Germany ready with selection dates for WCYH in Verden

World Champions 2019 (6 year old horses) Frederic Wandres and Zucchero - photo credit: Lily Forado

FEI/WBFSH World Breeding Championships Dressage

for Young Horses in Verden from 9 - 13 December 2020

The German selection committee is ready with new dates for candidates for WCYH in Verden.

1st observation (outdoor) Warendorf

• 2 - 6 September - the finals for the Bundeschamchampionate for 5 year old and 6 year old horses

• 29 - 30 September - 5 year old and 6 year old horses qualified but not participated at Bundeschampionate or other German horses with foreign riders not been at the Bundeschampionate. Likewise observation of 7 year old horses.

30th September the selected horses for 2nd observation will be named.

2nd observation (indoor) Warendorf

• 19 - 20 October - presentation of the horses at the FEI final program for their age level.

All observations will be possible to follow live via Clipmyhorse.

Full informations here about the selections (in German)

Top price filly at 1st Helgstrand - Schockemöhle online foal auction sold for 82.000 euro

The three Danish bred foals were also sold from the auction

• Hedelunds So Pretty (filly) by Janeiro Platinum/Tailormade Temptation - sold for 13.500 to Denmark

• Worres Fly with Me (colt) by Franklin/Dr. Doolittle - sold for 16.500 euro to Russia

• Treldegårds Shaka Kahn (colt) by Quaterhit / Fürstenball - sold for 20.500 euro til Luxembourg

Here you find the entire results from the auction.

340.000 euro top price riding horse and 133.750 euro top price foal OLD auction

Resultater fra første championatskvalifikation i dag i Ringsted

4 års (dommere: Niels-Erik Bøchman og Sabrina Hesselhede)

5 års

6 års

7 års

VIDEOS - Simone Pearce and Destano winner by two judges but unfortunately not enough to beat Werth today

Danish Warmblood Lindballes Just Perfect and Simone Pearce, WCYH 2018 - photo credit: Lily Forado

Werth with clear golden advantage for today's national Grand Prix victory

1. Den Haag / Isabell Werth - good halt, bit limited extended trot, nice half passes, nice halt with rein back, good passage, piaffe, passage, huge extended walk, good collected walk, bit forward travelling piaffe, good 2 times, bit unbalanced zigzag, good 1 times bit short, lost impulse/canter into 2nd pirouette, small unbalance before centerline, good final. Clearly Werth is asking Den Haag to do his job throughout the entire test. 75,633%

2. Australian Simone Pearce and the 13 year old HANN stallion Destano by Desperados / Brentano II showed a clear winner performance for today’s national Grand Prix at Herbergen. Well balanced and supple test, with just a small error by the 2 times, rest was shown in very nice harmony. Highlights were trot half passes, halt with rein back, extended walk and pirouettes.

3. Crystal Friendship / Annabel Balkenhol - smooth trot tour, lacking bit more swing and self carriage for half passes, good passage, bit open for piaffe tours need more sit and carriage, super walk tour, big supple 2 times, nice 1 times, good quality for pirouettes need a bit more control, nice final centerline. 73.100%

4. Destiny OLD / Kristina Bröring-Sprehe - well balanced trot tour, good halt with rein back, huge bit open passage, bit unbalanced into piaffe, nice walk tour, better into 2nd piaffe bit forward trend, error begin 2 times, nice active zigzag, super 1 times, need bit more forward search 1st pirouette, lost balance 2nd pirouette, nice final, super halt. 72,567%

5. Eaton Unitechno / Christoph Koschel - super expressive off the ground trot tour including expressive passage and easy in and out from active piaffe just missing a bit of balance, good canter tour, not the biggest canter but very useable, good trend for pirouettes lacking bit more collection. Dancing passage and easy transitions. 71,200%. Exciting horse 11 year old gelding by Wynton/San Remo.

Not placed

Curiosity/ Antonia Ramel - power trot tour, lacking bit balance for half passes, lost passage into a nice piaffe and lack more power direct out into passage, good walk, nice into 2nd piaffe, lacking clear transition out, tense into canter, good canter tour, error begin 1 times, nice sit and control for both pirouettes, good final. 70,600%

Eros / Lynda Oatley - nice trot tour, half passes need a bit more flow and let go, good 1st passage, nice rhythm for piaffe good transitions, good walk tour, 2nd piaffe lack bit more energy, good transition to canter, nice 2 times, nice zigzag, nice 1 times, lovely sit for both pirouettes, 2nd bit hind riders aides, bit running diagonal, smooth final, nice halt. 70,500% - lovely new partnership

Brancusi / Beatrice Buchwald-expressive trot tour, supple half passes, bit tensions for passage, cautious piaffes but nice angle, good walk, some issues for transition to canter, bit tensions for the canter tour, but overall nice qualities. 69,867%. Look like an exciting horse for the future and suits Beatrice very nicely.

See full results here.

Judge for yourself - No 1 and no 2

Swedish Therese Nilshagen and Malin Wahlkamp-Nilsson both placed with talented young horses

Today’s Prix Sct. Georg at Herbergen was again with imprint from the Swedes

Therese Nilshagen and 7 year old stallion For Final OLD by For Romance / Dimaggio made their competition debut together with a very nice performance. No technical issues and nice supple over all test with nice contact, good power presented in a nice frame, with good flow and go all the way. This combination does for sure look like a candidate for Nürnberger Burg-Pokal qualifier. (Placed 2nd with 71,349%)

Kittel rider Malin Wahlkamp-Nilsson was also making her competition debut together with Fenix a 10 year old gelding by Vivaldi / Houston. Lovely power horse with super expressive trot tour, good walk and still missing a bit more strength for the canter tour, but still very interesting partnership. (Winner of 2nd part with 71,508%)

Malin took today’s victory in the Short Grand Prix together with 10 year old Ferrero D by Tuschinski. Super smooth trot tour with good expression, good walk, and yet missing the final power for the canter work, but very nicely presented, and with a clear picture of classic and very nice education. 72,984%

Danish Warmblood ready with exclusively selected foals for their first online auction

High quality dressage foals in all price groups

Over the past many years, the Danish Warmblood breeders have been able to sell foals at good prices through the auctions. It has been quality foals in all price ranges, and Danish Warmblood expect this to continue in the challenging 2020 year, even though nothing is as usual.

Wide selection - online auction starts June 25 at 5 pm

Danish Warmblood has put together a particularly interesting collection of top foals, which will come under the hammer at the streaming auction at Blue Hors on June 28, but bids can start online already on Thursday, June 25 from 5 pm.

The Danish Warmblood Auction Committee has again this year been presented with a series of lovely foals with great potential. An auction collection has been selected, which is both interesting for buyers at home and abroad. The foals are from strong performance dam lines and they are by a wide selection of stallions. 18 foals with dressage pedigree have been selected for the auction, and among the sires are international Grand Prix stallions, elite stallions and WCYH medalists. The list of the father stallions for the auction foals is extremely impressive and with interesting, significant stallions represented.

Bid from four days before the auction

The auction is the first in a series of several streaming auctions that Danish Warmblood is supporting this summer.

This first auction will be held in collaboration with Blue Hors and will begin on Thursday, June 25 at 5 pm, where you have the opportunity to make your bid online. Danish Warmblood has made an agreement with German ClipMyHorse.TV on streaming from the auctions, and in this connection a new website has been created like the management system for online streaming. It can be accessed at varmblodauktion.dk and you can see the entire collection HERE.

The streaming auction kicks off live on Sunday, June 28 at 3 pm, where you can watch the foals live in the arena during the bidding round. It allows interested buyers to watch video of the foals on the website, as well as experience them live in the arena at Blue Hors during the auction itself.

Other scheduled auctions on Danish soil for 2020:

• Sunday August 16 at 3 pm - Foal auction at Blue Hors

• Saturday September 5: Nordic International Sales at Helgstrand Dressage

• Saturday September 12: Auction South at Esbjerg and Omegns Rideklub

• Saturday September 19: Foal auction North at Vestbirk Ridecenter

• Week 42: DWB World Cup Auction

Ringsted, Denmark ready with first national Young Horse qualifier for national championships

The first qualifier for the national Danish Young Horse Championships takes place Sunday June 14 at Ringsted.

Schedule for qualifications:

Start lists Ringsted:

4 year old

5 year old

6 year old

7 year old

4 Danish breeders represented at Helgstrand - Schockemöhle foal auction

First online Helgstrand - Schockemöhle online foal auction is currently running now until 14 June at 7.30 pm.

Highest bid at the moment for this lovely German filly by Fürst Romancier / San Amour at 18.500 euro.

Danish bred foals:

Here you find all informations about the entire collection.

VIDEO - Another exclusive ticket for Isabel Freese for Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final - this time with HANN stallion Fürsten-Look

Fürsten-Look and Isabel Freese - photo credit: H2R

Today Isabel Freese and 9 year old HANN stallion Fürsten-Look ones again showed their strenght and won the 1st qualifier for Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final in Herbergen, Essen today with 74,585%.

Even more sharp today over all, super flow and power from letter to letter in a very nice harmony all the way. They really suit each other, as Freese obvious enjoy the way of attacking each exercise when she has a horse like Fürsten-Look, as he just plays along all the way.

Today the judges totally agreed about the winner!

In general the performances today were shown with more quality than for the “warm-up” test.

Australian Simone Pearce have had a very busy weekend so far with nearly starts in all classes on “home soil” at Sprehe, the host of the event this weekend. For the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal she brought another black well moving stallion Montevideo by Millennium / Sancisco, a pretty short partnership, but very well presented by Simone, and most of all she managed to improve her ride from yesterday, with among other much better timing for the transitions from halt to trot. They finish as no 5 in today’s test.

Here you find the entire results.

Enjoy the winner combination here below:

Patrik Kittel takes both 1st and 2nd place today at national German event in Herbergen

32 starters in today’s national Inter II at Herbergen, Essen

The huge field was also counting international top riders like Isabell Werth, Patrik Kittel, Therese Nilshagen, Fabienne Müller-Lütkemeier and Annabel Balkenhol.

Kittel was at start with two horses the 13 year old stallion Rocky Lee (sire of World Champion Revolution) and 9 year old 9 year old Amplemento by Ampere.

Smooth and effortless tests

It was competition debut together with Rocky Lee, and they showed an easy test without any technical issues, the passage and piaffe tours were just lacking a bit more power and expression.

With the young Amplemento Kittel made his debut back in December at national event in Ankum with victory in both Inter I and Inter II, and today they just succeeded with another winning performance. Super smooth and relaxed test, in a super steady round and beautiful uphill frame all the way. No exercise wise difficulties, and all the way with smooth nice overview for the young GP horse.

Werth and Nilshagen

Both Werth and Nilshagen had some challenges today. Werth was at start with Fairmont 11 year old gelding, which seemed not 100% balanced all the way and missing a bit more clear stable contact. Nilshagen was at start with the highly frequented stallion For Romance OLD, and they showed a bit conservative test, and For Romance lacking a bit more clear accept of the contact, but without any technical issues.

Here you find the full results.

VIDEO - Fürsten-Look and Isabel Freese winner of "warm-up" Prix Sct. Georg Special today at Herbergen

Isabel Freese and Fürsten-Look - Photo credit: H2R

Nürnberger Burg-Pokal, a bit like Isabel Freese´s competition

Isabel Freese and the 9 year old HANN stallion Fürsten-Look by Fürstenball / Londonderry, bred by Johannes Sabel and co-owned by HP Horses and Schockemöhle showed a strong winner test today. Freese was also at start with the 8 year old OLD stallion Top Gear by Totilas / Don Frederico, owned by Schockemöhle. They were placed 3rd.

Both test were very accurate and powerful performed, and it is obvious that Isabel Freese with her great experience is able to collected valuable points all the way. Fürsten-Look is a stallion with 3 huge supple paces, and it is kind of challenge to keep it all together, but Freese shows him with super timing and power all the way, she clearly knows where to give and where to take. Lovely frame, super power for extensions, supple half passes, very good walk tour, unfortunately Fürsten-Look lost the balance and rhythm for the 2nd walk pirouette, and showed some tensions for the rein back at the final centerline. Very nice performed canter pirouettes where Fürsten-Look shows huge ability to collected and sit, and also very nice series.

They definitely look like the ones to beat for the final qualification Friday evening, even though there was huge judging disagreement today.

Freese has become kind of Mrs. Nürnberger Burg-Pokal, as she is previous winner with both Vitalis in 2016 and last year with Total Hope OLD, both stallions also co-owned by HP Horses and Schockemöhle.

Here you find the full results from today.

Helgstrand and Zibrasport Equest in a new partnership

PRESS RELEASE AT HELGSTRAND DRESSAGE

With a common vision to create the world’s leading digital equestrian community, Helgstrand and Zibrasport have signed a cooperation that secures Helgstrand a 10% ownership of Zibrasport Equest. The community that live streams from some of the largest equestrian events and creates inspiring video content, articles and lots more is in enormous development. The ambition of the partnership is to create new digital solutions to the equestrian world and new ways to engage the community and then of course the opportunity to invite people behind the scenes in one of the world’s leading equestrian companies – Helgstrand.

Up close in the equestrian world

Zibrasport Equest has been streaming equestrian events in Denmark since 2016 and in December 2019 the company expanded to become an equestrian community – zibrasportequest.com. The ambition is to create a community with a broad variety of relevant content that gives the equestrian world the opportunity to engage themselves and become inspired to even more engagement in their sport. The opportunity to come closer and think in new ways are also part of the ambitions that Helgstrand has for the future. 

- We have been ambitious from the start and has created an internationally leading company in the equestrian world. To secure our ongoing growth, we have a strong wish to become more visible and create more openness about our company and the equestrian world in general and therefore we have chosen to invest in Zibrasport. The community is built on a business model with international potential, where we both can invite customers and equestrians into our facilities and to events and be a part of focusing on the equestrian world and developing new and innovative solutions, the CEO of Helgstrand, Andreas Helgstrand says.

Innovation and engagement

It is not only from the saddle that you can engage yourself in the equestrian sport. That is the philosophy of Zibrasport Equest, where you already at this stage can find numerous videos from the largest events, get closer to the leading profiles and riders and find inspiration and be fascinated from the variety of the equestrian sport. The community has an ongoing development and believes that the best development is created together with the users. 

- A community is created by both the users themselves and their engagement and from the editorial content. We are constantly thinking out of the box and are not afraid to explore new and creative ways. Therefore, it is also a very good reason that we are teaming up with an innovative partner such as Helgstrand to create the worlds best and most innovative equestrian community. We share the ambition to create a healthy company and the passion to create something that strengthen and develop the equestrian sport. In fact, we are already in the middle of creating our next digital solution together with Helgstrand, says Niels Zibrandtsen, the chairman and owner of Zibrasport.

An independent community

Zibrasport Equest is still an independent community that offers content and streaming from every corner of the equestrian world. The corporation will offer unique insight into Helgstrand, such as streaming from the events at Helgstrand and lots of quality content, that is produced in cooperation with the staff in Northern Jutland and Wellington. 

- Zibrasport Equest is a community where you always can find inspiration and insight - no matter your interests in the equestrian world or which inspiration you seek. The community must be created in cooperation with riders, equestrians, partners and federations across the equestrian sport and therefore the cooperation with Helgstrand does not exclude cooperation with others – on the contrary. Helgstrand shares the ambition to create value for the equestrian sport and find new collaborations to develop new and innovative solutions and therefore we believe that together we can create a strong and engaging community. It is also fantastic that we can invite the users into the world of Helgstrand because we know that the interest is enormous, says Rikke Højgaard, editor in chief at Zibrasport Equest.

A strong partnership

It is two strong and innovative partners that stands behind Zibrasport Equest. The digital media was established in 2016 under Zibra A/S, that has the entrepreneur Niels Zibrandtsen in the lead. Zibrandtsen established the company GlobalConnect, which he sold in 2016, and after this he dedicated himself to invest in and develop new startup companies. 

Helgstrand was established in 2008 by Andreas Helgstrand, medalist from both the Olympics and World Championships. Since the establishment the company in Northern Jutland has evolved rapidly. It went so well that the Dutch investment fund Waterland Private Equity bought the majority part of the company in 2018. Helgstrand buys and train dressage horses to sell all over the world and the company now has divisions in both Germany and in Wellington, Florida.

The top candidate from DSP Online foal auction sold for 43.500 euro to international Luxemburg rider Mandy Zimmer

Zackerey filly sold for 6.750 euro and Valverde filly sold for 7.250 euro.

28th June with 24 exclusively selected Danish Warmblood foals for the first online auction

When Danish Warmblood invites for their first ever online foal auction it will of course be in a new format.

“Over the summer Danish Warmblood will conduct three streaming auctions - the first in collaboration with Blue Hors at Blue Hors on Sunday, June 28 at 3 pm. Two auctions follow after the summer holidays, one in mid-August and one in mid-September. The selection will take place at the regional Danish Warmblood foal shows in the same way as previous years.”

High quality dressage foals in all price groups

“Over the past many years Danish Warmblood breeders have been able to sell foals at good prices through our auctions. Quality has been very good in all price ranges, and we expect this to continue in the challenging 2020 year, even though nothing is as usually.”

New website and auction system

“For the coming auction season Danish Warmblood has entered into a collaboration with ClipMyHorse on both a new website and a management system for the online part, which is new for the streaming auctions.

We look forward meeting the Danish Warmblood members and seeing your foals over the summer. Hopefully we can make an agreement to sell your foal at one of the Danish Warmblood auctions.”

Exciting foals from the breeders

24 foals selected from top quality stallions and top mare lines. The list of stallions are among other:

• Vitalis

• Blue Hors Zack

• Glamourdale

• Blue Hors Fifty Cent

• Blue Hors Farrell

• D’avie

• Franklin

• Eyecatcher

• Bon Coeur

• Blue Hors Kingston

• Blue Hors Zackorado

• Sezuans Donnerhall

• Fürstenball

• De Niro Gold

• Millennium

• Blue Hors Livius

The collection will soon be online.

Absolute TOP foal (1 day left at online auction)

4 x 4 online foal auction

It is not about about using all 4 legs, but 4 x 4 foals offered for sale online at Deutsche Sportpferd online auction, finishing the first auction of 4 jumping foals today, followed by 3 dressage foals and 1 jumping foal tomorrow.

All 3 dressage foals with super qualities

• Quaterback / Donnerhall - OUTSTANDING QUALITY

• Blue Hors Zackerey / Samba Hit I

• Valverde / Frenchmann

Often it is about catching the right moment for the great photo, but if you take a look at the video, this foal just shows “the good moment” in every single step.

Judge for yourself at the video below.

Here you find link to the auction.

Top prices at 1st Online Van Olst Sales riding horses auction

Successful 1st edition of Van Olst Sales Online auction of riding horses

The first online auction at Van Olst Sales just ended with the top price of 67.500 euro for the 4 year old gelding by Grand Prix sire Everdale.

The charming grey 3 year old stallion by Glamourdale was sold for 2nd highest price 62.500 euro.

“We are very happy with the results, and looking very much forward to follow our young talented horses with the new owners. The situation about the coronavirus did not make it possible for us this year to combine our stallion show with the auction, and of course it’s been really exciting to prepare for the auction and also do some online updates during the auction. We have sold 9 of the 10 young horses” tells a very satisfied Gertjan van Olst.

Full list of prices here.

22.000 euro - top price at Klosterhof Medingen online foal auction

Total list of prices:

Werth and Werndl in top of today's national Grand Prix Special in Hagen

Back in business

The scenery was top international like the starter field, but due to the coronavirus situation it was only a national event this weekend at Hof Kasselmann in Hagen.

Today Benjamin Werndl and Daily Mirror “lost” the victory to Werth and Emilio as they lost some valuable marks for their not so fluent piaffe tours, otherwise a test with super flow and power all the way. Today Famoso was clearly more obedient all the way without any issues.

Nice to see the former double World Champion for young horses Sa Coeur at Grand Prix level together with Frederic Wandres. Smooth overall test except struggling with the rhythm and balance for the piaffe tours and the transitions in and out from piaffe.

VIDEO - First two strong combinations ready for Louisdor Preis final

Placed 1 and 2 ready for the final

From the “warm-up” Inter II yesterday the picture looked pretty clear, and both combinations, Hubertus Schmidt with Denoix and Holga Finken with Gino did also show strong performances, and both very experienced riders were very happy about their young GP horses.

More attraktive young horses just lacking more experience, especially Silberstern with Annabel Frenzen showed great qualities like also Bonheur de la Vie with Sandra Nuxoll will be some of the young once to keep an eye on.

Click at the photo here below to watch the test from Denoix og Hubertus Schmidt.

See the full results here.

Former winners of Louisdor Preis final:

• 2019: L’Arbuste OLD und Senta Kirchhoff 

• 2018: Blue Hors Veneziano und Daniel Bachmann Andersen

• 2017: Dalera BB und Jessica von Bredow-Werndl

• 2016: Sammy Davis Jr. und Dorothee Schneider

• 2015: Emilio und Isabell Werth

• 2014: Weihegold und Beatrice Buchwald

• 2013: Balmoral und Brigitte Wittig

• 2012: Very Keen und Thomas Wagner

• 2011: Diva Royal und Dorothee Schneider

• 2010: El Santo und Isabell Werth

• 2009: Dablino und Anabel Balkenhol

• 2008: Carabas und Oliver Luze

• 2007: Floresco und Patrik Kittel