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Danish Warmblood News
2004 Danish Warmblood Licensing in Herning - Page 2
March 12, 2004
Reported by our correspondent Thomas Bach Jensen.
 What really attracts the attention of the audience in Herning each year is
the premium ring of 3 year old stallions and the question which colt will be this year's
champion. Two of the dressage premiums shone throughout the weekend :
Virkelyst Leredo and Rosentanz. They are both highly moderne, elegant and
refined types with excellent conformation and outstanding movements.
The
Danish bred and Blue Hors owned Leandro son Virkelyst Leredo took the title
as young dressage champion. He is very modern in type with an excellent top
line and beautiful neck. Leredo moves with lots of knee and action from
behind with the trot as his highlight. It was a tough decision for the licensing commission to crown Leredo as Champion as his closest competitor, the Hanoverian
Rosentanz, bought at auction in Verden by Lone Boegh Henriksen, showed himself better and
better at each presentation. He was described as a highly refined and
beautiful stallion with three excellent basic gaits and not least four very
correct and sound legs which is very appreciated in Danish Warmblood. The
champion stallion is presently doing his 30 days test in Denmark, whereas
Rosentanz, who is also approved for Hanoverian and Oldenburg breeding, will
do his performance test in Germany later this season.
 Blue Hors Dressage repeated their success at the ranking of the 4 year old
stallions where Blue Hors Romanov (bred by Harli Seifert and a full brother
to Rubin Royal) convincingly took the champion title as best dressage
stallion. Showing under Andreas Helgstrand, Romanov
demonstrated outstanding movements and when trotting through the arena he
makes you float to Oldenburg, reminiscing his elder brother Rubin Royal
who is known to be a spectacular trotter. However, Romanov also shows a canter
of very high quality.
Last year's 3-year old champion De Noir, who covered more than 400 mares in
Denmark last season, could not keep up with his previous success. The
stallion has not developed much since last year and did not show as well
under his rider as one could have wished.
In the ring of 5-year old and older stallions the German Trakehner son of
Buddenbrock, Connery, took the champion title. He is an elegant stallion
with three high quality basic gaits of which the canter is very strong. Former
champion in Herning, Depardieu by De Niro, has developed into a rather heavy
horse and does not live 100% up to the standards of Danish Warmblood who
wishes to breed horses that are more refined than the average of horses bred
in Hanoverian and Oldenburg associations. Head of grading committee Poul
Graugaard explains that it is a fact that Danish stallions are slightly
taller than the ones in the German breeding societies, but "we go for the
refined type," he said.
by Thomas Bach Jensen
Related Links
Official Press Release: 2004 DWB Stallion Licensing in Herning
Skarsoe and Munchhausen Make Extraordinary Grand Prix Debut in Herning - Scores
Danish Warmblood Society - official website
A Tour through Niedersachsen with Thomas Bach Jensen
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