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2004 P.S.I. Auction
Tough Bidding Duels for Louisiana and Flor
de Selva
 The third and fourth highest prices dressage horses
at the PSI auction were sold after very tough bidding
duels.
The Baden Wurttemberger mare Louisiana was one of
my favorite horses on the DVD. The bay Lord Sinclair
x Romino offspring showed incredible uphill and engaged
gaits on the DVD and looked like a real star for the
future. Apparently I was not the only one who shared
that opinion, because Louisiana sold for 420,000 euro
after a long bidding match.
The mare, who was very
unfocused and frisky during her auction ride, had
been purchased by a long time PSI client from France.
The horse will go into training with Philippe van
den Berghe.
A more exciting, yet emotional bidding contest went
on between American Tim Dutta and Dutch Peter van der
Zwan for the Westfalian Flor de Selva, a Florestan
x Bormio
xx offspring. Susan Dutta tried out Flor in the morning
and got the final positive consent of her trainer
Lars Petersen to buy this horse. When Flor entered
the ring, Tim was sitting ready with a piece of paper
to sign to Uwe Heckmann.
 The
bidding went fine, but when the amount passed 200,000
euro there were only
two people left raising their hands for this horse.
As Heckmann talks German when he auctions the horses,
Tim and Susan were not immediately aware who they
were bidding against. When Heckmann called out it was
Peter
van der Zwan who was raising the price, it was a
lost match. With a huge budget bidding against an unlimited
one, it was outrageous and unrational for
the
Dutta's to continue going for the horse. Flor de
Selva was sold for 350,000 euro to Peter van der
Zwan
in The Netherlands. Susan was very disappointed,
of course, as she had set her mind and heart on this
new horse and was to go home empty handed. Nevertheless,
Tim was wise to stop the bidding because it could have
gone
forever and he would have been able to buy a world
class Prix St Georges horse for to same amount of money.
Talk about flaming emotions and huge deception all
within three minutes.
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and Photos copyrighted Astrid Appels/Eurodressage
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