Escanto PS (9,12), Feliciano (8,82) and Viva Vitalis (8,62) in top of 50-days stallion performance test at Schlieckau

H2R order from watching the final test day:

Viva Vitalis - lovely model, super balanced, nice rhythm, nice natural frame, good contact and supple in all three gaits.

Feliciano - expressive, well balanced, good rhythm, nice frame and contact and supple in all three gaits.

Escanto PS - good expression, sometimes a bit over active in the front legs, dropping the contact for some moments (not a clear 10 from the sideline).

Ready for "The Young Ones" - Van Olst Sales online auction starting tomorrow

14 young geldings are up for sale at Van Olst Sales starting Thursday at 12 pm

A very nice collection of youngsters ready to start the next chapter as riding horses.

For this collection a total of 6 sons are by double World Champion for Young horses Kjento.

Seem that Kjento stamps his offspring with very nice modern types, uphill and very well moving - definitely look like a bunch of talents for the future.

All the youngsters are with solid and proven dam lines.

Trialrides / viewing of horses:

Of course it is possible to see these horses before you place a bid. Friday 25 November there will be a presentation of the auction horses starting at 7 pm. Location: Van Olst Horses, Terheidensspoor 9 in Den Hout. For more information or to make an appointment to see the horses at a different moment plesase contact Van Olst Horses!

X-rays and clinical reports of the horses

If you are interested in one of the horses from the Van Olst Sales Online collection and would like to receive the X-rays with the clinical report, please send an email with the horse's name and your details to: info@vanolstsales.online.

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4 & 5 December with Westphalian stallion licensing - LIVE at Clipmyhorse

H2R favourites - unfortunately only a handful also with attractive pedigree.

No 4 - powerful with good movements.

No 10 - One of H2R top favourites. Supple, natural, uphill and well balanced, out of same dam line as Valverde.

No 14 - Supple, uphill - attractive Zack / Schufro on the dam line.

No 17 - super mover in all three gaits, impressive power and balance uphill - stallion look.

No 43 - Still a bit young body wise - very successful dam line.

No 46 - Expressive mover out of same dam line as Glock´s Toto Jr.

No 50 - So much expression for the trot, nice canter - the walk need a closer look.

No 54 - Full brother of Vivino. Look like the whole package.

No 57 - Long legged, open frame with a bit gelding look.

No 60 - Supple and expressive, look like a medium size stallion.

Here you find the entire collection of stallions for the licensing

VIDEOS - Danish Stutteri Worre with two offsprings for NRW stallion licensing 2022

Sold as foals

For nearly a decade Danish Stutteri Worre has been present at Danish Warmblood foal shows, stallion pre-selections, stallion shows, auctions and elite shows with offsprings from strong dam lines continuously developed over the years.

This year Stutteri Worre is looking forward to the main licensing in Westfalen with extra joy and excitement, as two of their offsprings are presented for the licensing. Both colts were sold as promising foals, Franklin / Dr. Doolittle sold through Helgstrand auction and Glamourdale / Franklin sold through Danish Warmblood auction directly to Blue Hors.

Link to video here.

Link to video here.

Dutch stallion competition starts Monday 21 November in Kronenberg

My Blue Hors Santiano and Renate van Uytert - photo credit: Timo Martis

2 stallions from Van Olst Horses and 2 stallions from Blue Hors ready for stallion competitions

The stallion competition starts monday at 17.30 and will be LIVE at Clipmyhorse.

From Van Olst Horses Lottie Fry will be at start with two 4 year old stallions Nacho by Negro / Krack C and Nalegro by Painted Black / Negro.

My Blue Hors Santiano by Sezuan / Blue Hors Romanov, bred by Danish stud Straight Horse and ridden by Renate van Uytert and Nordic Blue Hors by Totilas / Jazz, rider Sem Stiemer.

  • 21 November Kronenberg

  • 22 December Ermelo

  • 3 January Exloo

  • 4 February s´Hertogenbosch (FINAL)

Start lists here for Monday evening at Kronenberg


4 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰Danish combinations ready for Lövsta TOP 10 in Stockholm

When the prestigious 5* Swedish competition comes up next weekend it is with full house from Denmark, as Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour is placed 2nd at FEI World Ranking, Carina Cassøe Krüth is no 5, Daniel Bachmann Andersen is no 9 and Nanna Merrald is no 10.

Nanna will not participate as she already planned holiday next weekend, instead Andreas Helgstrand will be at start.

Schedule:

Saturday 26 November at 11 am - Grand Prix - total price money 100.000 SEK (about 9.100 euro)

Sunday 27 November at 10.30 am - Grand Prix freestyle - total price money 2.400.000 SEK (about 218.000 euro)

Live stream

There will be full live stream via this link, with a price of about 23 euro a day.

Updated entries for Lövsta TOP 10

  • 🇩🇪Jessica von Bredow-Werndl, GER

  • 🇩🇰Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour, DEN

  • 🇳🇱Dinja van Liere, NED

  • 🇩🇪Isabell Werth, GER

  • 🇩🇰Carina Cassöe Krüth, DEN

  • 🇩🇰Daniel Bachmann Andersen, DEN

  • 🇩🇰Andreas Helgstrand, DEN

  • 🇩🇪Benjamin Werndl, GER

  • 🇸🇪Patrik Kittel, SWE

  • 🇸🇪Therese Nilshagen, SWE

3 Trakehner top stallions for the upcoming licensing and auction 1 - 3 December

1 - 3 December with licensing and auction

Holsten Halle in Neumünster will again this year be the place to be to watch the best Trakehner horses.

Stallion licensing, crowning of the best mare, auction of riding horses, broodmares and stallions, final of riding championships, show and much more during the three days.

It will be possible to follow the event LIVE at Clipmyhorse.

H2R top prices for the auction:

No 11 - TSF Dalera BB look a like

No 26 - Supple, modern, uphill with interesting sport horses from the same dam line.

No 38 - Impressive and supple mover with very nice angle from behind.

Here you find the entire collection.

KWPN stallion pre-selection comes up 29 November to 3 December

Double World Champion KWPN stallion Kjento is represented with 13 sons for KWPN pre-selection - photo credit: Timo Martis

250 young stallions ready for KWPN pre-selection

The ultimate possibilities to check out the quaities from some of the most used stallions in Europe.

Le Formidable at top of the list of the young stallion with 26 sons, 20 son by Jameson RS2 and 13 sons by Kjento.

Among the older stallions Glock´s Toto Jr. is at top of the list with 15 sons.

The entire pre-selection will be available to follow via Clipmyhorse.

Here you find detailed schedule for the pre-selection days.

VIDEOS - Spanish PRE young horse champions 2022

Rondo de Indalo and Alejandro Sanchez del Barco - photo: Maria Aspron/SICAB

Top 3 by 4 year old

Verso de Susaeta overall winner (full brother of Poeta de Susaeta), but Rondo de Indalo, son of Poeta de Susaeta (bronze position) clear winner of the final as he showed a lot of tensions in the preliminary test.

5 year old winner (winner of both preliminary and final)

6 year old winner (winner of both preliminary and final)

7 year old winner (both preliminary and final)

Pura Raza Espanol World Championships has started today with preliminary young horse classes

Spanish Young Horse Championships

Bloodlines are kind of a religion for the Spanish Pura Raza Espanol horses, and you really need not to make any conclusions as it could easily be a step into “very deep water”. Said that with kind of experience from watching the Warmblood breeding for many years, you just want to see the best moving horses with the best potential.

4 year old

The preliminary class for the 4 year old showed a significant improvement of the walk. The walk has for many years been the weakest basic gait for the PRE horses, but this class looked very different. In general the trot is expressive with lot of activity in the front legs and from the best here also with a nice angle and push from behind. Canter is the overall weak point, but again from the top, shared first place and two of the three placed next as no 3 (without Primero de Mesa from H2R point of view) the basic gaits were really good.

Interesting to watch two offsprings by the stallion Timbal YET, both modern type and very well moving by the 4 year old.Likewise one of the participants for 6 year old qualifier Brandy YET by Timbal YET, also modern and well moving. Remember the name Rondo de Indalo with World Championship rider Alejandro Sanchez del Barco - a super expressive top mover, unfortunately today with to much tension.

The stallion Timbal YET is by the very famous Utrerano VII which is the sire of over 150 stallions among them former international top dressage stallion Fuego de Cardenas with Juan Manuel Muñoz Diaz.

Winner of 5 year old qualifier was international top rider José Antonio Garcia Mena with Lclunon de Trujillo. The big bay stallion was well moving in all three gaits with a surplus for the canter with good balance and quality, the walk was ground covering and in a good rhythm, the trot was with good expression the collected trot was lacking bit more strength and carriage while the extensions were good and well balanced.

The top of the 6 year old class was showing good qualities with a clear winner Pampero FS ridden by former PRE World Champion Alberto GARCÍA-BRIÑÓN MARTÍN. Well balanced performance and common for the top of the 6 year old class was very nice canter quality og good quality of the flying changes.

Here you find the link for start lists and results.

14 young 2,5 year old geldings ready for next Van Olst Sales Online

In the new collection of horses in the Van Olst Sales Online auction you'll find a group of 14 geldings who are all 2,5 years old. Here's an opportunity to buy a special young horse out of the Van Olst Horses breeding program.

All the horses have been handled for a few weeks, but other then that are still completely green.

If you like to know more about them please check www.vanolstsales.online

VIDEOS - Blue Hors Don Olymbrio with Nanna Merrald with strong comeback performances on home soil

Winner of both CDI3 Grand Prix and Grand Prix freestyle

Enjoy both tests here below.

It is actually 1 year since they´ve been showing together, and Nanna also told after her Grand Prix that there were many nice things and still a lot to improve.

For the freestyle it was brand new music with a nice choreography, but for more moments Don O looked a bit overexcited for the piaffe tours.

VIDEO - Vayron & Daniel Bachmann Andersen with their CDI3 75,532% Grand Prix Special debut at Blue Hors

Next top horse for Daniel Bachmann Andersen

This weekend Danish team World Champion Daniel Bachmann Andersen made his international debut together with 11 year old stallion Vayron by Vitalis / Gloster, owned by Sandra and Rudolf Spiekermann.

It was definitely something special from watching the training Thursday evening. Friday´s international Grand Prix debut became with some really highlights, but also a lot of extras with kind of mixed up excitements.

The plan for the Grand Prix Special was clear from trainer Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and rider Daniel Bachmann Andersen, a very relaxed warm up and keeping the big Vayron in a kind of “low gear” in order to try to performe without mistakes - missing completed. “We have lots of extraordinary qualities to show, but for now this was our plan”, Daniel told after the victory.

From the sideline it was mostly like the 77,5% test from Danish judge at M Kurt Christensen - judge for yourself here below.

Link here or below.

VIDEO - Når tingene går op i en højere enhed

Vinder af national Grand Prix på Blue Hors fredag UNO Day Sun og Kenneth Damgaard

Berider Kenneth Damgaard har lavet hele arbejdet siden han overtog den smukke sorte guldmedaljehoppe UNO Day Sun e. UNO Don Diego / Blue Hors Rosoff som 4 års.

Den nu 9-årige Grand Prix hoppe som i daglig tale hedder Dolly, har haft en uddannelsesmæssig historie som kan give de fleste ryttere grå hår, under vejs med udfordringer som har krævet ekstra kreativitet. Kenneth har hele tiden haft troen på den laksorte hoppe, som jo har vist høj kvalitet gennem hele sin uddannelse, og da Kenneth samtidig har haft fuld opbakning under vejs fra avler og ejer Joan Andreasen, var glæden naturligvis ekstra stor efter lørdagens første nationale Grand Prix sejr.

Ekvipagen har været med fremme i championaterne og har haft en imponerende karriere i lille tur, hvor parret sluttede værdigt af med dobbelt sejr til det internationale stævne i Kristianssand i Norge tilbage i april måned i år. Derefter stod træningen på Grand Prix, hvor den største udfordring har været at kunne få lov at hjælpe Dolly når Kenneth var i sadlen, da hun har været rigtig fin til at piaffere ved hånd, fortæller Kenneth. Det var blot parrets 4. start i Grand Prix.

Nyd ekvipagens flotte Grand Prix sejr herunder.

Link til video her.


Klimke clinches spectacular victory in Stuttgart


German riders simply swamped the opposition on home ground at the third leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup™ 2022/2023 Western European League in Stuttgart today led by horsewoman extraordinaire, Ingrid Klimke.

The daughter of Dressage legend Reiner Klimke is best known as a five-time Olympian and multiple championship medallist in the sport of Eventing. But the 54-year-old athlete who competes in all three equestrian Olympic disciplines demonstrated her exceptional talent when pinning her compatriot and five-time FEI Dressage World Cup™ champion, Isabell Werth, into second place while the remainder of the German contingent lined up behind them.

Having dominated in yesterday’s Grand Prix, the last five starters in today’s Freestyle were all from the host nation and Frederic Wandres went into the lead when putting 81.580 on the board with a lovely performance from the 12-year-old Bluetooth OLD when fifth-last to go. But Klimke immediately demoted him when next in with the fabulous Franziskus FRH.

On fire

The 14-year-old stallion was on fire from the outset, his entrance already racking up big scores, and the pair who competed on Germany’s bronze-medal-winning team at this summer’s ECCO FEI World Championships at Herning in Denmark put 83.440 on the board to go way out in front.

“Franziskus is 14 years old now but is still improving. Since Herning he seems to be enjoying himself even more and making more progress. He was so calm and listening to me today and his two-tempi changes on the centreline were amazing as well as the last piaffe on the turn and the extended trot at the very end”, Klimke said.

That extended trot was executed with just one hand on the reins and the crowd loved every moment of it.

"I’m so happy and the spectators were fantastic! They were cheering like we won before we even went in!"

Ingrid Klimke (GER)

she said with a laugh afterwards.

She was followed by Tokyo 2020 team gold medallist Dorothee Schneider riding the 14-year-old gelding Faustus who put 80.290 on the board, and then compatriot Benjamin Werndl partnering Daily Mirror whose minor error in the two-tempis was followed by wonderful one-tempi changes for the second-best score to date of 81.885.

Frenzy

But the crowd were in a frenzy of excitement as the last pair took their turn. Isabell Werth is such a showgirl and is adored by dressage fans wherever she goes. At home that adoration reaches a whole new level, and the atmosphere in the packed Stuttgart stadium as she began her test with DSP Quantaz was electrifying. 

To the sound of Bonnie Tyler the 53-year-old superstar threw down a great performance despite a blip in a canter pirouette and the two-tempi changes. The tension as her score was being calculated was palpable, and although 82.030 would leave her behind Klimke in pole position she was quite happy.

“My horse was electric tonight but was still very much focused and gave his best. The music makes me happy and I think it works for the public as well".

"Ingrid rode a beautiful mistake-free test tonight and I did not. This makes the difference and I am not disappointed at all. I should have ridden better with no mistakes to win. This is the sport"

Isabell Werth (GER)

said the lady who looks well set to chase down her sixth title at the FEI Dressage World Cup™ Final in Omaha (USA) next April and who has qualifying legs in Basel (SUI) and Amsterdam (NED) in January in her sights. 

The top nine finishers in the Western European League will make the cut to the 2023 Final.

No expectations
 
Delighted with her result, Klimke said this evening, “I drove here with no expectations, I would have been happy being fifth!” With additional points for a win at the qualifier in Zakrzow in Poland two weeks ago she has now rocketed up to second place on the Western European League leaderboard, just ahead of Werth who is just three points behind in third but 10 points adrift of Benjamin Werndl at the head of affairs.

Klimke now plans to compete at the qualifying legs in London (GBR) in December and then Amsterdam (NED), Neumunster (GER) and possibly ’s-Hertogenbosch (NED) in the new year. 

Asked how tonight’s victory compares to the many successes she has enjoyed in the sport of Eventing she said “of course if you win at Aachen (GER) or Luhmuehlen (GER) it’s also very, very exciting. I finished fifth in Burghley (GBR) and have done lots of other wonderful things but competing indoors is different and I like it a lot. When I was younger I watched my father doing it and tonight brought memories of him back for me. This was very special night…..”, she said.

Result 

Standings 

Michael Søgaard med Jukebox vinder af Bundgaard x Trolle Cup (Inter I)

Michael Søgaard og Jukebox igen øverst på podiet

Den 11-årige vallak Jukebox e. Jazz / Rubinstein I, avlet af Jytte Kolster tog igen i dag en sejr til stævnet på Blue Hors.

Fredag morgen vandt Michael Søgaard og Jukebox den nationale Prix St. Georg klasse med 72,193%. Den succes kunne parret bringe med til dagens Intermediaire I med endnu en sejr på 73,333%. Parret levede en teknisk fejlfri tur med god power hele turen, under vejs kunne man godt ønske sig lidt mere tydelig selvbæring. Placeret som nr. 2 blev Jan Møller Christsensen med HANN hingsten Romeo, mens Anita Duus og Atterupgaards Kingston slutter som nr. 2

Desværre blev det med frafald af Eternity og Anne-Mette Strandby Hansen, da hun opgav i den første øgning hvor Eternity var tydelig urent gående.

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