FEI Update - 15 December 2020

DRESSAGE

Dressage Judges Advisory Group (JAG)

Please note a Judges Advisory Group (JAG) for Dressage has been appointed by the FEI Dressage Committee, in accordance with the recommendations of the Dressage Judging Working Group. As part of their job description, the JAG will embed the role of the Judge General and the Dressage Education working group, while the Judges Supervisory panel (JSP) will continue to act at Championships, Games and Finals as before.

Both groups will work closely with the Dressage Committee on all matters related to Judging. The members of the JAG are Katrina Wüst (GER) (Spokesperson), Stephen Clarke (GBR), Hans-Christian Matthiesen (DEN), George Williams (USA) and David Hunt (GBR) (liaison with the JSP).

International Dressage Riders Club (IDRC)

Following the IDRC General Assembly on 7 December 2020, a new Board was elected, consisting of the following members:

President: Isabell Werth (GER)
Vice President: Kyra Kyrklund (FIN)
Treasurer: Michel Klimke (GER)
Secretary General: Klaus Roeser (GER)
Members: Beatriz Ferre-Salat (ESP), Catherine Haddad (USA), Carl Hester (GBR), Hans Peter Minderhoud (NED), Victoria Max-Theurer (AUT) and Yvonne Losos (DOM).

The IDRC is an FEI Memorandum of Understanding (MOUS) signatory, and for more information on all signatories and the formalisation of relationships between the FEI and third party associations, visit Inside.FEI.org.

Top price at NRW Youngster and Broodmare auction - 2,5 year old For Romance I colt sold for 47.000 euro

Here you find the entire results from the auction.

Youngsters:

Broodmares:

21 & 22 December with British national Grand Prix Dressage Championships - LIVE at Horse&Country.tv

Here you find the huge list of entries, with among others Charlotte Dujardin with both MSJ Freestyle and Gio, Carl Hester with En Vogue (owned by Charlotte Dujardin) and many more.

Live stream schedule: (you have to subscribe for at least a month for £5.99 (about 6,6 euro) - very easy to unsubscribe.

3 big national German finals comes up - full live stream at Clipmyhorse

Frankfurter Festhalle international event moved to Schafhof

Piaff Förderpreis (U25), Louisdor Preis (Young Grand Prix horses) and Nürnberger Burg-Pokal (7-9 year old horses at small tour level) finals comes up this weekend at the privat yard Schafhof at Kronberg owned by family Linsenhoff.

It will for sure be a combination of the best German U25 riders and the best young talented horses.

Definite entries are not available online yet.

Full live stream schedule:

Four highlights from live presentation of PSI Auction collection

Saturday afternoon the beautiful Christmas decorated arena was prepared to show this years PSI collection.

From the 22 young horses, H2R picked 4 which all showed really nice qualities, and looked like potential prospects for the big sport.

Very interesting that the Gribaldi bloodline via Grey Flanell and Top Gear (by Totilas) dominate for three of the absolute best horses from this collection.

If your curious to watch yourself yesterday’s live presentation is not yet available on the archive at Clipmyhorse.

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First shown at the presentation was no 8 by Top Gear. Supple well moving in all three gaits, showing nice contact and super ride ability.

No 1 by Grey Flanell - Top “here I am” look, lovely natural frame, super contact and bodywise soft. Full package horse.

No 17 by Grey Flanell - some moments with wow, but also showing some tensions at the presentation, but definitely look like a horse with a huge potential for the future.

No 19 - Super light footed feminine and impressive mare. Super well balanced and expressive trot with lovely balance and shoulder freedom, good walk and good canter, but not an outstanding canter as you could wish for a bit more overall ground cover and airtime.

Here you find the entire collection.

Two premium stallions 2nd licensing of the Hannoveraner Verband

Licensing:

Absolute top of today’s licensing was by Secret / Fidermark presented by Gestüt W.M. Powerful with super nice expression.

No 7 by Secret / Fidermark / Dream of Heidelberg also award as a Premium stallion.

Auction:

The black stallion by Floris Prince/Lauries Crusador xx was auctioned off to Austria. Photo: Hannoveraner Verband.

 PRESS RELEASE

Verden. At the 2nd licensing of dressage stallions in Verden, two representatives of the 2018 vintage were awarded a premium. 

Under the Corona-related exclusion of the public, eleven young stallions with dressage genes came participated, six of which were licensed. Two were awarded a premium: a son of Secret/Fidermark (breeder: Christine Feichtinger, Vaduz/LIE, exhibitor: Gestüt W. M.. Visselhövede) and a son of Foundation/Londonderry (breeder: Alena and Till Hogrefe, Stöcken, exhibitor: Anja Gutschmidt, Rottach-Egern).  

Four stallions were auctioned off after the licensing. The highest price was achieved by a black by Floris Prince/Lauries Crusador xx (breeder: Dr. Klaus-Eckart Schlichting, Wingst, dam: Dr. Georg Fanta and Bernhard Schaerffer, Hamburg). He was sold for 57,000 Euros to the dressage stable in Austria, which had already purchased the top horse at the Elite Auction in October. A licensed stallion by Baron/Fürst Romancier for 56,000 Euros, an unlicensed stallion by Bon Coeur/Dimaggio for 14,500 Euros and another unlicensed stallion by Secret/Don Nobless for 18,000 Euros will stay in Germany. 

Skibby HC A/S lægger bunden under VM

Jens Trabjerg, Janus Haubroe og Casper Cassøe Krüth.

I august 2022 samles verdens bedste heste til VM i fire ridesportsdiscipliner i Herning. De kostbare hesteben skal i konkurrence på verdens bedste ridebanebund leveret af det sjællandske firma Skibby HC A/S

 ECCO FEI World Championships Herning (DEN) afvikles iaugust 2022, og eventet bliver det største internationale ridesportsmesterskab i Danmark nogensinde. Konkurrencen i både dressur og springning indgår i kvalifikationen til OL 2024 i Paris og de paralympiske lege.

Verdensmesterskaberne afvikles i springning, dressur, paradressurog voltigering i august 2022, og der skal etableres ridebaner svarende til mere end fem fodboldbaner på MCH Messecenter Hernings store udendørsarealer. Det er det sjællandske firma Skibby HC A/S, som er valgt til officiel leverandør af baneopbygningerne til alle ridearenaer ved VM.

 – Vi glæder os meget over samarbejdet med Skibby HC. Vi har gennem de sidste 4 år haft et rigtig godt samarbejde omkring hingstekåringen i Herning og World Cup Herning. Det har været vigtigt i processen, at både produktet og samarbejdet blev det helt rigtige, udtaler Casper Cassøe, der sammen med Jens Trabjerg står bag Herning2022.

 Der skal anlægges konkurrencebaner inde på Stutteri Ask Stadium (det nuværende MCH Arena), på arena II udenfor stadion samt inde i Jyske Bank Boxen. Hertil kommer et antal opvarmnings- og træningsbaner fordelt ud over området. Der skal etableres mere end 36.000 m2 ridebane.

 – Vi er utrolig stolte over at blive valgt til ”Official footingsupplier” til Herning2022, og vi glæder os helt vildt til samarbejdet med Casper Cassøe og Jens Trabjerg og ikke mindst vores samarbejdspartner Otto Arena Systems GmbH, udtaler Janus Haubroe, Skibby HC A/S.

– Vi oplever, at alle står sammen om VM på mange måder. Det er ekstra dejligt, specielt i disse svære tider, og vi ser virkelig frem til VM i august 2022, slutter Casper Cassøe. 

Running Youngster & Broodmare auction

A huge collection for this auction running until 14 December

As the online bids just started the buyers already pointed out the most interesting horse from this collection, no 13 by Asgard´s Ibiza / Benicio - pictured below.

Both Zoom and For Romance I which are very popular by the breeders are represented with more offsprings for this collection, but unfortunately lacking more overall quality.

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: