| 25.7.2010 |
visiting Bogart (by
Benetton Dream o/o
Ionia) - impressions from the colt herd
(click on pictures for more)
 (click here for the complete album of impressions from the herd - precious!) |
| 29.6.2011 |
At the german selection trials in Warendorf today
Sarkozy and
Lissaro have been nominated for the World Championships of young
horses in Verden in August 2010. After both stallions have already qualified for the Warendorf Bundeschampionat in September this year a "hot summer" is most likely to be expected! Remember that last year Lissaro and Sarkozy already provided for a thrilling final at the Bundeschampionat of the 4-year old stallions and it was for Olympic Goldmedalist Frank Ostholt, the foreign test rider, to finally put Lissaro in the lead gaining him the rare and precious title "double Bundeschampion"! Lissaro is sire of Lorbaß and Ionia's foal in 2011, Fabrice is in foal to Sarkozy for 2011. Belissimo, sire of Brisant and Biscaya, will be represented in Verden by his son Blickpunkt (damsire Weltmeyer) and Don Schufro, sire of Fannie's foal in 2011, sends his highly celebrated daugther Weihegold OLD (damsire Sandro Hit) to Verden. It is my greatest pleasure to see my current "breedings" and foals being represented by such an exquisit collection of stallions at the two most important young horse Championships in Germany this year! |
| 23.6.2010 |
All good things come in threes: Fabrice is in foal to Sarkozy and as such the third of my mares in foal! For an overview of the breedings for 2011click here |
| 16.6.2010 |
new photos of La Jeanne three
months under saddle!
(click on pictures to enlarge)
 La Jeanne is for sale. |
| 10.6.2010 |
Brentano II passed away. (Report
on
Eurodressage.) Brentano and Beltain have been my very special "heroes" descending form the damline of Dr. Max Schulz, Stellenfleth, and I owe a lot to both these stallions. Brentano II is sire of Brasil, Brooklyn and Balahé. |
| 10.6.2010 | La Jeanne scores 2 x "8" for ridability at her Mare Perfomance Test! |
| 6.6.2010 |
Double Bundeschampion Lissaro wins the
Qualifikation of the 5 year old dressage horses in Coesfeld Lette scoring
8,7! Lissaro is the sire of my half-thorougbred colt Lorbaß and Ionia (my t.b. mare) is happily in foal again to Lissaro. |
| 1.6.2010 |
Fannie Mae is in foal to Don Schufro - one
shot did it! I am overly happy to see Fannie in foal by this living legend - a lengthy feature about Don Schufro in english will be coming up soon - so far, the german version of it can be found here. |
| 23.5.2010 |
Ionia, my t.b. mare, is in foal again by
Double-Bundeschampion Lissaro! I am overly happy since this is the very first time I inseminated a mare myself since I attended the insemination course at the Warendorf State Stud last winter. I am hoping for a filly as a full sister to Lorbaß, who simply develops greatly, would be the mst precious gift to add to my breeding program... |
| 22.5.2010 | Fabrice gives birth to a colt by Belissimo - Brisant (in the true sense of the meaning of the word) - read story |
| 5.5.2010 | Fannie Mae gives birth to her fourth foal, a stellar black colt by Real Diamond - Rialto Venice! |
| 5.5.2010 |
Fannie's "big day": Already a couple of weeks ago the dutch licensing committee had announced their vist for today to inspect Fannie Mae - since her son Sansibar is stationed at stud in the Netherlands the licensing committee comes around inspecting the respective dams of the stallions who actively breed in their verband (read more) |
| 24.4.2010 |
Twins born at Hof Altepost! (click on picture to enlarge) Completely unexpected these two colts were born at the beginning of April. And what initially looked to bear risks for the smaller of the twins (bearly the size of a shepherd dog and incapable to stand up by himself) turned into a wonderful story of success and will to live given the tireless efforts of my marebarn owner Ingrid who did everything to help the small one through his first two days of life. At the second day his will to live succeeded over initial physical weakness and he managed to do without human help. On top of that, he left no doubt who of the two had the primary claim on mother's udder, too: from now on he would simply bumb his bigger brother away. And still does so up until today. And if Big Brother is bothered by the outspoken ambition of the smaller one the latter simply jumps away, right underneath mother's belly (without having to stoop for that at all) and starts the udder fight well sheltered from the other side. Sometimes being small sure comes with peculiar advantages! |
| 10.4.2010 |
Silas and La Jeanne playing - precious moments ...
 click on pictures to view them enlarged in text |
| 1.4.2010 |
first pictures of La Jeanne under saddle - and the most amazing story of a
barley 3 year old filly that learns everything it needs to know in less
than three weeks having left the mare herd...
story |
| 17.3.2010 |
Spring is in the air and the first foal is born: thouroughbred mare
Ionia gives birth to a bay colt by
Bundeschampion Lissaro -
Lorbass!  |
| 16.3.2010 |
My self bred and licensed colt Sansibar
by Sir Donnerhall o/o Fannie Mae by
Fidermark becomes a breeding stallion in the Netherlands! |
| 28.2.2010 |
Today both my three year old fillies La Jeanne and Balahé have left their
home at the mare barn. La Jeanne has moved to Münster in a stall right next to Silas, my riding horse. I am looking forward to the next couple of weeks teaching her anything a future sport horse should now and deal with and Silas has already proven to be of great help: he is the comforting lead horse while La Jeanne walks near him, exploring her new home and life. I am exited to see what the next few weeks will bring us! Balahé has moved to her new home at the Karsten family, former owners of Beltain (sire of Belissimo) and Wallery K, my past broodmare. It is my greatest pleasure to see Balahé in these passionate breeders' hands since I owe the Karsten family my entire affinity to the bloodline of Bolero and the legendary damline of Dr. Max Schulz, Stellenfleth. Without the Karsten family there would have been no Wallery K for me, no Beltain and most certainly no Belissimo M for the world. Without the Karsten family I had never learned about the damline of Dr. Max Schultz (Wallery's descend) who bred Beltain and Brentano II and I had never discovered the value of these precious Bolero bloodlines for me. The beauty of Balahés newly found home serves as a wonderful gift to me: she will live nearby in the Karsten's mare herd and I will be able to further follow her development and watch her future foals grow up - I am overly happy to see my Brentano II-daughter having found such a great lifetime post! |
| 25.2.2010 |
Mail from Spain! pictures from Brasil, Wallery's last son by Brentano II, who is now turning four years old - what a stunning colt! (read more) 
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| 4.1.2010 |
New pictures arriving from New Zealand!
QRage III in his new home under
saddle - I am so excited to see this beautiful youngster develop the way
he does - sparkling...
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| 30.12.2009 | double Bundeschampion Lissaro - english version of the stallion feature finally concluded - enjoy reading! |
| 25.11.2009 |
Sir Donnerhall son "Silbermond"
champion of the Westfalian licensing! The black stallion by Sir Donnerhall x Ramiro's Son x Matcho, a "mover" of his own kind, was proclaimed champion of the Westfalian licensing 2009 - pictures Sir Donnerhall is sire of Sansibar and Sawadee. |
| 20.11.2009 |
The brand new 2009
FN Zuchtwertschätzung (Breeding Value Statistic) has just been
published and states three current stallions of my breeding program
amongst the TOP TEN of all dressage breeding stallions available in
Germany: Sir Donnerhall shows a breeding value of 171 index points and scores second behind Breitling (172). However, Sir Donnerhall shows a better security value of 93% while Breitling's breeding value comes with a security of 84%. Sir Donnerhall is sire to Sawadee and Sansibar, the latter being Fannie Mae's recently licensed son. It comes with no surprise that Belissimo ranks 4th given his well bespoken and mostly desired get. He shows a breeding value of 169 index points being backed by a convincing 94% security mainly owed to the success of his many succesful kids in young horse competitions (93%) and evenmore so owed to the success of his daughters gained in mare performance tests (95%). Belissimo is sire of Biscaya o/o Fabrice who is in foal again by Belissimo. Yet another excitement is the high ranking of Real Diamond amongst the Top Ten, who still hasn't been breeding much at the time this data was collected. The fact that the little existing get on the ground by Real Diamond yet again provided for this stallion to rank amongst the Top Ten of all stallions available in Germany clearly speaks for itself. Real Diamond is credited with 162 index points and that saves him an honorable 9th rank, improving by one from last year's rank 10 when he was the unexpected shooting star of the season. Real Diamond's breeding value is secured by 80% owed to the handful of kids competing in young horse classes, deriving a security of 83%, and his few three year old daughters obviously having done greatly at this year's mare performance tests (83% security). My mare Fannie Mae is in foal to Real Diamond. |
| 16.11.2009 |
The Quattro "Q" dominates the Brandenburg
licensing in
Neustadt Dosse - the two champion stallions of both disiplines dressage
and jumping descend from the Quattro male line. Article with pictures on Eurodressage. Quattro is sire to both my Fabrice sons, "Happy" und QRage. |
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Video Sansibar licensing |
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| 7.11.2009 |
Sansibar is licensed!
 Today Sansibar has been licensed! I couldn't be any happier as this is the greatest success in my short history of sport horse breeding... (click here for pictures and more information) |
| 31.10.2009 |
Today Bogart left our barn to move into his new
home where he is being raised as a stallion prospect along with another 20
colts his age. I am excited to see him being raised in the most
professional hands and recieve everything it takes to hopefully appear at
the Hanoverian licensing committee one day... With his seven months of age and his naturally given coolness it didn't take him long to also mentally arrive in his new home. After having made first contacts with his new fellow companions he celebrated the new surrounding in his very own way: taking a well deserved and relaxing bath in the sand...  Bogart and me at the required hard ground trott inspection |
| 28.10.2009 |
Today I recieved new pictures from "Happy"
("QRage" by Quattro o/o
Fabrice) the eldest son o/o Fabrice who is
now 4 years old and won his first dressage horse class earlier in summer
this year. Needless to say, I am overly excited to see Happy playing
around so expressively, knowing he obviously found the right hands to turn
him into the happy athlete he is supposed to be... Dear Carmen, thank you so much for these pictures - you made my day today! 
 (click on pictures for enlargement) |
| 10.10.2009 |
Sansibar (o/o
Fannie Mae by Sir Donnerhall) has
been accepted for the licensing in Mecklenburg and will be presented at
his first major public appearance on November 6 at the beautiful vicinity
of the
Redefin State Stud where the Mecklenburg licensing is traditionally
being held. Sansibar is Fannie's first foal and the very first of all my foals being accepted for an official licensing - I am delighted and more than excited! |
| 11.10.2009 |
Hannoverian Elite Auction, Verden I am overly lucky to see that obviously, the sires of my foals have been well picked: Royal Rose becomes the second most expensive horse at the Elite Auction, selling for 165.000 Euro! Royal Rose is out of Dornröschen, second dam (maternal grandmother) to Benetton Dream (sire of Bogart) Congratulations to the breeder family Windeler in Verden! Yet another top selling horse descends from the direct damline of Real Diamond, sire of the foal Fannie Mae is expecting in 2010: Dancing Queen by Dimaggio x Hill Hawk x Futuro sells for 105.000 Euro, her dam Hillery is second dam (maternal grandmother) to Real Diamond. |
| 4.10.2009 | Real Diamond
and Laudabilis sired two of the three top
selling horses at the
Westfalian Elite
Auction: Their daughters Real Fascination and La Noblesse sold for 80.000 and 82.000 Euros at last sunday's auction and that sure are remarkable prices, not only given the current weak economy! You can find both these Elite Mares described here in detail. Laudabilis is sire of La Jeanne and Lan Thao while Fannie Mae expects a foal by Real Diamond next spring! |
| 26.9.2009 | New pictures of La
Jeanne by Laudabilis x
Fidermark, an impressive filly of presence
an beauty age two! (click on pictures for enlargement)
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| 9.9.2009 | East Prussia
- travelling ancient past and the origin of the Trakehner - a very special
travel report ...
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| 6.9.2009 | Bundeschampionat 2009 - a true
Belissimo-Festival! Having qualified ten (!) of his kids in all dressage and riding horse disciplines age 3 - 6 Belissimo (sire of Biscaya and sire of Fabrice's foal in 2010) already set a milestone of it's own. More than that, Belissimo sires two Bundeschampions and one bronce medal winner! While the bavarian bay mare Preziosa (quote speaker Bruno Sixt: "This mare comes form Bavaria and not from Holland!") was a league of her own in the unusal high quality field of 4-year old mares and geldings (usually the quality is better in the 3-year old classes) and as such well deserved the title "Bundeschampion" scoring some incredible 10 9,5 9,0 8,5 8,5 9,5, the colourful chestnut Blickpunkt (damsire Weltmeyer) became Bundeschampion being the champion of the hearts of the 5-year old dressage horses quiet like his sire was a couple of years ago at the same place! Similar to Blickpunkt in type and move, specially with respect to hindleg action and carriage, the colourful chestnut Bulgarie (damisre World Champ, owned by Sissi Max Theurer) won the bronze medal at the 3-year old stallions. While Bulgarie still is a very immature and lanky horse he will most certainly be heard of in the future when further matured. May the colourful kids of Belissimo reintroduce real bright spots in our dressage horse breeding! ... and yet another Bundeschampion for the "Münsterland-Pferde": In a head to head final Lissaro (sire of Ionia's foal in 2010) becomes Bundeschampion of the 4-year old stallions beating Paul Schockemöhle's stunning Sarkozy due to his incredible ridability: The foreign test riders praised him with highest scores which (in case of even scores) count higher - Lissaro is now entitled "Double Bundeschampion", a rarity of it's own! And last but not least Wallery's grandchild Luminatus, the Warendorf State Stud stallion by Londonderry o/o Belle Grande by Beltain wins the silver medal at the coach horses - honour to whom honour is due! |
| 2.9.2009 | East Prussia - a noteworthy journey to the
ancient home and origin of the Trakehner breed - enjoy
these pictures! Travel report in english language to follow shortly... |
| 22.8.2009 | New Feature:
About the necessity and challenges of thoroughbred blood in warmblood breeding or: what happened 1400 years ago...? |
| 20.8.2009 | Last year's Bundeschampion
Lissaro, sire of
Ionia's foal in 2010, set record marks today at the traditional
"Turnier der Sieger" in front of the wonderful
Münster castle: 9,5 10,0 10,0 9,5 8,5 9,0 were the single scores he gained at today's 4-year old dressage horse class, the traditional "Optimum" at the "Turnier der Sieger"- truly amazing! No better win than this to be prepared for the upcoming Bundeschampionat in September... |
| 16.8.2009 | Fidermark
dominates the
Westfalian Elite Foal Auction: Fidermark's heritage was to be found in 10 (!) out of the 24 top selling foals above 10.000 Euros: As damsire he was responsible for three foals in this group, one last direct Fidermark daughter (a "frozen" product) also made it into the above 10.000 bracket and his son Fidertanz was sire of no less than five foals selling above 10.000, amongst them the top selling colt for 36.000 Euros, while his grandson Flatley (by Fürst Piccolo and owned by Isabell Werth) sired one. No better prove than this to show the truly strong and obvious influence of Fidermark's heritage, a stallion who really didn't breed that long and surely the one son of Florestan who might already have outclassed his father's success in breeding. |
| 1.8.2009 | Sunrise and foals playing...
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| 30.7.2009 | Benetton Dream (sire of Bogart) wins just another qualifier for the Bundeschampionat scoring 8,8 at the Elmloher Reitertage! |
| 27.7.2009 | Both Westfalian Champions, Lindner and La
Nobless
(picture), full siblings by
Laudabilis x Beltain, are
officially nominated by the Westfalian verband to represent the 3 year old
mares and 4 year old stallions at the Bundeschampionat 2009 -
congratulations to the breeder, Dr. Lutz Ahlswede, to such a unique
nomination of full siblings! to review the most prestigeous damline of these two full siblings click here |
| 25.7.2009 | All good things come in threes...
Fabrice is finally in foal again to
Belissimo! thus, three foals to hopefully be expected in 2010! |
| 25.7.2009 | english version of Real Diamond's stallion feature finally completed - enjoy reading! |
| 23.7.2009 | Münster Handorf - Westfalian nomination for the Warendorf Bundeschampionat She came, saw and conquered: Real Fascination, the 3-year old daughter of Real Diamond out of a dam by Ehrentusch, who already gained the State Premium title as one out of two daughters by Real Diamond presented at the Elite Mare Show two days ago, was hard to beat under saddle. The incredible athletic mare dominated her class by obvious rhythm and naturally given cadence, it was hard to take your eyes off her... Winning her class with a well deserved score of 8,42 should have gained her the nomination for the Bundeschampionat in Warendorf, selfunderstood. Official nominations, however, will be announced by the Verband later this week. What a personal pleasure for me to see that having bred Fannie Mae to Real Diamond this year not only seems to follow an upcoming trend of breeding to Real Diamond (who has finally been bred to fifty mares this year!) but also seems to be mostly promising with respect to real performance delivered by his get under saddle who, after all, still result from very few breedings only in his first breeding years. Yet another personal pleasure was the stunning appearance of Laudabilis' sons and daughters, once again proving the stallion himself to be a mostly convincing sport horse sire (Laudabilis is sire of La Jeanne and Lan Thao): La Noblesse by Laudabilis x Beltain, who already became Vice Champion at the Elite Show two days ago, delivered yet another convincing appearance under saddle, harmonic and well swung through, a simply floating move at it's best. As a matter of fact, I liked her even better under saddle as I did in hand and same is true for Real Fascination who, other than her half sister Rieke by Real Diamond, hadn't made it to the final ring of the top ten westfalian mares of this year at the Elite in hand show on tuesday. La Noblesse and Real Fascination to me are the alive prove that in hand show titles in sport horse breeding are a nice and welcome tribute but real quality with respect to our breeding goal (riding horses, that is) describes yet a different league to belong to: these two most certainly do and it was amazing to see how both of them truly outclassed some of the stellar in hand trotters from two days ago now being presented under saddle. It is my greatest pleasure to see La Noblesse ranking second in this class behind Real Fascination, scoring a well deserved 8,17 - single scores of both mares and complete class rankings can be checked here. Having choosen Real Diamond and Laudabilis for both my Fidermark mares obviously was the right thing to do given the result of this year's 3-year old class and the story was yet to be continued: The nomination class of the 4 year old stallions was dominated by yet another two stallions descending form my favourite lines: The Warendorf state stud stallion Basic by Belissimo x Ehrentusch and a new born star to most of the audience, Lindner, full sibling to La Nobless by Laudabilis x Beltain, my favourite combination of all... Needless to say: I was thrilled! Literally, thunder and lightning and heavy rain showers made this class a specatcular and dramatic event - however, the Beltain "B"-line (Belissimo is a son of Beltain) seems hard to be irritated at all and it was hard to say who was the better of the two, show proven Basic or Lindner, the latter having had his first public under saddle perfomance to deliver under such cirumstances... Yet, the charming son of Laudabilis unirritatedly was set deeper behind and simply marched along through deep water, gaining a well deserved "9" for trott and yet another "9" for his well jumped through and amazing uphill canter - eye candy at it's best! Single scores of all stallions and complete ranking can be seen here. Impressive pictures of both these stallions at their thunder and lightning performance to be seen here - enjoy watching! |
| 21.7.2009 | Westfalian Elite Mare Inspection Real Diamond (sire of Fannie Mae's foal in 2010 - hopefully! -) does it again: two of his three year old daughters made it to the Elite Show this year and "Rieke" (damsire Diamantino), completely resembling her sire's shape and type, even made it into the Final Ring amongst the TopTen Westfalian mares of this season - what a wonderful result! Champion Mare 2009 is "Brillante" by Belissimo (sire of Biscaya and -hopefully!- Fabrice's foal in 2010, too...) damsire Florestan, while the Reserve Champion Title is given to "La Noblesse" by Laudabilis (sire of La Jeanne and Lan Thao) damsire Beltain - yet another mare of floating move and cadence proving the precious combination of two of my very personal favourite stallions, Beltain and Laudabilis... The 92 best three year old westfalian mares were shown at the Elite Show and Laudabilis sired six of them while Belissimo sired three. |
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| 15.7.2009 | getting lost in ancient archives and discovering
present values: Fidelio, sire of Florestan  |
| 8.7.2009 | stallion feature Benetton Dream finally completed - enjoy reading! |
| 5.7.2009 | Pictures of Silas and me
competing in dressage - many thanks to my friend Melanie, who seems to be
showing up with her new camera wherever Silas and I happen to be around - so nice!
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| 3.7.209 | Fannie Mae is in foal to Real Diamond! |
| 1.7.2009 | since today Bogart und "Bunny"
(Biscaya) carry the hannoverian "H" on their
pretty butts - and while Bunny currently develops somewhat tousled behind her naturally given charme and appearance, Bogart most certainly inspires
my phantasie like crazy: if there is any truth in the saying "3 days - 3 months - 3 years" (and Bogart being exactly 3 months old today) then Bogart's current development promises the most sportive and elegant youngster in 3 years from now: noble and dry in texture with the most harmonically and well swung upper line and neck set - a pleasure to look at and exactly what i expect a half-thouroughbred foal to look like!! |
| 7.6.2009 | fabulous news from South Germany: "Happy" (QRage II, by Quattro B o/o Fabrice by x Fidermark) and his owners competed at his very first horse show today, a four year old riding horse class and Happy won the class scoring 75%! Dear Carmen and Jürgen, you are making me more than just "Happy" and i am so proud of you! As Happy is the first and eldest horse i bred within my still considerable "young" breeding program to finally prove his performance in an official competition and - on top of that - crown it with a super win! Congratulation to the three of you, you really made my day today! |
| 6.6.2009 | my mostly desired filly has been born: Fannie Mae
gave birth to a little black daughter by Rohdiamant
- Riva has arrived! (click on the engl. flag symbol on the top right corner of Riva's page for engl. information) |
| 1.6.2009 | hard to beat such beauty:
La Jeanne, Fabrice's
daughter by Laudabilis, developing greatly as a
two year old! |
| 30.5.2009 | Svenja and Beltino
did it again: 8,0 and 8,5 were their winning scores today in young horse
dressage class A and L! High scores you simply don't get just because others are worse - it makes me overly happy to see that Beltino gains the recognition he surely deserves! At the same time Silas and I made up for our second start ranking 5th in dressage and adding yet another clear round and ribbon in jumping! It fills me with deepest pleasure to see that our consistent training in all disciplines is being rewarded and Silas quiet obviously turns into a relyable allrounder! |
| 24.5.2009 | first competition, first ribbons:
Silas becomes a
show horse! scoring a 7,5 at our very first dressage competition (3rd place) and on top of that even a clear round in jumping and yet another ribbon, Silas has made an impressive start into our first common horse show season! on top of that Svenja and Beltino, the last son of Beltain out of our broodmare Wallery, scored second and third in class L dressage and it was my greatest pleasure seeing this fabolous youngster being celebrated under saddle! You simply can't take your eyes off him when he starts moving ... |
| 22.5.2009 | Bogart is sold and will be growing up as a stallion
prospect in due course. I am more than happy to finally see even a half-t.b.colt
from my breeding program being raised as a stallion prospect! And as coincidence sometimes has it, Benetton Dream, Bogart's sire, today has won the Qualifier for the 2009 Bundeschampionship scoring 8,3! |
| 19.5.2009 | QRage III has
become a true "Globetrotter": today he moved on to his new home in New Zealand, Awakino Estate, a most beautiful Estate overlooking the Tasman Sea. He will be further trained as a dressage stallion to hopefully become part of an already prominent group of former german auction horses and dressage stallions at Awakino Estate. Awakino Estate sponsors top New Zealand Dressage Riders with top German Stallions. Good luck on the beautiful green island and hopefully we will hear from you again, QRage! |
| 9.5.2009 |
my favourite time of the year: foal-spring! |
| 1.5.2009 | Biscaya has already
become a professional photographer's "model" - thank you, Horst
Grasser, for the wonderful picture! (click on picture to enlarge) |
| 30.4.2009 | good news! Ionia, my tb-mare, is in foal to Bundeschampion Lissaro! |
| 26.4.2009 | spring is in the air again and the second foal is
born: Biscaya by Belissimo
o/o Fabrice! Visit this couourful beatuy at
her page! (click on the engl. flag symbol on the top right corner on Biscaya's page for engl. information) |
| 17.4.2009 | Wally's grandson, the
Warendorf State Stud stallion Luminatus by Londonderry o/o Belle Grande by
Beltain is the first Warendorf State Stud stallion who is qualified for the Bundeschampionships in Warendorf in September later this year - here is the link to the State Stud information! |
| 31.3.2009 | spring is in the air and the first foal is born:
Bogart by Bundeschampion
Benetton Dream out of
Ionia (thouroughbred mare) (click on the engl. flag symbol on the top right corner of Bogart's page for engl. information) |
| 16.2.2009 | Rohdiamant feature now completed under "choosen Stallions - why?" |
| 13.2.2009 | Sir Donnerhall feature now completed under "choosen Stallions - why?" |
| 15.11.2009 | Longleggishness - a reasonable breeding goal or rather an end
in itself? english translation of my letter to the editorial to some german monthly breeding magazins that has been published |
| 2.11.2009 | Today Sawadee and Lan Thao have arrived well at their new home in the Netherlands. It was such a pleasure to see them run around in a group of six weanlings all together - I am looking forward to hear more from them in the future! |
| 16.10.2008 | QRage III at the preselection of
the Westfalian Verband - simply beautiful!
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| 8.8.2008 | sometimes wonders do happen: after six heat cycles Fannie Mae finally is confirmed in foal to Rohdiamant! |
| 30.6.2008 | Sawadee and Lan Thao have both been sold and will both move to the Netherlands in autumn - I am more than happy to see them leave together for a promising future! |
| 21.6.2008 | Fabrice is in foal to Belissimo - I am more than grateful and hope it stays that way! |
| 1.6.2008 | "Pferdeliebe"
("HorseLove") - thank you very much, Horst Grasser, for this wonderful picture! |
| 21.5.2008 | Ionia is positively confirmed in foal to Bundeschampion Benetton Dream! |
| 21.5.2008 | Fabrice gives birth to a healthy grand filly by Laudabilis - Lan Thao! |
| 20.5.2008 | Sawadee is entitled Premium Foal at the Oldenburg foal inspection |
| 18.5.2008 | new pictures of QRage III by Quattro B x Fidermark age two - a truly promising stallion prospect! |
| 27.4.2008 | a wonderful photostudie of Sawadee on
these pages -
enjoy surfing through a collection of 171 foal pictures by Ines Meier - thank
you, Ines! full portfolio of Ines' photo studies here |
| 23.4.2008 | little Brooklyn passed away - a tragic loss of a filly I loved dearly. |
| 11.4.2008 | Fannie Mae by Fidermark gives birth to her second foal, a beautiful filly by Sir Donnerhall - Sawadee! |
| 3.4.2008 | exactly one month after Brentano's 25.th birthday his daughter is born: my thoroughbred mare Ionia gives birth to Brooklyn, a lovely chestnut filly! |
| 3.3.2008 | Brentano II,
sir of Brasil and Balahé,
celebrates his 25.th birthday! Congratulation to a true stamp stallion! |
| 2.11.2007 | new pictures and story of QRage III at eighteen months - he sure turned into a real stallion already! more... |
| 21.10.2007 | Quattro B (sire of "Happy"-QRage II
and QRage III) sires the Worldchampion of the
young eventing horses this weekend in Lion d'Angers! congratulations to Olympic Team Rider Frank Ostholt and his six year old self-bred mare Quite Easy by Quattro B! more ... |
| 14.10.2007 | Benetton by Brentano II (sire of Balahé and Brasil) has been licensed by the hanoverian verband following his success becoming Bundeschampion 2007! click here for details... |
| 9.10.2007 | today Sansibar left for his new home at Paul Schockemöhle and Lewitz Stud where he will enjoy the company of natural herd-life with many other colts his age and I truly hope to hear of him again in a two years time for the preselection of the Oldenburg licensing... good luck, Sansibar! |
| 7.10.2007 | Laudabilis (sire of La Jeanne) provides for the most expensive riding horse at the Westfalian Elite Auction - the licensed stallion "Looking Forward" by Laudabilis sold for € 160.000! |
| 1.10.2007 | new pictures and story of "Happy" (QRage II) at the age of two and a half years..... |
| 18.7.2007 | Fabrice is positively confirmed in foal to Laudabilis - looking forward to three healthy foals next spring by Brentano, Sir Donnerhall and Laudabilis! |
| 19.6.2007 | Fabrice and La Jeanne are making their "debut" in
Hannover - Fabrice is now registered with the Hannoverian Main Studbook and La Jeanne carries the mostly desired "H" on her blittle butt ... |
| 8.6.2007 | little Amelie called today and this is
what she had to say: "Fannie carries a new foal in her belly!" - how nice! Fannie Mae is in foal to Sir Donnerhall again since May 19th - I hope she keeps it as big-little Sansibar is really feeding heavily on her ... |
| 19.5.2007 | Ionia is positively confirmed in foal to Brentano II again! |
| 25.4.2007 | Fabrice gives birth to a healthy filly by Laudabilis
- La Jeanne! and just like last year her timing is amazing as she picked the day I had to take leave of another beloved horse.. |
| 25.4.2007 | tonight I had to say good-bye to my mare Wallery K - she had to take her unborn with her... |
| 24.4.2007 | my nicest breeding-success so far:
Sansibar gains the title "Premium Foal" at the
Vechta foal inspection and is accepted for the auction... but sold is sold - however, what I preserve is the deepest pleasure about an obviously well-bred first foal out of my Fannie Mae! |
| 7.3.2007 | A long time wish comes true: my thoroughbred mare Ionia xx gives birth to a filly by Brentano II - Balahé! |
| 23.2.3007 | Sansibar has already been sold and will be joining Paul Schockemöhle's colts herd at Lewitz Stud in summer! |
| 1.2.2007 | Fannie Mae gave birth to a healthy black colt by Sir Donnerhall: Sansibar! |
| 20.12.2006 | Birkhahn xx - a little story about a big legend |
| 28.11.2006 | Wally's grandson has been licensed at the NRW-Licensing and
sold for € 70.000,--
to the NRW State Stud in Warendorf where he will be proceeding his carrier as a State Stud Stallion named "Luminatus". A brief genetical breeding background given at Wally's page. |
| 4.11.2006 | today QRage III, Brasil and "the Fürst" have moved to their new homes - suddenly the barn is very empty .... but it doesn't take long anymore until Fannie Mae -hopefully- opens the new breeding season ! |
| 12.10.2006 | Wallery K presents her grandson by Londonderry x Beltain at the
Westfalian licensing preselection and he does pass for the official licensing in November! |
| 24.8.2006 |
Brasil is sold and he will
move to sunny Spain in November along with his common barn-friend
Fürst Pirouette! All the best for both
these |
| 2.8.2006 | QRage III is sold and he will move to the Rhineland in autum - his new home will be the Rytherhof - all the best for QRage III and his new owner! |
| 29.6.2006 | visit at Wally's grandchild - impressions and pictures of the herd-life of a well-made thouroughbred-stamped yearling filly! |
| 19.6.2006 | Fabrice is in foal to Laudabilis since June 3rd - how nice! now all four out of four mares are "in foal" for 2007 - I hope it stays that way... |
| 6.6.2006 | Wallery K is in foal to Brentano II since May 30. - Fannie Mae and Ionia xx have also been proved "pregnant" by the vet - good news! |
| 14.6.2006 | QRage III becomes "premium foal" at the Oldenburg foal inspection in Glandorf |
| 13.6.2006 | Fannie Mae passes her SLP- Stutenleistungsprüfung with grandesse and becomes 2. scoring 7,97 ! |
| 17.5.2006 | the long waiting has an end: Wally gives birth to a healthy colt by Brentano II - Brasil is there! |
| 14.5.2006 |
Ionia xx is confirmed in foal to Brentano II since April 26! |
| 10.5.2006 | Ionia's big day in Ankum - four times an "8" is what she recieves at her hannoverian main stud book registration! |
| 5.5.2006 | my letter to the editor is published at the "Züchterforum" - "brave for blood" (thoroughbred blood, that is) |
| 28.4.2006 | Fabrice gives birth to a healthy colt by Quattro B - QRage III is there! |
| 28.4.2006 | my beloved long time friend Shannon deceased - an obtiuary on a true friend |
| 5.4.2006 | Ionia xx appears in the new edition of the "Züchterforum" in the article "Mut zum Blut" (brave for blood) |
| 1.4.2006 | Fannie Mae commences her "serious"
work life at Michael Farwick (Bundeschampion with Fidermark, World Champion of
young horses with Laurentianer) - pictures and brief report on her page |
| 14.3.2006 | Fannie Mae is confirmed in foal to Sir Donnerhall since February 24.th! |
| 12.3.2006 | 1. "day of the open door" at the Warendorf State Stud - Florestan and his sons and grandsons - pictures and report here |
| Sept. 2005 |
Fair Play by Fidermark x Frühlingsball, full sibling to Fabrice and FannieMae becomes Champion of the Rhineland riding horses 2005! |
| Aug. 2005 | Californian breeding - impressions and pictures
of my breeder's tour through
California
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| Aug. 2005 | Ionia xx is in foal to Brentano II -
unfortunately she resorbs. A further breeding at this point in time (late summer)
doesn't make sense. Waiting for the new breeding season.... |
| July 2005 | a long time wish has become true: with Ionia xx a real thoroughbred mare becomes part of my mare herd! |
| June 2005 | finally, Wallery K is in foal to Brentano II! pictures of Brentano in Ankum at Beltain's Side |
| June 2005 | Fabrice is in foal to Quattro B since June 1st! |
| May 2005 | QRage II is sold and will be travelling to his new home in southern germany in autumn - congratulations and all the best to the Rothfuss-family and Happy-QRage! |
| 9.4.2005 | Fabrice gives birth to a healthy colt by Quattro B - QRage II is there! |
| March 2005 |
Wallery K suffers from a sad stillbirth - we are greatful that
Wally seems fine after all and hope for new future breedings...
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