Unbelievable! DONKEY BOY, only 8 years, and today named ELITE STALLION

Hesselhøj Donkey Boy and Jan Møller Christensen - Herning 2020 - photo credit: H2R

A very happy and proud owner of Hesselhøj Donkey Boy, Kristin G. Andresen with a very special post tonight at her Facebook.

THIS is unbelievable! DONKEY BOY, only 8 years, and today ELITE STALLION! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟. Thank you DWB and all breeders✨✨✨✨✨✨✨.

It is a great pleasure to be able to inform you that Danish Warmblood Breeding Management at a meeting yesterday has named Hesselhøj Donkey Boy as Elite Stallion in Danish Warmblood. The appointment is made on the following criteria (min. 4 out of 6 points must be met):

Hesselhøj Donkey Boy DVH 1199

1. The stallion has, as the only one so far in Denmark, won the Danish national federation dressage championships as 4-, 5-, 6- and 7-year-old. At WCYH he obtained as a 5-year bronze; a 5th place as a 6-year-old and silver as a 7-year-old. He has also won intermediate I at CDI3 * in Herning 2020 and Intermediate I freestyle in Lillestrøm, Norway 2020 at the age of 8.

2. In total 33 graded daughters and 85% graded in the main stud book, of which 8 with medal (24%). Sire of 3 silver medal mares: Let’s Dance Deja-Vu 208333dw1702426, Domaxt Havdal 208333dw1702055 and Donkey Edition 208333dw1601832. Sire of 5 bronze medal mares: Divine 208333dw1704006, Svalegårds Diana 208333dw1701864, Danésa Nord 208333dw1701248 and Nordstrands Dior 208333dw1600808. Hesselhøj Donkey Boy DVH 1199 is further more sire of 2 licensed sons at Danish Warmblood: Hesselhøj Downtown DVH 1334 and Ambjergs Delgadino DVH 1335.

3. Hesselhøj Downtown DVH 1334 has obtained highest score (9,80) among the 4-year-old, qualified for the Danish national championship final 2020. Hesselhøj Dream 208333dw1602741 has 4th best result overall in Denmark (9,40).

4. Hesselhøj Donkey Boy DVH 1199 don’t have any index yet.

5. In 2020 a total of 11 offsprings by Hesselhøj Donkey Boy’s first breeding year were qualified for Danish national federation 4 yr old championship finale: Hesselhøj Downtown DVH 1334, Hesselhøj Dream 208333dw1602741, Tophøjs Diadora 208333dw1600281, Hesselhøj Darwin 208333dw1601139, Skovdals Dexter 208333dw1601045, Ambjergs Delgadino DVH 1335, Viggo 208333dw1602433, Søbakkehus Delayed 208333dw1600204, Diva Holmklit 208333dw1601006, Decora L 208333201602370 and Lillevangs Diezel 2083331600586.

6. Hesselhøj Donkey Boy offsprings are still not old enough to obtain either B- or A-status.

Hesselhøj Donkey Boy DVE 1199 fulfils no 1, 2, 3 and 5, and hereby named as Elite stallion in Danish Warmblood.

Catalog for Danish Warmblood 35-days stallion performance test

Some of Europe’s best young stallions will from Monday 19 October start their Danish Warmblood 35-days performance test in Tørring, Denmark.

Here you find the entire list of stallions.

Full list of OLD stallions for main licensing 19 - 21 November

FEI PRESS RELEASE - Dufour leads Danish defence at opener in Aarhus

Persisting in the face of the disruption caused by the pandemic that has led to the cancellation of multiple equestrian events in recent months, the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2020/2021 Western European League gets underway in Denmark this week. 

Initially scheduled to take place in Herning, this opening leg has been relocated to the National Equestrian Centre in Vilhelmsborg near Aarhus, where the main manor house, a listed building that dates back to 1842, is closely associated with the world-famous master of fairytale-telling, writer Hans Christian Andersen.

Vilhelmsborg staged the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final in 2001 when the all-German podium was topped by Ulla Salzgeber with Rusty, while Isabell Werth lined up second with Antony FRH and Rudolf Zeilinger finished third with Livijno. 

Werth returns 19 years later as the most decorated athlete in the history of equestrian sport and chasing her sixth FEI Dressage World Cup™ title. She currently holds the top two places on the world rankings with Bella Rose and Weihegold, and brings seventh-placed Emilio to this first qualifier of the new season. 

Five nations

Athletes from five nations will compete, and the top-class German contingent also includes world number three, Jessica von Bredow-Werndl partnering Zaire-E, and world number eight Helen Langehanenberg with Damsey FRH, along with Jessica Süss with Duisenberg.

Finland will be represented by Emma Kanerva and Dambacu NL, while Nars Gottmer (Dicaprio Swing), Margo Timmermans (Catch Me) and Thamar Zweistra (Hexagon’s Doublt Dutch) will fly the Dutch flag. Sweden’s Patrik Kittel (Delaunay OLD), Therese Nilshagen (Dante Weltino OLD) and Antonia Ramel (Brother de Jeu) will also add plenty of quality to the line-up.

However, the host country’s Cathrine Dufour may well prove to be the one to beat. She is armed with the 10-year-old gelding Bohemian with which she stole the show at last year’s Danish leg of the series when winning both the Grand Prix and Freestyle.

Talking about the horse that day she said, “imagine what he can do when I start to push him some more!”, and he hasn’t disappointed, topping both the Grand Prix and the Grand Prix Special at the CDI5* in Herning in March of this year, just before the sport was locked down due to the spread of Covid-19. 

Newly-crowned champion

And Dufour comes to Vilhelmsborg as newly-crowned 2020 Danish Grand Prix champion. She took the title for the fourth time in her career with great performances from her 17-year-old superstar Atterupgaards Cassidy at the championships staged in Uggerhalne last month, where she also became engaged to girlfriend Rasmine Rosedahl Laudrup, daughter of former soccer star Brian Laudrup who is now a popular Danish TV commentator and pundit. 

Dufour will be joined by compatriots Andreas Helgstrand (Fiontini), Lone Bang Larsen (Bakkely’s Onandt), Charlotte Heering (Bufranco), Carina Cassoe (Heiline’s Danciera) and Helene Melsen (Aston Martin) in what promises to be a great weekend of sport. 

The FEI Dressage Grand Prix will take place at 17.30 local time on Saturday 17 October, with the Grand Prix Freestyle on Sunday 18 October kicking off at 14.00. 

Attendance is limited, as the event will be conducted strictly in line with national Covid restrictions and FEI guidelines. However you won’t miss a hoofbeat because all the action will be LIVE ON FEI TV as horse-and-athlete combinations take their first steps on the road to the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2021 Final in Gothenburg, Sweden next April.

Check out the Western European League here 

Tuesday starts with dressage stallions at Westfalian pre-selection - full live stream via Clipmyhorse

Schedule for Westfalian stallion pre-selection:

Here you find the entire collection of stallions for the pre-selection.

FOCUS fillies for the up-coming DWB World Cup Foal Auction - 17 October

When buying your next foal you can buy a Danish Warmblood foal by one of Europe’s top stallions and with a strong proven dam line, where both breeding and sport will be an obvious possibility for the future.

Remember to sign in for online bid before the auction and both the final presentation and the auction will be live at Clipmyhorse.

On Saturday 17 October, the collection of auction foals will be presented at 11.30 am in the show arena at Vilhelmsborg, and at 3:30 pm it´s time the final auction.

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VOGUE AW

FILLY by VITALIS / BLUE HORS ROMANOV / BLUE HORS CAVAN

Vouge AW is a modern and noble filly with excellent movements - another top-quality offspring from top dressage producer Vitalis. Not only will you be dazzled by her amazing looks, this foal also moves with so much ease, power, and elasticity her future success in the dressage arenas is easily envisioned.

The sire Vitalis is already a legend in himself. Vitalis is at the very top of the German dressage index and ranks among the top one best percentage of all German stallions. The grand-dam of Vouge AW is named Elite mare in DWB and competed at m-level in jumping. GD Elite mare and B-horse in jumping.

FOXY-VITZ

FILLY by FRANKLIN X TAILORMADE TEMPTATION X FERRO

Beautiful and well-developed filly with great movements that gives promise to an excellent dressage career. Her pedigree and conformation also make her an exciting prospect for breeding. In the dam line, you find several Elite mares among others.
GD: Mitzi ERDH who is from the well-knownline from Gørklintgaard. She is the mother of A-horse in dressage and a Bronze medal mare. GGD: Tingbjergårds Magi EDH is the mother of B-horse in dressage, A-horse in dressage and the Bronze medal mare Gørklintsgård Montana who won S1 with Kim Henriksen.

SHIRLEY

FILLY by REVOLUTION X BLUE HORS HERTUG X LEONARDO II

Fantastic filly by the young dressage star Revolution, who excels with titles such as Championship winner and Young Horse World Champion. This foal's dame line is highly attractive as it includes numerous performance horses throughout the pedigree in many generations.

The dam, Silke, is also the mother of a stallion selected for the Stallion Grading and of Hesselhøj Rock a Billy by Revolution who was approved for testing in Danish Warmblood. Grand dam, It's Me, an Elite Bronze medal mare, mothered the small tour horse Shen Chan, and m-level dressage horse It's Ina.

Great grand dam, Madigan L, was awarded Silver Medal for her successful offsprings that include the small tour horse Jupiter, as well as many highly graded mares. The dame line also produced Danish champion Fitou L, Hot Shot W, Gold Medal stallion Hesselhøjs Donkey Boy, and Gold Medal mare Stigma. Thus, it is a thoroughly bred and high-performance dressage dam line, which has been named the world's 7th most important dam line in dressage breeding.

Top price HANN colt by Damsey / Quaterback sold to Stud Blue Hors for 51.000 euro

At the HANN online Elite foal auction ended yesterday Blue Hors acquired the most expensive colt by Damsey / Quaterback for 51.000 euro.

Among the 2 year old stallions the long legged Fürstbischof / Alabaster colt was sold for the top price of 35.500 euro.

Here you find the entire results from the auction.

205.000 euro Blue Hors St. Schufro / Fürstenball mare top price at HANN Elite auction

Here you find the full list.

Day 2 list of selected OLD stallions for the main licensing

83,196% = Outstanding performance

Mount St. John Freestyle and Charlotte Dujardin - photo credit: Lily Forado

From first to last step with so much positive power, expression and quality - Mount St. John and Charlotte Dujardin are just in a league of their own. No technical issues and well balanced all the way exept a tiny issue with the first pirouette lacking a bit more quality and balance.

Just about 4% below Charlotte showed her chestnut power boy Gio by Apache. Super expressive trot tour, strong piaffe/passage tours, super walk tour, start of canter tour with a bit of tensions but well managed all the way.

Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin´s gelding En Vogue made their international debut together tonight. Bit tense start with canter at the first diagonal, bit conservative half passes, rein back with some tensions, piaffe/passage tours with bit tensions but huge ability and quality, the walk tour was lacking more overall relaxation, super nice canter tour with good series and super pirouettes. Really nice picture and exciting new combination.

Top placed combinations today:

VIDEOS - Successful first day at OLD stallion pre-selection for the Danish breeders

Vayron by Vitalis / L´espoir from Alexandra and Søren Buchreitz

Danish success day

Three Danish bred stallions were selected from today’s OLD pre-selection.

Debut success today in Vechta for Alexandra and Søren Buchreitz with homebred Vayron Hena by Vitalis / L´espoir - VIDEO.

Stutteri Pax showed also their homebred Sirius Pax by Sezuan / Sandro Hit successfully - VIDEO.

And former successful HH Horses / Henrik Hansen presented today together with Helgstrand Dressage Franze by Franklin / Sezuan - VIDEO

Also selected from Helgstrand Dressage was catalog nr. 12 by Foundation / Quaterback - VIDEO.

VIDEO - Remember this PRE name Vencedor JLE

Vencedor JLE with Daniel Martin Dockx - winner of 5 year old championship - photo credit: Lily Forado

Spanish Young Horse Championship 2020

SICAB at Fibes in Sevilla is where the best Spanish PRE dressage horses are gathered this week for the finals of their annual World Championships.

The absolute best PRE dressage stallion among the youngster is the 5 year old Vencedor JLE ridden by former Olympic rider Daniel Martin Dockx. For sure a quality stallion we hopefully will see at both WCYH in Verden this year and later in the big sport.

Today Prix St. Georg starts at 3 pm and Grand Prix at 5.45 pm - the entire competitions are available via Clipmyhorse. Link for start lists and results at Horse2rider calendar.

DWB World Cup Foal Auction - Your chance to acquire your next top horse

PRESS RELEASE

17 extraordinary and carefully selected foals comprise the collection of the DWB World Cup Foal Auction which is held during the FEI World Cup qualification in dressage at Vilhelmsborg, Aarhus on Saturday 17 October 2020

Tarupgaards Fernando is an eye-catching, elegant, and well-proportioned colt with an outstanding canter. He is easy on the eye and exudes quality and talent. A full brother to Tarupgaards Fernando has been sold to Stutteri Ask. Their dam was a promising jumper and qualified for the 4-year-old championship but sadly an injury put an early end to her career. Taarupgaards Fandango’s sire, Favorit Ask is a highly decorated stallion that has claimed several champion titles, sired several champion stallions and passes on his phenomenal jumping abilities. Photo: Ridehesten.com

Danish Warmblood is proud to present a collection of 17 highly interesting foals with great potential in sport and breeding. 11 foals are bred for a future in the big dressage ring whilst six foals are destined to a show jumping career. Make sure you do not miss out on this outstanding collection.

The 17 foals on auction are sired by top stallions representing extremely interesting bloodlines and international top performances. The dressage foals are sired by prominent stallions like Janeiro Platinum (3), Franklin, Vitalis, Feinrich, Blue Hors Zack, Revolution, Kadans, Blue Hors Zackerey and Valverde. The six jumping foals are sired by renowned stallions Action Man Z Ask, All Star, Favorit Ask, Cornet Obolensky, Untouchable and Hickstead White.

Zackeis-Ø stands out as a unique black pearl with obvious quality and talent. He is exceptionally elegant, noble and well-proportioned. He is extreme athletic and demonstrates light-footed, supple and ground-covering gaits which offer a clear vision of this extraordinarily handsome colt's future in the big dressage arenas. The dame-line is out of the renowned Gravvænge-line, which has successfully produced highly ridable sport horses for more than 100 years. The line includes many Elite- and medal-awarded mares as well as licensed stallions. Photo: Ridehesten.com

The DWB World Cup Foal Auction opens for online bidding from Wednesday 14 October and concludes with a hybrid auction Saturday 17 October 2020. During the auction, an audience will be seated in the auction hall, and simultaneously, you will be able to place your bid through the internet or via a telephone call, whilst the auction will be live-streamed by ClipMyHorse.
 
On Saturday 17 October, the collection of auction foals will be presented at 11.30 am in the show arena at Vilhelmsborg, and at 15:30 the final auction will commence.
 
The Danish Warmblood auction team will be happy to advise and guide you. Please do not hesitate to contact Louise Ringsbo at +45 6167 9493 or lrb@varmblod.dk.

Springborgs Ganeiro is a big-framed, expressive and eye-catching colt of excellent type. He is agile and moves with great ease and ground cover. Springborgs Ganeiro won his regional foal show. A half-sister, Springborgs Guyana is awarded breeder's medal in Bronze and is competing at Intermediaire I level. Another half-sister, Springborgs Guinea was 2-year-old Filly of the Year in DWB and was awarded breeder’s medal in Bronze as a 3-year-old. The dam line also produced the licensed stallions Gagarin and Blue Hors Fifty Cent.
Photo: Ridehesten.com

HANN Elite auction is running until tomorrow at 2 pm

A huge collection of HANN riding horses are right now available via online auction

The two horses pictured above are surprisingly still not really at the list for the buyers, but from H2R point of view still worth a closer look.

Currently highest prices are:

Here you find the entire collection.

OLD stallion pre-selection starts tomorrow

Friday, Saturday and Monday with OLD pre-selection for the main licensing taking place 19 - 21 November in Vechta.

Here you find the entire list of stallions.

Stallions 🇩🇰Danish bred and/or Danish owned:

Preliminary rounds for Spanish PRE young horses yesterday

Yesterday the preliminary dressage tests were shown for the best young Spanish PRE horses at the Spanish national show SICAB.

From watching each combination and their qualities as a future dressage horse the Spanish judges unfortunately still missing the experience, and it is not always enough with an international experienced rider in the saddle like with the 4 year old winner Leal Mater with international GP rider Claudio Castilla Ruiz showing a very unsteady and unbalanced trot tour, as 5th placed Brandy Yet with Antonio José Crespin Lopez. A lovely correct moving stallion still lacking some more body strength but very nice balanced presentation.

The winner by the 5 year old former Olympic rider Daniel Martin Dockx showed a super quality stallion Vencedor JLE, this is for sure a spanish pure bred stallion for the future big sport.

6 year old with HECHICERO CLX with Alfonso Jesus Ramirez Benitez placed 5th is a lovely modern supple stallion still lacking some more strength, but showing overall nice basic qualities. Winner of 6 year old Norteño FS with Alberto Garcia Briñon-Martin showing nice collection and suspension in the trot, walk lacking more suppleness over the back, good basic canter with small changes.

7 year old Cantora de Indalo with Alejandro Sanchez del Barco were placed 3rd, a lovely light footed mare showing good overall qualities but overall impression missing a bit more clear in front of the aides.

Overall the 7 year old test for most of the horses becomes a bit difficult showing correct canter pirouettes and series.

Today the finals starts at 10 am.

Championatsfinaler i dressur på Blue Hors med nye datoer 12. - 15. november

Dansk Rideforbund har sammen med Blue Hors fastlagt de nye datoerne for årets championatsfinaler for unge heste.

Fornuftigt har man grundet den aktuelle corona situation valgt at strege de ellers planlagte trøstfinaler, hvilket jo giver mulighed for at “ride færdig” og forlade stævnepladsen i det omfang man alene har en hest til start.

Det ændrede finale set-up er tydeligt med flere udfordringer, som arrangørerne desværre ikke helt har taget stilling til.

• Der er 30 km mellem Grindsted Rideklub og Blue Hors

• Skal man daglig træne sine 5 års og 6 års i Grindsted torsdag og fredag, hvis man også har 4 års og/eller 7 års med?

• Når man så rider 5 års og 6 års på Blue Hors, skal man så have sin/sine 4 års stående i Grindsted?

På berider Jan Christensen´s Facebook kan man her til aften læse følgende:

“Jeg har fuld forståelse for de udfordringer det giver at finde en ny weekend for afholdelse af årets DSA finale, men hvor er det ærgerligt, at man ikke har kunnet finde en anden dato😔. Afholdelse af finale på Blue Hors den 12-15 nov (4 års heste 12.-13.) og årets anden store 4 års begivenhed, egnethedstesten, den 14. på Vilhelmsborg og den 15. på Sjælland🤔🤔.Det virker ikke særligt “4 års heste venligt”, og hvis man som rytter har 5 års og 6 års med til finalen lørdag og søndag, er det næsten umuligt at få til at gå op, da man ikke må have disse heste til at stå på stedet, mens 4 års hestene går😔.”

Oversigt fra ryttere med flere heste til finalestævnet

Arrangørerne bør anmode de ryttere som har flere heste til start om at indlevere en liste over ønskede hjælpere, og sørge for at ALLE har et minimum af personer med og dermed ikke nødvendigvis 2 personer pr. hest.

Se hele nyheden på Rideforbund.dk her.

11 super Dressage quality foals up for DWB World Cup Foal Auction 17 October (live at Clipmyhorse)

For the 3rd time this year Danish Warmblood breeders are ready with high quality foals for an online auction.

Foals from top stallions and with solid well proven dam lines are presented for this auction.

Remember to sign up for online bid. Here you find the collection and all informations about the auction.

H2R favourite colts are:

DON FAZIANO OVERSKOVLUND by Feinrich / Blue Hors Zack

Don Faziano Overskovlund is a noble and masculine colt by the 2015 champion stallion Feinrich. Feinrich was qualified to the 2018 Bundeschampionat. In his dam-line, we find the stallions For Romance I and II, Don Romance, and the dressage stars Fasine and Best of All. Don Faziano Overskuvlund shows 3 huge and agile gaits - talent such as this you won't find easily. He is out of a remarkably strong dame-line with 4 Elitemares in direct line, and several medal awarded mares and competition horses. The Elite Gold Medal Mara Diva bred 5 graded stallions among those Carte D'or, who is placed in internations S-dressage and is awarded with a competition medal in Silver in DWB.

ZACKEIS-Ø by Blue Hors Zack / Tailormade Attention

Have a look at this unique black pearl showing sublime athletic movements! One can easily imagine this extraordinarily poised and elegant colt's future in the big dressage arenas. The dame-line is out of the renowned Gravvænge-line, which has produced highly ridable riding horses successfully for more than 100 years. The line includes many Elite- and Medal awarded mares as well as graded stallions.

VIDEO - Emma Kanerva and Mist of Titanium ready for Nürnberger Burg-Pokal final

Results from Schenefeld qualifier:

Huge CDI3 list for Vilhelmsborg, Denmark 17 & 18 October (full live stream program)

When Vilhelmsborg next weekend will host CDI3 and CDI-W it will of course be with Covid-19 restrictions, but everyone still have the opportunity to follow the entire event via live stream at Zibrasportequest.com.

You can buy access as Pay pr view for 199 DDK (27€).

CDI3