2004 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing

Florencio, 2004 Hauptpremium Stallion

The 5-year old stallions qualified to win the Hauptpremium title were Connection (Carentino x Calvados), Donnerball (Donnerhall x Alabaster), Farewell III (Fidermark x Rosenkavalier), Royal Hit (Royal Dance x Ramino), Stedinger (Sandro Hit x Landadel) and Florencio (Florestan x Weltmeyer).

The Oldenburg Hauptpremium title is awarded to stallions approved for the Oldenburg Verband with the best conformation and gaits and the best quality offspring on the ground in the Oldenburg area. From the start it was sure that it would be a close call between the 2002 Licensing Champion Stedinger and the 2004 World Young Horse Champion Florencio.

The group of Hauptpremium stars were first presented under saddle. Dutch Hans Peter Minderhoud has some difficulties controlling his very frisky Florencio who was skipping and hopping around the arena, but whose supple gaits just beamed off this horse. The black Stedinger was presented by Martin Stamkotter. In training with Johan Hinnemann, Stedinger was not focused on his job in the ring and his rider Stamkotter was hardly able to get the horse through the neck and to make him move with swing in his back. Stamkotter sat crooked on the horse while looking down. Pity that the combination was not performing at its best, because Stedinger is definitely a quality horse.

The Oldenburg Stallion Licensing Committee chose the Westfalian bred Florencio as the winner of the the Hauptpremium title. Florencio's crop of foals in Oldenburg has been of excellent quality and many of the Florencio babies caught the top price at the Vechta foal auctions. This however, can be attributed to the fact that Florencio is the hype horse of the moment since he won the 2004 World Champion's title.

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