2004 A Visit at Mathieu Beckmann's

Arrival at Beckmann's

It took some navigation to find Hengsthaltung Beckmann. It was easy to get into Wettringen, but when we were in the city center we got a bit lost. Thomas, who's a Danish native and speaks English with me, had taken down directions in German over the phone but couldn't really decode a certain word. We were focusing on "Köchenstudio" (we thought it was a kitchen store), but soon it turned out to be Kuchen Huske, which was a trailer business next to Beckmann.

A very nice facility partly new, partly old/historic lay hid behind some pine trees just out of the city center of Wettringen. When we arrived there a man was merrily driving around on a Schaeffer tractor, cleaning the premises. The owner of the station, Mathieu Beckmann came out and we quickly shook hands.

We were led into the stables, where a girl was tacking up a 3-year old Sandro Hit x Raphael. We piqued into the barn, also noticed several cows chewing on some hay in a different building, and were then g asked to come into Beckmann's office, which was a clinically clean room smelling a bit like cow.

Beckmann showed us a video tape of Laudabilis and his offspring at the recent stallion show in Munster-Handorf. The offspring on the tape which extremely leggy and showed a wonderful moving mechanism. By the time we had seen the tape, we were brought back to the stables where the trainer of the barn, Elisabeth Niehues-Rembeck, was grooming Laudabilis.

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