2004 Vechta Spring
Elite Auction
Destination P.S.I.
April 25, 2004
The last horse in the auction was catalog number 45, Destination, a beautiful bay mare with a great attitude. Her mind is mellow, relaxed but with enough personality and character to be a great show horse. Her movements are strong, rhytmical. She's not the typical modern sport horse brimming with elasticity, electricity and refinement, but she is a very powerful mover, groundcovering with much cadence.
Destination's rider Johannes Westendarp said that this mare was his personal favourite in the auction and Ines added that she reminded him of the top selling auction mare Weltspitze (Weltmeyer x Mozart), with whom Johannes won the Bundeschampionate.
Destination (Don Gregory x Rubinstein x Welt As) was destined to be a price highlight in the collection. The bidding went all the way up to 70,000 euro before the hammer struck. Her new owner, Ullrich Kasselmann of Performance Sales International. That means that, most likely, we will be seeing this international calibre horse back in the auction ring in December 2004 at the P.S.I. auction in Ankum.
While P.S.I. made an excellent purchase in Destination, their acquisition of the chestnut gelding Logarithmus seemed not very logical. The Londonderry x Weltmeyer x Kant offspring was a very nice riding horse for an amateur, but did not show P.S.I. top class potential, at least not at the auction. Maybe the P.S.I augurs had foretold them to go for this one? Logarithmus sold for 21,000 euro to Ulli Kasselmann.
Third P.S.I purchase was the black colt Weisse Wolke, a Laurentio x Caprimond x Vollkorn xx foal. This interestingly bred colt was sold for 5,000 euro.
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