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05|2013<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong><br />
No. 5 | May 2013<br />
128 th<br />
Elite-Auction<br />
From Top-Sellers to<br />
Good-Buys<br />
Breeding<br />
Perigueux awarded<br />
Grande-Prize
Auction<br />
Fritz opened the 128 th Elite Auction carrying head<br />
number 1. He was the highest priced horse with<br />
92,000 Euros. Photo: Ernst<br />
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From Top-Sellers<br />
to Good-Buys<br />
The interest was huge and the collection of participants in the 128 th Elite Auction in<br />
April was small but fancy. The riding horse auction result reflected a negative direction;<br />
the price structure of the foals remained almost the same as last year.<br />
By Dr. Michaela Weber-Hermann<br />
The auction started out as one would want it to<br />
and as smart marketing people saw it: Head<br />
number one caused quite a stir at the beginning of<br />
the 128 th elite auction. It was the first horse to<br />
cause a stir but it was certainly not the only one!<br />
Fritz found a new home with a loyal client from<br />
Switzerland for 92,000 Euros. The five-year old<br />
stallion by Farewell III/Londonderry (breeder: Annegreth<br />
Winkelmann, Uplengen; exhibitor: Henrik<br />
Klatte, H and H Klatte KG, Lastrup) will not leave<br />
Lower Saxony though. He will stay in training with<br />
Anna-Sophie Fiebelkorn. The renowned championship-rider<br />
and trainer has a good hand with stallions.<br />
This has been known to be a fact since she<br />
rode the Hanoverian stallion Benetton by Brentano<br />
II to become the much-celebrated Bundeschampion<br />
of three-year old stallions in 2007! Now this<br />
pair successfully competes at international level.<br />
One can well imagine that Fritz who has already<br />
been successful in riding- and dressage-horse classes<br />
will do well under Anna-Sophie Fiebelkorn. The<br />
impressive and as a premium sire declared stallion<br />
who was licensed in Redefin is a member of the<br />
Nordenburg family. He convinced the audience<br />
and the buyer with his powerful and elastic movement<br />
in trot and canter.<br />
The second highest-priced horse was a mare with<br />
head number 2 that had already created a stir<br />
when she won the free-jumping competition for<br />
four-year olds in Verden this year. Her name is<br />
Penelope PJ; she is a daughter of the stallion Perigueux<br />
who was awarded the Grande-Prize during<br />
the Gala Evening the night before the auction.<br />
Heinz-Dieter Gödecke bred this mare that convinced<br />
with her powerful, ambitious, yet careful<br />
jumping ability and style in Edemissen-Blumenhagen.<br />
Dr. Jacobs GbR from Bierbergen was the exhibitor.<br />
The mare out of the family of Sedalia had already<br />
proven her jumping ability at the mare<br />
performance test when she received a 10,0 for her<br />
style as well as her ability. Canadian customers<br />
bought this exceptional talent that descends from<br />
a famous and successful family. Her granddam<br />
called St.Pr. mare Weltdame was the overall champion<br />
at the Louis-Wiegels-Show in 1984. It took<br />
only 47,000.00 Euros to buy Penelope PJ. The collection<br />
of jumpers this year was one of the best.<br />
Chacco Grande by Chacco-Blue/Graf Top (breeder/<br />
exhibitor: Torsten Siems, Marklohe-Oyle) was also<br />
sold. The colorful chestnut stallion completed his<br />
70-day test in Adelheidsdorf with a jumper score of<br />
8,46. An investor from North-Rhine Westphalia<br />
bought the athlete for 38,000.00 Euros. The fouryear<br />
old stallion will remain in Verden’s training<br />
and sales centre to further his athletic career with<br />
Chacco Grande is one of the top<br />
jumpers and will remain in Verden to<br />
further his sporthorse career.<br />
Photo: Beelitz<br />
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Visiting Verden for the first time: Minister<br />
of Agriculture Christian Meyer<br />
in a conversation with the managing<br />
director of the State Stud Celle, Dr.<br />
Axel Brockman.<br />
the support of the Hanoverian Association Promoting<br />
Hanoverian Horses FRH.<br />
The price structure did not truly reflect the outstanding<br />
quality of the horses. For instance Sunciro by<br />
Sunlight xx/Velten Third (breeder: Wilhelm Stadtlander,<br />
Lilienthal; exhibitor: Ann-Kathrin Stadtlander,<br />
Niefern-Oeschelbronn) who is an licensed and<br />
performance tested half-bred sire with a show record<br />
is a half-brother to licensed Callaho’s Benicio<br />
who is the Bundeschampion of six-year old dressage<br />
horses in 2011. The blood-influenced horse is<br />
still developing. Clients from Spain recognized his<br />
potential and were delighted that they were able<br />
to buy this talent for 20,000.00 Euros. Sunciro will<br />
also remain in Verden to further his training – a<br />
true testament of trust in the work of the AAZ from<br />
new customers from Spain. Higher prices were<br />
also obtained, though. 14 out 50 Hanoverian riding<br />
horses sold within the price segment of<br />
25,000 Euros and above. The dressage mare ‘Sie<br />
ist schön U’ and jumper mare Valencia sold for<br />
42,000 Euros each. The elegant and beautiful<br />
black four-year old dressage prospect by Sir Donnerhall/Metternich<br />
(breeder/exhibitor: Jürgen Uhlenwinkel,<br />
Grethem) found a new home in the<br />
dressage stables of Jörg Schrödter in Leipheim in<br />
Bavaria. ‘Sie ist schön U’ proved her qualities in<br />
movement and rideability by obtaining placements<br />
in riding horse classes as well as with her performance<br />
in the mare test where she received a 9,0<br />
for her walk and a 9,0 as the guestrider score. She<br />
received an 8,0 for her trot, canter and rideability.<br />
Valencia is moving even further south. The twotime<br />
Ia-premium recipient by Valentino/Captain<br />
Paul (breeder/exhibitor: Heinrich Mues, Stolzenau-<br />
Nendorf) found a new owner amidst our new customers<br />
from Spain.<br />
Spain tops the export leader board of the 128 th Elite<br />
Auction with seven purchases. A total of 22<br />
participants sold to foreign customers. Four horses<br />
will eat their oats in Finland. Quite a cheerful<br />
group bought these horses. They took every<br />
Fritz:<br />
A dressage vision!<br />
An elite auction is always opened by one of<br />
the collections best participants! 2013 it<br />
was Fritz. The elegant chestnut stallion by<br />
Farewell III out of Loraine by Londonderry<br />
stimulated the interest of prospective buyers<br />
as well as the entire auction team during the<br />
two-week long training’s period. The ambitious<br />
five-year old dressage talent always<br />
gave his best in a calm and composed style.<br />
Auction rider Sascha Böhmke commented on<br />
the joint training period, “Fritz blossomed in<br />
the dressage ring. He attentively awaited the<br />
aids of the rider and accepted them with<br />
sensitivity. You also could not wish for a better<br />
partner when handling him on the<br />
ground. He loved to cuddle.”<br />
Fritz was born on the farm of Annegreth<br />
Winkelmann in Uplengen in 2008. “He was<br />
very confident and attentive as a foal. He reacted<br />
to anything new with curiosity and<br />
trust,” the keen horsewoman who has been<br />
dedicated to the Hanoverian breed since<br />
1973 tells. Currently there are eight broodmares<br />
on her farm. Fritz’ dam Loraine has<br />
delivered a total of three foals. Fritz has two<br />
half-sisters – a three- and a four-year old.<br />
Both are sired by premium stallion Fiorano<br />
and are still owned by Annegreth Winkelmann.<br />
“Unfortunately I sold Loraine last year<br />
but may get the chance to buy her back. She<br />
has produced exceptional offspring.” Annegreth<br />
Winkelmann already bred granddam<br />
Dunja. This daughter of Dream of Glory/Trajan<br />
also produced St. Pr. mare Princess Piccolina<br />
by Prince Thatch xx who was awarded a<br />
Ia-prize at the breed show in Aurich-Tannenhausen<br />
in 2007 where she also became class<br />
champion. After Prince Thatch xx the breeder<br />
selected Celle’s state stud sire, approval<br />
champion and gigantic producer Londonderry<br />
for her mare Dunja. Loraine was born in<br />
2004. Wunschtraum by Wiesenbaum xx who<br />
is victorious at S-level dressage competitions<br />
with rider Karen Schulze-Bergmann heads<br />
on the damline of Nordenburg at the competitive<br />
level. The chestnut has always been<br />
special for Annegreth Winkelmann, “I was<br />
moved to tears when I watched Fritz trot<br />
around the indoor arena in a relaxed fashion<br />
on Friday night during the gala evening.”<br />
The powerfully moving Fritz showed his potential<br />
as a youngster. Fritz made his public<br />
debut at only a few months of age at the<br />
German Foal Championships in Lienen where<br />
Henrik Klatte from Lastrup saw the promising<br />
chestnut. He seized the opportunity and<br />
bought the colt from Annegreth Winkelmann.<br />
After all sire Farewell III lives in<br />
Lastrup with Henrik Klatte. Fritz grew up in<br />
the colt fields in Lastrup and was scheduled<br />
to be presented at the stallion approval in<br />
Verden as well as in Redefin. The dressage<br />
aspirant Fritz could not be presented in Verden<br />
due to an injury. He was licensed and<br />
was awarded a premium at the inspection<br />
site in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Fritz completed<br />
the 30-day test at the stallion testing<br />
station in Neustadt/Dosse with a dressage<br />
score of 8,01. The athlete continued to master<br />
additional competitions with his excelling<br />
talent. He was presented in riding horse classes<br />
and dressage tests at the A level seven<br />
times and always finished in the ribbons.<br />
Fritz finished the final at Verden’s Riding<br />
Horse Championships last year in fifth place<br />
with rider Hermann Burger.<br />
Fritz is looking forward to a successful sport<br />
horse career. Even though his new owner is<br />
from Switzerland the five-year old Fritz will<br />
remain in Lower Saxony with Anna-Sophie<br />
Fiebelkorn.<br />
Julia Martin<br />
Farewell III<br />
Loraine<br />
Fidermark<br />
Riga<br />
Londonderry<br />
Dunja<br />
Florestan<br />
Watonga<br />
Rosenkavalier<br />
Anastasia<br />
Lauries Crusador xx<br />
Windsor Queen<br />
Dream of Glory<br />
Taiga<br />
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purchase as an opportunity to celebrate. Three horses<br />
each sold to the U.S. A. and Switzerland; one<br />
horse each to Chile, Denmark, Italy, Canada, the<br />
Netherlands and Hungry. The average price for the<br />
fifty riding-horses was 22,900.00 Euros – an auction<br />
result that is not totally satisfactory as 65 auction<br />
participants sold for an average price of<br />
29,000.00 Euros at the Elite Auction in April of<br />
2012.<br />
The number of participants was rather low due to<br />
an unusually high dropout rate. An additional twelve<br />
horses were listed in the catalog. “The number<br />
of participants was too low without a doubt for a<br />
Hanoverian elite auction. There are many different<br />
reasons why twelve horses dropped out. The radiographs<br />
were definitely all okay otherwise the horses<br />
would not have been accepted in the first<br />
place,” auction manager Jörg-Wilhelm Wegener<br />
explained. Wegener also did not try to whitewash<br />
the lower prices, “Please bear in mind: A year ago<br />
exhibitors had no reservations to send the very<br />
best to Verden. Allow me to remind you of Lemony’s<br />
Nicket. Breeders take the safe route today because<br />
of the current market situation. They sell their products<br />
as quickly as possible without striving for top<br />
prices. All our breeders must recall that successful<br />
auctions are advertisement for the Hanoverian<br />
horse and with that for all of us.” According to<br />
Wegener the elite auction this April was of great<br />
interest to our buyers, though.<br />
Foals that were captivating<br />
The foal collection not only had about the same<br />
number of participants as in 2012 (43 versus 44<br />
last year), it also obtained nearly the same average<br />
price. This is not a given fact as especially the foal<br />
market is tough that early on in the year. “The time<br />
of foaling has changed. Foals are born much later<br />
than even a few years ago,” breeding manager<br />
and managing direction Dr. Werner Schade explained.<br />
“We have to select foals at a very early ageand<br />
it is not easy.” The selection was clearly successful.<br />
One reason may have been the late<br />
inspection date that had been set because of the<br />
market situation and the late foaling dates. 42<br />
youngsters sold for an average price of 6,750.00<br />
Euros while last year 44 foals sold for an average<br />
price of 6,800.00 Euros. Customers from Spain and<br />
Finland also took a great interest in the foal collection.<br />
Each bought five Hanoverian weanlings; three<br />
foals sold to the USA, two each to Belgium and<br />
Great Britain and one each to Australia, Italy and<br />
Portugal. The auctioneers Daniel Delius and Bernd<br />
Hickert obtained 10,000.00 Euros or more for six<br />
foals.<br />
Sansibar who is a colt by Surprice (a son of Sir Donnerhall)<br />
and out of a dam by Brentano II/Wolkentanz<br />
(breeder/exhibitor: Gerhard Dieckhaus, Visbek)<br />
was the top-selling foal. The new owner of the bay<br />
is a breeder from Kirchlinteln who raises colts. He<br />
owns Rassolini, too. The Hessian sire won the Nürnberger<br />
Burgpokal in 2010 under Verden’s former<br />
auction rider Kathrin Meyer zu Strohen. In regard to<br />
auction riders: They did a great job acting calmly<br />
and skillfully even though they had been criticized<br />
heavily and sometimes in an uncalled-for fashion in<br />
the discussions about the structures of the association<br />
during the last weeks prior to the auction. “It<br />
is bad that young people who do an excellent job<br />
with a lot of passion are exposed to such attacks,”<br />
Dr. Werner Schade commented. “It is time now to<br />
focus on the significant.” The auctions. •<br />
Statistics<br />
Riding horses<br />
No. of horses offered 50 horses<br />
No. of horses sold 50 horses<br />
Net proceeds Euro 1.145.000,00<br />
Average price Euro 22.900,00<br />
Top price Euro 92.000,00<br />
Lowest price Euro 9.000,00<br />
Price structure<br />
Euro 8.000 to 9.999 2 horses<br />
Euro 10.000 to 14.999 7 horses<br />
Euro 15.000 to 24.999 27 horses<br />
Euro 25.000 to 49.999 13 horses<br />
Euro 50.000 and more 1 horse<br />
Sales by regions<br />
Lower Saxony 10 Bavaria 9<br />
Brandenburg 1 Hamburg 3<br />
Hessioan 1 NRW 2<br />
Saarland 1<br />
Total Germany<br />
27 horses<br />
Chile 1 Denmark 1<br />
Finland 4 Italy 1<br />
Canada 1 The Netherlands 1<br />
Switzerland 3 Spain 7<br />
USA 3 Hungary 1<br />
Total foreign countries 23 horses<br />
Statistics<br />
Foals<br />
No. of horses offered 43 foals<br />
No. of horses sold 42 foals<br />
Net proceeds Euro 283.500,00<br />
Average price Euro 6.750,00<br />
Top price Euro 20.000,00<br />
Lowest price Euro 3.000,00<br />
Price structure<br />
Euro 2.500 to 3.999<br />
Euro 4.000 to 4.999<br />
Euro 5.000 to 7.999<br />
Euro 8.000 to 9.999<br />
Euro 10.000 and more<br />
6 foals<br />
5 foals<br />
23 foals<br />
2 foals<br />
6 foals<br />
Sales by regions<br />
Lower Saxony 17 Bavaria 1<br />
Berlin 1 Hamburg 2<br />
NRW 1<br />
Total Germany<br />
22 foals<br />
Australia 1 Belgium 2<br />
Finland 5 Great Britain 2<br />
Italy 1 Portugal 1<br />
Spain 5 USA 3<br />
Total foreign countries 20 foals<br />
The top-selling foal: Sansibar by<br />
Surprice/Brentano II. Photo: Ernst<br />
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Grande-Prize<br />
Perigueux – A fighter spirit with a story-book career<br />
Grande-Prize holder Perigueux.<br />
Perigueux was born on the farm of breeder Dr.<br />
Karl-Otto Jacobs in Bierbergen in 2002 as the first<br />
foal of St. Pr. mare Sensation by Stakkato/Akzent II<br />
(breeder: Hartmut Hopmann, Wittingen). He was<br />
raised in Hunnesrück on the farm for raising Hanoverian<br />
stallion prospects. The chestnut went to the<br />
stallion testing station in Adelheidsdorf as a twoand-a-half-year<br />
old. His special talent for jumping<br />
was evident even then. He finished the part index<br />
jumping with 131,93 points, 2 nd place. This result<br />
combined with his jumping style roused athletic<br />
desires. His licensing in Verden in February 2006<br />
prescribed a career as a breeding stallion at the<br />
State Stud Celle. Perigueux enjoyed a great popularity<br />
with the breeders from the beginning on,<br />
which still continues for obvious reasons.<br />
Hauptsattelmeister Joachim Winter from the State<br />
Stud Celle was responsible for training the wiry<br />
chestnut. Perigueux and he collected numerous<br />
ribbons in foundation classes up to a fifth place in<br />
Hanover’s Jumper Horse Championships in 2007<br />
in Verden. Joachim Winter trained Perigueux up to<br />
M-level. Looking back he says the following about<br />
the stallion, “He was brave and careful even as a<br />
young horse. He has always tried to avoid any contact<br />
with poles.” He has kept these attributes until<br />
today. Perigueux took the next step on his career<br />
ladder after changing his rider. He changed barns<br />
in the fall of 2009. He celebrated his first successes<br />
at S-level with rider Eva Bitter in February 2010.<br />
She had already celebrated phenomenal successes<br />
with Perigueux’s dam-sire Stakkato. It truly was a<br />
super-smooth transition! The victory in the Final of<br />
the Youngster Cup 2010 in Munich was the preliminary<br />
highlight. A bronze medal at the German<br />
Championships for female jumper riders followed<br />
in Balve the following year and placements in international<br />
S****-level classes in Dortmund,<br />
Münster and Paderborn followed 2012. Eva Bitter<br />
is foremost impressed with Perigueux’s performance<br />
willingness, “Perigueux lives for of his attitude.<br />
He tries to do the right thing every day. A<br />
super pleasant horse! Honest and well-behaved<br />
but alert when it counts.”<br />
Perigueux turned ten years of age in 2012; his oldest<br />
descendants are now five-years old. They already<br />
show their jumping talent. To name just a<br />
few: There is the finalist in the Bundeschampionate<br />
and the latter auction participant in Verden called<br />
Perigueuxs As and Penta who is also a former auction<br />
horse that was a finalist at the World Championships<br />
for young jumper horses in Lanaken under<br />
rider Ricardo Jurado from Spain.<br />
2013 started out with a bang! Penelope PJ won<br />
the free-jumping competition for four-year olds in<br />
Verden and sold on Verden’s 128 th elite auction as<br />
a member of the jumper collection. Perigueux’s descendants<br />
attract positive attention especially on<br />
auctions and that with good reason: “All the descendants<br />
we haveoffered through Verden’s auction<br />
program have displayed careful and powerful<br />
jumping ability. They use their bodies well while<br />
jumping,” so auction manager Jörg-Wilhelm<br />
Wegener. “They are real jumpers.”<br />
The results of the breed value estimation corroborate<br />
this statement. An integrated FN-breed value<br />
jumping of 167 that is based on his own performance<br />
and the performance of his offspring catapults<br />
Perigueux into third position in Germany. He<br />
was awarded the Grande-Prize in hope that this<br />
excellent sire may lastingly stamp the Hanoverian<br />
breed. Perigueux warrants these hopes. •<br />
Manfred Schäfer (left) and Dr. Werner Schade present<br />
the Plate Award to Dr. Karl-Otto Jacobs. Photos: Ernst<br />
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Auktion<br />
Frédéric Pignon.<br />
Gala-Evening<br />
Frederic Pignon from France was the absolute star of the Gala-Evening.<br />
Permanent components in the spring: The Hans Joachim Köhler-Prize and<br />
honoring the Grande-Prize recipient.<br />
Hans Joachim Köhler-Preis for Wilhelm Schwierking.<br />
Riders-in-training of the State Stud Celle.<br />
The Golden Riding Badge for Mike<br />
Bünger and Dycos D‘Or.<br />
Ivan Peeters<br />
and Tex.<br />
Team Fun.<br />
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Hannoveraner Verband<br />
Hanoverian Board: Hartmut Wilking, Manfred Schäfer,<br />
Breeding Manager and Managing Director Dr. Werner<br />
Schade, Konrad Boeth and Hermann-Jürgen Rump (left<br />
to right) Photo: Beelitz<br />
Almost 350 delegates, members and listeners<br />
made it to the forum of the Niedersachsenhalle<br />
in Verden. The meeting was covered live and<br />
could be watched in the foyer. It became apparent<br />
that this meeting of the delegates was going to<br />
take a different course when President Manfred<br />
Schäfer gave his welcome-speech. The President of<br />
the Breeding Club Freudenberg called Hilmer<br />
Buschmann and a few other delegates stood up<br />
and put a motion for confidential elections for all<br />
voting and a separate relief of the board and the<br />
Managing Director. Manfred Schäfer agreed to<br />
confidential elections and furthermore explained,<br />
“Unfortunately we cannot adhere to the motion<br />
for a separate relief. Dr. Werner Schade and his representatives<br />
Gerhard Wiechers and Ulrich Hahne<br />
work in accordance with our direction. We present<br />
our results jointly. If you are unhappy with the<br />
work, don‘t relieve all of us. The by-laws do not call<br />
for a separate relief.”<br />
Solidarity for<br />
Hanover<br />
The focus of the second meeting of the delegates lay<br />
on the professional world, the media and on various<br />
internet forums. Board elections and a motion from a<br />
breeder who demanded changes to the structure of<br />
the association called for attention. Result: The<br />
board was reelected and the motion lacked<br />
substance.<br />
By Julia Martin<br />
The President shared a few sentiments in no uncertain<br />
terms before he continued with the agenda,<br />
“A lot has changed over the past four years. The<br />
Business Packet II of the german government was<br />
launched and we had to decide on modernizing<br />
the Niedersachsenhalle in a very short period of<br />
time. The remodeling has taken place over the<br />
passed three years while the auction business has<br />
continued. In my opinion the renovations were<br />
successfully completed. Many visitors confirm my<br />
impressions. It goes without saying that one cannot<br />
meet everyone’s taste.” Additional costs were<br />
anticipated. As the renovations were partially financed<br />
by public funds the association had to<br />
comply with public offers and could not negotiate<br />
fixed prices. This fact cannot be held against the<br />
association. Furthermore the board kept the delegates<br />
informed about additional costs at all times.<br />
“Lastly I am proud of these phenomenal changes.”<br />
Manfred Schäfer continued clearing up rumors<br />
about Dr. Günther Friemel and Dr. Gerd Brunken –<br />
“If things had occurred without reason legal actions<br />
would have certainly been taken,” he corrected<br />
misstatements and furthermore “The President<br />
does not earn 80,000.00 Euros per year; he receives<br />
compensation for expenditures in the amount<br />
of 1,500 Euros per month.”<br />
The development in Germany and Europe<br />
Breeding manager and managing director Dr. Werner<br />
Schade opened his report to the delegates<br />
with the current situation of breeding horses in<br />
Germany and Europe: The breedings – especially in<br />
Germany, the Netherlands, France and Denmark –<br />
are retrograde and have been so over the last five<br />
years. We have recorded a decline in breedings of<br />
40 percent in Hanover since 2008. A structural<br />
change has been noticeable since 2004 and has<br />
been accelerated through the economic crisis. The<br />
equestrian sport is clearly more stable than horse<br />
breeding. While the equestrian sport more or less<br />
has stagnated in Europe it reflects growth in Asia<br />
and overseas. This may lead to a shortage of horses<br />
in the coming years. The Hanoverian Association<br />
has adjusted to these new challenges quickly,<br />
has created appropriate conditions and has positioned<br />
itself nationally and internationally. Dr. Wer-<br />
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ner Schade elaborated, “In future the associations<br />
will depend on cooperation even more so. We will<br />
not only follow this road but help to shape it. The<br />
German riding horse will certainly not be at the<br />
end of this road. We can however obtain synergy<br />
effects.” The various associations already work together<br />
on several issues like common health standards,<br />
a health data bank, genomic selection and<br />
the improvement of purchase exams. The current<br />
development in the breeding of horses must also<br />
take the financial aspects into account or in other<br />
words budget restrictions are unavoidable. “It is<br />
important to lead the association through this<br />
phase in an economically safe fashion,” Dr. Werner<br />
Schade explained. All costs of the association are<br />
constantly and regularly checked and questioned.<br />
“Saving money goes without saying in a business<br />
during times of financial stress. It is however<br />
wrong to create a financial catastrophe because of<br />
it.” Furthermore improving the marketing situation<br />
for the breeder is a central concern of the association.<br />
The Dutch association handles this issue very<br />
differently. The KWPN handles the marketing for<br />
horse traders and does not interfere with sales at<br />
all while the Hanoverian Association considers it<br />
its responsibility to market horses for breeders at a<br />
relatively young age. This concept only works for<br />
foreign countries in combination with additional<br />
training of horse and customer. “We have followed<br />
this path for some time now with increasing intensity,”<br />
so the breeding manager. “We are more and<br />
more active in more and more countries. Currently<br />
we offer clinics and training sessions in six different<br />
countries.” China is one focal point; a country<br />
with potential for great opportunities. The Hanoverian<br />
Association is currently the only German breed<br />
association active on this relatively new Chinese<br />
market. Other measures for improving sales have<br />
Directors<br />
Stade:<br />
Lüneburg:<br />
Hannover:<br />
Osnabrück/Emsland:<br />
Braunschweig:<br />
Ostfriesland/Oldenburg:<br />
Hessen:<br />
International:<br />
Executive Board<br />
Manfred Schäfer, Köchingen (President)<br />
Hermann-Jürgen Rump, Norddrebber (Vice President)<br />
Konrad Böth, Niederwalgern<br />
Hartmut Wilking, Stemwede<br />
been initiated: a few days ago the new foal portal<br />
went online on the association’s homepage, a cooperation<br />
with Lufthansa was finalized for discounted<br />
flights and the Hanoverian Association is<br />
now an exclusive member of the GHI the German<br />
Horse Industry.<br />
Dr. Schade started his report with a quote from<br />
Otto von Bismarck, “Candor deserves appreciation.”<br />
He added, “We are not in the anonymity of<br />
the digital world but in the reality; and even in<br />
Bismarck’s times it was known that unrestrained<br />
candor can easily lead to inconsiderateness.” With<br />
these words the managing director referred to circulating<br />
rumors and internet attacks against him<br />
and the board. The meeting of the delegates clearly<br />
was to be used to punish and/or reprimand individual<br />
board members. “If this association wants<br />
to master future challenges and further develop<br />
into a modern enterprise it will need a fully authorized<br />
management. The active and responsible<br />
people in this association were and are open-minded<br />
and can be approached by everyone.” Dr.<br />
Schade finished his report with these words.<br />
Negative but bearable<br />
Gerhard Wiechers who is the head of the finance<br />
department presented the financial report for<br />
2012. The income from membership and fees is<br />
declining due to reduced memberships numbers as<br />
well as lower numbers of mares and breedings. The<br />
income from sales is subject to unpredictable deviations.<br />
Factors like a lower foreign demand or an<br />
increase of the value-added tax to 19 percent slowed<br />
down sales and caused a deficit of 135,426.14<br />
Euros. “It is a negative but bearable result.” The<br />
head of the finance department listened to suggestions<br />
from the attendees – for instance an in-<br />
Johann von der Decken, Krummendeich<br />
Jörg Clasen, Hiddestorf<br />
Dieter Köneke, Nienhagen, Jürgen Stuhtmann, Winsen<br />
Hans-Heinrich Brüning, Ochtmannien,<br />
Harald Thelker, Ostercappeln, Edda Kröner, Schüttorf<br />
Klaus Storbeck, Göttingen, Matthias Klatt, Hahausen<br />
Wilhelm de Vries, Ihlow, Frerich de Riese, Filsum<br />
Gerhard Senckenberg, Groß Gerau<br />
Anne Kollberg, Dänemark<br />
Fritz von der<br />
Decken-Prize<br />
Heinrich Gießelmann from<br />
Barver has received the Fritz von<br />
der Decken-Prize for the second<br />
time for raising colts most successfully.<br />
He has raised 18 licensed<br />
stallions, five from his<br />
own breeding program. 16 of<br />
these stallions successfully sold<br />
on the stallion sales. Nobleman<br />
by Natiello xx/Wenzel II, Hotline<br />
by Hofrat/De Niro and His Highness<br />
by Hohenstein/Donnerhall<br />
are true representatives of Heinrich<br />
Gießelmann’s success. He<br />
bought these three young colts<br />
– just as many others – directly<br />
from the breeders, prepared<br />
them and then successfully presented<br />
them at the stallion licensing<br />
in Verden. All three were<br />
Champion Stallions of their vintage<br />
and afterwards sold for<br />
spectacular prices on the stallion<br />
sales.<br />
Friedrich<br />
Jahncke-Prize<br />
Helmut Bäßmann from Meitze<br />
received the Friedrich Jahncke-<br />
Prize; it is an award for the<br />
champion family on the Friedrich<br />
Jahncke-Show 2012 in Luhmühlen.<br />
“Three daughters out of one<br />
dam” presented themselves<br />
beautifully at the event. The collection<br />
consisted of three fullsisters<br />
called state’s premium<br />
mares Wedemark’s Girl,<br />
Wedemark’s Diva and<br />
Wedemark’s Dame all out of<br />
Gondola by Golfclub/ Wendenburg<br />
and by foundation sire<br />
Weltmeyer.<br />
Breeding Book Committee: Hans-Henning von der Decken, Stade, Hans-Heinrich Brüning, Ochtmannien,<br />
Wilhelm de Vries, Ihlow,Jürgen Stuhtmann, Bahlburg<br />
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Certificates of<br />
Honour<br />
Successful stallion rearers:<br />
Klaus-Heinrich Brinkmann,<br />
Heeslingen<br />
Friedhelm Vehlber, Espelkamp<br />
Jörn Döscher, Cuxhaven<br />
Heinz Schütte, Spelle<br />
Dietrich Tomforde, Muslum<br />
Klaus Jürgens, Sehnde-Bolzum<br />
Gabriele Berner, Bienenbüttel<br />
Hans-Heinrich Schnadt, Rinteln<br />
Josef Bramlage, Sögel<br />
Alfred Reimann, Oer-Erkenschwick<br />
Karl Lehing, Wagenfeld<br />
Nicole Wanning, Schüttorf<br />
Anne Vester, Stavern<br />
Jan-Niclaas von Holten, Langen<br />
Hans-Jürgen Hollmann,<br />
Neerstedt<br />
Raising colts most successfully: Heinrich Gießelmann was awarded the Fritz von der Decken-Prize presented by<br />
Jürgen Rump (left). He received a painting by artist Manfred Busemann. Photo: Züngel<br />
Successes at the Herwart<br />
von der Decken-Schow:<br />
Erika Lütjen, Grasberg<br />
Hermann Jarck, Drochtersen<br />
Heinrich Gießelmann, Barver<br />
Karl-Heinz Meyer, Walsrode<br />
Hermann Lettari, Bramsche<br />
Heidi Jensen, Gadbjerg/<br />
Dänemark<br />
Jörn Wedermann, Wangerland<br />
Gerald Wiese, Ottersberg<br />
Gisela Meyer, Bunderhee<br />
Stefan Kleine, Warmsen<br />
Heide und Helmut Peters,<br />
Hammah<br />
Johannes zur Lage, Bersenbrück<br />
Friedo Dodenhoff, Horstedt<br />
Matthias Klatt, Hahausen<br />
Klaus Jürgens, Sehnde-Bolzum<br />
Successes at the<br />
Friedrich Jahncke-Schow<br />
ZG Sahlmann & Schmitz,<br />
Bleckede<br />
Geert Brenninkmeyer, Hamburg<br />
Thorsten Hogrefe, Stöcken<br />
Helmut Bäßmann, Meitze<br />
crease of membership fees by 5 Euros – but pointed<br />
out the following, “This would result in about<br />
45,000 Euros that is an amount that would not<br />
warrant the necessary expenditure.” After a few<br />
and sometimes irritated further inquiries from the<br />
audience Silke Korthals who is the President of the<br />
Kreissparkasse Verden asked to be heard, “I am<br />
amazed to hear with which subtlety questions are<br />
aimed at the podium. I usually do not experience<br />
this here. I would like to point out once again that<br />
the Hanoverian Association has never had any liquidity<br />
problems.”<br />
A strong union – FRH<br />
Hanoverian horses still create the best headlines<br />
– mostly those with the appendix FRH. Numerous<br />
athletes supported by the Hanoverian Support Organization<br />
FRH have stood in the limelight in international<br />
competitions. Desperados FRH and Dablino<br />
FRH represented Germany’s colors in the<br />
dressage arena at the Olympic Games in London.<br />
Butts Abraxxas FRH was a member of the German<br />
gold team in eventing. Fantasia FRH also travelled<br />
to London as the reserve horse. Isabell Werth’s Don<br />
Johnson became a member of the FRH-family at<br />
the International Dressage and Jumper Festival in<br />
Verden. Benetton Dream FRH is another rising star<br />
with rider Anna-Sophie Fiebelkorn. Satisfaction<br />
who is a former sire from the State Stud Celle belongs<br />
to the FRH-jumpers. 15-year old Emil Hallundbaek<br />
from Denmark has been riding this stallion<br />
since September. Another very successful<br />
change of rider took place for Gotha FRH. The<br />
twelve-year old mare jumped into the world’s top<br />
group of jumpers with rider Ludger Beerbaum.<br />
Henrik von Eckermann has been riding Gotha FRH<br />
since December 2012. By tradition event horses<br />
hold a strong position in the Hanoverian Support<br />
Organization. Olympic champion Sandra Auffahrt<br />
won the Bundeschampionate in Warendorf with<br />
Corona in the beginning of September. FRH Escada<br />
JS celebrated her first starts in international<br />
3*-competitions with rider Ingrid Klimke. Burlington<br />
who is the winner of the Nürnberger Burgpokal<br />
is the latest FRH-addition. Charlott-Maria<br />
Schürmann presented Burlington FRH at the gala<br />
evening on Friday.<br />
Clear majorities<br />
The voting process took several hours as every vote<br />
had to be done by confidential ballot. Even though<br />
neither Manfred Schäfer nor the other board members<br />
were accepted unanimously they all were reelected<br />
by a clear majority of more than 100 votes<br />
each. At the end breeder Kareen Heineking-Schütte<br />
proposed a motion not to decide on the position of<br />
breeding manager and managing director by personnel<br />
union in the future. However the by-laws of<br />
the Hanoverian Association state that the board<br />
has to decide on this position. According to the statutes<br />
the meeting of the delegates is not even authorized.<br />
“We do not share the view that a separation<br />
needs to be implemented here. We believe that<br />
Dr. Werner Schade does an excellent job,” Manfred<br />
Schäfer explained. Kareen Heineking-Schütte withdrew<br />
two other motions. She found out that her<br />
first motion could not be realized and her second<br />
motion had already been in effect for years. •<br />
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Interview with Manfred Schäfer regarding the meeting of the delegates<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong>: Mr. Schäfer, you have<br />
just come out of a six-hour long meeting<br />
with the delegates. Are you relieved?<br />
Manfred Schäfer, “Yes, I am relieved but also exhausted.<br />
I am pleased that the meeting of the delegates<br />
ended in a good atmosphere and with<br />
clear results in spite of the tension.”<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong>: Your re-election with 27<br />
votes against you can not feel like a dream<br />
result. What did you expect?<br />
Manfred Schäfer, “I do not worry about how many<br />
votes I may get prior to the election. From my point<br />
of view the result was excellent but not a dream<br />
result.”<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong>: Before delegates meeting<br />
there were many discussions and rumors<br />
– if you wanted to get to the bottom<br />
of things; what actually happened?<br />
Manfred Schäfer, “there are always a few unhappy<br />
ones in difficult times. Many rumors started circulating<br />
from various sides. They lacked any foundation.<br />
I cannot avoid getting the impression that our<br />
general manager Dr. Schade was targeted and was<br />
to be wronged.”<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong>: You did not deal with the<br />
motion to separate the responsibilities of<br />
the managing director from the responsibilities<br />
of the breeding manager or the dissolution<br />
of the personnel union because of<br />
the by-laws. Do you believe that the critics<br />
will remain content?<br />
Manfred Schäfer, “No, but according to the bylaws<br />
of the Hanoverian Association the board is<br />
responsible for the inner organization. This can obviously<br />
be discussed but cannot be decided upon<br />
in the meeting of the delegates.”<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong>: Explain briefly why you<br />
do not agree to separate these two fields of<br />
responsibilities.<br />
Manfred Schäfer, “I do not think it is sensible to<br />
employ two people as both areas are hard to separate.<br />
It would result in competence problems. Furthermore<br />
our finances are in the best of hands<br />
with Gerhard Wiechers who is much appreciated<br />
by all.<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong>: During the meeting a<br />
motion was proposed to vote on separatly<br />
releasing the board and the managing director.<br />
Do you know why the petitioner<br />
wanted to vote separately and confidentially?<br />
Manfred Schäfer, “No, I do not know for sure. The<br />
executive board directs the responsibilities of the<br />
managing director and the breeding manager and<br />
controls these, too. The entire board controls the<br />
executive board. How can the meeting decide<br />
whether the directions or the executions were<br />
poor?”<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong>: One could not but notice<br />
your strong emotions in certain moments<br />
during the meeting. For instance when you<br />
reported that your son did not want to accept<br />
a breeding award for you because he<br />
feels that people begrudge you of the<br />
award. Is the price you pay to be the President<br />
of the Hanoverian Association sometimes<br />
not very high?<br />
Manfred Schäfer, “Yes, it is. I still enjoy carrying out<br />
my duties and look forward to the constant challenge<br />
to be confronted with a variety of responsibilities.<br />
It is important to me to meet and get to<br />
know many people whose mutual interest lies in<br />
the horse in a good atmosphere. This compensates<br />
for much.”<br />
Rolf Hillman conducted the interview.<br />
Manfred Schäfer, “I greatly enjoy my<br />
position and am looking forward to<br />
the constant challenge!”<br />
Photo: Züngel<br />
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Salinero danced<br />
for the last time<br />
He danced for the last time: Salinero was retired in<br />
‘s-Hertogenbosch. The impressive black was one of<br />
the world’s best dressage horses with rider Anky van<br />
Grunsven.<br />
By Britta Züngel<br />
lue floodlights shine in Brabant’s sold-out arena.<br />
A spotlight highlights a grand piano and<br />
B<br />
pianist Wibi Soerjadi. Torches accompany Salinero<br />
into the arena. After the last notes from “Dance of<br />
Devotion” fade away, one of the best leaves the<br />
dressage arena forever. Salinero became Olympic<br />
Champion in freestyle in Hong Kong in 2008. The<br />
cheering starts. The audience gets up from the<br />
seats. A standing ovation for a fantastic pair! Well<br />
deserved for magnificent performances and exciting<br />
competition with which this pair impressed<br />
throughout the past decade. His rider Anky van<br />
Grunsven thanks her fans with tears in her eyes and<br />
a trembling voice. Her radiant smile returns as the<br />
delighted audience says good-bye waving<br />
thousands of handkerchiefs. Salinero dances down<br />
centreline for the last time before the pair disappear<br />
into the darkness.<br />
Salinero and Anky van Grunsven had a great impact<br />
on the sport of dressage from 2002 until<br />
2012. The Salieri/Lungau son was born at the farm<br />
of Horst Bünger in Essel. The breeder acquired<br />
Salinero’s granddam Pikora (breeder: Jürgen Siltmann,<br />
Badbergen) in foal. Salinero’s dam St.Pr.<br />
mare Luna was born on his farm. Salinero’s career<br />
path started out in the jumper ring. He won jumper<br />
horse classes before he made his way into the<br />
dressage arena. Salinero met up with his one-year<br />
older brother called Seven Up at the Olympic<br />
Games in Athens in 2004. While Salinero proved<br />
his talent in the dressage ring Seven Up competed<br />
in the jumper division under Jung-Ho Woo from<br />
Korea. Dam St.Pr. mare Luna became ‘Hanoverian<br />
Mare of the Year 2008’. The stately and 176 cm tall<br />
Salinero impressed with his dressage performances<br />
as a young dressage horse. He finished the<br />
Bundeschampionate for five-year old dressage<br />
horses in fifteenth place under rider Holger Schulze<br />
before he was placed in training with the renowned<br />
trainer Holga Finken. His first M-victories followed.<br />
Sjef Janssen discovered the black gelding at<br />
Finken’s barn in Kirchwalsede in 2000. He realized<br />
the incredible potential of the six-year old and<br />
bought him for customers from the USA. The deal<br />
fell through. It took some convincing before Anky<br />
van Grunsven mounted Salinero. “Even though he<br />
had been in our barn for some time he just was not<br />
really my horse. I knew he was a very special horse<br />
after having ridden the first movements though!<br />
Sjef always succeeded in motivating me. He<br />
brought the best out of Salinero and me,” Anky<br />
van Grunsven remembers.<br />
Unforgettable free-styles<br />
Fighter spirit distinguished Salinero. Even though<br />
he was considered to be strong and hot-tempered<br />
Anky van Grunsven dealt with his disposition<br />
beautifully. His sensibility and nervousness were<br />
noticeable in all his performances and the training<br />
methods controversial. His freestyle performances<br />
were composed just for the bundle of energy and<br />
became legendary. The music ‘L’Esprit Chanson’<br />
will remain unforgettable. One could even hear<br />
Anky van Grunsven’s voice singing. The pair became<br />
freestyle champions to this piece of music in<br />
Aachen in 2006 . For more than a decade Salinero<br />
and Anky van Grunsven were reliable stars on the<br />
Dutch team. The list of successes is long and started<br />
with the Olympic victory in Athens in 2004<br />
which the pair repeated four years later in Hong<br />
Kong. Salinero contributed to making Anky van<br />
Grunsven the first and only rider who succeeded in<br />
becoming Olympic champion three times successively<br />
– and that on two different horses.<br />
Salinero and Anky van Grunsven became European<br />
Champions in Hagen and placed second with the<br />
Dutch team in 2005. After winning the Freestyle-<br />
World Championship title in Aachen in 2006 and a<br />
second place with the Dutch team Salinero repeated<br />
his title victory at the European Championships<br />
in La Mandria in 2007. He helped the young Dutch<br />
team win gold in Italy, just like in Windsor in 2009<br />
when the proven black won bronze in the freestyle<br />
that was his last individual medal. Salinero and<br />
Anky van Grunsven were the World Cup-Champions<br />
in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008. Salinero was<br />
unable to participate in the World Equestrian<br />
Games in Kentucky in 2010 due to an injury. Many<br />
then spoke about the end of his career. He surprised<br />
everyone with a comeback in 2012. At the<br />
end of a unique career he won a bronze medal<br />
with his team at the Olympic Games in London.<br />
Salinero will spend his well-deserved retirement in<br />
the fields of Grunsven’s equestrian facility in Erp. •<br />
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Salinero said goodbye to his fans in<br />
‘s-Hertogenbosch. Photo: Caremans<br />
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Sport<br />
The completition of the<br />
indoor show season<br />
Many competitors meet at the attractive show series in Southern Europe and Florida<br />
while the last big indoor shows of the season 2012/13 take place. Young Hanoverians<br />
performed well at the first outdoor shows.<br />
By Britta Züngel<br />
Dressage<br />
Afrika<br />
Afrika by Diamond Hit/Weltmeyer (breeder:<br />
Ingrid Alfaro, Madrid/Spain) became the second<br />
best five-year old at the CDI in Toledo/<br />
Spain. Juan Francisco Fernandez Munoz presented<br />
the black mare.<br />
KH Arvan<br />
KH Arvan (bred in New Zealand) won the<br />
Grand Prix and the Freestyle with rider Vanessa<br />
Way in Feilding/New Zealand.<br />
Blind Date<br />
Victoria Max-Theurer and Blind Date by Breitling<br />
W/Donnerhall (breeder: Margarethe Klare,<br />
Maasen) lived up to their roles as favorites<br />
winning the Grand Prix and the Special in<br />
Stadl Paura/Austria.<br />
Breanna (VA)<br />
Breanna by Brentano II/Weltmeyer (breeder:<br />
Walter Rauen, Spelle) celebrated her first international<br />
victory in Del Mar/USA. She won<br />
the Grand Prix Special with rider Kathleen<br />
Raine in mid March. Breanna finished the<br />
Grand Prix and the Freestyle in second place<br />
at the next show in San Juan Capistrano/<br />
USA.<br />
Condio B<br />
Condio B by Contendro/Willem’s As was successful<br />
with rider Claire Averkorn at the CDIJ<br />
in Stadl Paura. The dark bay with his jumper<br />
pedigree took fourth place in the team competition<br />
for juniors. The pair improved and finished<br />
in second place behind Windhook by<br />
Waikiki in the individual test and in the freestyle.<br />
Danilo<br />
Shelly Francis and Danilo by De Niro/Andiamo<br />
(breeder: Susanne and Jürgen Beck,<br />
Stuttgart) won Prix St. Georges and Inter I in<br />
Wellington/USA. The pair placed third in the<br />
freestyle.<br />
Degas<br />
Degas by De Niro/Regazzoni (breeder: Christine<br />
Müller, Stade) was one of the successful<br />
dressage competitors in Wellington. Jill Irving<br />
from Canada rode him into third place in the<br />
Grand Prix Special.<br />
Der Clou<br />
Iberian horses dominated the competition at<br />
the CDI in Toledo/Spain. Filipe Canelas Pinto<br />
rode Der Clou by De Niro/Matcho AA (breeder:<br />
Dr. Rainer Nitsch, Salzhausen) into third<br />
place in the Grand Prix Special.<br />
Devon L<br />
Devon L by De Niro/Wolkenstein II (breeder:<br />
Hans-Henning v. d. Decken, Stade) won the<br />
Grand Prix Special of West Palm Beach/USA<br />
Don Charly and Minna Telde placed fifth in the<br />
Grand Prix-Freestyle in Doha. Photo: Frieler<br />
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with rider Diana Creech. The pair finished the<br />
Grand Prix in third position.<br />
Dhannie (VA)<br />
Two Hanoverians were in the lead in the<br />
dressage classes for six-year olds in Toledo.<br />
Juan Francisco Fernandez Munoz rode Dhannie<br />
by Don Crusador/Weltmeyer (breeder:<br />
Hinrich Engelke, Doerverden) in the final into<br />
second place behind Sandronnerhall.<br />
Don Charly (VA)<br />
Dressage competitions at the highest level<br />
were held in Doha/Qatar for the first time.<br />
Don Charly by Don Gregory/Inschallah AA<br />
(breeder: Ewald Grotelueschen, Wardenburg)<br />
was in on it with rider Minna Telde. The pair<br />
placed fifth in the Grand Prix-freestyle.<br />
Don Johnson FRH<br />
Don Johnson FRH by Don Frederico/Warkant<br />
(breeder: Ulrike Meyer, Dedelstorf) and Isabell<br />
Werth competed in the Grand Prix and<br />
the Freestyle at the World Cup-competition in<br />
‘s-Hertogenbosch finishing on third place in<br />
both against tough Dutch competition.<br />
Donaublick<br />
Tatjana Svehla from Austria rode Donaublick<br />
by Don Vino/Brentano II (breeder: Martin<br />
Schmid, Legden) into third position in Prix St.<br />
Georges and into fourth position in Inter I in<br />
Stadl Paura.<br />
Fabrioso (VA)<br />
Jenny Baldwind and Fabrioso by Federweisser/Fabriano<br />
(breeder: ZG Lemcke and Soetebeer,<br />
Ebstorf) finished the Grand Prix Special<br />
of Del Mar in fourth position.<br />
Fleurie<br />
Fleurie by Florestan/Akzent II (breeder: Diana<br />
Eustace, Surrey/Great Britain) was born in<br />
England. The 13-year old performed a hattrick<br />
with rider Erin Williams at the CDI in<br />
Addington/Great Britain: she won all three<br />
classes for juniors.<br />
For My Love<br />
Katharina Stumpf traveled to the USA to participate<br />
in Florida’s dressage show series for<br />
the first time. The Austrian held her Grand<br />
Prix-debut on For My Love by For Feeling/Escudo<br />
(breeder: Heinrich Zettel, Neustadt) in<br />
Wellington. The pair celebrated a third place.<br />
Her Highness O<br />
Caroline Hoffmann impressed the crowds<br />
For My Love and Katharina Stumpf competed in<br />
Florida for the first time. Photo: Frieler<br />
with her Inter-freestyle on Her Highness O by<br />
Hohenstein/Weltmeyer (breeder: Matthias<br />
Ohmen, Stinstedt) in Wellington. The pair<br />
won this class after having placed second in<br />
Prix St. Georges and Inter I.<br />
Lombardo LHF (VA)<br />
Lombardo LHF by Londonderry/Werther<br />
(breeder: Klaus Jürgens, Sehnde-Bolzum)<br />
won the Grand Prix Special at Rancho Murieta<br />
after placing second in the Grand Prix. Brian<br />
Hafner rode the 13-year old who had<br />
found his way to the United States via<br />
Verden’s November auction in 2003.<br />
Lautrec<br />
Alexandre Ayache and Lautrec by Landclassic/Gibraltar<br />
(breeder: Willi Ehlers, Walsrode)<br />
celebrated Easter on the Cote d’Azur. The<br />
pair finished Inter II in second place and the<br />
Grand Prix in third in Nice/France.<br />
Naomy<br />
We can find the name Naomy on the international<br />
sports pages of <strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong> for<br />
the first time. Juan Antonio Jimenez Cobo<br />
rode the Hofrat/Espri daughter (breeder: Uwe<br />
Buenger, Hemmingen) and won the Interfreestyle<br />
in Toledo after having placed second<br />
in Prix St. Georges and Inter I.<br />
Remington Steele<br />
Caroline-Marie Scheufele successfully competed<br />
Remington Steele by Ravallo/Gelria<br />
(breeder: Wilhelm Varrenkamp, Stemwede) in<br />
three classes for juniors at the CDI in Nice<br />
placing second each time.<br />
Rosmarin<br />
Kimberly Herslow won Prix St. Georges and<br />
Inter I by a large margin on Rosmarin by Rosentanz/Weltmeyer<br />
(breeder: Josef Brinkemöller,<br />
Georgsmarienhuette) in Wellington.<br />
The eight-year old finished the final freestyle<br />
in third place.<br />
Royal Angelo (VA)<br />
Three starts – three victories! Arianne Petroncini<br />
from Italy won all three young riderclasses<br />
in Nice on Royal Angelo by Rotspon/<br />
Pik Bube (breeder: Hans-Heinrich Müller, Stade).<br />
Rudy<br />
The judges awarded the fourth-highest score<br />
in the Grand Prix Special to Rudy by Rotspon/<br />
Werther (breeder: Joachim Schwarze, Obernkirchen)<br />
and his rider Rochelle Kilberg from<br />
Canada at Rancho Murieta/USA.<br />
Sandronnerhall<br />
Sandronnerhall by Sandro Hit/Donnerhall<br />
(breeder: Joachim Essink, Stockach) received<br />
top scores and won the final for six-year old<br />
dressage horses with rider Antonio Jose Diaz<br />
Porras in Toledo.<br />
Saturday Night Fever (VA)<br />
The young riders had a rendezvous in Toledo.<br />
Luis Cerrillo Sopena rode Saturday Night Fever<br />
by Sandro Hit/Fabriano (breeder: Gabriele<br />
and Joachim Nanninga, Suederwalsede) into<br />
second place in the FEI-team test and into<br />
third place in the individual test.<br />
Wadamur (VA)<br />
Mid March Susan Jaccoma competed Wadamur<br />
by Weltmeyer/Silvio (breeder: Peter Richter<br />
and Richard Fortkamp, Mellinghausen) in<br />
Wellington and placed second in the Grand<br />
Prix Special. The 13-year old finished the<br />
Grand Prix in fourth place and the Freestyle in<br />
third.<br />
Welserin (VA)<br />
The judges placed Welserin by Welser/De<br />
Niro (breeder: Gesine Maass, Bremen) in fifth<br />
place in the freestyle for juniors at the end of<br />
the CDI in Toledo. Maria Ruiz Fernando rode<br />
the eight-year old she had discovered on<br />
Verden’s summer auction in 2009.<br />
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Sport<br />
Hanoverian News<br />
A new black Hanoverian for the Mounties:<br />
The privately owned sire Bugatti Hilltop by<br />
Bergamon/Rubinstein (breeder: Ingo Pape,<br />
Hemmoor) moves to Canada. He stood at<br />
stud in the United States until the Royal<br />
Mounted Canadian Police bought him for<br />
their breeding program.<br />
NZB Campino by Contendro/Pinkus<br />
(breeder: Hans-Jürgen Abel, Bremervörde)<br />
injured himself at his first competition of the<br />
season in Fontainebleau and will not be able<br />
to compete all season. The eleven-year old<br />
won the team bronze medal last year in<br />
London with his rider Mark Todd. The rider<br />
from New Zealand is confident that<br />
Campino will be fit and ready to participate<br />
in the World Equestrian Games in Normandy<br />
in 2014.<br />
Campino and Mark Todd. Photo: Rau<br />
Heimliche Liebe is a new addition to the<br />
stable of Spanish Olympic competitor<br />
Morgan Barbancon Mestre. Hubertus<br />
Schmidt trained this Hohenstein/Davignon<br />
daughter (breeder: Ulrich Heitmann,<br />
Hagenah). Up to now the 13-year old mare<br />
has collected successes under Emma<br />
Kanerva from Finland.<br />
Saint Swithens by Saint Cloud/Jonas<br />
(breeder: Holger Siems, Sebbenhausen)<br />
passed away at the age of 18. The dark bay<br />
went to the barn of the British dressage rider<br />
called Nicola Jourdin as a five-year old. Saint<br />
Swithens had served rising young rider Daisy<br />
Jackson as a schoolmaster for three years.<br />
Doringcourt by Dressage Royal/Glueckspilz<br />
(breeder: Heinz-Horst Kaufel, Winzenburg) is<br />
back in Germany. The black stallion has been<br />
highly successful with his owner Andrea<br />
Bank from New Zealand in her home<br />
country. Now the pair will train with Leonie<br />
Bramall in Isernhagen.<br />
Windhuk (VA)<br />
Michele Thill was the best junior rider at the<br />
CDIJ in Stadl Paura. She won all three classes<br />
on her Windhuk by Waikiki/Arogno (breeder:<br />
Joern Hormann, Landesbergen).<br />
Wyoming (VA)<br />
Megan O’Brian won Inter I on Wyoming by<br />
Weltmeyer/Akzent (breeder: Heino Kracke,<br />
Wildeshausen) in San Juan Capistrano/USA.<br />
Jumping<br />
Jumping<br />
All Star (VA)<br />
Only two horse/rider combinations remained<br />
faultless in the jump-off for the Grand Prix of<br />
Doha/Qatar. All Star by Argentinus/Alme<br />
(breeder: Horst Zoellmer, Suedergellersen)<br />
and Denis Lynch finished in second place<br />
winning 130,000 Euros in prize money.<br />
Arkol (VA)<br />
Arkol by Argentinus/Kolibri (breeder: Christian<br />
Temme, Muehlen) under rider Anthony<br />
Condon competed for Ireland on the Mediterranean<br />
Equestrian Tour in Oliva Nova/<br />
Spain. The grey came from the stallion market.<br />
He won the qualification for six-year olds<br />
and placed third in another class.<br />
Baby Arko<br />
We can read about Baby Arko by Doyen/Capitol<br />
(breeder: Breeding Farm Lewitz, Muehlen)<br />
in the international sport pages of <strong>THE</strong><br />
<strong>HANOVERIAN</strong> for the first time. Gianluca<br />
Apolloni rode the seven-year old on the Toscana-Tour<br />
in Arezzo/Italy. The pair finished in<br />
third place in a speed class of the Youngster<br />
Tour as well as in a two-phase jumper class.<br />
Fixdesign Athletica<br />
The Toscana-Tour in Arezzo offered exciting<br />
sport for more than four weeks. Giulia Martinengo<br />
Marquet rode Athletica by Achill-Libero<br />
H/Pit (breeder: Arend Kamphorst, Prieros)<br />
into third place in the qualification for the<br />
Grand Prix on the third weekend. The pair finished<br />
the following two-phase jumper class<br />
in second place.<br />
Carducci (VA)<br />
Carducci by Cornet Obolensky/Compliment<br />
(breeder: Gerold van Hoorn, Leer-Heisfelde)<br />
collected his first international top placement<br />
in Ranshofen/Austria. Emanuele Gaudiano<br />
rode him into second place in the second<br />
qualification of the Youngster Tour for sevenyear<br />
olds.<br />
Cash<br />
Fifth place for Simone Blum and her mount<br />
Cash by Calido/Godehard (breeder: Jörg<br />
Naeve, Groß Wittensee) in the Grand Prix of<br />
Ranshofen.<br />
El Rubin<br />
El Rubin is from State Stud sire El Bundy’s<br />
first year of breeding. The dark bay out of a<br />
dam by Grandferdinand (breeder: Friedrich<br />
Wilkens, Elsdorf) celebrated his first international<br />
top placement with rider Frederik Knorren<br />
in Lanaken/Belgium. The pair finished a<br />
1,45 m speed-class in second place.<br />
Emely (VA)<br />
Emely by Embassy III/Chambertin (breeder:<br />
Elisabeth and Winfried Burkhard, Hattersheim)<br />
was discovered on Verden’s Elite Auction<br />
in April 2011. Nina Fagerstrom from<br />
Finland rode her in two jumper classes for<br />
young horses and placed second and third in<br />
Oliva Nova.<br />
Fine Lady<br />
Holger Wulschner and Fine Lady by Forsyth/<br />
Drosselklang II (breeder: Wilhelm Leymann,<br />
Bassum) were in the ribbons in Lanaken. The<br />
pair remained faultless and placed third together<br />
with teammate Denis Lynch on Boemerang<br />
in a team competition.<br />
Flying Boy (VA)<br />
Simone Blum and Flying Boy by Fly High/Sao<br />
Paulo (breeder: Horst Heidemann, Meppen)<br />
finished the Championship of Ranshofen in<br />
second place.<br />
Galjano<br />
Galjano by Graf Top/Ile de Bourbon (breeder:<br />
Jürgen Hake, Wagenfeld) celebrated his debut<br />
in international competition at Easter.<br />
Thomas Batliner from Lichtenstein rode him<br />
into fourth place in a speed class of the Silver<br />
Tour in Oliva Nova.<br />
Gleen Love (VA)<br />
Gleen Love by Graf Top/Stakkato (breeder:<br />
Salvatore Basile, Perugia/Italy) started the<br />
Youngster Tour of Ranshofen with a victory.<br />
Chuyba Bronislav from Slovakia rode the sixyear<br />
old to victory in a speed class.<br />
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Second place in Oliva Nova for Strolchi and<br />
Marie Luetgenau. Photo: Frieler<br />
Graciella<br />
Pius Schwitzer rode Graciella by Graf Top/<br />
Acord II (breeder: Siegfried Buhl, Syke) into<br />
second place in a speed class at the World<br />
Cup competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch/The<br />
Netherlands.<br />
La Cucaracha<br />
Lanaken invited to the international Z-Tour in<br />
Zangersheide to start up the outdoor show<br />
season. Jan Sprehe rode La Cucaracha by<br />
Landclassic/Cheenook (breeder: Hubert Knigge,<br />
Ahlden) into fifth place in a two-phase<br />
jumper class.<br />
Lacontino (VA)<br />
Luciana Diniz and Lacontino by Landgold/<br />
Continue (breeder: Dieter Rippe, Nienburg)<br />
performed a flawless clear round in the<br />
Grand Prix of the Medium Tour placing fourth<br />
in Doha.<br />
HH Let’s Fly<br />
A week before Easter Rodrigo Pessoa enjoyed<br />
a second place With Let’s Fly High by<br />
Lordanos/Forrest xx (breeder: Uwe Dreesmann,<br />
Hesel) in a jumper class that offered<br />
good prize-money in Wellington/USA.<br />
Lord Louis<br />
Nina Barbour from England rode Lord Louis<br />
by Laptop/Escudo II (breeder: Detlef Jark,<br />
Drochtersen) into fourth position in the final<br />
of the Bronze Tour of the Mediterranean<br />
Equestrian Tour in Oliva Nova. The pair had<br />
also competed in two 1,40 m-jumper classes<br />
and finished one in second the other in fifth<br />
position.<br />
Mr. Whoopy<br />
The Grand Prix in Thermal/USA offered 1 Million<br />
US-Dollars in prize money. Mr. Whoopy<br />
by Contendro/Watzmann (breeder: Hartmut<br />
and Wilfried Wilking GbR, Arrenkamp) and<br />
his rider Duncan McFarlane from New Zealand<br />
won 120,000 Dollars out of the total<br />
prize money for a third placement. The pair<br />
had competed in S-level jumper classes on<br />
the ‘Desert Circuits’ placing fifth and second<br />
a week before.<br />
Rocketman<br />
Vladimir Beletskiy finished a speed class in<br />
third place with his mount Rocketman by Raphael/Calypso<br />
II (breeder: Gerhard Dieckmann,<br />
Schnackenburg) in Lanaken.<br />
Silas<br />
Hilmar Meyer on Silas by Stakkato Gold/Calypso<br />
II (breeder: Bernd Busse, Petershagen)<br />
finished the Youngster Tour in fourth place at<br />
the “Löwen Classics” in Braunschweig. The<br />
pair had qualified with a second placement<br />
in the first jumper class and a fifth placement<br />
in the second jumper class for rising youngsters.<br />
Sly de la Magnifica<br />
Natale Chiaudani rode Sly de la Magnifica by<br />
Stakkato/Calypso II (breeder: Emiliano Lonzi,<br />
Fauglia-Pisa/Italy) into second place in a<br />
speed class for seven-year olds on the second<br />
weekend of the Toscana-Tour in Arezzo. The<br />
pair finished a two-phase jumper class in<br />
fifth place. Sly de la Magnifica took fifth place<br />
on both qualifying classes of the Youngster<br />
Tour during the third week. He improved to<br />
fourth place In the final two-phase jumper<br />
competition.<br />
Somerset<br />
Frank Kunzmann and his mount Somerset by<br />
Stolzenberg/Drosselklang II (breeder: Barbara<br />
Ivemeyer, Bad Essen) enjoyed a third<br />
placement in a speed class for six-year olds<br />
during the third week in Arezzo.<br />
Sportsman (VA)<br />
Sportsman by Stolzenberg/Lordanos (breeder:<br />
Sissy-Nadine Braband, Groß Escherde)<br />
was one of the successful young Hanoverian<br />
jumper horses in Ranshofen. Bernd Herbert<br />
rode the seven-year old into third position in<br />
a speed class of the Youngster Tour. The pair<br />
finished the final in fifth place.<br />
Stalido<br />
Marcus Merschformann has taken Stalido by<br />
Stakkato/Calido (breeder: Renate Bosse,<br />
Wendeburg) over from Eva Bitter. The pair celebrated<br />
an international top placement in<br />
Oliva Nova during the Easter weekend when<br />
they finished a Gold Tour speed class in third<br />
position.<br />
Stanly<br />
Stanly by Stolzenberg/Natiello xx (breeder:<br />
Christa Albrecht, Salzgitter) competed in the<br />
classes for six-year olds at the CSI in Lanaken.<br />
The bay finished a two-phase jumper<br />
class in fifth position with rider Daniel Lahmann.<br />
Strolchi<br />
Marie LÜtgenau rode Strolchi by Stakkato/<br />
Calypso II (breeder: Helmut Habermann, Uetze)<br />
into second place in a Gold Tour jumper<br />
class under Spain’s sun in Oliva Nova.<br />
Sundance Kid<br />
Sundance Kid by Stakkato/Wiener Skat (breeder:<br />
Heinz-Dieter Ehlen, Beverstedt) gained<br />
international experiences in Oliva Nova. Lisa<br />
Huber rode the eight-year old into fourth<br />
place in a jumper class of the Silver Tour. The<br />
pair finished the final of the Silver Tour in<br />
fourth position the following week.<br />
Walerio<br />
Walerio by Wolkentanz/Amerigo Vespucci xx<br />
(breeder: Hilltrud Meyer-Mäcken, Filsum) and<br />
rider Armin Schäfer took fifth place in a speed<br />
class in Vidauban. The pair traveled on to participate<br />
in the CSI of Lanaken where the<br />
twelve-year old won a two-phase jumper<br />
class.<br />
Eventing<br />
Butts Leon<br />
Butts Leon by Heraldik xx/Star Regent xx<br />
(breeder: Friedrich Butt, Bülkau) has returned<br />
to the barn of Andreas Dibowski after having<br />
represented Thailand with rider Nina Ligon at<br />
the Olympic Games. He rode Butts Leon to a<br />
victory for Germany with a solid performance<br />
at the first Nation Prize Competition for<br />
event riders. •<br />
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Breeding<br />
Proven in<br />
Competition<br />
He is successful in the jumper saddle<br />
and in breeding Hanoverians; he knows<br />
exactly what he wants: Frank Johannsen<br />
from Daensen.<br />
By Britta Züngel<br />
St. Pr. aspirant Can Caipy by Canstakko/Cheenook<br />
placed very well<br />
twice in the Free-Jumping Competition,<br />
participated in the Herwart<br />
von der Decken-Show and was a<br />
member of the jumping cadre at the<br />
128 th Elite Auction. Photo: privat<br />
You will not find Frank Johannsen in the barn<br />
during the day. That‘s when the 45-year old is<br />
on the golf course. He is not practicing his drives on<br />
the fairway however. Instead his expertise is in demand.<br />
He is a specialist for golf course maintenance,<br />
renovation and regeneration of the noble<br />
green. Ten employees and highly sophisticated machinery<br />
help him in the family business his father<br />
started in 1985. Walter Johannsen gave up his trucking<br />
company almost 30 years ago when the golf<br />
course was built just a stone-throw away in Buxtehude.<br />
He invested in a new company. His son Frank<br />
is a trained ‘green’ keeper and has managed the<br />
business since 1999 and has expanded the business<br />
to include footing management for riding<br />
rings and maintenance of athletic fields. Playing<br />
golf is still a hobby, “After all one should know<br />
what it is all about!” says Frank Johannsen. He<br />
knows that all too well when talking about the<br />
breeding of jumpers. His ideas are clear and his<br />
goalis, too, “I want to breed an internationally interesting<br />
sport horse with a good attitude!”<br />
Frank Johannsen was eight years old when his father<br />
bought him his first pony that he set out with<br />
together with his three-year older sister and Walter<br />
Johannsen. Walter Johannsen always supported his<br />
children and had ridden jumpers at a young age.<br />
Later on a Thoroughbred mare came to the barn.<br />
Frank competed it at the E- and A-level. It became<br />
really interesting for the talented boy when his cousin<br />
Cord Matthies gave him 14-year old Britta by<br />
Bleep xx/Steinbock (breeder: Heinrich Clüver, Völkersen).<br />
“At the time my dad thought that the mare<br />
was too old. So I paid for her with money I had received<br />
at my confirmation,” Frank Johannsen smiles.<br />
The pair were a perfect match. Britta competed<br />
Maren, Jan-Luca, Frank, Thies, Walter and Renate<br />
Johannsen (from right to left) with a three-year old<br />
filly by Acorado/Stakkato. Photo: Züngel<br />
at the S-level at the age of 18. The family looked for<br />
a good-quality prospect in 1987. Nobody foresaw<br />
that Fürstin by Ferdinand/Don Carlos (breeder:<br />
Leon Melchior, Zangersheide) would turn into a jewel.<br />
“I called her ‘Flotte Deern’. She had just been<br />
broken to saddle but you could already see her ability<br />
in the free-jumping chute. She had great papers,<br />
too! We thought that she would be good for<br />
breeding, too.” The fact that she had already had a<br />
foal was another plus. This foal was no one less<br />
than Esprit FRH by Eiger who became Olympic<br />
team champion with rider Lars Nieberg.<br />
A severe riding accident delayed the career start.<br />
Frank Johannsen had a rotational fall with a young<br />
horse during a training session, broke his femur<br />
and was laid up for a long time. Britta was unsuccessfully<br />
covered by Wendekreis. Flotte Deern had a<br />
year off. The minute Frank Johannsen was back in<br />
the saddle he placed in an M/B-level jumper class<br />
with Flotte Deern. The pair collected more than 20<br />
S-level placements – all in northern Germany. “I<br />
could have sold Flotte Deern many times but wanted<br />
to keep her for my own breeding program.” He<br />
retired the mare from competition after a victory on<br />
the Dobrock in 1994. At that time the legendary For<br />
Pleasure stood at stud in our neighborhood at<br />
Heinrich Platte’s farm in Hollenstedt. “Even as a<br />
young horse For Pleasure had a wonderful attitude<br />
and never made a mistake.” The result of this most<br />
successful combination was For Fantasie. She competed<br />
internationally with Luciana Diniz. Two fullbrothers<br />
by Esprit called Emilio and Esteban follo-<br />
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wed in 1998 and 1999 and presented Frank<br />
Johannsen with one of his first greatest breeding<br />
successes. The two brothers were the vintage<br />
champions at the Free-Jumping Competition of the<br />
Program for Hanoverian Jumper Horse Breeding in<br />
Verden in 2002. Emilio was licensed and went to<br />
the barn of Lars Nieberg. Frank Johannsen competed<br />
Esteban at the M-level.<br />
Flotte Deern was artificially inseminated by<br />
Hanover’s foundation sire Stakkato the following<br />
year. “Because of the reflexes!” St. Pr. mare<br />
Stakkato’s Deern placed third in the free-jumping<br />
in 2004, won jumper horse classes at the L-level<br />
with his breeder and is the declared favorite in the<br />
barn of Johannsen. “We planned to go straight<br />
back into competition after one foal,” says Frank<br />
Johannsen. But then her first son was so interesting<br />
as a yearling that we continued breeding her.” Her<br />
first son was privately owned sire Canstakko. Frank<br />
Johannsen looked for performance when selecting<br />
the sire, “I saw the stallion Canturo at the Derby in<br />
Hamburg.” The decision was made after the bay<br />
had finished the Grand Prix without a fault. Canstakko<br />
received a premium award at his licensing.<br />
Frank Johannsen refused numerous offers but sold<br />
a share to the Station Hell. The stallion was a hit<br />
from the get go at the Hell Station and at the insemination<br />
station in Bargstedt. Two sons from his<br />
first vintage called Concours Complet and Cansendo<br />
were licensed. His success story continued in<br />
2012: premium sire Cantolar was licensing champion<br />
in Denmark. Two descendants won their divisions<br />
at the free-jumping competition in Verden.<br />
A lucky hand<br />
In addition to Flotte Deern St. Pr. mare Madonna by<br />
Madison/Derwisch (breeder: Heinrich Cohrs, Wenzendorf)<br />
also stood in the breeder’s barn. “She was<br />
beautiful so we bred her,” Frank Johannsen narrates.<br />
Two For Pleasure-foals were born: The stallion<br />
Futurist was sold to Canada. St. Pr. mare For Loveley<br />
remained on the farm. Frank Johannsen once<br />
again proved to have a lucky hand at the auction in<br />
Kutenholz, when he brought a grey mare home<br />
called Glücksfee by Glücksgriff/ Arkansas (breeder:<br />
Hermann Feldmann, Bramstedt) with a foal at her<br />
side by Calido. “She represented the modern sporthorse<br />
type and jumped with a strong push-off. She<br />
always gave it her best,” Frank Johannsen remembers.<br />
She won jumper horse classes at the M-level<br />
during her first show season. The mare broke her<br />
ankle that winter. Frank Johannsen believed in the<br />
mare. So he had surgery performed and then bred<br />
her to the Holstein sire Acorado. The result was the<br />
licensed sire Adorado who sold on the stallion market<br />
to Belgium. Donaat Brondeel rode the grey into<br />
third place in the World Championships for young<br />
jumper horses in Lanaken four years later. He competes<br />
in Nation Prizes now. “That is a real highlight!”<br />
“Our boarders trust our judgment as we ride successfully;<br />
this is important. It helps to be successful,”<br />
Frank Johannsen is glad. His equestrian facility<br />
started out with two box stalls that were attached<br />
to his parents’ home. The family bought an empty<br />
farm in very close proximity in 1994. In less than<br />
two years an indoor arena, outdoor rings and a<br />
home were added. The number of boxes raised<br />
from 28 to 68. Around 30 boarders moved in. “It<br />
must work financially!” The sign “Frank’s nursery”<br />
leads to a run-in stall where the hopeful youngsters<br />
grow up. It was built in 2006.<br />
Frank Johannsen is someone who does not leave<br />
anything to chance. He has a plan, “I have the<br />
great advantage of having ridden all my mares. I<br />
know about their strengths and weaknesses. I try<br />
to compensate for the latter by using an appropriate<br />
stallion. I prefer a compact horse with a strong<br />
back. The jumper courses have become more technical<br />
and call for rideability and power.” It is also<br />
important to keep up with the times; the breeding<br />
program must be interesting; that will make it desirable.<br />
His five broodmares are in the Hanoverian<br />
Jumper Horse Breeding Program; three of them are<br />
St. Pr. mares. Frank Johannsen’s agenda is full.<br />
“You go out and show the horses and they will<br />
learn something at the same time.” It is important<br />
to him. He also finds time to be the President of the<br />
Horse Breeding Club Hollenstedt and to serve on<br />
the board of the Riding Club Estetal, “I am interested<br />
in motivating breeders. They must become more<br />
active and seek the connection to the sport. I would<br />
be glad, if we had more younger breeders and if<br />
they would cooperate more closely with riders. The<br />
equestrian sport would become more affordable<br />
for both.”<br />
The entire family supports Frank Johannsen. Walter<br />
Johannsen (78) fed the horses every day up until a<br />
year ago. Now he predominantly cares for the<br />
youngsters. Mother Renate prefers playing golf<br />
however she gladly accompanies the rest of the family.<br />
Wife Maren descends from a breeder’s family<br />
and has ridden competitions. Twelve-year old son<br />
Thies has his own show ponies. “He knows all the<br />
pedigrees and rides successfully,” his father says<br />
with pride. The two-year younger brother Jan-Luca<br />
prefers the round leather! Horses are to remain a<br />
hobby. The secret of the success: “The whole family<br />
participates! The most beautiful thing in the world<br />
for me is to be able to ride both my jumpers at<br />
night in total peace.” •<br />
Top producer out of a strong<br />
performance damline: Canstakko by<br />
Canturo/Stakkato. Photo: Beelitz<br />
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Training<br />
Fotos: Jacobs, Kanz.<br />
Go for Gold<br />
A trademark travels around the world: The<br />
cooperation of the Hanoverian Association with the<br />
Heilan International Equestrian Club in China is<br />
successful. The participation in the China Games is<br />
the goal!<br />
By Malte Kanz<br />
cooperation between the Heilan International<br />
A Equestrian Club and the Hanoverian Association<br />
has existed since 2011. The extent and the<br />
emphasis of the cooperation lie in the training of<br />
riders and horses, the facilitation of the classical<br />
way of riding and training. The world power China<br />
sees a need for development on the equestrian<br />
sector and has developed ideas how to do that.<br />
They asked the Hanoverian Association for conceptual<br />
and practical support. 400 riding horses are<br />
already stabled at the H.I.E.C. – the majority carries<br />
the Hanoverian hip brand. China places its<br />
trust in the Hanoverian know-how and on Hanoverian<br />
horses to be fit and prepared for the equestrian<br />
world in future.<br />
No crash-course - instead with conviction<br />
A clear goal has been set: the successful participation<br />
in the China-Games. The Heilan sport’s team<br />
strives to play a significant role in the medal distribution<br />
in the discipline of eventing. Training’s leader<br />
Jörg Jacobs heads on the project that is designed<br />
to be long term. “Rider and officials are not<br />
interested in short-term triumphs. A long-lasting<br />
success takes centre stage that will reward honest<br />
and competent riding skills,” so Jörg Jacobs. The<br />
training and project manager spent time in the<br />
country to prepare horses and riders for horse<br />
shows last year. He looked after 16 riders from the<br />
athletic group of the Heilan International Equestrian<br />
Club that are to be trained for eventing. The<br />
daily training is planned as a preparation for the<br />
China-Games that will take place the end of August/beginning<br />
of September. Training schedules<br />
were developed to get the young team fit for international<br />
competition. The team won the bronze<br />
medal in eventing at the Chinese Championships<br />
in 2012. Training concepts were jointly developed.<br />
The preparations are aimed at the China-Games.<br />
A part of a whole<br />
Five Chinese riders from the athletic group (Jiangsu-Team)<br />
of the Heilan International Equestrian<br />
Club traveled to Verden to learn how to train<br />
young horses in order to install this training concept<br />
at the home barn upon their return. These five<br />
young riders traveled 7,500 kilometers without<br />
knowing what to expect. The goal was to expand<br />
their knowledge about training and riding so that<br />
this information can be used for new tasks later.<br />
They shared an apartment on the terrain of the<br />
training centre in Verden. They lived close to the<br />
horses and worked hand-in-hand with the riders<br />
and grooms of the Hanoverian Association. “Working<br />
side-by-side in the barn allowed for a good<br />
information exchange about the daily routines.<br />
Learning by doing was the motto!” Auction manager<br />
Jörg-Wilhelm Wegener knows to appreciate<br />
the intercultural cooperation in the stable. The<br />
Heilan-Club purchased a total of nine youngsters<br />
on the summer auction in 2012. These horses were<br />
used in the daily training. Once these horses have<br />
matured and gathered experience they will make<br />
the trip to China to help the team win gold.<br />
One look in the riding arenas of the training centre<br />
was sufficient to realize that event training took a<br />
large portion of the training’s time. The riding arena<br />
had changed into a diversified cross-country<br />
course with natural jumps and water ditches. An<br />
English-speaking interpreter accompanied the training<br />
sessions.<br />
Further education<br />
Excursions were planned in addition to daily training<br />
sessions under saddle and in the stable all<br />
around the horse. The visit to Ingrid Klimke was<br />
informative, impressive and helpful. She invited the<br />
group to go to Muenster for a public training pre-<br />
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Training<br />
sentation. The Chinese riders were fascinated by<br />
the practical demonstrations of classical training<br />
and made use of the opportunity to personally<br />
meet the master in eventing. The team visited the<br />
training centre of Family von Samson in Lower Saxony<br />
on another occasion. Here the Chinese delegation<br />
witnessed training examples in different<br />
age groups. They also used the opportunity to test<br />
their young Hanoverians and their championship<br />
horses on an indoor eventing course. Jie, Lu, Hui,<br />
Lin and Ying-Feng received impulses, ideas and<br />
practical demonstrations on jumping at a continuing<br />
education evening with the Dutch jumper rider<br />
Piet Raijmakers.<br />
In addition to training sessions under saddle and<br />
in hand, the opportunities offered by Verden’s<br />
training’s centre to explain feeding, maintenance,<br />
hoof care and veterinarian procedures were used.<br />
The organization of horse shows was brought<br />
closer by visiting horse shows. The Chinese guests<br />
were allowed to look back-stage for instance in<br />
the secretary’s office during the VER-Dinale in the<br />
Niedersachsenhalle in January.<br />
During the year of the water snake<br />
The five ambitious riders returned home with lots<br />
of impressions, pictures and desires at the end of<br />
March. 2013 is the year of the water snake in China.<br />
This means that only those will have a good<br />
chance for success who follow the path of a well<br />
thought-out plan with determination and without<br />
getting sidetracked while properly using the influences<br />
of the year.<br />
The first qualification for the China Games will<br />
take place in May. The second qualification follows<br />
in June. Jörg Jacobs is confident. He describes the<br />
motivation of his students as fearless. •<br />
Ying Feng Bao, 26:<br />
“I am grateful that I was allowed to come to Verden.<br />
Verden’s riders are my examples. They showed<br />
me professional riding. I also got great impressions<br />
of the European way of life.”<br />
Lin Qin, 29:<br />
“I learned a lot! My riding knowledge has multiplied<br />
and I learned the beginnings of classical<br />
training of young horses!”<br />
Hui Wang, 26:<br />
“This was my first visit to Germany. I love my job!<br />
Verden is a beautiful town with lovely people and<br />
good Chinese restaurants. I gathered good experiences<br />
in horse management!”<br />
Lu Fan, 27:<br />
“Germany is the best nation for the sport of riding.<br />
Hanoverian sport horses are all over the<br />
world. It is an honor for me to be able to complete<br />
my training in Verden. Verden is the centre for<br />
training horses! I am very thankful for the wonderful<br />
support.”<br />
Jie Ruan, 28:<br />
“I am very glad to have had this training opportunity.<br />
I received a lot of support in riding and in<br />
daily life. I would have loved to visit more event<br />
shows but Germany’s winter did not allow for<br />
that. They will take place in the summer. Then we<br />
shall visit many outdoor events.”<br />
Editorial: <strong>THE</strong> <strong>HANOVERIAN</strong> is published by Hannoveraner<br />
Verband e. V., Lindhooper Str. 92, D-27283 Verden, Germany,<br />
e-mail: redaktion@hannoveraner.com. Editor: Britta Züngel,<br />
Translations: Yvonne Zuther, Paul Kershaw<br />
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International training<br />
The Training and Sale Centre focuses on training riders nationally and internationally in addition<br />
to training horses. Customer advisor Jeanine Pagel and trainer Steffen Werner are on the<br />
road in foreign countries between the auctions. The latest riding clinics were held in Italy and<br />
Finland.<br />
upert and Martina von Hösslin. Photo: Kanz<br />
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August 16 to 18<br />
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Dressage in Italy<br />
Customer advisor Jeanine Pagel visited clients<br />
and held a small dressage clinic in northern<br />
Italy mid March where spring maked an<br />
early entry. Francesca Pasini who is a loyal<br />
auction customer was the initiator. In addition<br />
to her profession as a dentist she is very<br />
passionate about horses. She bought a charming<br />
black mare by Desperados/Metternich<br />
on the winter auction in 2012 that successfully<br />
competes in dressage in Italy. Contrary<br />
to the sport of jumping dressage is viewed as<br />
a “side business” in Italy. Accordingly only a<br />
few, very ambitious and interested participants<br />
took the opportunity to ride in the clinic.<br />
Next on the agenda was an important visit to<br />
a wonderful client called Adriana Foti who is<br />
building a luxurious riding-facility near Milan.<br />
Adriana Foti has bought a total of 16 Hanoverians<br />
including expensive foals and broodmares<br />
as well as several Elite Auction horses<br />
over the past years. She presented every horse<br />
with great pride and asked for help in planning<br />
her breeding program. Customer<br />
Arctic training<br />
He who believes that people in Finland hibernate<br />
because of arctic temperatures is broadly<br />
mistaken. The Hanoverian Club Finland offers<br />
its members, breeders, buyers and other<br />
interested equestrians the opportunity to<br />
work with Steffen Werner from the Hanoverian<br />
Association multiple times per year. The<br />
riders try to reach and confirm their training<br />
goals during these training weekends.<br />
Twenty riders took the opportunity to travel<br />
to the facility of Sanna Raitikainnen in March.<br />
It is about 50 kilometers north of Helsinki.12<br />
horses were brought to be prepared for freejumping,<br />
too. Equine enthusiasts did not mind<br />
traveling 150 kilometers to participate in this<br />
event; it was organized in an indoor arena<br />
with guest box stalls and a hotel nearby.<br />
advisor Jeanine Pagel visited clients and held<br />
a small dressage clinic in northern Italy mid<br />
March where spring maked an early entry.<br />
Francesca Pasini who is a loyal auction customer<br />
was the initiator. In addition to her profession<br />
as a dentist she is very passionate<br />
about horses. She bought a charming black<br />
mare by Desperados/Metternich on the winter<br />
auction in 2012 that successfully competes<br />
in dressage in Italy. Contrary to the sport<br />
of jumping dressage is viewed as a “side<br />
business” in Italy. Accordingly only a few,<br />
very ambitious and interested participants<br />
took the opportunity to ride in the clinic.<br />
Next on the agenda was an important visit to<br />
a wonderful client called Adriana Foti who is<br />
building a luxurious riding-facility near Milan.<br />
Adriana Foti has bought a total of 16 Hanoverians<br />
including expensive foals and broodmares<br />
as well as several Elite Auction horses<br />
over the past years. She presented every horse<br />
with great pride and asked for help in planning<br />
her breeding program.<br />
<br />
Jeanine Pagel<br />
The quality of the participating horses was<br />
good overall; some were trained to M-level in<br />
dressage, others were competing in young<br />
horse jumper classes. Pia Karhu who is the<br />
President of the Club Finland and Sanna Raitikainnen<br />
have organized this event for the<br />
seventh time now. The number of participants<br />
did not suffer because of temperatures<br />
of minus 23 degrees Celsius; that speaks for<br />
itself.<br />
The clinic centreed around an intense<br />
training’s program in dressage and jumping<br />
with a supplementary training’s plan to prepare<br />
for the outdoor show season. The advice<br />
on a regular basis is much appreciated. Several<br />
groups are planning a visit to one of<br />
Verden’s auctions. Steffen Werner