Hanoverian Breeding News
The Hanoverian Society Takes New Directions
April 11, 2008
113 voting delegates and various guests followed the
Delegate's Conference of the Hanoverian Society's on April 2, 2008. The
awards were the first item on the agenda. This year, Heinz Katt from
Stade was awarded the Fritz-von-der-Decken-Prize as best stallion
raiser. Ingo Rosenberg from Groß Banratz was honoured with the
Freiherr-von-Stenglin-Prize. He is the breeder of the stallion Belafonte
(by Belissimo M x Wendekreis - pictured) who won the 11-months Stallion Performance Test for state stud
stallions.
In his annual report, combined with a report about "Future focus in
lobby and breeding work of the Hanoverian Society", executive director
and breeding manager Dr. Werner Schade presented those subjects that
were intensively discussed by internal boards before. It is the
Hanoverian Society's aim to increase not only the importance of the
Stallion Licensing, but of the whole selection system for stallions.
There will be no champion stallion among the premium stallions at future
stallion licensing events. The premium stallions will be nominated on
the day of the Stallion Market, prior to the auction. The conference
accepted this decision with applause.
Another aim is to increase the importance of mares for the breeding
progress, and in this respect, Dr. Schade presented the newly
inaugurated identification system for mare lines.
The presentation of the annual statement 2007 revealed that the last
auction year was the most successful one: sales with the record sum of
approx. 22 million Euro for the exhibitors and an export statistics with
now 32 different countries.
And at the end, by unanimous decision, three well deserved persons were
appointed as honorary members: the former director of the Celle
National State Stud, Dr. Burchard Bade, the outgoing auction manager
Rainer Kiel and Fritz Floto who has done an excellent job for the
Hanoverian breed in North America. Under standing ovation, Dr. Bade and
Rainer Kiel were awarded the Badge of Honour of the Hanoverian Society.
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