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July 2009
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July 2009

Hello everyone,

Exciting news just in from Germany  –  our beautiful 2yo Herzensdieb/Rotspon/Matcho filly was placed 3rd at the regional Hanoverian mare show in Elmlohe, North Germany.  There were 37 two year old fillies in the class and Herzensdieb progeny dominated the field taking 1st, 3rd and 6th places from his first crop for foals.  The highest placed  Dancier filly, from his first crop, was in 4th position.  Our filly would have been invited to the main Hanoverian Mare Show in July but there will not be a 2yo filly class this year, due to a program change, so our filly will now be turned out for the summer.   Early next year she will be broken in and prepared for her mare performance test.    (Attached photos at 3 weeks (March 2007) the day we purchased her and in May 2009 as a 2yo)

Hengststation Meyer stallion’s progeny won 4 out of the 6 mare classes on the day. 

We thank the Meyer family and all their staff (including Hanke Ostermann who worked for us in Australia in 2006/7) for their help in preparing our filly for this show.  We purchased this filly in 2007 as a 3 week old foal with the intention of bringing her and 3 other fillies out to Australia to sell.  Our plans were changed due to the EI and the fillies have remained in Germany.

Regards Jane

 
May 2009
 

The train trip from Prague to Salzburg is pretty but seems to take forever.  It is hard to understand why a trip takes 4 hours going north and 6 & ½ hours going south!  I think the Czech railway system has yet to be imbued with the Austro-Germanic efficiency of its neighbours.

Prague is a beautiful city that should be visited by everyone.  However, it is no place to be looking for horses.  That part of our trip began 2 weeks ago when we landed in Hamburg and headed straight to the Hengststation Meyer in Dorum, about 1 & ½ hours north.  Here we were graciously entertained by Suzanne and Jens despite their very busy breeding-season schedule.  Semen collections start at 7 am every morning with all stallions being brought, in turn, to visit the “phantom”.  For the stallions it is then time for breakfast while the stud staff gets busy with the semen handling, packing, and dispatch.  Every day chilled semen from the 6 stallions is sent all over Germany and to Denmark, Sweden, France, Holland, and England.

Foal inspections with Jens are always the highlight of a visit to Dorum.  Jens, ever the raconteur, is most at home talking to the breeder farmers about their new foals and their breeding plans for the coming season.  Jens and Hanke Ostermann (remember Hanke who worked for us in 2006) personally inspect as many foals by their stallions as is possible before the breeding season ends.  This gives them a chance to assess the quality of foals from their stallions and to promote their newest stallions to the breeders.  Sometimes there is also the occasional beer or schnapps involved to seal a deal or simply to ward off the cold.

We spent 3 days with the Meyers and this gave us ample opportunity to evaluate the progress of all their stallions.  After breakfast the work schedule for the stallions begins.  All the senior stallions are ridden daily by Stephan while the youngsters are ridden only 2 to 3 times a week.  Stephan is the rider we all wanted to be – long legs, a beautiful seat, and a firm but patient approach to each horse’s education.  They seem putty in his hands for someone so young.

It is always exciting to see what is new and will be available for the next breeding season.  Lord Laurie (Lord Loxley x Lauries Crusader) is a majestic black stallion with white points who has matured enormously since his licensing last year.  He is now 170 cm tall, very tractable, and moves beautifully in all 3 paces.  He has a super temperament and is a lovely refined type from his Thoroughbred background and will definitely be on our list of horses to use.  He was bred by Lord Loxley’s breeder and we enjoyed visiting Hanke and Mathilde Wrede again to see Lord Laurie’s mother.

Ponies are not the central focus of the Meyer’s activities but in the past their lovely pony stallion Mandingo has produced some exquisite foals.  They are now standing a stunning new palomino pony stallion, Gold of Capri, for their friend Helen Langenhahnenberg.  This stylish little package is 142 cm and will be ideal for breeding ponies in Australia with mares up to full height (145 cm).  He has beautiful conformation, the colour is arresting, and he will be campaigned by Helen to best advantage.  Look for him at Warendorf next year.

Hampton, Herzensdieb, and Damsey are all continuing to improve.  Damsey is now performing well at M-level in dressage and still has a walk “to die for”.   Herzensdieb is trying to catch up on lost time.  His preparation has been interrupted by illness a couple of times but he is now back on track and working very well.  Hampton continues to display his rideability inherited from the R-line and is very handsome.  The stable favourite, Cashman, is now 20 years old and doesn’t look a day over 12.  He is as fit as a trout and participates enthusiastically in his daily activities.

The last day of our visit was spent helping with Falsterbo as he competed at Wildeshausen.  He is a tremendously athletic stallion for his 12 years – refined and compact with moderate bone.  He cleaned up in the M-level and came a close 4th in the S-level in stiff competition.  Boy, can he trot!

While in Dorum we also took the opportunity to inspect our fillies for correctness and progress.  You may remember we purchased 4 fillies in Germany who, courtesy of EI, became stranded.  Of the 3 at the Meyers the Herzensdieb x Rotspon continues to stand out with spectacular movement.  She will go to the mare show in July to see how she stacks up.  The Hotline x Donnerhall is developing into a very correct filly that moves very well – not stunning but way better than average and definitely a keeper.  The Hotline x Hohenstein started out as the stand-out but her development has been disappointing.  Her leg conformation has gone awry and so we will need to move her on.

Next stop after the Meyers was a visit to see Axel Windeler’s stallions, Benetton Dream and the 3-year-old Royal Classic.  Benetton is still the stunning, tall (173 cm), refined stallion we remembered from last year.  He is now being ridden by Holger Finken and this change should allow him to be shown to best advantage.  We have high hopes for the 2 mares we have at home in foal to this stallion.  The few foals we saw by BD in Germany were all very typey and elegant.  We were blown away by the beauty of the stunning black, Royal Classic (Royal Highness/Florestan).  We last saw this colt as a 2-year-old in his stable last year.  He has now been licensed and has blossomed into an elegant, lithe young stallion with quality paces and a beautiful topline.  We were tempted to keep this one to ourselves but I think everyone deserves to have a chance to use him.

The next day we headed into unknown territory to visit Hubertus Poll in Trakehner heaven.  This lovely stud is set on 100 hectares tucked away in the middle of the forest south of Verdun???  Hubertus is the owner of Imperio, the vice-champion at the 2008 worlds and Champion at Warendorf 2008 in the 5-year-old classes.  Imperio has the classical Trakehner refinement and fantastic paces, scoring 9’s and 10’s for his trot and canter.

Connery, the father of Imperio, was bred by Mr. Poll.  He is a different type to his son but is also classically elegant, light, and moderate in type.  A lovely head is offset by an excellent topline and very straight, clean legs.  The father of Connery, Buddenbrock, was also shown to us.  This powerful black stallion has all the Trakehner attributes seen in his progeny.

The next day we took the opportunity to visit the stable of Sportpferde Schmidt, the home of Bellissimo M and some of his sons.  This stallion is currently flavour of the month in Germany and will cover 800 mares this year at €1,500/mare.  We have secured some of the highly fertile semen from this horse for use in Australia.  BM is another excellent stallion to use as a refining influence over heavier mares.  He is moderate in height and bone with excellent lines.  He has a good temperament and is consistently producing winners in material classes and dressage classes.

Another diversion presented itself with Jens as we popped in to Verdun to see a Hanoverian ridden licensing.  Thirty-odd stallions of various types were presented for licensing, ranging in age from 3 to 15 years.  Only 5 stallions were licensed including the Licoto xx son, Licotus, owned by Josef Kathmann.  This stallion is now performing well at the top of S-level and was one of the licensing stand-outs.

Following the obligatory visits to Rasta’s parents (the Groendahls of Altehemmoor) and Queenie’s parents (the Tantzens of Butjadingen) we headed south to meet up with Clemens von Merveldt at Toni Böckmann’s in Hamstrup.  Clemens was to ride his magnificent chestnut stallion Floriscount (Florencio x Donnerhall) who completed the ridden Oldenburg licensing and went on to win the 70-day-test in Schliekau with a dressage score of 147.5 and a rideability of 10.0.  We tried to buy this colt when he was 1 week old but Clemens had already fallen in love with him and has resisted all offers since then.  This year he will cover over 300 mares in his first season.  He is now also a Celle stallion with Hanoverian licensing.  We have watched this leggy young horse grow, keeping touch with him on our annual visits.  Both his father and his mother, Arkona, are moderate horses.  Arkona is a proven producer of 3 licensed stallions.  Floriscount semen will be available for the first time this year.  If you are looking to put balance, trainability, and scope into your mares then you should definitely consider him.

The next day we visited Clemens’ farm at Gut Füchtel to view a few foals and to see our 4th filly, the Fidertanz.  She has many of her father’s attributes and is compact and correct.  However, she will need more time to grow a little and show her full potential.

As always our trip has been a bit exhausting but well worthwhile.  We would like to thank our children and our staff at the vet clinic for their indulgence.  Many opinions were reinforced on our visit and 5 or 6 fantastic new stallions added to the roster of choices for both ours and our client’s mares.  We are already looking forward to the foals we may get from them in 2010.  Please do not hesitate to contact us if you want more information on a particular stallion because, as always, we have millions of photos and have personally inspected and examined every stallion whose semen we will import.

 
February 2009

We have had another very successful stud season for 2008/09.  Again we have been very busy inseminating visiting mares as well as our own mares.  We imported 2 shipments of frozen semen during the season.  We visited Germany again in July/Aug 08 checking all of our usual studs’ new stallions as we as inspecting some new stallion stations.  We visited our 4 fillies (now yearlings) to check on their progress.  We attended the Hanoverian and Oldenburg mare shows along with the German and Hanoverian Foals shows.  Again, we attended the World Championship for Young Dressage Horses in Verden.  We even found some time to visit our son, Andrew who we in the middle of a years exchange in Germany.  It was great to catch up with him and his host family.

On the stud in Benalla, we had 3 foals.  below centre Larundel Graceful (L Gandalf/Lander) produced a black bay filly to Fidertanz.  Zoe ASH/WB produced a black filly to Sir Donnerhall below right and our Hanoverian registered T/B mare, Checkers produced a chestnut colt below left to Sir Donnerhall.  The two fillies will be retained at this stage and the colt was sold in utero.

For season 2009, we have 8 foals due –

ET – Royal Hit/Fürstin Grande (imp) –(Fürst Heinrich/Grande)
Fürst Heinrich/Rasta (imp) –(Stedinger/Ramiro)
Fürst Heinrich/Hirtenqueen (imp) –(Sunny Boy/Rubinstein)
Sandro Hit/Hollands Bend Santa Ana –(Sirocco (imp)/Aachen)
Benetton Dream/Larundel Graceful –(L Gandalf/Lander)
Swarovski/Who’s Miss Encounter –ASH/WB
ET – Swarovski/Larundel Garnet –(L Gandalf/Lander)
Benetton Dream/Checkers xx (Rustic Amber (imp)/Salmon Leap (imp))

You can secure a colt foal in utero – some of these foals will be for sale – enquire now.

 
 
 
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