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German
Dressage News
Klaus Balkenhol's Goldstern Passed Away
July 25, 2003
 Klaus
Balkenhol's Champion horse Goldstern has passed away.
The 22-year old Westfalian gelding Goldstern suffered
a severe colic attack and had to be humanly put down.
The last month of his life "Goldi" had already
dealt with several light colic attacks. "We agreed
with our vet, that Goldi wouldn't be put back on his
feet at any price. He didn't deserve to suffer,"
Judith Balkenhol said. Goldstern was operated on but
when it became clear that five meters of the small intestine
had died, Goldstern was put down.
Golstern (by Weinberg) was bred by Willi Altemeier
from Delbruck, Germany, and was purchased by the Police
Garde of Dusseldorf for 3,500 €. Goldstern became
the steady partner of Balkenhol in the police force,
succeeding Balkenhol's Rabauke.
Balkenhol and Goldstern won team gold at the Olympic
Games in 1992 and 1996 and individual Bronze at the
1992 Olympics of Barcelona. At the 1994 World Equestrian
Games in The Hague, the pair claimed team gold and individual
silver in the kur. Furthermore, they went on to win
team gold at the 1993 and 1995 European Championships,
and five times the German national dressage title. Goldstern
was retired in 1997 and lived in Rosendahl at Balkenhol's
private stable, where he had the nicest stable overlooking
Klaus' terrace. "He will be greatly missed,"
Klaus said.
Image copyrighted: Arnd
Bronkhorst
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