60 Dressage combinations for 2024 Paris Olympics

FEI PRESS RELEASE

IOC EB confirms all equestrian disciplines and quotas for Paris 2024

All three equestrian disciplines – Jumping, Dressage and Eventing – have been formally confirmed for the Paris 2024 Olympic programme. In addition, the six events – team and individual across each of the three disciplines – and the full quota of 200 athlete/horse combinations have also been endorsed.

News of the confirmation came during today’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board online meeting, at which the full programme for Paris 2024 was formally approved. Individual International Federations were also provided with details of the event programme and athlete quotas for their sport in an official letter from IOC Director General Christophe De Kepper.

The ratification means that equestrian will keep its quota of 75 athlete/horse combinations for Jumping, 65 for Eventing and 60 for Dressage. 

“We are very happy to receive formal approval of our three disciplines for Paris 2024 from the IOC Executive Board and also confirmation that our athlete quota remains untouched at 200”, FEI President and IOC Member Ingmar De Vos said. 

“This confirmation is also a token of appreciation for the efforts the FEI and the equestrian community have made to increase the fan base and improve digital figures for our sport. We really appreciate that the IOC didn’t touch our quota as we knew they needed to reduce the overall Games-wide quota to 10,500 athletes, but our sport has grown so much over the last decade that a reduction of our quota would have been detrimental to the universality of our Olympic competitions.”

The equestrian events will be staged in the grounds of Versailles, with King Louis XIV’s Palace as a stunning backdrop at one of the French capital’s most iconic Games time venues. The UNESCO World Heritage Site will also be the site for Modern Pentathlon.

Full details of the Paris 2024 event programme were publicly announced at a press conference with the IOC President today. The IOC press release is available on www.olympic.org.

DSP Online Auction top price 52.500 euro gelding by Frascino / Johnson

Good top prices at 1st DSP Christmas auction.

Lovely development from presentation video to trainings video of 2 year old Secret son sold for 50.500 euro to Ukraine.

Here you find the entire results.

2nd most expensive sold for 50.500 euro to Ukraine:

3rd most expensive:

Last international event in 2020

Final international event in 2020 taking place in Wellington, Florida

This time of the year the event schedule use to be with a few top shows before finishing the year, but 2020 has been nothing like a normal year.

On European soil London, Olympia will takes place as an online live event Wednesday 16 December with “Focus On Dressage” day, and the originally planned international event at Frankfurt is re-scheduled and will take place at Schafhof as a national event with Nürnberger Burg-Pokal, Louisdor Preis and Piaff-Förderpreis finals the 19 & 20 December.

49 pages specific about Covid-19

This final international event of the year is a new addition to the international schedule in December and is named at the FEI event schedule as a CA (Covid Addition). When you look up the FEI approved schedule the first 49 pages! are specifically about Covid-19.

Covid-19 has made a huge impact on every single event in 2020, and will be remembered as the year where nothing was like it use to be. Cross our fingers on our way into 2021 and with optimism with a manageable “new normal” where events, stallion licensing, shows and auctions will bloom up again. Things will happen again, we just have to be patient.

Entries for the big tours:

CDI3

CDI-W

110.000 euro top price for 3 year old Blue Hors Farrell mare

Price peak Fascination by Farell - Royal Diamond - Grundstein I.

Part of OLD news

Price peaks from the Huslage family

Guests from all over the world secured their Oldenburg future star in Vechta shortly before Christmas. In the future, numerous auction candidates of the 4th Oldenburger Special Edition will inspire Oldenburg friends abroad, five horses will start their journey to the United States. The quality of the riding horse collection reflected the great result with an average price of 38,000 Euros. Especially the successful horse breeders, the Huslage family from Essen in Lower Saxony, has every reason to be pleased.

The Huslage family from Essen is trumping in the Advent season: Both price peaks for over 100,000 Euros come from the breeding of the successful Oldenburg breeder dynasty Huslage. A new customer from the USA bought her Christmas present in Vechta for 110,000 Euros. The magnificent three-year-old Fascination by Farell - Royal Diamond - Grundstein I, is sister of the dam of Star Light, second price peak, as well as of Goldana/Intermediaire I winning with Leslie Reid from Canada. Dam Grundessa is sister of the top Grand Prix winning auction price highlight from 2000 Donnegal under Jaye Cherry, USA.

Second price highlight with a knockdown of 101.000 Euros was the four-year-old Star Light by Santo Domingo - Donnerschwee - Royal Diamond, bred by Bernd Huslage jun. from Essen, and exhibited by PEI from Bremen. Dam Grundana is sister of the top priced Fascination as well as the Intermediaire I-winning Goldana by Sir Donnerhall I under Leslie Reid from Canada.

Here you find the entire list of prices.

Live presentation tonight 4 December at 6 pm - 4th Oldenburger Online Special Edition

Tonight the final live presentation takes place at 6 pm at Clipmyhorse.

Current top price at the running online auction of riding horses:

Here you find the entire collection.

Selected from day 6 at KWPN stallion pre-selection

Last day of Dutch stallion pre-selection with a total of 19 stallions selected.

At H2R top list were 3 stallion from the last day with surplus for no 520 by Just Wimphof / Ferro.

Selected stallions:

3 stallions for HANN late licensing and auction 11 December

The collection for late licensing at HANN only counts 3 stallions

From video presentation no 55 by Floris Prince / Lauries Crusador xx look like the top stallion. Well moving and expressive and super interesting with huge part of the pedigree with thoroughbred.

Selected from day 5 at KWPN stallion pre-selection

Two H2R top stallions from day 5. Both available via KWPN Online Stallion auction running from 21 - 28 December.

446 - dam is full sister of Helgstrand Dressage stallion Jovian.

Nordeuropas største hestesportsarrangement aflyses

PRESSEMEDDELELSE

De senere år har mellem 60.000 og 70.000 gæster fra ind- og udland besøgt Dansk Varmblods Hingstekåring og messen Hest & Rytter i MCH Messecenter Herning i marts. Som en konsekvens af COVID-19-pandemien og usikkerheden omkring forsamlingsforbuddet har arrangørerne set sig nødsaget til at aflyse eventet i Herning

Jyske Bank Boxen i Herning under Dansk Varmblods Hingstekåring 2021. Foto: Ridehesten.com

Dansk Varmblod erkender, at det ikke er muligt at gennemføre forbundets store avls- og ridesportsevent i MCH Messecenter Herning til marts. Der har været arbejdet aktivt på flere løsningsmuligheder. Men et event af den størrelsesorden, som Dansk Varmblods Hingstekåring har udviklet sig til over de seneste 40 år i messecenteret, er vanskelig at skalere ned til et event, der passer ind i de givne regler.
Dansk Varmblods direktør Casper Cassøe udtaler: – Vi har trukket afgørelsen så længe, vi har kunnet. Nu har vi erkendt, at som verden udvikler sig, er det utænkeligt, at vi kan lave arrangementet i Herning til marts. Og ikke mindst skaffe det økonomiske fundament. Den uklarhed der hersker, specielt med baggrund i forsamlingsreglerne til sportsarrangementer, gør det umuligt at planlægge Hingstekåringen, som vi kender den.
Dansk Varmblods formand Jan Pedersen udtaler: – Vi har arbejdet med mange alternative løsninger, hvor MCH har strakt sig utrolig langt i samarbejdet om en afvikling. Også Herning Kommune har bakket op og villet hjælpe i det omfang, de har kunnet se det muligt. Vi skylder alle omkring MCH og Herning Kommune en stor tak, og på gensyn i 2022. Vi glæder os til at komme tilbage.

Aflysning i Herning
Dansk Varmblods Hingstekåring og den tilhørende messe Hest & Rytter er i høj grad et event for bredden i landets syvende største idrætsgren. Med omkring 300 udstillere på messen Hest & Rytter, samt to store, spektakulære gallashows fredag og lørdag aften med i alt 20.000 besøgende, har Hingstekåringen stor betydning for ryttere, avlere og hesteinteresserede over hele landet. Derfor kommer aflysningen af netop disse to dele af eventet til at berøre mange mennesker.
– Vi må erkende, at det næppe bliver muligt at samle et så stort antal mennesker i marts måned, udtaler Casper Cassøe. I stedet forventer avlsforbundet at afvikle den faglige del af eventet, selve kåringen af hingstene og en reduceret sportslig del, i mindre rammer fordelt over flere dage. Dette vil ske på Det Nationale Hestesportscenter Vilhelmsborg, så de til den tid gældende forsamlingsregler kan overholdes.

Store økonomiske konsekvenser
Det står 100% sikkert klart, at publikumsmagneten Gallashowet er aflyst, ligesom messen Hest & Rytter og den store sportslige satsning DWB 5-Star Dressage, som de danske ryttere brugte til OL-forberedelse.
COVID-19-pandemien har haft enorme konsekvenser for event-branchen som helhed og for Dansk Varmblod og Dansk Varmblods driftsselskab DV-Event. Økonomisk har COVID-19-pandemien haft store konsekvenser for forbundet, hvor flere stillinger er blevet nedlagt. Man forventer et ikke ubetydeligt underskud for 2020, og med aflysningen af Hingstekåringen i Herning næste år vil konsekvenserne fortsætte for regnskabet i 2021. Forbundet har en omsætning på mere end 20 millioner i forbindelse med afviklingen af eventet i Herning.
– Coronapandemien har slået benene helt væk under os lige nu, men der bliver også Hingstekåring i Herning i fremtiden. Vi ser frem til 2022 og det store event, vi forhåbentlig igen vil kunne afvikle i MCH Messecenter Herning til glæde for mange og til gavn for avlen og sporten. Vi er taknemmelige for, at vi i hele forløbet har mødt stor forståelse fra vores sponsorgruppe. Vi vil gøre vores bedste for at komme fornuftigt gennem det kommende år, så vi kan stå stærkt igen i 2022 sammen med MCH Messecenter Herning, udtaler Casper Cassøe og Jan Pedersen samstemmende.

Selected from day 4 at KWPN stallion pre-selection

H2R selected 4 stallions, but 426 by Geniaal / Hotline absolute top star of the day.

VIDEO - João Torrão and Equador MVL sovereign at CDI3 Alter do Chão in Portugal

Equador MVL and João Torrão - photo credit: Paardenfotografie MB

Alter do Chão in Portugal this weekend with CDI3 event

Just 9 combinations for the big tour at Alter do Chão in Portugal this weekend where Portuguese international top combination João Torrão and Equador MVL were at the top of all classes. Grand Prix winner with 77,348%, Grand Prix Special winner with 79,042% and Grand Prix freestyle winner with 83.875%.

Link to the entire results.

Grand Prix Special test:

Selected from day 3 at KWPN stallion pre-selection

Two H2R top stallions from day 3:

Selected from day 2 at KWPN stallion pre-selection

Two absolute top stars from day 2 - click at the photo to watch the presentation

FEI WBFSH Dressage World Breeding Championship for Young Horses cancelled

Post at Facebook today

The FEI WBFSH Dressage World Breeding Championship for Young Horses should have taken place in Verden from December 9th to 13th. The best five-, six- and seven-year-old horses from all over the world were to compete there. But it is precisely the international nature of the Championships that makes it impossible to hold it. „A few weeks ago additional measures were added to the event protocol for the FEI WBFSH Dressage World Breeding Championships for Young Horses by the FEI and the Organising Committee, in an attempt to further mitigate the risks of the Covid-19 virus. Further to several meetings between the FEI, WBFSH and the OC and despite the updated mitigation plan, the regrettable decision was made that the best and only option, in the face of the pandemic, is to cancel the event. While we are sad that this championship, that is one of the highlights of the year, will not take place, we understand and fully support this decision”, explains Jan Pedersen, President of the World Breeding Federation of Sport Horses (WBFSH).

Link for full news in German.

Selected from day 1 at KWPN stallion pre-selection

H2R favourites from day 1 - click at the photo to watch the stallion.

H2R top from day 1 - No 562 by Totilas / Metall

List of selected stallions:

VIDEO - Bundeschampion Destello OLD with 9,38 at 50-days stallion performance test

5 year old Destello OLD by Dimaggio / Fürst Fugger (Beatrice Hoffrogge) with impressive final test day at 50-days stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf today - no scores under 9,0!

Zibrasport Equest will be Media and Innovation Partner at the ECCO FEI World Championships Herning (DEN) 2022

PRESS RELEASE

When the World Championships in Jumping, Dressage, Para Dressage and Vaulting take place in Herning in August 2022, you do not have to be in Herning to be part of the vibes, sports and atmosphere. Zibrasport Equest will be the digital community of the World Championships, where you – up to and during the championships – can get close to the participants, the event and the atmosphere.

Not everyone gets the opportunity to be present in Herning but through the collaboration with Zibrasport Equest, everyone still gets the opportunity to participate.
Foto: Zibrasport Equest - photo free of charge

Much more than competition
In August 2022, the area at Stutteri Ask Stadium, Arena II and Jyske Bank Boxen will be the centre of the world's largest equestrian event – the World Championships in four disciplines. In addition to the equestrian sport in the show arenas, the event offers a wide range of experiences for the audience such as live stages, adventures and side events.

“We are really looking forward to the collaboration. The World Championships will be so much more than what goes on in the competition arenas. We will present happenings and passion far beyond the ordinary and together with Zibrasport Equest we have a vision to share these experiences and this passion with the rest of the world. Not everyone gets the opportunity to be present in Herning but through the collaboration with Zibrasport Equest, everyone still gets the opportunity to participate”, says Casper Cassøe, one of the organisers of the World Championships 2022.

Take part at a distance
Millions of equestrian enthusiasts all over the world will be following the competitions at the ECCO FEI World Championships Herning Denmark 2022 through their TV screens. But the world championships will be much more than the competitions in the arenas.

“At Zibrasport Equest, together with the organisers, we create a community where everyone can become part of the World Championships – both up to and during the championships. Among other things, we will offer a broad variety of World Championships content in writing, sound and images, as well as content formats where everybody can be involved and become part of the World Championships. During the championships, you will be able to watch top jumping and dressage from the showground as well as experiencing the world championship atmosphere up close – e.g., from the World Championships live studio, lots of backstage content and various events on the Zibrasport Equest stage at the showground. We are confident that the organisers will create the best world championships ever, and we are looking forward to working with them to invite everyone to be part of the journey”, says Rikke Højgaard, editor-in-chief of Zibrasport Equest.

About Zibrasport Equest
Zibrasport Equest is the digital community of the equestrian sport where everyone who loves horses and equestrian sports can get professional knowledge, get close to the stars and not least see and read lots about riding. As a Premium member, you get e.g., streaming from the biggest competitions and special events in Denmark, lots of interviews, tips & tricks and inspiration for your own riding, access to a large archive and the opportunity to buy video clips. And we have many more offers and digital opportunities on the way. Find out more at www.zibrasportequest.com.

KWPN stallion pre-selection from 26 November - 2 December

282 young stallions ready for KWPN stallion pre-selection starting tomorrow in Ermelo

The stallion Just Wimphof by De Niro / Riccione / Sandro Hit is at the of the list with 15 sons for the pre-selection.

You can find the exact schedule for each stallion below.

The entire pre-selection is available via Clipmyhorse.

Schedule

List of prices - Champion stallion dances to the top of the price Top price of 800,000 Euro for Fair Game son

Champion stallion by Fair Game / Destano - Photo credit: Reckimedia

PRESS RELEASE

Münster: 25 stallions with dressage pedigrees were for sale on Monday evening. For the first time the auction was held as an OnLive auction. The champion stallion by Fair Game aroused the highest desires. He changed hands for 800,000 Euros. On average, the international clientele invested 143,432 Euros in the stallions.

The stallion sales of the dressage stallions ended the first two licensing days at the Westfälisches Pferdestammbuch e.V. on Monday evening. With a top price of 800,000 Euros, the champion stallion of this year's licensing left the auction hall. The son of Fair Game/Destano (breeder: Konrad Mensch, Erolheim; exhibitor: Joachim Scherer, Neunkirchen-Seelscheid) impressed not only the licensing commission. In an exciting bidding duel, customers from Denmark, who bid on site, secured the stunning black moving artist. With rhythm and energy the stallion showed himself in the arena even this evening. The 1st Reserve Champion also aroused great desire. The Diamond Deluxe/Lissaro son (breeder and exhibitor: Wilhelm Rüscher-Konnermann, Greven) was the favorite of customers who bid online for a long time. In the end, two strong customers found themselves in the hall fighting for the pretty bay. For 600,000 euros, he too will move to a box in Denmark. The 2nd reserve champions cost 172,000 Euro (head number 1) and 226,000 Euro (head number 15). Eight stallions broke the 100,000 Euro barrier.

The OnLive auction system was tested for the first time with HORSE 24 GmbH at the stallion sales. "We are very satisfied with the course of the auction. Everything worked out well so that the customers were able to bid live on site as well as at home on the screens without any problems", auction manager Thomas Münch is pleased to report. A total of 25 stallions were for sale. Among them the Champion Stallion, the Reserve Champion and the two 2nd Reserve Champion Stallions. A further five premium stallions were offered for sale. Four of the offered stallions were not licensed. On average, the international clientele invested 143,432 Euros in the 22 stallions sold. Four bids were won online. Half of the stallions will have their new homes outside of Germany.

Entries online for WBFSH World Championship for Young Horses

Next month one of the absolute highlights of the year finally comes up - World Championship for Young Horses. This year the World Championship has also been delayed due to the still ongoing corona pandemic, but for sure the German organisers will be ready to welcome athletes and horses from 24 countries, and still take all the necessary precautionary measures to make this event safe for everyone.

Luckily the event will be available with full live stream schedule via Clipmyhorse.

Preliminary schedule:

🇩🇰Danish participants: