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What's
Happening in the Dressage World?
October 2003
It's like Germany is getting rid of all their stallions.
An incredible amount of sires has crossed the Atlantic
to breed in the United States. Some of them are leased,
most of them have been sold. Of course the news that
the Hanoverian Welcome (World Cup x
Grande) will be at GW Ranch for at least a year was
a big scoop. Also, Klatte sold his two top stars Ruiz
Soler (to a hunter rider named Stewart, though
not Don Stewart of Ocala, FL) and Granulit
to South Africa.
 More
stallions have been relocated to the North American
continent. Interesting to know is that Johann Hinnemann's
Westfalian stallion Diamo is currently
in California. The 12-year old chestnut licensed
Diamo (by Diamantino out of Ferrari by Feuerfunke) was
owned by Ari van Baalen and Johan Hinnemann and bred
for a couple of years at the Westfalian State Stud before
being used as a competition horse. Dutch riders Nathalie
Smeets and Marlies van Baalen briefly trained and competed
the chestnut. Diamo has been gelded in the summer.
The Westfalian show jumping sire Pablo
has also found a new home in the U.S.
The 1988 born bay stallion was Reserve Champion in his
Stallion Performance Test with 136.22 points. Pablo
(Pilot out of Monic (by Matrox) is bred by Aloys Lohre
from Steinheim, Germany, owned by Anton Bockmann and
was standing in Sweden at Per Pileryd's station. Pablo
has several licensed sons: Pablos Glück, Pocahontas,
Presley, Pablo Picasso, Prinz Pablo and standing in
the U.S. are Pablito and Papparazzo.
 Belgian
Stallion Station Van de Helle, known for its sires Pavarotti
van de Helle and Caesar van de Helle, has sold
its delightful Weltstein van de Helle.
Weltstein was a Hanoverian by Weltmeyer out of Ira (by
Imperator) and was bred by Mr. Immoor. Van de Helle
licensed the bay with the SBS studbook and was briefly
competed by Vicky Smits. Weltstein has been sold to
a cousin of the owner of the Van de Helle station and
has been gelded.
Our Danish connection let us know that the Danish
Equestrian Federation (DRF) is suing Lone Jorgenssen
for having sold FBW Kennedy. Lone had a contract with
the DRF to compete Kennedy at least until after the
Olympics. Jorgenssen received a large sum of money from
"Team Denmark" to keep Kennedy for the Danish
Dressage Team. As she sold her horse, Jorgenssen
is being sued. She will have to reimburse 275.000
Danish Kroner (37,000 Euro) which had been paid to her
for Kennedy.
 More
people arguing: Elke von Lingelsheim and Monica
Theodorescu have parted in disagreement with
each other. Von Lingelsheim, who is the owner of the
Trakehner mare Renaissance Fleur, feels she has been
misinformed about Fleur's injury. If she had known that
the fracture was so severe (the mare will never return
to competition and is supposedly still in pain nine
months after the injury), she would have decided to
put her down. The Theodorescu's claims that the breeder
kept her alive to make money with her. So, there has
been going on a lot of bad talk between these two persons,
who are both at heart the biggest horse lovers one can
imagine. The full story on this dispute (with sources)
is featured in this month's St Georg magazine.
Remember Isabell Werth's wonderful Bundeschampionate
Champion (1996 - 5-year olds) mare Ferrara S?
Werth purchased the bay mare by Florestan I from Dr.
Uwe Schulten Baumer. Ferrara was trained and competed
at Intermediaire I level (in 1999) but she was retired
from competition due to an injury. Since then, the mare
has switched careers: she's now a brood mare.
Ferrari S gave birth to a Breitling W (Bismarck x Maat
I) colt this year and has been bred again to this stallion,
who is being ridden by her trainer Wolfram Wittig. Werth
already tried to link Ferrara to Donnerhall but that
didn't work.
Images by Arnd
Bronkhorst and Dirk
Caremans
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