2004 Vechta Spring Elite Auction

How Champagne Turns into Red Wine

April 24, 2004

What are the benefits of having a table during the auction: free water, free cookies, excellent view on the horses, excellent view on Uwe Heckmann, you're in the middle of all the excitement and more importantly, free champagne -- well not exactly free as you pay for the table of course. Nevertheless it's fun to sit at a table and it's just a great experience

However, watch out for the dangers of "the table." The free champagne flows too easily and when you are a bit light in the head you start to lust for being a horse. Your hands move more freely and you feel like participating in the auction by raising your hand, just for fun.

But what happens when you raise your hand at the wrong moment? That's what happened with my dear friend Marne Martin.. She can tell you everything about how champagne turns into red whine. At the wrong moment, she felt like having some action and put her hand in the ear. Uwe Heckmann, who sometimes can be a sly predator, knew he had found a prey and knocked down the hammer before you were even able to blink. Marne just bought a horse, named Roter Bordeaux (red bordeaux). So let me tell you, that's how champagne turns into red wine. It's no alchemy!

Roter Bordeaux is a three-year old Oldenburg stallion by Rubinstein x Argentinus and has three lovely gaits. He has a great temperament, is calm and relaxed, nothing can bite him, and he is also excellent over fences (as we witnessed him jumping during the 2003 Oldenburg stallion licensing). So Marne's maiden voyage to the Vechta Elite Auction has been full of fortunate surprizes.

Marne does not regret purchasing Roter Bordeaux. He's a very versatile horse that she got for a cheap cheap price. "I'm going to have him gelded right away, because he's getting too big and cresty, and then I will leave him in training with Johannes Westendarp for a couple of months," Marne said. Hopefully, in half a year Roter Bordeaux will be called Chateau Margaux?

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