THE HANOVERIAN

Auction
Grande-Prize
Perigueux – A fighter spirit with a story-book career
Grande-Prize holder Perigueux.
Perigueux was born on the farm of breeder Dr.
Karl-Otto Jacobs in Bierbergen in 2002 as the first
foal of St. Pr. mare Sensation by Stakkato/Akzent II
(breeder: Hartmut Hopmann, Wittingen). He was
raised in Hunnesrück on the farm for raising Hanoverian
stallion prospects. The chestnut went to the
stallion testing station in Adelheidsdorf as a twoand-a-half-year
old. His special talent for jumping
was evident even then. He finished the part index
jumping with 131,93 points, 2 nd place. This result
combined with his jumping style roused athletic
desires. His licensing in Verden in February 2006
prescribed a career as a breeding stallion at the
State Stud Celle. Perigueux enjoyed a great popularity
with the breeders from the beginning on,
which still continues for obvious reasons.
Hauptsattelmeister Joachim Winter from the State
Stud Celle was responsible for training the wiry
chestnut. Perigueux and he collected numerous
ribbons in foundation classes up to a fifth place in
Hanover’s Jumper Horse Championships in 2007
in Verden. Joachim Winter trained Perigueux up to
M-level. Looking back he says the following about
the stallion, “He was brave and careful even as a
young horse. He has always tried to avoid any contact
with poles.” He has kept these attributes until
today. Perigueux took the next step on his career
ladder after changing his rider. He changed barns
in the fall of 2009. He celebrated his first successes
at S-level with rider Eva Bitter in February 2010.
She had already celebrated phenomenal successes
with Perigueux’s dam-sire Stakkato. It truly was a
super-smooth transition! The victory in the Final of
the Youngster Cup 2010 in Munich was the preliminary
highlight. A bronze medal at the German
Championships for female jumper riders followed
in Balve the following year and placements in international
S****-level classes in Dortmund,
Münster and Paderborn followed 2012. Eva Bitter
is foremost impressed with Perigueux’s performance
willingness, “Perigueux lives for of his attitude.
He tries to do the right thing every day. A
super pleasant horse! Honest and well-behaved
but alert when it counts.”
Perigueux turned ten years of age in 2012; his oldest
descendants are now five-years old. They already
show their jumping talent. To name just a
few: There is the finalist in the Bundeschampionate
and the latter auction participant in Verden called
Perigueuxs As and Penta who is also a former auction
horse that was a finalist at the World Championships
for young jumper horses in Lanaken under
rider Ricardo Jurado from Spain.
2013 started out with a bang! Penelope PJ won
the free-jumping competition for four-year olds in
Verden and sold on Verden’s 128 th elite auction as
a member of the jumper collection. Perigueux’s descendants
attract positive attention especially on
auctions and that with good reason: “All the descendants
we haveoffered through Verden’s auction
program have displayed careful and powerful
jumping ability. They use their bodies well while
jumping,” so auction manager Jörg-Wilhelm
Wegener. “They are real jumpers.”
The results of the breed value estimation corroborate
this statement. An integrated FN-breed value
jumping of 167 that is based on his own performance
and the performance of his offspring catapults
Perigueux into third position in Germany. He
was awarded the Grande-Prize in hope that this
excellent sire may lastingly stamp the Hanoverian
breed. Perigueux warrants these hopes. •
Manfred Schäfer (left) and Dr. Werner Schade present
the Plate Award to Dr. Karl-Otto Jacobs. Photos: Ernst
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