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American
Dressage News
Graf
George ends sport career
For Gunther Seidel Rome was the last international
competition with his mount Graf George. The sixteen
year old Hanoverian gelding (by Graphit x More Magic
xx) ran its first Olympic Games in 1992 under Michael
Poulin. The combination then got awarded with the
bronze team medal. Graf george will stay with his owner
and be conditioned by them as long as he pleases. He
will no longer be put into the show circuit.
Peron ends
sport career
Peron, probably the most famous Trakehner stallion
besides Abdullah, has ended his sport career. After
his latest performance at the CDI
Donaueschingen, owner Dr Carole Meyer-Webster has
decided to stop showing this beautiful bay stallion
and focus him on his breeding duty.
Peron's biggest achievement was definitely the bronze
team medal at the 1996 Olympic Games of Atlanta. Rider
Michelle Gibson made a wonderful combination with this
German Trakehner but only few months after the Olympics
Dr Meyer-Webster transported the stallion back home
to Germany. He was further trained by Rudolf Zeilinger,
who showed him at the 1997 CHIO Aachen. Zeilinger's
student Ann Kathrin-Ehlen took over the reins and showed
him through 1998, establishing decent scores between
67% and 70%.
Peron is now up for stud in the South German breeding
farm: Hofgut Albfuhren. Peron is a purebred German Trakehner
by Mahagoni out of Peru II (by Coktail)
To view more pictures of Peron go the Phelpsphoto
Database and fill in "Peron" in the Search by Horse
section
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