BY JEAN LLEWELLYN / PRESS RELEASE
PHOTOGRAPHY: HANOVERIAN SOCIETY

A new award was presented for the first time at the Hanoverian stallion licensing: the Madeleine Winter-Schulze Prize. This prize honours Hanoverian breeders of particularly successful sport horses from the past competition season.

The Madeleine Winter-Schulze Prize replaces the Fritz von der Decken Prize, which was traditionally awarded to the most successful stallion breeder of the past ten years.
The Madeleine Winter-Schulze Prize for showjumping horse breeders went to Wilhelm Berghorn from Stolzenau. His own-bred Contendros (Contendro x Drosselklang II) is one of the world's most successful horses with Mexican rider Andres Azcáraga. Last year, the two were finalists at the Olympic Games in Paris, France. He already stood out at the 2009 stallion licensing with his exceptional scope. Paul Schockemöhle secured the rough diamond at the time. Performance runs in the family: Contendros’s dam Diaspora is a half-sister to Christian Ahlmann’s Olympic horse Codex One.
Dr Hilmer Meyer-Kulenkampff from Behlmer was honoured in eventing. Olympic champion fischerChipmunk FRH (Contendro x Heraldik xx) is one of the best eventing horses of all time. His career began as a Bundeschampion. Five years later, he competed in the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, USA, with his rider Julia Krajewski. After that, the bay found his master rider in Michael Jung. The pair collected titles and medals at World and European Championships and competed twice at the Olympic Games. In 2019, his dam Havanna was named Hanoverian Mare of the Year, and the breeder was honoured as Breeder of the Year by the WBFSH...

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