BY JEAN LLEWELLYN / PRESS RELEASE
PHOTOGRAPHY: RÜCHEL; NELE HÖRSTER

Great sport requires great up-and-coming talent! At the "Hohenzollern Stars" event in Bisingen, promising showjumping prospects met an enthusiastic auction audience. With a successful premiere for young horses, a fitting finale for the foals, and high-profile buyers, the DSP made a powerful statement to close out the season.

It quickly became apparent that the 20 lots on offer held immense potential for the showjumping arenas of tomorrow. For the first time, the collection in the Zollern-Alb region featured three- and four-year-old young horses. One of them provided an early highlight right at the start of the auction: Catalog number four – a three-year-old mare presented by Hendrik Niehe – impressed, not least due to her top-class performance pedigree. Breeder Johannes Heinrichs had paired Comilfo Plus Z – one of the flagship stallions of Stud Zangersheide – with a Contender daughter from a highly successful dam line. During the free-jumping presentation on Thursday evening, the dark bay mare impressively demonstrated the qualities she was born with. Bidding was correspondingly lively until auctioneer Hendrik Schulze Rückamp brought the hammer down on a telephone bid of €28,500. The young mare was thus purchased by a competition and training stable in Baden-Württemberg, where she can look forward to excellent development.
The second young horse presented by Hendrik Niehe can also look forward to a promising athletic future. Bred by Niehe, this large-framed chestnut – sired by Aganix du Seigneur Z out of a Calido I dam – also impressed during free-jumping, fetching the evening’s second-highest price at €17,000. In total, the eight young horses generated €112,000 in sales, averaging €14,000 per horse. Two of them were sold to buyers in France via online bids placed on the Horse24 platform...

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