BY JEAN LLEWELLYN / PRESS RELEASE
PHOTOGRAPHY: RECKIMEDIA
Fifty-six licensed and non-licensed stallions were offered for sale at the Westfalian sale, and with a 85% turnover, it was considered an excellent result. The champion stallion from the dressage log, a son of So Perfect x Dream Boy achieved the highest price at €500,000.
The highlight of the year for the Westfalian studbook is their stallion licensing, which traditionally ends with the sale for licensed and non-licensed stallions, and kicked off with the previously celebrated champion stallion from the dressage lot. The son of So Perfect (breeder: Catarinus van der Laan, the Netherlands; exhibitor: BG Heinrich Gießelmann/Catarinus van Laan, Barver), shone in all his presentations during the licensing days. His dam, Dynamic Diva (Dream Boy), is the full sister of Dynamic Dream, who once enchanted the audience at the Westfalian Main Licensing. At the top price of €500,000 he changed hands to French ownership and will increase the stallion’s offered by Klosterhof Medingen.
The champion jumping stallion will be his neighbour in Klosterhof Medingen stable. As the most expensive showjumper, a customer on site secured the son of Chacco-Blue x Ogano Sitte, bred by Aleksandr Onyshenko, Düsseldorf; exhibitor: Gestüt Sprehe GmbH, Löningen), for €250,000. The chestnut stallion descends from the famous Sitte line.
The reserve champions were also highly in demand among the expert clientele. The first reserve champion of the dressage stallions was the son of Dynamic Dream x Benicio (breeder: Simon Kohlenbrenner, Lienen; exhibitor: Pferd 24 GmbH, Lienen). The typey dark bay changed hands at a hammer price of €300,000.
One of the the second reserve champions of the dressage-oriented stallions was a son of former champion stallion Extra Gold, who presented his first vintage at the Westfalian stallion licensing this year. The bay, bred by ZG Labohm, Halsenbach, out of Charmeur’s Cherry M (Charmeur), thrilled the audience in Münster-Handorf. The powerful stallion, exhibited by Bernd Hollmann, Gronau, will travel to the Helgstrand stallion station in Denmark for a hammer price of €415,000...
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