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German
Dressage News
Michael Klimke's White Foot Sold to Yoshitaka Serimachi
April 24, 2003
 Michael
Klimke's most successful Grand Prix horse, the licensed
Hanoverian stallion White Foot (by World Cup III x Golfstrom
I) has been sold to the Japanese dressage rider Yoshitaka
Serimachi of the Japanese Crane Riding Club. Although
Serimachi already has a large collection of top Grand
Prix horses, including Alvaro, Intelleto and
his current favourite Rousseau, White Foot is a welcome
addition with the Olympics coming up.
White Foot was sold at the 1993 Verden Elite Auction
for a then top price of 107,000 DM. White Foot disappeared
into a training barn in Germany, only to later appear
as Prix St Georges horse under Michael Klimke. White
Foot had then already switched owners three times. His
German discoverer sold the chestnut to Switzerland,
where he was then sold to the Japanese Kazuko Oda, who
also owned Klimke's mount Raikito. Klimke quickly brought
the stallion to Grand Prix and produced his best successes
ever in his international career since his European
Young Rider Champion's title.
Klimke has trained the Japanese dressage team prior
to the Olympics in Barcelona and Atlanta, and is regularly
tutoring Japanese dressage riders, including Serimachi.
Serimachi made his first debut aboard White Foot at
the CDI Stadl Paura in Austria. The pair finished 44th
in the Grand Prix with 61.29%.
Image copyrighted: Dirk
Caremans
Related Links
Scores: CDI
Stadl Paura 2003
Michael Klimke and White
Foot in 2001 German B-Team
Dressagedaily: Michael
Klimke - Keeping the Flame Alive
Horsemagazine: Klimke
Keeping the Flame Alive
Nector
van het Carlshof in Training with Michael Klimke
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