10 new OLD premium stallions

24 new licensed OLD stallions - among them 10 stallions rewarded as Premium stallions.

Premium stallions

  • No 56 by Blue Hors Farrell / Bon A´parte - owner Blue Hors

  • No 58 by Floricello / Ampere

  • No 60 by Foundation / Bretton Woods

  • No 61 by Fürst Toto / Royal Classic (look like the top 🔝💶 price for the auction)

  • No 66 by Indian Rock / For Romance I - owner Helgstrand Dressage

  • No 78 by Secret / Stedinger

  • No 79 by Sezuan / De Niro

  • No 81 by Suarez / Dante Weltino OLD

  • No 82 by Top Gear / Sandro Hit

  • No 84 by Valverde / Floriscount - owner Helgstrand Dressage

Program for Saturday

  • 10 am with announcement of Champion stallion 2021.

  • 11.30 am with Main Premium stallion, VTV stallions and awards.

  • 14.30 Auction

Day 1 at OLD stallion licensing

The day started with presentation at the triangle followed by the very interesting lunging of the stallions.

It is very interesting to follow how each stallion has developed since the pre-selection and the video presentation. The lunging part gives a clear picture of the future as both a riding horse but definitely also a picture of what qualities your asking for as a breeding stallion.

WOW No 66 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

From the presentation video no 66 by Indian Rock / For Romance I stood out with outstanding qualities, and he did not disappoint for the two presentations today. He look like a super boy with a great temperament always waiting for his handler. For the lunging part he is a lovely uphill light-footed mover in the trot with very nice angles both from behind and light in the forehand, the canter is OUTSTANDING super well balanced uphill with lovely volume and rhythm, good over track and relaxation for the walk. Makes a super lovely natural frame with steady contact and closed mouth.

Others on H2R favourite list after today:

  • No 48 Don Allegro / Sarkozy ⭐️

  • No 50 Erdringer / Fidertanz ⭐️

  • No 56 Blue Hors Farrell / Bon A´parte ⭐️

  • No 61 Fürst Toto / Royal Classic ⭐️⭐️

  • No 62 Fürst Toto / Fürst Romancier ⭐️

  • No 84 Valverde / Floriscount ⭐️⭐️


    Tomorrow at 4 pm with presentation free and subsequent announcement of licensed stallions.



New elite setup for senior dressage and goodbye to Danish national team coach Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein

With less than three years to the Olympics in Paris, there is now an extra focus on optimizing the elite setup within senior dressage. This means that from end of 2021, Danish national federation will replace the current national coaching role with a team of recognized expert profiles within international top dressage. The team will be affiliated with the national team team on an activity basis, and will act as advisors and sparring partners for the riders and their daily coaches. At the same time, it unfortunately means a farewell as of today to current national coach Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein.

Source - Danish national federation.

Here you find the full article in Danish.

Expert team

There is still no set-up and no names for the new Danish expert team.

Will the experts be equal? Will the new elite manager (still not appointed) be the future selector? Will the experts be from abroad? Will the experts be some of the daily trainers of the riders? With ex experts from abroad will/can they fully support the Danish riders when looking deep into the fight for the medals or spots for the big championships?

A lot of questions currently without answers, but next summer we all cross our fingers for Danish medals at home soil in Herning.

Successful first Blue Hors Auction

Auctioneer Frederik de Backer in action - photo: H2R

Saturday evening with the first ever Blue Hors auction

11 young horses were under the hammer for Saturday evenings Blue Hors Autumn Auction.

"The interest in our auction collection has been more than overwhelming. In recent weeks, we have had a steady stream of happy potential buyers both here on site for test riding, but also online where we have been in close dialogue about everything big and small", tells sports manager Ulrik G. Sørensen.

There was huge activity on the phone, online at the internet and also from the audience in the arena. Online bits came through from among others Portugal, Ireland, Sweden, USA and Belgium.

Most expensive horse Emilio was sold for 104.000 euro to a buyer from Belgium. 2nd most expensive Sir Helmut was sold for 74.000 euro and will stay in Denmark where he hopefully will develop into a junior horse for the talented pony rider Astrid Green Würtz.

01 ZATISFACTION 40.000 € 

02 VERANO 24.000 €

03 SIR HELMUT 74.000 €

04 FÜRST DEMONT 24.000 €

05 VANZETTI 24.000 €

06 FAIR HOPE 13.000 €

07 EMILIO 104.000 €

09 FABION 40.000 €

10 FOXTROT 14.000 €

11 FARLOW 26.000 €

12 GICCOLO 40.000 €

After the successful first auction edition plans are now for a follow-up on the Blue Hors Autumn Auction concept with a BLUE HORS SPRING AUCTION.

VIDEOS - Nanna Merrald victorious with all her horses this weekend with +75%

Nanna Merrald - Photo: H2R/Christine Prip

Grand Prix horses

A lot of riders struggling to find the buttons and to build up the relationship with “new” horses produced by former riders.

Nanna Merrald just look as if she’s got that special magic feeling being able to take over the reins and within quite a short time the horses performs like it was her own produced horses - Nanna is a highly skilled rider bringing a very special empathy into her riding of each individual horse.

First she took over the ride of Blue Hors Zack former successful under Daniel Bachmann Andersen. With Zack she actually entered her first international show back in Februar 2021 with two victories at Le Mans.

Atterupgaards Orthilia she took over from Agnete Kirk Thinggaard and she was former fully educated by British Fiona Bigwood. With Orthilia she made her first appearance back in January 2021 and they recently raised the bars being second at World Cup qualifier in Lyon very close to the winner Isabell Werth (and from many sides Tille and Nanna were winners).

Two “new” horses

This weekend with yet another two “new” Grand Prix horses, 12 year old stallion Blue Hors Zatchmo and 13 year old Blue Hors Don Olymbrio.

Exactly two years ago Agnete Kirk Thinggaard made international debut together with Blue Hors Zatchmo and now this weekend Nanna showed him for the first time with an impressive performance rewarded with 76,733%.

And then entering the international scene with double +75% debut victories with Blue Hors Don Olymbrio former educated and successfully ridden by Daniel Bachmann Andersen and for a shorter period ridden by Agnete Kirk Thinggaard.

Nanna does what hardly no one is able to but everyone dreaming about when taking over the ride of a fully educated Grand Prix horse - to be able to continue a successful path and develop together with the horse into an even higher level.

Blue Hors Zatchmo national debut Grand Prix winner 76,733% - full test

Blue Hors Don Olymbrio international debut Grand Prix winner 75,217% - full test

Blue Hors Farrell national intermediaire I victory 76,798% - full test

VIDEOS - CDI3 international debut victories yesterday at Blue Hors, DEN

Atterupgaards Delorean & Selina Vittinghus with a helpful Matthias Rath placed 3rd - photo: H2R

Super international debut qualities

Danish Warmblood top mare Atterupgaards Delorean (born 2013) by Bon Bravour / Sandro Hit and Selina Vittinghus did their first ever international small tour competitions this weekend.

Friday with 72,765% victory in the Prix St. Georg with very small margin to Danish Anders Hoeck with Blue Hors Zwobber 72,735% and with Germany´s Matthias Alexander Rath and Thiago GS placed 3rd with 72,529%.

During the price giving Rath was showing himself as a true gentleman leading Delorean as she was a bit over excited during the national anthem.

Enjoy their Prix St. Georg performance here below.

In the big tour Australian Lyndal Oatley and her beautiful Elvive by Tushinski / Blue Hors Don Schufro performed their debut Grand Prix freestyle with lots of qualities.

As Lyndal told they are still very green together at competitions and it´s still about timing for the warm up, getting into a new indoor arena and not least getting more experience together at international level, but she was of course very pleased about their freestyle debut which also was with a bit diffrent style of music which suited Elvive perfectly. They scored 76.855% follow by Danish Anna Kasprzak with Rock Star with 75,475% and Swedish Malin Wahlkamp-Nilsson with Amplemento with 72,555%

Watch their freestyle here below.

VIDEO - Olympic ladies dominate yesterday's national and international event at Blue Hors

Diaz by Zaber with Carina Cassøe Krüth - photo: H2R

Blue Hors again open the doors for a combined national and international event. The facilities, footings and arenas are just outstanding and everyone seems to feel comfortable visiting Blue Hors stud with a well organised event.

Danish Olympic riders Carina Cassøe Krüth and Nanna Merrald were in top of yesterday’s competitions at Dressage Festival at Blue Hors

At M-level Carina brought the 7 year old mare Diaz by Zaber by Sezuan/De Niro for the national event. A body wise powerful strong black mare showing the right attitude and not least 3 really good paces. She look like the next top Grand Prix mare for Carina.

They showed a well balanced expressive trot tour. Diaz moves of the ground always with natural forward search and a lovely steady contact with a closed satisfied light foaming mouth. Good walk tour with nice over track and clear rhythm. The canter is powerful and good but showing minor tensions which Carina manage without any technical problems. A clear winner with 75,132% - watch the test here below.

It was just the third event for the talented mare since she was successful at mare grading and elite mare show as 3 year old.

New Grand Prix partners for Nanna Merrald

Blue Hors rider Nanna Merrald already showed her top skills taking over fully educated top horses like Blue Hors Zack and Atterupgaards Orthilia and being able to develop a successful partnership.

Yesterday Nanna succeeded again with two “new” stallions the 12 year old Blue Hors Zatchmo by Blue Hors Zack / Donnerhall and the 13 year old Blue Hors Don Olymbrio by Jazz / Ferro.

Both stallions fits Nanna really well. She showed Zatchmo in the national Grand Prix tour with an effortless test. Overall you could wish for a more open frame and unfortunately Zatchmo still shows his tongue between the front teeth all the way (unfortunately also a “problem” under his former rider Agnete Kirk Thinggaard). Zatchmo is not a big mover but very correct and his great abilities for piaffe/passage and transitions makes him a very interesting future partner for Nanna.

The audience darling Blue Hors Don Olymbrio has been very successful together Daniel Bachmann Andersen finishing 12th at FEI World Ranking 1.11.2019 and only appeared one time under Agnete Kirk Thinggaard before an injury put him on hold.

Yesterday it was a fresh and sparkling Blue Hors Don Olymbrio and together with Nanna they made a very harmonious picture. 75,215% international score also shows that they already made their first steps hopefully into something even bigger for the future.

Right now Nanna is the one to make her own “Danish Team” with now 4 Grand Prix horses.

Blue Hors Zatchmo and Nanna Merrald starting their first Grand Prix test together

Blue Hors Don Olymbrio and Nanna Merrald doing the final centerline

Blue Hors Dressurfestival med flot show program

Blue Hors Dressurfestival startede I dag med nationale klasser med Intermediaire II som dagens højeste klasse. Her var det ungrytteren Laura Jarlkvist Rasmussen med hendes nu 18 årige Åtoftens Dornier som vandt klassen. Parret har sammen på ret kort tid fundet knapperne til Inter II niveauet, endnu mangler der dog lidt mere sikkerhed i piaffe turene, men flot trav tur med flot og udtryksfuld passage, rigtig fine pirouetter og gode serie.

Medaljeregn

Aftenen bød på et flot show program hvor årets dressur medaljetagere og OL ekvipagerne blev hyldet.

Nogle af aftenens indslag var bl.a. Nanna Merrald som red Grand Prix programmet på Blue Hors Zatchmo med åben kommentering af international dommer Susanne Baarup, senere viste Nanna og Blue Hors Zack deres OL kür, Daniel Bachmann red mini clinic med 6 års vallak e. Grand Galaxy Win og sidst men ikke mindst blev atleterne hyldet og helt ekstraordinært blev hesteejerne også hyldet - uden dem som stiller hestene til rådighed for de dygtigste ryttere, havde det ikke været muligt at lave de flotte danske resultater konkluderede Blue Hors direktør Ole Magnus Pedersen.

The annual World Championships for Pura Raza Española takes place in Sevilla 16 - 20 November

The World Championships for PRE horses celebrates 30 years anniversary this year

SICAB 2021, the International Purebred Spanish Horse Trade Fair is just around the corner. The event is from the 16th to the 21st of November.

It is like when you go to ex. Danish Warmblood stallion licensing, where breeders, stallion owners, riders and horse lovers get together. Your not in doubt that this is the place to be when the PRE horse has got under your skin.

Fibes where the event is held is in the outskirts of Sevilla which is the biggest area of the PRE breeding in Spain. Sevilla itself is a beautiful historic city with all possibilities to feel the Spanish horse life and enjoy the Spanish atmosphere.

There are finals for all ages from 4 year old to Grand Prix. The judges are of course Spanish judges but also with two well known international judges Dutch Francis Verbeek and Finish Maria Colliander are among the judging team.

The entire event will be available to watch via live stream at Clipmyhorse.

Full entry list for the prestigious CDI5 Saab Top 10 in Stockholm

  • Saturday 27 November at 11.00 am Grand Prix

  • Sunday 28 November at 10.30 am Grand Prix freestyle

Entries

🇩🇪Jessica von Bredow-Werndl / TSF Dalera BB

🇩🇪Isabell Werth

🇩🇰Cathrine Dufour / Bohemian

🇩🇰Carina Cassøe Krüth / Heiline´s Danciera

🇬🇧Charlotte Fry / Dark Legend

🇳🇱Dinja van Liere / Hermés

🇳🇱Hans Peter Minderhoud / Glock´s Dream Boy

🇸🇪Patrik Kittel

🇸🇪Therese Nilshagen / Dante Weltino OLD

🇫🇮Henri Rouste / Kontestro DB


Two intensive Westfalen stallion licensing days comes up 21 & 22 November

When Westfalen stallion licensing comes up 58 dressage colts are ready.

The video presentations are uniform with same sequences of each stallion and gives a very good overall picture. For the Westfalen licensing and auction you also have the chance to watch the stallions not coming up for sale at subsequent the auction, as more of them also look like future stallions for the breeding.

H2R top favourites:

17 (169 cm)

52 (165 cm)

53 (175 cm)

Also at the H2R “hot” list:

18 (170 cm)

19 (172 cm)

38 (169 cm)

Here you find the entire list of stallions.

Schedule:

Focus horses for Blue Hors Autumn Auction

Have you checked out the collection for Blue Hors Autumn Auction?

The demand for good quality riding horses has increased during the last couple of years.

Danish Stud Blue Hors does alway have a huge range of horses at different education level and is now for the first time with Blue Hors Autumn Auction offering 12 selected young horses for sale.

If you haven’t already tried out your favourite horses you still have the possibility - just contact the team for an appointment.

Pre-bidding starts Thursday 11 November and the auction takes place Saturday 13 November at 8 pm LIVE at Blue Hors.

Focus horses:

As a 4-year-old, the black Westphalian gelding Sir Helmut trotted himself into a nice 2’nd place at the qualifier for the DRF and PAVO young horse championships in dressage with a score of 90.8 points. With a ridability score of 9.3 and a 9.2 in both capacity and trot, there is no doubt that Sir Helmut is a horse for the future with the potential to go all the way!
This long-legged Sir Donnerhall/Benneton Dream-son is bred by Jaqueline Tenambergen, and with his beautiful coat and outstanding markings, Sir Helmut is a unique horse for the sport. This, combined with his high rideability-level and equally high overall quality, makes him a truly functional and talented horse, who we all are eager to watch unfold even further!

The breathtaking, dark-coated gelding; Giccolo, is by the Gribaldi-son Gray Flannel, who is currently active in Grand Prix-dressage under German rider Lena Waldmann. The dam-line behind Giccolo, is led on by Giccolo's mother; the Fürst Piccolo/Landadel-daughter Felicity, who is the product of several main studbook mares and B-horses in dressage. A family tree that really emphasizes the young Giccolo’s huge talent for dressage.
Giccolo is always willing and ready to work and possess elegance, elasticity and quality in all three of his gaits. His trot is extremely spacious and adjustable and his canter is with lots of uphill-tendency, which combined with his personality makes him a high-quality dressage horse.

The Swedish warmblood gelding Vanzetti is a horse that works with great potential and lots of talent. This bay superstar is bred by Niklas Samuelsson and is sired by the Grand Prix-stallion Blue Hors Veneziano, who won Louisdor-Preis as an 8-year old. Vanzetti carries yet another Grand Prix-stallion as his dam-sire in Swedish Rose Mathisen’s top-stallion; Zuidenwind, who was most recently placed as number 4 in a four-starred Grand Prix in Achleiten 2021 with his Japanese rider Akane Kuroki. In third generation is the Hanoverian Premium Stallion Figaro R, who had a glorious breeding career in Sweden and who was also trained for the Grand Prix by Rose Mathisen. With these stallions is his bloodlines, this Veneziano-son for sure carries a lot of implied talent for the sport. Performative bloodlines with lots of Grand Prix; Vanzetti!

Here you find all informations about the auction including how to sign up for online bidding.

HANN licensing with 6 Premium stallions and 31 licensed stallions

38 by Fürst Belissaro / San Remo

6 Premium Stallions

With no 38 by Fürst Belissaro / San Remo this years “Champion” stallion from H2R point of view. Super supple presentations, very well balanced both from movements but also mentally.

No 3 Bon Coeur / Carabas - supple mover, but could wish for a bit more under the gravity push from behind.

No 19 Escamillo / De Niro - super model and active off the ground. For the lunging part he was missing bit more self carriage and balance for the trot.

No 26 Escolar / Sir Donnerhall - lovely balance and rhythm by lunging every step with power and elasticity.

No 32 For Dance / Dagostini - super model with power - presented by Blue Hors and will for the season be available via Landgestüt Warendorf. (Video below)

No 63 Totilas / Danciano - well balanced with good power - missing bit more length on the neck.

Among the huge collection of licensed stallions the well moving and expressive no 27 by Escolar / Sir Donnerhall I likewise no 42 by La Vie / Bretton Woods from Blue Hors was clearly missing among the licensed stallions.

Here you find the full list of stallions.

Blue Hors getting ready for their first Online auction

12 selected horses

For this first edition Blue Hors Autumn Auction 12 young dressage horses has been selected. Among the collection is one licensed stallion and more former approved stallions now gelded and a mare - all horses under saddle at different level with excellent pedigree and qualities.

Check out the collection here.

Try out your new horse

There has already been four different “try out days” and two to come November 6 and November 9. You only have to make an appointment with one of the customer advisors In order to help you finding/trying your favourites before the auction.

Any questions about the horses or the auction feel free to contact the auction team.

The auction will be both live at Blue Hors and live at Clipmyhorse 13 November at 8 pm.

48 OLD colts are ready for the licensing 18 - 20 November

This years OLD licensing will be with full live stream via Clipmyhorse.

Schedule

H2R highlights from video presentations

Among the 48 candidates H2R picked only 7 really highlights and said that no 66 by Indian Rock / For Romance I / K2 look like the most obvious champion stallion seen for years - a pure World Class stallion 🚀🤩

42 - medium sized powerful supple from behind and over the back with great uphill trend.

48 - What a stunning model! Can’t wait to see more than the outstanding trot.

59 - natural supple mover with an outstanding walk

66 - just pure Champion qualities!

70 - correct and powerful in a medium size.

76 - premium stallion quality.

81 - expressive super mover with very interesting pedigree.

Here you find the entire collection.

Blue Hors Autumn Auction - 12 horses ready for the Online auction

The Blue Hors Autumn Auction is here for the first time to rise the excitement in the main arena at the Blue Hors stud. High quality youngsters, the elite of European dressage breeding, several top dressage horses and sport horses will be presented for the live auction on November 13.

Every presentation of one of the twelve spectacular auction horses from the collection of 2021 is something special, making the Blue Hors Autumn Auction a unique venue for the purchase and discovery of tomorrow’s superstars.

To meet the demands and wishes of every customer – our collection offers a wide range of top horses. Bringing everything from undiscovered youngsters, approved stallions and experienced show horses, the Blue Hors Autumn Auction offers a brilliant collection of strictly selected horses with the finest pedigrees, outstanding movements, superb qualities and the talent required for a successful future.

Our twelve extraordinary auction horses can be inspected and tried October 20, October 27, October 30, November 3, November 6 and November 9 after arrangement with our customer advisors.
Our customer advisors can also help you choose the right horse for your ambitions. So, please arrange an individual appointment by telephone with one of them or by filling out our ‘Try Out’ form.

The Blue Hors Autumn Auction takes place both online and live. Although you should not miss out on attending the auction live in the big arena at Blue Hors in Randbøldal, Denmark, we also offer the opportunity of bidding online.  Online-bids can be submitted from October 23.  The final bid-up will happen live on Saturday, November 13, at 5pm at Blue Hors during our annual Blue Hors Dressage Festival. To bid online, please register at https://auction.bluehors.com/

Source: Blue Hors

click here to see the entire collection

Top price 130.000 euro at Van Olst Sales tonight

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News from Van Olst Sales

Exciting edition Van Olst Sales Online ridden horses

“We knew upfront that there was a lot of interest in Guinness and Noire NA. Guinnes, by Glamourdale, is a very striking black stallion who was sold to a Belgian show jumping stable that now also invests in dressage horses. They are now the new owner for not less than €130.000,-. Noire NA, by Painted Black, managed to keep the bidding going the longest and was sold for €80.000,-. Jack, the first horse in the auction was not sold, just as the stallions Depay and Irvin who will also stay in Den Hout. Mabel by Dettori, will go to an English stable and Mistral by Fiamingho will leave for Canada. The other horses have been sold to England and several other horses are sold to Dutch riders.”

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