By Jean Llewellyn (press release)
Photography: Hannoveraner Verband
Only the Hanoverian Verband’s best young stallions are awarded with the Weltmeyer and Stakkato prizes. This year, the Weltmeyer prize was awarded to several dressagfe stallions: Despacito, Destacado, Dostojewski, Finnigan and So Unique. The breeders of the first three stallions were honoured at the show of privately owned stallions in Verden. Finnigan and So Unique’s breeders were unable to attend and will be presented with their awards at a later date.
Destacado (Desperados x Londonderry) is now six years old and has already achieved international merits in competition. He was bred by Heinrich Gießelmann, and is owned by Gestüt Schafhof. As a premium stallion the strong moving chestnut left the Verden stallion licensing in 2015, became Bundeschampion in Warendorf one year later, and continued his successful series impressively with the title of runner-up at the five-year-old World Breeding Championship for Young Horses in Ermelo with Matthias Alexander Rath in his saddle. Then, three months ago, the stallion received a very special award in the Niedersachsenhalle when he received the ‘FRH’ (Hannoveraner Förderverein) suffix after his sport name...
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