plenty of energy, it´s good energy, trot work very good, showed good piaffe / passage work, a little bit tight through the body for the walk, big stride horse in canter as well, we saw her ask but she didn’t get it, she was clever enough to wait another stride and get them, she fixed it very well that’s clever riding, both pirouettes are about 3 meters, but because he is such at big striding horse it´s quite difficult to get them tidy and small because his strides are rather big, nice coming up the centerline, uphill picture, just some green looking mistakes, all to do with concentration with this horse, Denmark will be pleased to have this horse for their future”, slutter Carl Hester.
4 stallions licensed for HANN today
Top price at yesterday's HANN auction sold for 39.000 euro
VIDEO - Mount St. John Freestyle and Charlotte Dujardin 2nd placed with 89,505% to at World Cup Amsterdam
Mount St. John Freestyle and Charlotte Dujardin - photo credit: Timo Martis
Dujardin and Mount St. John Freestyle were shining in today’s World Cup freestyle.
So much power, balance, correctness and quality - judge for yourself. And the piaffe tours reached a new level for this top combination today.
180.000 euro top price for Sezuan premium stallion at Deutsches Sportpferde auction today
Top price stallion sold for 180.000 euro to Landgestüt Celle - photo: #clipmyhorse
The best stallion at the auction was the Sezuan / Fürst Heinrich son, sold for 180.000 euro to Landgestüt Celle, while the attractive “spider” by Spörcken / Fürst Piccolo was sold for 95.000 euro to Gestüt Tannenhof.
Danish bred stallion by Franklin / Don Schufro which also was among the licensed stallions was sold at the auction for 57.000 euro.
List of prices:
FEI Dressage World Cup™ WEL 2019/2020: Invincible Isabell makes it five-in-a-row at Amsterdam
Weihegold produces flawless performance on road to 2020 Final
The partnership that has claimed the FEI Dressage World Cup™ title for the last three years, Germany’s Isabell Werth and Weihegold OLD, proved unbeatable at the eighth leg of the Western European League 2019/2020 qualifying series in Amsterdam (NED) today.
In an awe-inspiring line-up it was Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin, series champion in 2014 and 2015, who finished second with Mount St John Freestyle while 2010 title-holder, The Netherlands’ Edward Gal, slotted into third with a stunning ride on the stallion Glock’s Zonik NOP.
This was Werth’s fifth consecutive victory at the Dutch venue, and making it all the more significant for the German superstar was the fact that every one of those wins has been recorded with the brilliant mare who also carried her to team gold at the Rio Olympic Games.
"It all started for Weihe and me when we won the World Cup here in 2016, so Amsterdam has always been a special show for us. From here we went up and up in the sport, and it’s amazing to still have have her feeling so good and motivated and engaged with me when she is 15 years old. It was a super atmosphere again today, the crowd were so emotional and they were on their feet when we finished so we really enjoyed that!"
Isabell Werth (GER)
The sparkling start-list included many of the sport’s rising stars along with six previous champions. And it was Werth’s compatriot and 2013 series winner Helen Langehanenberg who held the lead at the halfway stage following a super test from her 18-year-old campaigner Damsey FRH who effortlessly executed a long series of perfect pirouettes on his way to putting 84.380 on the board.
Third in after the break however, Gal and Zonik wowed the home crowd with a dramatic test that went into the lead with 85.385. But, fourth-last to go, Werth and Weihegold changed everything when scoring over 90 percent. “It was my first time over 90 in Amsterdam but I had Charlotte coming in behind me so I had to be as good as possible because I knew she was going for it!”, said the rider who had posted a massive 90.280.
And indeed Dujardin didn’t hold back, opening her floorplan with jaw-dropping extended trot and never looking back.
"I knew I had quite a score to beat, but my horse felt good and I tried my best to give her the most confidence possible. This is only her third onsite show. Coming in today I knew I had to go for it and try my best and I was really pleased - this is the best she’s ever been!"
Charlotte Dujardin (GBR)
said the British rider who posted a superb 89.505 which couldn’t be beaten for runner-up spot.
The clash between Dujardin and Werth has now become the most mesmerising in the sport. Can the undisputed Queen from German hold onto her crown, or will Dujardin, who was all but untouchable during her reign with the great Valegro when she set and re-set multiple world records, eventually push her off her throne?
It is all set to play itself out as this year progresses, and with Dujardin now well-qualified for the Final in Las Vegas (USA) in April that looks set to be a cracker. Werth plans to take Weihegold once again, and should they succeed in making it four titles in a row then they will be the very first partnership to do so in the 35-year history of the prestigious FEI Dressage World Cup™ series.
Before all that however there are three more Western European League qualifiers left to run, at Neumunster (GER) in three weeks’ time where Werth again plans to compete, at Gothenburg (SWE) at the end of February and in ’s-Hertogenbosch (NED) in March.
Result here
WEL Standings here