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2004 Vorwerk Stallion Show
The Schockemöhle Experience
 From Menslage we headed to Steinfeld/Mühlen to
go to Reitsport Schockemohle. It's a tack shop which
you can compare to Harrod's in London. It is so beautiful,
so pricy and so much fun to hang around in. I ended
up buying my "trillionst" saddle pad,
and as I am in my "beige-period" I
bought a white pad with a beige and gold brim. It matches
perfectly
with
my
horse's beige halter, beige polo wraps, and burberry
beige stall blanket. Thomas confessed he's in a green
period and ended up being a kakhi halter, rope, saddle
pad and polo wraps. We're crazy!
From Reitsport Schockemöhle to Stallion Station
Schockemöhle is one kilometer (2 minute drive).
Schockemöhle's barn is HUGE. You can get lost
there without a problem and finding your horse there
is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I had been
at the barn in Muhlen before, during the 2003 Oldenburg
Stallion Licensing to look at the Sandro Hit colt Debra
Wiedmaier had bought at the auction. I remember we
had to walk almost ten minutes just to find the colt.
When we drove up to the premises some grooms saw us
approach, but did not come out to meet us, so we just
started wandering around in the corridors with no-one
caring for what we were actually doing. I could have
easily stepped into the box of Balou de Rouet, Come
On or whatever legendary show jumping sire
and started grooming him or so. Nobody would have noticed.
But we were not there for the show jumping stallions,
we wanted to see the wonderful dressage studs. When
we finally found the dressage corridor, we bumped from
one super star into the other: Sandro Hit, Don Primero
(who looked old), Sunny Boy, Royal Hit. I was curious
for Sir Donnerhall and Don Kennedy, the youngsters
I saw at the Licensing in November. They had definitely
matured and were more muscled.
 It was stallions galore in that corridor, but what
surprised me the most (and Thomas concurs with me)
was that all these million dollar making studs are
being kept in dark, dusty stalls. Their stalls are
clean and well filled with straw, but the hall ways
are filthy and unswept and the horses look ungroomed
and
dirty.
A groom came over to put Sandro Hit on the thread
mill. She threw his blankets off, didn't pick his
hooves and just put him on a walker machine, which
was more
a rotating band of manure than an exercise machine.
But Sandro Hit didn't care. He was just preparing
himself for an exciting 2004 breeding season as you
can see
pictured.
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