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2005
Bundeschampionate
Laudabilis, Key Word in Warendorf
 Two years ago in the winter of 2003, your
Eurodressage editor and her horse show friend Thomas
Bach Jensen
drove
in
dreary, cold weather to Wettringen, Germany, to check
out this stallion that had heard of word of mouth.
A young Hanoverian by Lauries Crusador xx x Warkant;
bloodlines that aroused our interest straight away.
Mathieu Beckmann
welcomed
us at his farm and Elisabeth Nieheus-Rembeck trained
the then 3,5 year old Laudabilis in the indoor school.
We were very impressed about the then unknown stallion,
who
had only bred to some mediocre mares.
Two years later, Thomas and I take a bit of pride
in the fact that we spotted Laudabilis' talent as a
sire and sport horse so early in his career, as the
bay made his big national break through this year.
 In 2004 he got to breed to better quality mare, with
the
result
that the 2005 crop of Laudabilis' foals are of outstanding
quality (two price highlights at the Munster Elite
Auction). He also made a successful debut to the
show ring under Oliver Oelrich, qualifying for Warendorf
early in the 2005 show season.
At the Bundeschampionate he finished third in round
one and maintained that bronze medal position in the
Finals
on Saturday. Laudabilis
entered the ring quite tense and unfocused He
was neighing and his lower lip trembled, but he kept
a good rhythm in trot and was still on the job though
he looked around. His walk showed good overtrack, his
canter was well regulated, clear in rhythm and ground
covering with excellent potential for collection. The
horse was not as supple on the left hand as he was
on the right.
 Laudabilis
probably looked the greenest of all 5-year olds in
the Finals, but he had the
most potential of them all. This horse has an outstanding
conformation, long legs and the frame to be an FEI
caliber horse. If he had been a bit less tense in
the beginning of the ride and showed some more suppleness
on the left hand, this horse could easily have won
the title. "It's only his fourth show, we want to
take it easy," Beckmann said. We surely hope that this
talent gets the time to blossom later in his career!
One thing is certain, every where you walked at the
DOKR equestrian centre, "Laudabilis" was the buzz word
in the conversations.
Text
and Photos copyrighted Astrid Appels/Eurodressage
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