THE HANOVERIAN
THE HANOVERIAN
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Auction<br />
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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