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KWPN Foundation Stallion Aktion Passed Away
May 15, 2003
 The
Grand Prix Dressage stallion Aktion has passed away
at the age of 21. World famous as the steady partner
of one of the first Kur to Music star riders, the Hungarian
Gyulla Dallos, Aktion has been the most successful KWPN
breeding stallion in the competition ring, besides Olympic
Ferro. Known in the arena as Babolna Aktion, the dapple
gray stallion won bronze medal in the kur at the 1993
European Dressage Championships in Lipica, Slovenia.
At the 1994 World Equestrian Games, Aktion and Dallos
finished seventh. Aktion won multiple World Cup Qualifiers
and has over 100 Grand Prix victories on his list of
achievements.
Chris Hector of the Horse Magazine wrote about Aktion:
"Aktion was just amazing at the World Championships
in 1994 at The Hague and again at the Atlanta Olympics
in 1996, under Hungarian rider, Gyulla Dallos. Aktion
brough a new meaning to piaffe and passage."
Aktion was born in 1982 and was by Pion out of an Akteur
dam. At the age of 17, Aktion was proclaimed Keur Preferent
Stallion at the 1999 KWPN Stallion Licensing. 1999 was
hist last year of competition before he retired and
devoted the rest of his life to breeding.
Partial Source: Horse-Gate
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