What to do the morning after an auction? There is no pill for that. You miss the adrenaline, the people meeting, the wonderful horses. So we decided to take a look at the future. Clemens and Andrea von Merveldt's Gut Füchtel is only a few steps away from the hotel and we wanted to check out their foals and youngstock.
The Von Merveldt's live on a wonderful historic farm which is called a "Wasseruburg," a water castle. Around 1200, through consolidation of several farming communities, the Füchtelmann farm of the Graf von Vechta (Count of Vechta) was established. In 1252 it went over to the Bishop of Münster, later it was traded to the Graf (Count) von Oldenburg-Neubruchhausen and in 1331 it was turned over to the Elmendorff family in Elmendorf. This family founded Gut Füchtel and built a castle. In 1908 the castle came in hands of Graf von Merveldt and Clemens and Andrea have made Gut Füchtel into a thriving horse and livestock farm.
This year Clemens and Andrea expected foals by such sires as Rosario, Rubioso N, Florencio, Depardieau. It was a beautiful day today, sunny and spring was in the air. Marne, her husband Michael and I witnessed how the Von Merveldt's let out their beautiful foals in the lush fields, before we headed back home to Holland and Belgium.
The foals in the pictures are by Stedinger (black colt), Florencio (chestnut filly) and Depardieau (greyish colt).
This first black colt is a Stedinger colt owned by Holly Simensen.
What to do the morning after an auction? There is no pill for that. You miss the adrenaline, the people meeting, the wonderful horses. So we decided to take a look at the future. Clemens and Andrea von Merveldt's Gut Füchtel is only a few steps away from the hotel and we wanted to check out their foals and youngstock. 
This year Clemens and Andrea expected foals by such sires as Rosario, Rubioso N, Florencio, Depardieau. It was a beautiful day today, sunny and spring was in the air. Marne, her husband Michael and I witnessed how the Von Merveldt's let out their beautiful foals in the lush fields, before we headed back home to Holland and Belgium. 
