DAD wrap up!

Wyatt in the Caracol Jewelry booth

 This will be pretty short and sweet as there are chores waiting for me outside. Mom and I went up for the Freestyle night at Dressage At Devon and had a lovely time. We did a bit of browsing in the stores and saw Gypsy Mare Studios work - just lovely! There were several photos of our horses - only snapped a quick shot of Wyatt (who had been so amazing earlier in the day) and continued on to Skylands Saddlery...which I'll get to in a totally separate post in the future.

The moon rising in the east

The moon over the Gold Ring from our seats

The Dixon Oval

So, it was a lovely evening. Thank you to our friends who shared their box with us - we really appreciate being able to have such lovely seating and a great view of both the warm up and the Dixon Oval.

From a (past and hopefully future) competitors standpoint, the flow of the horse traffic of this year's DAD was a vast improvement. Thank you to the organizers to making the breed show safer with "horse only" paths that were fenced off! Thank you to those who made the improved footing possible. Devon will always be special to me and it will be very exciting to show there in the future! <3 nbsp="nbsp" p="p">

Thank you to all of the sponsors for their support of a fabulous show. Thank you to the vendors, boxholders, competitors and staff that make DAD such a success. :)

A very, very important win that needs sharing!

The dressage world has gotten to be such a close community. We can watch the competition live on the internet from the top shows in Europe, or at the very least enjoy live scoring results come through in real time. No longer is there a week long (or longer) wait for the placings and scores to be churned through the rumor mill...nope, they are accessible and easy to verify! Thank goodness! And with this instant feedback comes a closer gathering of people who are linked through horse's bloodlines and this is the really fun part to me - we have friends all over the globe who are very excited about the success of Dressage Royal's get. For example, Doringcourt lives in New Zealand but was born in Germany. He just won the Medium Advanced Championships for Andrea and shows great promise for the upper levels. Desperado OLD was the World Champion 5 Year Old in 2008 under Nadine Plaster, Damsey was bred by Dorit & Hermann (who own DR) - it's like a huge extended family all over the globe! :)

2008 WCYH


And yesterday morning, Desperado OLD and Carola Koppelmann won the Nurnberger Burg-Pokal Final (7-9 Year old PSG for the top 12 qualified horses in all of Germany) by a 38 point margin over Olympic Champion Isabell Werth! Desperado's final score was 75.45% and he is just 8 years old! Congratulations to all of his connections - his breeders, his owner Ralf Hartmann, the folks at Pferde 24 (who bought him at the Oldenburg Elite Auction in 2007), and of course to Carola for all her hard work!

Now, some folks have not joined Facebook. I respect that, I really do. BUT...there are a few albums of photographs already online from the competition, so if you would like a peak at the lovely mature horse Desperado OLD has become...it's time to sign up!

Photo Album #1 has images of the entire class. Desperado OLD is in the first 2 and then has the blue cooler and ribbon on part way through.

Album #2 does not have any images of Desperado OLD but a few of the other horses that show the quality of the riding, training of his competitors!

And it is also worth mentioning Dressage Royal had another son in this class - the 9 year old licensed stallion Damsey! Damsey was 6th in the Warm Up Test and 11th in the Final. Like Desperado OLD, Damsey participated in the WCYH with fair results, but without the overall victories.

Some of you might be wondering why all the fuss about a stallion having 2 sons in this prestigious competition...and I am happy to explain! :) (there's a surprise, right?) So Dressage Royal is a privately owned stallion in Germany. He does not stand at a large stallion station with a book of several hundred domestic mares and large export business - and the advertising budget to match! So in other words, he get a good number of mares (by American standards) each year and has semen here in the US for distribution but is not producing 100's of foals...given that information - WOW! This is a very, very big deal to have so much success from smaller foal crops!!!

If any of the larger media outlets - Eurodressage, Dressage Daily or Dressage News have any reports or photos - I will publish the links so we can all enjoy seeing and reading about the competition and the commentary on the rides themselves! So check back in a few days!

Bottom line - CONGRATULATIONS DRESSAGE ROYAL!
CONGRATULATIONS DESPERADO OLD!!!!!

Reference Stallions in our breeding program

It is a blustery cold New Year's Day here at the farm, so I thought I'd post a bit of the historical stallions that have been used in our program with some photographs! :) The stallions are on the dam's side of the pedigree often as not, so I tried to specifically point to who's who in each horse's lineage. As time permits, I will continue to add photos and information as it relates to our horses...so please feel free to check back occasionally.

Enjoy!

This is Abglanz -

Who sired Absatz -

who sired Abundance...and so on with our sons, daughters, grandsons and daughters...













Also, Absatz is the sire of Anka (pictured here at age 20) who is the dam of the legendary Weltmeyer.

Weltmeyer

Weltmeyer & his sons - Wittinger, Wolkenstein II, Wolkentanz I & White Star.







Adios III (Waldaire's damsire) is also a grandson of Absatz.

This is Woermann, Warkant & Weltmeyer's paternal grandsire.










And this is Woermann's most prominent son - World Cup I.











Bold Ruler is the paternal grandsire of one of our prolific broodmares - Aly Alice by Aly North by Alydar (pictured right).






And this is Bold Lad who is a son of Bold Ruler.







This is Eiger I - who appears in Wallstreet Rose's paternal lineage.












Intentionally appears in Wallstreet Rose's damline.








Karin Rehbein and Donnerhall were international stars in the 90's for Germany. His genetics continue in Don William, Daylily, Dreamcatcher and Dream Girl WF.
















This is Native Dancer who is also an ancestor of Aly Alice.










Neckar was one of the most improvement sires in Germany with a unprecedented successful racing career. He appears in the pedigrees of Waldaire (his get), Volante (As You Wish WF, Wilona WF), Ruben WF and all of Dressage Royal's get.


Neckar also sired Waidmannsdank (pictured right) who is an ancestor of Waldaire's.





Neckar's son Vollkorn was popular in Oldenburg and he sired Volturno who was very successful with Otto Ammermann (breeder, trainer, rider).






Volturno is Volante's sire, she produced one filly for us - As You Wish WF who in turn produced one filly - Wilona WF. Volturno was German Silver Medal Team Member, Silver medalist at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, 1978 World Three-Day Event Championships (Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington), Silver Medalist at the 1980 Alternate Olympics (Fontainebleau, France). Competed in 27 international three-day events, finishing first, second, or third in 20. Retired sound and became Europe's leading Warmblood three-day event sire. This is the plaque at Kentucky Horse Park where he is buried...


Angelo is Neckar's most illustrious offspring as he is Rubinstein's damsire. Speaking of Rubinstein, it would be foolish to leave out this remarkable progenitor...












Much of his movement is found in his paternal grandsire Romadour II.














This is Northern Dancer. (Aly Alice, Wallstreet Rose)










This is World Cup II by Woermann - he is one of Ruben's ancestors on his paternal line.








Fair Play is an ancestor of our super star broodmare of the 70's & 80's - Today I'm Trying and Wallstreet Rose & Aly Alice.








This is Today I'm Trying's paternal grandsire - To Market.








- Fair Trial sired Adamant's maternal grandsire Palestine -

Fair Trial also appears in the pedigree of Aly Alice and her offspring.



Teddy.
Today I'm Trying & Aurora's ancestor through her damline.







Volturno is Volante's sire. German Silver Medal Team Member, 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, 1978 World Three-Day Event Championships (Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington), 1980 Alternate Olympics (Fontainebleau, France). Competed in 27 international three-day events, finishing first, second, or third in 20. Retired sound and became Europe's leading Warmblood three-day event sire. This is the plaque at Kentucky Horse Park where he is buried...





War Admiral. (Adamant)






Furioso II was a popular sire in Germany and Ginger's Woodruff WF clearly shows the influence of this prolific stallion through his sire

Wolkentanz I -














Duft II is found on Waldaire's maternal line as great-great grandsire...most interestingly as the sire of Darling (DLG Champion) who sired Cindy Ishoy's Dynasty (Bronze Medal winner in Seoul '88) and is the full brother of Daktary - Wally's grandmother, who was also a Grand Prix horse here in the US. Schoolmistress Debutaunte (aka Deb) is also a granddaughter of Darling.


Dekor (& his descendants) also carries the influence of the D line throught his grandsire - Duellant. [pictured right]





Abundance also has the D line in his damline through Dominus-Dominant-Dolman-Detektiv...so it is safe to say that we are continuing to utilize the 'old' Hanoverian D line with our stock...


Whether we get a foal out of Debutaunte or not, I would be remiss to not mention her other illustrious ancestors - Wendekreis is her damsire -





and Wiesenbaum is her maternal grandsire.













Princequillo appears in the pedigrees of Achtung Again (Lily) through her dam Teasing Shadow and also with Aly Alice.







Rosentau is the sire of Janet's beloved Ruben WF. Rosentau is a descendant of the R line dressage dynasty.


Currently the D/R combination is carried on through the use of Dressage Royal (Donnerhall - Rubinstein).












Dekor also carried a more direct link to the foundation of those outstanding D & R bloodlines - the Shagya Arabian Ramses was his maternal great grandfather and Duellant was paternal great grandfather.








Gotthard is quickly found in Waldaire's pedigree and was highly thought of as a sire of international jumpers in his day. He was by the legendary sire Goldfish II who can be found in Abundance's pedigree as well.





This is Goldfisch II (sire of Gotthard) and Abundance's maternal great grandsire.











This is Nasrullah...(Aly Alice, Wallstreet Rose) a popular racing sire who has an interesting reputation & personality.









Warkant is the paternal grandsire of our lovely Wallstreet Rose. Like Weltmeyer, he is also by World Cup I.