the american trakehner fall 2012

TRAKEHNERVolume 38, No. 3Breeding

Fall 2012

The American

Photo: Shannon Brinkman

The American TRAKEHNEROfficial Publication of the American Trakehner Association1536 W. Church Street, Newark, Ohio 43055

Baltic DiaryJourney to the Homeland of the Trakehner

Story and photos by Margaret MacGregor

In Memoriam: Connie Kempterby Zenda Farrell

Trakehners at the NAJYRCShining at the N.A. Junior/Young Rider Championships

Story and photos by Kim MacMillan

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Cover photo: Newly approved stallion Sea Lion xx, ridden by Pam Fisher.

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More ArticlesNewly-Approved Stallions: Sea Lion xx, Semper Fedelis, Virginian Sky ……34–35Mare Inspection Champions …………………………………………………………… 36–37Show Results …………………………………………………………………………………39–43Riding in a Hunter Seat …………………………………………………………………………44Jessica Hainsworth, Junior Rider ………………………………………………………………48Lindsey Holleger at the NAJYRC ………………………………………………………………49Directory of Advertisers …………………………………………………………………………54

The ATA West Coast InspectionAt Four Star Farm on the Kenzo Estate

by Kim Hunter

Trakehners at the London OlympicsStory and photos by Kim MacMillan

Photo: Shannon Brinkman

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From the EditorIn this issue. This issue is brimming with exciting Trakehner news! Trakehners

are everywhere including the Olympics and the North American Junior Young Rider Championships (NAJYRC). Long-time members and professional photographers and journalists, Kim and Allen MacMillan attended and reported on both events. Three Trakehners were among the competitors in eventing at the 2012 London Olympics. Opposition Buzz and Nicola Wilson were the lead-offs for the silver-medal event-ing team from Great Britain. In dressage, the 15-year-old Dutch Warmblood stallion Painted Black, a half-Trakehner by E.H. Gribaldi, competed in dressage for Spain. Also competing, from Eastern Europe, was Parish, a 15-year-old Trakehner stallion. This year at the Kentucky Horse Park, seven horses with at least fifty percent Trakehner blood competed in the 2012 Adequan FEI NAJYRC which took place in late July in Lexington.

At the fabulous inspection held at Natalie Rooney Pitts’ Four Star Farm in Napa, California, three stallions were approved, including one full-blood Trakehner, one Anglo-Trakehner and one Thoroughbred. Those lucky enough to attend the event came away feeling like it was one of the best ever. Congratulations Natalie!

Invitation: Travel Experiences! This issue includes a detailed account of a recent travel experience of Holders Hill owner Margaret MacGregor. This sparked the idea that we would like to have a horse-related travel article in every issue. There are an astonishing number of ATA members who travel regularly for horsey reasons. What we would like to feature is not a “what I did on my vacation” type of article, but, like Margaret’s story, something more educational. For example, European perspective on horses in general and Trakehners in particular, or something on European breed standards (with photos), or how the Trakehner Verband works in Germany (similarities/differences to ATA), or special events like the Bundescham-pionat, as many ATA members attend this annually. We invite members who travel on Trakehner-related affairs, to write about their experience and send it to us, along with pictures from their journeys.

Invitation: Professional/Serious Amateur Photographers! As you will soon see, this Breed issue is packed full of fabulous photographs. The ATA is rich in pho-tographer talent, including several who are represented in this issue. These include not only Kim and Allen MacMillan but Shannon Brinkman (cover photo of this is-sue!) and Margaret MacGregor (a serious amateur) to name only a few. With so many excellent professional and amateur photographers amongst our ATA members, we, your American Trakehner editors, would like to feature our photographers and our horses in a two-page Photo Gallery in each issue. Each Gallery would showcase the work of one photographer who is an ATA member. Whether you are a professional photographer or a serious amateur, if you have 8–10 images (the majority should feature Trakehner horses) you’d like us to consider, please let us know!

Invitation: Amateur Photographers! What if you don’t have 8–10 images, but you have one really good one? Once a year, the Photo Gallery (see above) will be open to members who are not professionals but would like to submit one or two photos of Trakehner horses that they are proud of. In next year’s Membership issue, our Photo Gallery will showcase member photos of the Trakehner horse, rather than a single photographer’s work. Photos must be taken by an ATA member or feature an ATA member’s Trakehner horse.

Photographer Suggestions. In the near future an email will be sent out to the membership, inviting you to participate in our proposed Photo Gallery. In the mean-time, if you are aware of a photographer we should consider, please email me at [email protected]. You are most welcome to suggest yourself or someone you know—or more than one person—but they must be ATA members. If possible, please include a way to view one or more photos taken by the person you recom-mend: either a website or attach one or two photos. We will then compile a list and choose participants for next year’s magazine issues! Two or three participants will be chosen for 2013 by a combination of panel decision and random draw.

We hope you will enjoy this issue! We strive for excellence. With member contri-butions, we hope to achieve it.

Happy reading!! —Zenda

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ATA West Coast Inspection

by Kim Hunter

In the largest gathering at an ATA inspection outside the Annual Membership Meetings, around 240 people (participants, their friends and family and curious spectators who’d read about the event on Facebook or in local papers) attended the ATA West Coast Inspection of stallions, mares and young horses August 26–29 in Napa, California, on the grounds of the 3,800-acre Kenzo Estate located on the summit that defines the Eastern boundary of Napa Valley. The word summit is significant as the estate is located at the top of a two-mile drive on a road so winding, steep and narrow that trailers needed a pilot car to make the ascent, but post-climb views were nothing short of spectacular! Kenzo Estate is unusual in Napa Valley for the vast expanse of wilderness it encompass-es. Kenzo Estate is a pristine natural preserve at the origin of watersheds originating on the property and draining East, West and South. Pro-tected within this preserve are rain- and spring-fed reservoirs, vernal pools, streams, and diverse forests of conifer, oak and manzanita. Anyone planning a trip to San Francisco or Napa should definitely include a trip to the Kenzo winery.

Host and chief organizer Nata-lie Rooney-Pitts did an outstanding job coordinating and promoting this event, and her Four Star Farm crew—Katie Cooper, Katie Patton, Anya Lisky, Camille Forstadt, Sylvia Fuchs, Anna Macknight, Haley

Schotte and Eleanor Charles—did anything and everything (braiding, ring crew, managing the gate and coordinating shav-ings deliveries) that was needed once the event was underway. Prior to the event, the same group did a great job getting the

facility ready for inspection. The jumps were freshly painted, the arena was beautifully decorated, microphones were available for clinicians and stabling was well thoughtout with stallions in their own barn well away from mares and foals. While Natalie’s crew was busy in Napa, “across the pond” one of the major organiz-ers, Maren Engelhardt, produced a wonderful program that was as helpful (schedule of events, brief bios on all clinicians and riders plus pedigrees and a brief descrip-tion of stallions, mares and young stock) as it was educational (articles on the history of the Trakehner, evolution of the ATA’s inspection process, and Thoroughbred influ-ence in warmblood breeding). In addition to creating the program, Maren designed the majority of the program ads and gave the presen-tation “The History of the Perfor-mance Test and What it is Today,” a discussion that produced lots of Q & A time from the very engaged audience. All participants received goody bags filled with a mix of Fleeceworks sheepskin mitts and saddle pads, Ariat boot trees, gloves and USA Team hats, Professionals

Choice bucket straps and bits, SmartPak Smart lytes, Trakehner Palooza t-shirts, Galway Downs coffee mugs & canvas bags and Mrs. Pasteur’s cookies. All-in-all the event was very well-run and without question the most educational I’ve seen in nearly fifteen years of attending Trakehner inspections.

Five stallions, nine mares and seven young horses (volun-tary inspection) were on hand for inspection. The weekend began with move-in and measurement of all horses Friday afternoon, followed by one of the weekend’s highlights: the Wine Reception Welcome, generously hosted by Pamela Duffy and Donald Trotter—better known as Sunsprite Warmbloods of Temecula, California. Guests gathered on the winery patio and enjoyed glasses of estate-grown Asatsuyu (Sauvignon Blanc) or Asuka (Cabernet Franc) while snacking on decadent hors d’oeuvres. This elegant reception definitely put everyone in a great mood and certainly impressed those attending their first ATA event. Hopefully other Trakehner owners/breeders/friends will follow Pam and Don’s lead and underwrite future ATA Event Receptions, because this created a wonderful atmosphere for attendees to meet and mingle with other breeders, breed experts from Germany and several advanced-level eventers including 2008 Olympic Individual Silver medalist Gina Miles (another Sunsprite-sponsored contribution).

❧ Mares ❧Saturday morning revealed why move-in had been sched-

uled for 2:00 p.m. the day before as a blanket of fog covered the estate, drastically reducing visibility and holding temperatures around the low-to-mid 50s! Nevertheless, at 8:00 a.m. the mare and young horse inspection began with Inspector Brad Kerbs judging mares and Rhea Gibble evaluating young stock. There was a lot of blood represented in the mares at this inspec-tion (the same would be true for stallion candidates) with all OSB-eligible mares being approved and one PSB-eligible mare not approved. Trakehner mares must receive a minimum score of 42—with no score below 5—for inclusion in the OSB, 50% Trakehner mares must receive a minimum score of 44 (again, no

score below 5) for PSB inclusion, and Arabian and Thorough-bred mares for PSB approval must receive a minimum score of 49 with no category score below 5.

Seven areas are scored for mares (stallions have eight, including free-jumping). They are: type, frame, legs, walk/trot/canter, and general impression. The ATA grading system uses whole numbers only (vs. ½ points – such as 7.5) as each whole number ties to a specific word: 10 = Excellent, 9 = Very good, 8 = Good, 7 = Fairly good, 6 = Satisfactory, 5 = Marginal, 4 = Insuffi-cient, 3 = Fairly poor, 2 = Poor, 1 = Very poor, 0 = Not scored.

Following are the mares that were inspected: ✦ BEL SSTARR, 14.3 h., liver chestnut, foaled 5/26/2006 by Abdullah *Pg*E*, out of Jezabel SSB ox by Diamante ox, bred and owned by Molley Stanely, Stanley Ranch, Reno, NV: 6, 6/5, 6/7/6, 6 = 42 – NOT approved for PSB

✦ CREME BRULE, 15. 2 ½ h., gray, foaled 5/17/2007 by Asher, out of Cayla by Laiken *Pb*, bred by Nancy Fagan, Port Perry, ON, owned by Deborah Sykes Bellingham, Salinas, CA: 8, 8/7, 7/7/7, 7 = 51 – Ap-proved for OSB – High-Point Trakehner Mare

✦ FOLLOW HOPE, 15.2 ½ h., bay, foaled 5/18/2002 by Oman (ShA), out of Faith’s Fantasia by Pregelstrand *Ps*E*, bred by Garnett McFall, San Martin, CA, owned by Linda Klee, Fort Bragg, CA: 8, 8/5, 6/8/6, 7 = 48 – approved for PSB

✦ HORALAS MOONLIGHT DANCER, 15.3 h., bay, foaled 8/1/2007 by Horalas *Pg*E*, out of Faber Dancing Limits by Faber, bred by Jessica Jimenez, Cashmere, WA, owned by Margaret MacGregor, Auburn, IL: 7, 6/5, 7/7/7, 7 = 46 – Approved for OSB

✦ HRAVELLE, 16.0 ½ h., black/brown, foaled 3/6/2008 by Windfall

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*Pg*, out of Haviland (PSB) by Snow Chief xx, bred and owned by Lindsey Reed and James Dominguez, Santa Barbara, CA: 7, 6/6, 8/8/8, 7 = 50 – Approved for OSB – Reserve High-Point Trakehner Mare

✦ OVATION, 16.1 ½ h., chestnut, foaled 4/10/2006 by Fandango, out of Olegra (PSB) by Pajou, bred by Sherry Tourino, Nipomo, CA, owned by Leah Forquer-Raheja, Buellton, CA: 6, 6/5, 8/7/8, 7 = 47 – Approved for OSB

✦ PHARRARI, 15.1 h., black/brown, foaled 5/31/2007 by Kostolany, out of Phara by Panchero (AA), bred and owned by Karen Walters, Clovis, CA: 7, 7/5, 6/7/7, 6 = 45 – Approved for OSB

✦ REGALLAE, 15.1 ½ h., gray, foaled 7/19/2001 by Schönfeld *E*, out of Roshkosh by Condus *E*, bred by Justine Sanger, Sacramento, CA, owned by Natalie Rooney-Pitts, Napa, CA: 8, 8/6, 7/7/7, 7 = 50 – Ap-proved for OSB

✦ TAMARI, 16.1 h., gray, foaled 4/10/2004 by Feuertänzer, out of Tonya Hawk xx (PSB) by Hatchet Man xx, bred by George Morrison & Mary Morrison-Bundy, Portola, CA, owned by Brad Hendrickson, Wilton, CA: 8, 7/7, 7/7/6, 7 = 49 – Approved for OSB

❧ Foals ❧After the mare inspection concluded, Inspector Rhea

Gibble evaluated seven young horses. Although none received

Premium marks, all foals showed themselves wonderfully and several scores were very, very close to Premium:

✦ GRAND MARNIER, buckskin colt, foaled 4/15/2012 by Steinburg, out of Glitters Dream Girl (AA) by Mister Glitter xx, bred and owned by Lori Whitley, Phoenix, OR: 8, 7, 7

✦ HAVAANA, filly foaled 5/11/2012 by Czantiago ox, out of Bel Sstarr by Abdullah *Pg*E*, bred and owned by Molly Stanley, Stanley Ranch, Reno, NV: 8, 7, 7 – This foal is not registrable, even in the Appendix, because it does not have 50% Trakehner blood

✦ HORIZZON, bay colt, foaled 3/23/2012 by Steinburg, out of Hi Tara by Schönfeld *E*, bred and owned by Deborah Sykes Bellingham, Salinas, CA: 7, 7, 7

✦ OF WIND N SKY, bay (gray) filly, foaled 7/3/2012 by Virginian Sky, out of Ovation by Fandango, bred and owned by Natalie Rooney-Pitts, Napa, CA: 8, 7, 8

✦ PANDÔRA, gray filly, foaled 4/17/2012 by Hilife, out of Piazzaa by Hailo *Pg*E*, bred and owned by Lori Whitley, Phoenix, OR: 8, 7, 8

✦ PATRONUS, chestnut colt, foaled 4/5/2012 by Steinburg, out of Per-snickety by Feuertänzer, bred and owned by Lori Whitley, Phoenix, OR: 8, 8, 7

✦ SERYNDIPITY, dark bay filly, foaled 4/8/2012 by Steinburg, out of Symplicity by Rüdiger, bred and owned by Lori Whitley, Phoenix, OR: 7, 7, 7


Creme Brule, High-Point Mare of the inspection. She is by Asher, out of a Laiken *Pb* mare.Photo: Samantha Wakerlin

Grand Marnier, by Steinberg, out of Glitters Dream Girl by Mister Glitter xx, bred by Lori Whitley.Photo: Samantha Wakerlin

Of Wind N Sky, filly by Virginian Sky, out of Ovation by Fandango. Bred by Natalie Rooney-Pitts.Photo: Samantha Wakerlin

Hravelle, Reserve High-Point Trakehner Mare of the inspection. She is by Windfall *Pg*, out of a mare by Snow Chief xx.Photo: Samantha Wakerlin

❧ Stallions ❧After a brief lunch break, it was time for attendees to get

their first look at the stallions on the hard surface and the trian-gle. People lining both sides of the hard surface were following along in their programs as each stallion was presented. Despite the fact there were mares in stalls with run-outs and dressage lessons going on in an adjacent arena, all stallions showed remarkable composure and were responsive to their handlers. While there was a notable amount of blood in the mares in-spected, this was the defining feature of the stallions as four of five were either full or 50% Throughbred or Arabian blood. The other notable feature was that these four also had competition records – two at levels well beyond what the ATA requires for full approval. Youngest to oldest, the stallion candidates with pedigree, description, photo and status were:

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16.1 ½ h., bay, foaled 4/29/2009 by Tzigane *Pb*, out of Pr.St. Schöne Symphonie by Polarpunkt. Bred by Kim Hunter, TwinGates Farm, Argyle, TX, owned by breeder and Gary Mittleider of Kuna, Idaho.

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Tzigane *Pb*

Graditz *E*Rondo by Schabernack

Giesela II by Traumulus

TekoaCondus *E* by Ramzes (AA)

Themse II by Goldgraf

Pr.St. Schöne Symphonie

PolarpunktE.H. Arogno by Flaneur

Polarreise II by Habicht

E.St. Schöner Tag

E.H. Tenor by Tümmler

Schatztruhe by Kurfürst

Trakehner Mare Family of O35A1a Schwarze Schwalbe (Gestüt Webelsgrund)

Dam was bred by Dr. Andreas Wetzel of Germany (breeder of Peron *Pg*) and is a full sister to approved FEI dressage stal-lion Showtime. Second dam is full sister to NMS Res Champion Shannon and produced eventer Schalk and S-level dressage horse Sheward. Family of NMS Champions Santiago, Seigneur (ATA), Songline (FEI Eventing), show jumper sire Sans Souci, international dressage stallions Schwadroneur and Showmaster, Stradivari (appr.), and Grand Prix dressage horses Sotheby’s and Sergent Pepper TSF.

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15 h., chestnut, foaled 5/07/2007 by Granizar ox out of Pascion S ox by Esperanto ox. Bred and owned by Molly Stanley, Stanley Ranch, Reno, NV.

Pedigree

Granizar ox

Ghadames oxJacio ox by Tabal ox

Lopaz ox by Zurich ox

Kadina oxTabal ox by Congo ox

Betonica ox by Maquillo ox

Pascion S ox

Esperanto oxMarmol ox by Tabal ox

Cantinera II ox by Malvito ox

Iberia oxGebel Tarik ox by Jacio ox

Kadofa ox by Zancudo ox

No Trakehner Mare Family assignment

Second dam was a successful Hunter (Field and Show). Dam of sire is full sibling to the Spanish National Champion in Show Jumping, Iago.

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Windfall *Pb*

HabichtBurnus (AA) by Lapis (ShA)

Hallo by Goldregen

E.St. Wundermädel xx

Madruzzo xx by Kaiseradler xx

Wunderblüte xx by Celadon xx

Huadoresya ox

Retador B ox

Barich De Washoe C ox by SSB Zurich B ox

Aljubaa B ox by SSB Zancudo C ox

Lei Huua G ox

El Fara Khalif B ox by Baskfibia G ox

HC Lindie G ox by Al-Marah Indraff G ox

No Trakehner Mare Family assignment

The dam competed internationally in eventing (FEI WBFSH ranked mare)


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16.1 h., gray, foaled 3/28/2003 by Best Before Midnight out of Virginian Girl xx by Limbo xx. Bred by Heinz-Hermann Schroeder, Suestedt, Germany, owned by Fontana Syndikat, Hamburg, Germany, and Natalie Rooney-Pitts, Napa, CA

Pedigree

Best Before Midnight

Sir Shostakovich xx

Rheingold xx by Faberge xx

Sinful xx by Grey Sovereign xx

Bergliebe IIBajar (ShA) by Suakim (ShA)

Bergkette by Gabriel

Virginian Girl xx

Limbo xx

Pentathlon xx by Ennie xx

Lady Arc xx by Acropolis xx

Virtue xx

Poaching xx by Hunter’s Moon xx

Vimarie xx by Vimy xx

Trakehner Mare Family E2—Burton’s Barb Mare

Virginian Sky has evented to the Preliminary level. His dam raced for seven seasons. German Champion steeplechaser at her time. Tail family of Northern Dancer xx, Secretariat xx, Charlottown xx, Ballymoss xx, Hurry On xx, Precipitation xx and Sir Gaylord xx. Trakehner stallions from this family: Amor II and Astronaut. Family also produced Xucar xx (jumper sire in Trakehner breed, sire of Protector, appr.), FEI show jump-ers Belle Doudou, Lolipop, Tinapaei xx and Cantarella. The E2 Thoroughbred family includes, among others, Alleged xx, an influential sire found currently in Trakehner-approved sons Allegrador xx and Fly Society xx. Same tail family as stallion candidate Sea Lion xx.

SEA LION xx (formerly known as Sea Elephant xx)

16.1 h., dark bay, foaled 1/17/1998 by Sea Salute xx, out of Ivory Today xx by Caveat xx. Bred by Roger Toffolon, NY, owned by Pam Fisher, Los Alamos, CA

Pedigree

Sea Salute xx

Danzig xx

Northern Dancer xx by Nearctic xx

Pas de Nom xx by Admira’s Voyage xx

Glowing Honor xx

Seattle Slew xx by Bold Reasoning xx

Glowing Tribute xx by Graustark xx

Ivory Today xx

Caveat xx

Cannonade xx by Bold Bidder xx

Cold Hearted xx by The Axe II xx

Ivory Bay xx

Sir Ivor xx by Sir Gaylord xx

Bill and I xx by Baybrook xx

Trakehner Mare Family E2—Burton’s Barb Mare

Sea Lion xx is an international CCI**** eventer. The second dam is also granddam of the Celle State Stud jumper stal-lion Nobre xx. Tail family of Northern Dancer, Secretariat xx, Charlottown xx, Ballymoss xx, Hurry On xx, Precipitation xx and Sir Gaylord xx. Trakehner stallions from this family: Amor II and Astronaut. Family also produced Xucar xx (jumper sire in Trakehner breed, sire of Protector, appr.), FEI show jumpers Belle Doudou, Lolipop, Tinapaei xx and Cantarella. Same tail family as stallion candidate Virginian Sky

So, with initial impressions of the stallion candidates in mind, the group re-gathered at the main arena for a wonderful demo: Teaching your horse to piaffe and passage with Alfredo Hernandez. Alfredo is an equestrian “artist” whose expertise is teaching piaffe and passage to horse and rider. He is known for his unique talent all over North America and travels frequently to upper level riders to conduct training sessions and clinics. For this demonstration, Alfredo chose several horses of varying ages/levels of training to demonstrate his teaching technique. Maybe the most impressive was the 4-year-old mare, Saphira by Bel Espace Go. Despite being somewhat green, this mare began to really step under herself and though there were a couple of moments of uncertainty, they were short-lived and she never appeared stressed. After 5-6 minutes of

brings to America one of the most valuable dressage pedigrees (Partout, Monteverdi, Anduc), and backs it up with top scores in the national Young Dressage Horse

competition and a Devon champion mature stallion ribbon. His offspring are nearly all bay, conformed like him,

easy to train and ride, and all have outstanding movement. 2006 son Astro won both the 4- and 5-year-old divisions of the

USEA West Coast Young Event Horse championships.

supreme eventing stallion with Olympic, Pan Am, and Rolex **** wins, is producing get consistently like him, with incredible minds and extreme athleticism, as exemplifi ed by the winners on this page.

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Baron Verdibrings to America one of the most valuable dressage

pedigrees (Partout, Monteverdi, Anduc), and backs it up with top scores in the national Young Dressage Horse

competition and a Devon champion mature stallion ribbon. His offspring are nearly all bay, conformed like him,

easy to train and ride, and all have outstanding movement. 2006 son Astro won both the 4- and 5-year-old divisions of the

USEA West Coast Young Event Horse championships.

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We have several ready-to-go young

horses as well as younger horses with

remarkable movement and top pedigrees.

Shown above: a promising 2012 fi lly and

truly a product of New Spring Farm.

She is by Baron Verdi out

of a Windfall daughter/of a Windfall daughter/

Amethyst granddaughter.

...With an Exceptional Prospect from New Spring Farm!

truly a product of New Spring Farm.

She is by Baron Verdi out

remarkable movement and top pedigrees.

Shown above: a promising 2012 fi lly and

...With an Exceptional Prospect

Photos, left to right: Astro by Baron Verdi; Tass Jones photo.

Project Runway by Windfall; Emily Daily photo.

Aurelia by Windfall; Merrick Studios photo.

Asterion by Windfall; Emily Daily photo.

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Young prospects by Windfall and the rising dressage and eventing sire Baron Verdi are available at all times.

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...With an Exceptional Prospect


this training the improvement in overall self-carriage—and cor-responding lightness in the front—was remarkable. Alfredo also worked with Susan Mahoney’s mare Barina (Graditz *E* - Peron *Pg*) and stallion candidate Virginian Sky, who showed such obvi-ous talent for piaffe/passage that I would not be surprised to see him compete in some straight dressage shows in the near future.

A brief break allowed everyone to get up and stretch (perhaps visit the Ben & Jerry’s booth in the trade show area) and watch the FSF Crew again spring into action, setting up jumps for the next demo – which, in my opinion, was the highlight of the weekend’s demonstrations : How to Spot a Future Sport Horse in Conventional Inspec-tions with Erhard Schulte. Big thanks to Fernando Muhaded, who runs KD Trakehners’ West Coast Jumper training operation and who brought the former approved stallion, now a gelding, Blitz und Donner for this clinic as well as to Pamela Duffy and Donald Trotter (Sunsprite Warmbloods) for bringing Parody SRC *M* (Guy Laroche – Carino *E*) and Sunsprite Syrius (Titulus – Silent Fox xx) as well as riders Bec Braitling and Gina Miles. It’s pretty cool when an Individual Olympic Silver Medalist agrees to be a “demo rider” at a breed association event! What made this demonstration so powerful was the fact that it combined anatomy with function as each horse was first ridden and/or jumped then brought before the crowd where Erhard discussed conformation. For example, after Gina jumped a few fences with Syrius, Erhard had her unsaddle him and stand him up near side facing the crowd. Erhard then proceeded to discuss the conformational points (high withers, strong hip/loin connection, powerful hip) that made him ideally suited for a career in the jumping sports. Watching the crowd during this demo, I noticed several people suddenly open their eyes a bit wider and slowly nod as if this finally made sense. By

contrast, the stunning mare Parody is so elegant it was easy to see her as a future dressage star, but again, it was much more effec-tive being able to see the anatomy while Erhard discussed how her conformation (less-pronounced withers, shape and angle of hip and hind leg) made her particularly well-suited for dressage.

I very much hope the ATA will incorpo-rate this type of demonstration in future Annual Convention and Membership meetings. I think it would be extremely useful to breeders as they evaluate their young stock and make decisions about their future careers in sport (or which market to target if the horse is for sale).

A buffet dinner that night was held at the gorgeous pool house on the Kenzo Estates. Sitting on the verandah, sipping a fabulous Kenzo Asatsuyu Sauvignon

Blanc and looking beyond the outdoor pool to the vineyards the fog that had cov-ered the estate that morning began to creep back across the landscape and it was both beautiful and a bit eerie watching it prog-

ress over the hills and across the vineyards. This sort of thing doesn’t happen in Texas, so it was fascinating having a front-row view! As I table-hopped, I noticed that there was no one item from the day’s activities that dominated conversations. People were talking about the foals (especially the fascinating color of the buckskin colt and the size and bone of the ¾ Arabian daughter of Czantiago ox), mares, clinics (major theme here was how unique and educational it was to have the horses unsaddled and stood up so conformation could be discussed), piaffe/passage demo (noticed several upper level riders chatting with Alfredo Hernandez) and of course, the stallions. While everyone was having a good time, there was a definite sense of anticipation in the group and most retired early, knowing Sunday would begin early and no one wanted to miss the stallions at liberty, free jumping and, of course, approvals.

Since there was so much Q & A in both demos Saturday, the schedule of events had to be shuffled and Sunday morning

started with an excellent presentation by Maren Engelhardt on The Performance Test System in Europe. The main barn aisle was turned into a “conference room” with end doors closed and a large, white sheet as our screen. This worked surprisingly well because, again, though the sun was up, the fog hadn’t yet burned off. Lots of Q & A again from the crowd and a 1-hour scheduled presentation wound up being 1.5 hours. Once the presentation was over, focus immediately shifted to the final phases of the inspection for stallions and things swung into gear quickly. The arena looked wonderful, the jump chute was ready to go and volunteers (especially the tireless Lori Whitley) were always will-ing to jump in and lend a hand whipping in (keeping stallions out of the corners with longe whips), setting jumps or helping make a human wall behind the roped off entry area so stallions didn’t head back to the barn too soon! Each stallion came into the arena, was stood up before the judges then reins removed so they could show themselves at liberty. After a few minutes watch-ing them trot and canter both ways the judges asked handlers to “catch him up” and prepare for the jump chute. For whatever rea-son, the jump chute historically has a moment where an assistant with a whip—intending to help urge the horse forward—inevita-bly steps in too soon and the horse stops. Perhaps again showing how much of a role education played in this inspection, that did not happen in Napa and consequently all stallions navigated the jump chute with ease. After all horses had completed the in-hand and at-liberty phases, horses 4 years old or older had to come back under saddle and be evaluated in a riding phase, including walk, trot, canter, changes of rein and 20-meter circles. In an-other demonstration of good character all stallions were obedient and had no problem being in the arena with other stallions.

As soon as the riding phase was complete, the judges were ready to make their announcements. Saddles were quickly taken off (and literally hung over the arena walls) and the horses were walked in a circle around the arena—youngest to oldest—await-ing the judges’ decision. In the end, four of the five stallions were approved: Semper Fidelis, Czantiago ox, Virginian Sky and Sea Lion xx. The crowd’s applause indicated they were happy with the judges’ decisions and with the historic approval of so much blood. Interestingly the ATA did not have a Thorough-bred on the approved stallion list for more than 15 years and

now in the span of eight months has approved two – and it had been even longer since an Arabian stallion was approved.

After the approval, Semper Fidelis got his hip brand from David Couch and his neck brand—smaller version of the ATA hip brand; optional for approved stallions—from ATA President Tim Holekamp! I thought this was a neat bit of history repeat-ing because eleven years ago in Lake St. Louis, Missouri, Tim did the neck brand for Tzigane *Pb*, sire of Semper Fidelis. No other stallions were branded as full Thoroughbred or Arabian horses do not carry the Trakehner brand and Virginian Sky was branded in Germany. Photos and the judges’ comments on the newly approved stallions are also in this issue. Congratulations to the owners of the new Approved stallions and OSB mares. With this much performance blood hopefully we will see many of these horses in the show results next year!

All-in-all it was an incredible weekend that went off beauti-fully due to great organization and a lot of hard work. Thanks again to our host Natalie Rooney-Pitts and her Four Star Farm crew, Pamela Duffy and Donald Trotter for having a hand in everything from Friday night’s wine reception to bringing Sunsprite horses/riders for the “How to Spot a Future Sport Horse” demo and getting tons of excellent items for the goody bags: KD Trakehners and Fernando Muhaded for bringing Blitz und Donner for the sport horse demo; Alfredo Hernandez for his piaffe/passage demo; Maren Engelhardt for a wonderful program – and presentation, and Erhard Schulte for a one-of-a-kind educational seminar. Others who helped make this weekend a reality: Linda Betts (barn manager), Debra Cleveland (event secretary and webmaster), Janice Matthews (ring steward), Susan Mahoney (lunches, batteries, coffee, wine), Jeff Charles (parking attendant and arena maintenance), Alexandra Perts, Lindsey Kelejian, Dana Perry and Rodney Pitts (anything and everything that needed doing).

Editor’s note: Unfortunately, after the inspections, it was discovered that the stallion Czantiago ox was a carrier of the genetic disorder Cerebellar Abiotrophy. In order to keep this disorder out of the Trakehner breed, the ATA Board of Trustees voted to withdraw the approval of this stallion.

Thanks to Maren Engelhardt for compiling the pedigrees and information for all the stallion candidates in this article.

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Erhard Schulte conducting the clinic, How to Spot a Future Sport Horse in Conventional Inspections. In the background is Parody SRC *M* with Bec Braitling.Photo: Samantha Wakerlin

Sunsprite Syrius, a 4-year-old gelding byTitulus, out of Slytely Cinnamon xx, ridden by Gina Miles and owned by Sunsprite Warmbloods, Pamela Duffy-Trotter and Donald Trotter. Photo: Shari Scott Photography

Newly approved stallion Virginian Sky with Natalie Rooney during the piaffe-passage presentation. Photos: Samantha Wakerlin


Three Trakehners were found on the list of competitors in eventing at the 2012 London Olympics. The lead-off pair for the silver medal eventing team from Great Britain was Opposition Buzz (by Fleetwater Opposition, out of Jungle Bee xx by Jungle Eagle xx) and Nicola Wilson. Wilson and Opposition Buzz were also members of Great Britain’s gold medal team at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games.

It is interesting to note that more Eastern European countries are fielding individuals and teams and becoming more competi-tive on the world stage. The other two Trakehner eventers were

from Belarus: Pasians, a 12-year-old gelding by Sabo, out of Peseta by Plutarch, ridden by Aliaksandr Faminou, and Passat, a 15-year-old gelding by Punsh, out of Sistema I, ridden by Alena Tseliapushkina. Both geldings are owned by Yanuts Dzmitry. As you look through the extended pedigrees of these horses you can trace them back to the relocation of some of the East Prussian horses to Eastern Europe at the end of World War II.

Also interesting is the Trakehner blood in the French event horse, Nemetis de Lalou ridden by Lionel Guyon at the Games in London. His sire, Yarlands Summersong, is also by Fleetwater

Opposition and was competed for France by Marie-Christine Duroy in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

In dressage, a half-Trakehner by E.H. Gribaldi, the 15-year-old Dutch Warmblood stallion Painted Black, competed in dres-sage with Morgan Barbacon Mestres of Spain. Painted Black was formerly competed by three-time Olympic gold medalist Anky van Grunsven from the Netherlands.

Another Trakehner bloodline tidbit of interest from Eastern Europe at the London Games was the Ukrainian dressage horse Parish (15-year-old stallion, registered name Parizh, by Iris, out

of Pahma) ridden by Svetlana Kiseliova (currently ranked 47th in the World Dressage Rankings). On the top side of his pedigree Trakehners come in three generations back (they call them Ukrainian Warmbloods in the first and second generations). In the sixth generation you find Pythagoras and in the seventh Dampfross (Pythagoras’s sire), Parsival, Hyperion, Pilger and other less familiar old Trakehner names. This is another insight into the split between the Trakehners who were taken East after the war and those who made the Trek to the West.

Trakehners at the 2012 London Olympics

Nicola Wilson and Opposition Buzz by Fleetwater Opposi-tion were members of the silver medal British Team at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.Photo by Kim MacMillan/MacMillan Photography

Passat, a Trakehner gelding by Punsh bred in Belarus, and rider Alena Tseliapushkina negotiate fence number five, the Chestnut Logs, on cross-country in Greenwich Park.Photo by Kim MacMillan/MacMillan Photography

Belarus-bred Trakehner gelding Pasians (by Sabo) and rider Aliaksandr Faminou exit the first water obstacle on course, fence number 8 – The River Bank, at the London Olympics.Photo by Kim MacMillan/MacMillan Photography

Painted Black, a Dutch Warmblood stallion by the Trakehner E.H. Gribaldi, and Morgan Barabcons Mestres of Spain com-peted in dressage.Photo by Kim MacMillan/MacMillan Photography

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at 2012 Adequan FEI North American Junior Young Rider Championships

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Trakehner mare harmony gs(Adrian x Hilary GS by Bukephalos)

Trakehner gelding finale w(Abdullah *Pg*E* x Freeda by Tannenberg*E*)

Trakehner COLT Halloween fhm(Abdullah *Pg*E* x Harmony GS by Adrian)

Seven horses with at least 50 percent Trakehner blood were identified as competing in the 2012 Adequan FEI North American Junior Young Rider Championships (NAJYRC) held at the Kentucky Horse Park in late July in Lexington. Five were dressage horses, two purebreds and three half-Trakehners by the stallion E.H. Gribaldi (sire of Totilas, gold medalist in dressage at the 2010 World Equestrian Games) and registered as Dutch Warmbloods. Three were eventers, two purebreds and one half-Trakehner by Hilton GS, registered as a Canadian Sport Horse.

DressageThe highlight in Junior dressage for North American

Trakehner breeders was the fourth place individual finish by the U.S.-bred 10-year-old gelding Friedensfürst (by Donaufürst *Ps*E*, out of Feodamee von Krotenbach by E.H. Hohenstein, bred by Erin Brinkman, Spica Dressage, Wellborn, FL) and his owner/rider 16-year-old Lindsey Holleger, Whigham, GA. The pair also finished sixth in the Junior freestyle and helped their USDF Region 3 Team to a fourth place finish. Holleger is a student of Brinkman’s and she purchased “Fenway” from Brink-

man three years ago. Holleger and Fenway were also the 2011 USDF Junior Second Level National Champions.

With about one lesson a month with Brinkman, Holleger, who is a United States Dressage Federation bronze medalist, has taken Fenway to the Prix St. Georges level. “Fenway is a comedi-an – sweet, adorable and gorgeous. He is a teddy bear and loves to give hugs and kisses. He likes to hold onto the bit when I take off the bridle until I laugh,” said a smiling Holleger.

Also in Junior dressage was Marah Cahill-Gaudet riding the 11-year-old gelding Urvin (reg. Dutch Warmblood by E.H. Grib-aldi, out of Onette) competing for the Canada East-West Team. Cahill-Gaudet, 18, St. John’s, NL, Canada, had only had Urvin for four months at the time of the NAJYRC. “Urvin is a sociable and hardworking horse and I look forward to developing our partnership further,” she said.

Guardian Angel, a 14-year-old purebred Trakehner geld-ing (by Gardez, out of Ascona, bred by the Marbach Stud in Germany) and rider 19-year-old Alexandra Kitchen, Atlanta, GA, competed at the NAJYRC in 2011 and 2012. Competing in the Young Rider division this year, they finished 15th individu-ally and 13th in the freestyle. “He is an amazing teacher, very

By Kim MacMillanFriedensfürst (Donaufürst *Ps*E* – E.H.Hohenstein) owned and ridden by Lindsey Holleger was the top Trakehner representative at the 2012 NAJYRC. They finished fourth individually in Junior dressage.Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography


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patient and so sweet,” said Kitchen of Guardian Angel, who is owned by her mother Jody.

The best scores in Young Rider dressage by a Half-Trakehner were posted by the 14-year-old mare Rifradin (reg. Dutch Warm-blood by E.H. Gribaldi, out of Atradin), ridden by 19-year-old Monica Houweling, Delta, BC, Canada, and owned by her mother Linda who purchased the mare from Leatherdale Farms in Minnesota. The pair, who had only been together for seven months prior to the NAJYRC, earned Young Rider individual silver and freestyle silver. “She is truly a princess, with a huge opinion, but the sweetest mare ever. When she finds the trust in her rider, she tries her heart out. She is brave, but very sensi-tive,” said Linda Houweling.

Another E.H. Gribaldi son competed in Young Rider dres-sage, the 15-year-old gelding Picasso (reg. Dutch Warmblood, out

of the mare Kore, bred by P. Sluetels in The Netherlands), owned and ridden by Courtney Clary Bauer, 19, Midlothian, TX. The pair has also earned their USDF bronze and silver medals together and competed at the NAJYRC in both 2011 and 2012.

EventingTwo purebred Trakehner mares were on the same Junior

team, the silver medal team from Ontario, Canada. The high-est placed finishers on Team Ontario were 18-year-old Haley Armstrong-Laframboise, Orangeville, ON, Canada, and Rokso-lana (12-year-old mare by Enrico Caruso*Ps*E*, out of Traube by Konvoi, bred by Myrna McDonald, owned by Steve Chapa) who finished ninth individually. Roksolana and Armstrong-Laframboise were also second in the Young Rider division in

Marah Cahill-Gaudet and Urvin, a Dutch Warmblood by the Trakehner stallion E.H. Gribaldi, competed in Junior dressage at the 2012 NAJYRC.Photo by Sarah Miller/MacMillan Photography

Young Rider Alexandra Kitchen riding mother Jody’s Trakehner gelding Guardian Angel (by Gardez, bred in Germany by the Mar-bach Stud) was back for her second year at the NAJYRC.Photo by Kim MacMillan/MacMillan Photography

the Bromont CCI* in 2012. “She has great work ethic and loves food. She is the best mare you could ask for. She is also working on a modeling career,” laughed Armstrong-Laframboise.

Also members of the silver medal Ontario Junior Team were 18-year-old Kylie Figueira, Fenelon Falls, ON, Canada, and Danzig (15-year-old mare by Topaz II, out of Danuta by Corvin, bred by Franz Hollenbach). They finished the competition in 17th place.

Both mares and their riders stood in the top ten after dressage, then went double clear on cross-country. After cross-country Figueira and Danzig and Armstrong-Laframboise and Roksolana were second and third respectively. Their stadium

rounds dropped them down a bit in the individual standings, but their scores significantly contributed to their team medal.

In the Young Rider division in eventing, the half-Trakehner, 10-year-old, 18-hand gelding Tobiaz (reg. Canadian Sport Horse by Hilton GS, out of Tuilly by Burioso, bred by David and Joy Levison) and his owner/rider Erin MacDonald, 21, Barrie, ON, Canada, earned team bronze (Canada Ontario-Quebec Team) and ninth individually. They jumped cleanly on cross-country. MacDonald’s family has owned “Toby” for four years. He was originally purchased to be her father’s horse, but sadly her father passed away from cancer in 2011. “He has tons of personality, a good work ethic and tries really hard,” said MacDonald.

Monica Houweling and her Dutch mare Rifradin, by the Trakehner stallion E.H. Gribaldi, took individual and freestyle silver in Young Rider dressage at the 2012 NAJYRC.Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography

Competing in Young Rider dressage was Courtney Clary Bauer riding the Dutch Warmblood gelding Picasso by the Trakehner stallion E.H. Gribaldi.Photo by Sarah Miller/MacMillan Photography

The highest placed Trakehner in Junior eventing at the 2012 NAJYRC was the mare Roksolana (Enrico Caruso *Ps*E* - Konvoi) ridden by Haley Armstrong-Laframboise. They earned team silver and ninth individually.Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography

(far left) Members of the silver medal Ju-nior eventing team from Ontario, Canada, were the mare Danzig (Topaz II – Cor-vin) and Kylie Figueira.Photo by Kim MacMillan/MacMillan Photography

(left) Erin MacDonald and Tobiaz, by Hilton GS, were members of the bronze medal Young Rider Canada Ontario-Que-bec Team and finished ninth individually.Photo by Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography

The phrase “trip of a lifetime” might seem a cliché, but it is truly the most appropriate way to describe the cruise of the Baltic my husband Jason and I took this spring. The trip de-parted from the German coastal port of Travemünde, and after ports of call in Gdansk (Danzig), Baltyisk/Kaliningrad (Königs-berg), Klaipeda (Memel), Riga, Talinn (Reval), Saint Petersburg, Helsinki, Stockholm, we headed back to Travemünde. Our ship, the MS Deutschland, “Das Traumschiff” (“The Dream Ship,” also the name of a very popular German television series. —ed.), is the last remaining cruise ship of German registry, and is fashioned in the Grand Hotel style. The cruise along the golden Bern-steinküste (Amber Coast) had special trips on land designed especially for Pferdeliebhaber (horse lovers.)

Our fellow passengers included a famous rider, people active in breed organizations (Trakehner and Holsteiner), mother and wife of Olympic riders, Trakehner owners and breeders, horse show organizers, and those interested in history and horses.

Monday, May 28th. Our first port of call is Danzig. From the ship we travel by bus to the Landgestüt Preußisch Stargard. (Starogard Stud) in West Prussia. We are greeted at Starogard

by the Stud Director Przemyslaw Boleski, with a welcoming drink of homemade schnapps. Starogard had been previously supported with state funds, and now (after the world economic decline) is being forced to run with private monies. Architec-turally, the stud’s buildings are of red brick. Older style stand-ing stalls have been converted to the newer box-type. Here we are presented with a number of Trakehner mares and colts with interesting bloodlines—including the two-year-old brown colt Hecbekas by Vikis, son of the graded Horalas*Pg*E*, out of Heiga; and the yearling colt Aspeidas, by Hipoidas (damsire Horalas). Pilger bloodlines were represented in many of the horses shown. The two-year-old black colt Avatar was of par-ticularly good quality, and interested many of us, as his genetics (by Ajbek, out of Alana) are not yet represented in Germany. A group of us, under the name Pferdefreunde Ostsee, purchased him as a stallion prospect. The eastern Champion of the Mare Performance Test, and Reserve, were presented under saddle. We are treated to a lunch of wild boar and lentils, and the obligatory schnapps.

Tuesday, May 29th. The following day, after the ship had

been cleared by the Russian border control, we disembark in Baltiysk (Pillau) near Kaliningrad (Königsberg), the port of the former capital city of East Prussia, and board the tour bus which is to take us on our journey. On this gray morning, the bus is to drive us with our Russian guide to the Preußisches Hauptgestüt Trakehnen (Jasnaja Poljana). To leave the port, we go through a border checkpoint more reminiscent of East-West border crossings of twenty years or more ago. Our passports are taken from us, and they are returned twenty or so minutes later with entry stamps. Perhaps the only thing that has really changed here is the color and style of the uniforms.

Our bus makes its way to the highway. Notable in their absence are any signs of official “rest stops,” public restrooms, or even modern shopping centers. We stop approximately half-way to Trakehnen at a gravel parking lot, with woods of tall fir trees flanking us from either side. Beyond us is a pond ringed by gray birches, and a few wooden picnic tables stand at its edge. An aged mint-green trailer serves as a snack stand—candy bars, beer, tea and coffee are offered for sale. Quantities are meager, and I wonder if they are using the pondwater to make the cof-

fee and tea. An outhouse serves as the single public restroom. We reboard the bus, and continue on the roadway.

The fog has burned off by the time we leave the main high-way. The tour bus winds its way through the small Russian towns on a two-lane road. These streets, like the highway, are relatively little travelled. Our guide Eugen spoke of the hardships still faced by the Russian peoples, and the re-election of Putin. The region of Königsberg had the smallest number of votes for the Russian leader, Eugen explains. This area feels more bound to Europe than to the central government. Much of the local economy takes its income from Bernstein (amber), but the big money, he states, comes from raw materials, and a full eighty percent of this goes straight to Moscow. Most of the meat and milk comes from Poland or Lithuania, while the fields of the former East Prussia stand empty, or have very low yield. This area had been start-ing to do well, until the world-wide financial crisis of 2008. The plan, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, from the Russian standpoint, was to make the area around Kaliningrad like the Hong Kong of the East. Any thought that this region would be returned to peoples other than the current inhabitants should

by Margaret MacGregor

Photos by Margaret MacGregor unless otherwise noted


A young mare.Background: a mare herd in Lithuania.


be quickly discarded. Russia has tremendous geopolitical interest in the port city of Kaliningrad, as this is its only northern seaport in which the waters do not freeze. The surrounding countryside remains underdeveloped and undersupported from the central government in Moscow.

As we gaze through the bus windows, we see remnants of the past. Many of the former East Prussian homesteads with their red brick buildings have been restored in the nearly seventy years of occupation, but unlike the farmsteads of Poland or Lithuania, the area appears chronically economi-cally depressed. Everything seems to be reduced to that which is merely functional. There is little decorative landscaping around the homes, curtains with-out adornment hang in the windows. There are few new buildings along our route. Many of the fields lie fallow. There is very little livestock to be seen—anywhere. We pass a number of small churches, with their fenced-in graveyards. In contrast to many of the adjacent homes, and despite nearly half a century of Soviet rule, the churches seem relatively preserved, neat, with flowers and decorations marking the graves. How is this possible, especially when churches were outlawed during that same period? Our guide tells us that churches were used to store grain, throughout the countryside. This is also the explanation for the interior of these build-ings having survived. Since the dissolution of

the USSR, they are gradually being restored. We near the junction in the two-lane country road which

marks the turn-off for Trakehnen. To the left lies the roadway which heads toward Georgenburg. Ten years ago this estate was bought by an oil magnate from Russia. It is reported to us that he holds horse shows there. He even has Trakehner horses, but not purebred. We turn right, travelling along the oak-lined roadway, and crossing the railroad tracks. We are following the same pathway of countless others: horses, riders, breeders, nobility, stableboys, students of history, fleeing peoples and conquering armies.

We drive along an allée with the oaks mak-ing a canopy above us. To our right would have been the path the riders took. In the distance lie Stallupönen, Gumbinnen, as well as Bajorgal-len, where Tempelhüter stood. Some of these sites still have remnants of the stalls, we are told. We cross the Pissa Canal, and drive into the town of Yasnaya Polyana (Trakehnen). To our left lies the Apotheke (pharmacy), the Hotel zum Elch, and farther along, the Post. We turn right, cross over the sluice, and head to the Tor, or the Gate to the Hauptgestüt Trakehnen.

Our bus parks in the shade, along the side of the road near the front of the famed Tor. The entry gate, which appears to be newly painted, sits adjacent to the former Landstallmeisterhaus (Stud Director’s residence), now a school for the

The gate into the Neuer Hof at Trakehnen.

Starogard stud.


local Russian children. Like the film clips I had seen, the sound of the birds in the oak trees seems practically deafening. We go through the Tor, and we see the copper beech tree shown in many photographs. This tree on the lawn is now well over one hundred years old, as are some of the oaks. The Landstall-meisterhaus, perhaps the most recently painted building in the Neuer Hof (New Yard), shows the greatest attention to façade of any of the remaining buildings. Despite this, however, it shows signs of peeling paint. We are ushered into the building, and our Russian hosts offer us scalding hot tea in small plastic cups. We are then directed into the museum section of the school (rooms on the ground floor of the Landstallmeisterhaus which were once the dining room), and shown the newly gilded and restored weathervane, as well as other artifacts (the cement feed trough from Cancara’s summer paddock, books donated to them by visiting friends of the East Prussian Warmblood of

Trakehner Origin). With great pride they point to the books, portraits, and decorative items which adorn the walls of the two-room museum.

From the Landstallmeisterhaus we walk on the street under the tall canopy of green oak leaves, a vibrant color at this time of year. We are ushered into a restored Alte Apotheke for lunch. The luncheon is a plentiful, if not overly flavorful, assortment of fresh salad, meat goulash, and tinned vegetables, followed by a dry cake. The Alte Apotheke has been transformed into a stop-ping place for the visiting tourists, and is a brighter spot along the village street. Several of us leave the luncheon to explore outside. Next door to the Apotheke lies the Hotel Elch. The façade of many of the buildings, including the Hotel Elch, is relatively tidy, but the back courtyards tell another story. They are lined with broken glass—liquor bottles mostly, and trash amongst the foot-tall light green weeds. The cellar opening to the Elch is open, no longer with signs of the door which once stood there. The cellar is filled with loose and bagged decaying matter, as well as an old Christmas tree.

We head back through the Tor, and after the obligatory group picture, pay more attention to the remaining buildings

of the Hauptgestüt. The schoolchildren try to sell us pictures of the Tor and of the Landstallmeisterhaus. To our right lies the well, still operational, and to our left the Oberveterinär (head veterinarian), and the Sekretariat (office). The Reitburschen-haus (grooms’ quarters) has been converted to a school as well. Like other parts of the Neuer Hof, the kennel for the Meute (hounds) has been bricked shut. The quarantine remains, as does the Auktionsstall (auction barn). The Laufstall (run-in stall), and the first floor of the riding arena remain. Many of the remaining buildings, when in use, are repurposed. The riding arena now only exists as a one-story building. It is a cow barn. The doors are locked, there are no longer any windows, no ventilation. Outside there would be pastureland, but despite the warm sunny weather, the animals remain closed indoors.

We circle around past the auction barn, one of stallion summer paddocks, and stroll back toward the area in which the

stallion barns stood. The Hauptbeschälerstall (chief sire barn) is no more. We walk to the ruins of the “new” Speicher (grain stor-age facility), an engineering marvel at the time it was built. The Speicher was a multistoried brick and concrete building capable of storing grain for the entire region. It is past the point of return-ing to agricultural use; filled with graffiti and broken bottles, it is clearly a hangout spot for the youth of the area.

We head back to the bus, and are again accosted by the schoolchildren. Some of our group pass out to the children the boxed snacks the ship has provided for us. We buy photographs for one euro each, and board the bus. The children scurry off into the wooded area with their booty—we see them opening the snack boxes, and comparing the contents with each other.

After a bus tour of the city of Königsberg, the former capital city of East Prussia, we ride back to the port of Königsberg, and the passengers on our bus are a little less talkative than on the way out. The pilgrimage has affected us all—some had been to Trakehnen; most had not. A widow who had never seen the Paradies der Pferde, but whose husband had grown up and worked in Trakehnen, could have led us on a tour of the Gestüt. His vision and his memories had been passed to his wife with

such clarity and detail that she had already travelled there many times, if only in his memories and her imagination.

Wednesday, May 30th. MS Deutschland docks at the port of Klaipeda (Memel), Lithuania. Lithuania is the largest and southernmost of the three Baltic States, and the first to declare its independence from Soviet rule. A bright sunny morning brings us to the third largest city of the country, and Memel is the largest seaport. We head to the Nemunas Stud. Nemunas is a distance from Memel, and on our way through the countryside we see a great deal of highway construction, European grocery stores, and homes being built throughout the countryside. A member of NATO and the European Union since 2004, Lithu-ania is a country in evolution. The raw material used to build homes is wood. The homes are of good size, and with some or-namental carvings and decorative landscaping. The earth here is sandy, the sun is warm, and the skies are wide.

Unlike the two studs we have already seen, the Nemunas

Stud was built during the Soviet era; it is built with the white brick typical of that time: functional, but without adornment. We are warmly greeted by the Director, and his assistant. Lars Gehrmann explains that I now stand the stallion Horalas, who was bred here. “Ahhh! Horalas!” Big smiles and nods. We are shown a number of horses in their indoor arena. Among them are a graded Amiego son; a graded Horalas son, Vikis; the Hora-las daughter Folija with filly at her side; an Abdullah son out of a mare by Horalas.

I am introduced to Horalas’ rider, Rimas Rimkus, who rode him for a win in the 2001 Vilnius Grand Prix, a World Cup Quali-fier. I am told stories of Horalas as a youngster. The young stud was not allowed to be turned out at the same time as any mares—oth-erwise he would jump out of any paddock in which he was put.

After an introduction to the horses in the indoor arena, we tour the surrounding area to see the herds. They are run-ning free in the area near the river Nemunas. (Nemunas means

Left: Memorial where the Tempelhüter statue stood at Trakehnen. For a 1937 photo of the statue, see the last issue of the American Trakehner, Summer 2012, page 28. The line of stones visible behind this memorial inset into the ground, are also seen in the 75-year-old photo, as well as a younger version of the large tree in this image. Right: Landstallmeisterhaus.

Top of the page: On the right is the Gestütssekretariat as it looked before the War. On the left, how it looks now, with no money available for restoration. You can still distinguish where the arch was, now bricked up, and the plaster and paint are gone, revealing the brick under-neath. Bottom left: All that remains of the indoor arena: the bottom level with no windows, used now to house cows. Bottom right: The ruins of the Speicher (grain storage facility), once an engineering marvel.


Magdalena is kind, willing, and quiet. She learns quickly and is eager to please her rider. She has three excellent gaits and due to her sweet nature, would make a very nice young rider or amateur horse. In professional training.

Magdalena is a 2005 black mare by Ibsen out of Magnolie/Topas II.

Maia is a 2003 bay mare by Ibsen out of Magnolie/Topas II.

Friederike is a 1999 dark bay mare by Topas II out of Fantazia by Amiego.

Friederike is a very smart and sensitive mare. She has three excellent gaits and very correct conformation. Friederike has had professional dressage training (fi rst level) and goes well under saddle but will require an experienced and confi dent rider.

Maia stands at 18 hands, goes under saddle, has a quiet and gentle nature, and has three very good gaits. She would make an outstanding addition to a high quality breeding program.

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Memel), and are very close to the Russian border. They sense our coming and run off. In the distance we can see the Russian watchtowers. The guards also watch over the horses, we are told with a smile. The running of the herd in the bright sunshine, with a bright blue sky: this was what I had imagined (see photo pages 22–23). Here in the Memelland the landscape is differ-ent than in Trakehnen. The soil is lighter, sandier. The region regularly floods in the spring. This is now the pastureland for the cows, and horses cared for by the stud.

We attend a luncheon with our Lithuanian hosts; the restaurant and luncheon are in stark contrast to that served at the Alte Apotheke on the previous day. The building is newer, with much decorative landscaping, clear pride in ownership, and everything is plentiful. The Lithuanians seem to be leaving behind their years of occupation as quickly as possible.

After luncheon, we reboard the bus and drive to the Kurische Nehrung (Curonian Spit). To reach the Spit, our bus drives onto a ferry which shuttles us across the Haff (lagoon). After we are on board, two women who appear to be of univer-sity age walk their horses onto the ferry. The image puts me in mind of Marion Gräfin Döhnhoff and her cousin Sissi Lehndorf boarding the small ferry with their mounts during their Ritt durch Masuren (Ride through Masuren) in 1941. We cross onto the Curonian Spit, and drive along the Spit to Nida (Nidden). Nidden remains a resort town as well as an area beloved by art-ists, artisans, and authors. Thomas Mann had a summer house here. We drive further and get out to climb over the dunes to the Baltic Sea. A breeze cools the air, but the sun warms our fac-es. It is a beautiful afternoon. We return via the ferry to Memel, and I look for the girls and their horses, but do not see them.

During our time on the Spit, especially when looking back across the Haff to the mainland, I think about those who made the Trek from this and neighboring regions westward to relative safety. I image this landscape not in green and sand, with bright blue skies, but gray, and cold, and snow-covered, with the wind whipping across the dunes and ice.

Thursday, May 31st brings us to Riga, Latvia. Riga is one of the Hanseatic cities and is the largest of the Baltic states. Riga is designated a UNESCO World Heritige Site, because of the large number of Jugendstil (German Art Noveau) buildings still stand-ing. Latvia joined the European Union in 2004. Riga is unparal-

leled in its range of architectural styles. Represented are Gothic, Romantic, Renaissance, Baroque, Classic—next to the cement-panel style of the Soviets. The architectural styles reflect the occu-pying power of the time—Germany, Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Riga today has a thriving city center with shops and cafes.

Friday, June 1st. We tour the Schloss Rundale, the “Latvian Versailles,” which was designed by the famous Rastrelli—the same who designed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

Saturday, June 2nd. We travel to the city of Talinn (Reval), Estonia. Talinn is the northernmost Hanseatic city, and the city center is a delightful maze of streets and buildings, surprisingly close to the Finnish city of Helsinki. Sunday morning we tour the city, and in the afternoon we travel by bus to the outskirts of the city to visit a local stable and horse breeders. We are made welcome, and young Trakehner horses are presented and put through a jump chute. We then go outside, where a tent and barbecue have been set up. We are treated to schnapps, fine wine, fish and caviar dishes. In the outdoor arena, riders exercise their horses. Paradoxically, it is both a surprise, yet not one at all, that we are so generously welcomed by friends of the Trakehner horse.

Monday, June 4th. In the morning we dock in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia. The nights have been very short on this trip—this far north the sun barely sets this time of year. These are the famed “white nights” for which this area is known. It is light enough to read at three in the morning, and by docking time at 8:30 in the morning, the sun is high in the sky. I antici-pate the extended border controls, but in contrast to Königs-berg, the controls in St. Petersburg are modern and efficient. St. Petersburg is described as the most “western” city of Russia; it was founded in the 18th century by Peter the Great, and was the capital city of Russia until 1918.

Jason and I have signed up for a tour of the city with visiting of the famed Peterhof. On the bus trip to the palace, I am able to see the grand buildings, the boulevards befitting of a capital city. The city is quite impressive. Everything is on a grand scale, and because it is relatively modern, especially compared with cities like Riga and Talinn, it “fits” together: the architecture is generally of the same period. I am struck by the lack of trees which are visible from the streets; I suspect there may be greenery in the courtyards, but little green is visible from the boulevards. This gives the city an element of steril-

ity, perhaps. We travel to Peterhof—a glorious palace, with its Grand Cascade—and I wonder if trees and gardens were reserved for nobility. The Grand Cascade, modeled after Louis XIV’s fountains at Chateau de Marly are a technological marvel, even today. All of the fountains operate without pumps, and draw water from a 4-kilometer aqueduct. They work entirely by the force of gravity due to the elevation. We travel back after our tour and are shown many cathedrals and churches—this comes as a relative surprise to me, as I had thought religion relatively outlawed during the Soviet era.

The following day we travel to Catherine’s Palace, which is in the process of being restored. Catherine’s Palace had been gutted after the siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg). The famed Amber Room, which had been presented to Peter the Great by the King of Prussia in 1716, was dismantled and removed during the occupation of Leningrad. There has always been great mys-tery surrounding the whereabouts of the twenty-seven cases of amber, which disappeared during the War. In today’s dollars, the estimated value of the amber alone would top one hun-dred forty million dollars. During our tour we view not only a recreated Amber Room (from drawings and photographs before its dismantlement), but also photographs of the destroyed and burned out palace, and the systematic restoration of the build-ing and its rooms.

It is said that much restoration of St. Petersburg has been done since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Here is the birth-place of Vladimir Putin, and the city should be returned to its former glory. Throughout the city, there is surprisingly less than one might expect of the grand monuments to communism.

The more I look out over the city of St. Petersburg—with all of its majesty, its riches, ongoing construction and restoration—the more I reflect on the small western enclave of Russia which contains Königsberg and Trakehnen. That bit of Russia appears to receive few of the resources seen in the city of St. Petersburg, and it remains relatively backwoods in comparison.

One of our fellow guests on Die Deutschland is the au-thor and great nephew of Marion Gräfin Döhnhoff, Friedrich Döhnhoff (more correctly, Friedrich Graf von Döhnhoff). Over beers he tells me about travels with his great aunt. “It is really an effort to just keep up with someone like her,” he says. I had known her, and knew she had a tremendous amount of energy. She was active at the newspaper Die Zeit during my college years in Hamburg, and even received an Honorary Doctorate from my alma mater (and the alma mater of Friedrich’s sister), Smith

College. I am not surprised to hear of her personal discipline, nor her energy—but was a bit surprised that, despite the sixty-year difference between them, (for he is younger than I), she seemed to consistently out-pace the young man.

Like his great aunt, Friedrich is an author. He has taken part on this cruise, and has held readings of his books. Somewhat sheepishly, I tell him that I have one of his aunt’s books (as opposed to one of Friedrich’s) on CD. I tell him of my fondness for the Ritt Durch Masuren—I often listen to this in the car. Somehow this wonderfully descriptive book which does not ex-ist in an English form has had an effect on me. I convey this to Friedrich, and wonder, half to myself, if it shouldn’t be trans-lated for others to enjoy.

Our next stop is Helsinki, which does not offer any special trips for “horse people,” so we wander the city streets ourselves. It is a modern, colorful city, an eclectic mix of modern and old, wood and water, articles mass-produced and hand-crafted items.

Thursday June 7th takes us to the city of Stockholm and to the Royal Stables. After four long days without horses, we are longing for the sights, smells, and sounds of our four-legged friends! Our tour of the stables begins not with the horses them-selves, but with the motorized transport used by today’s royal family. The disappointment we feel is almost palpable. Finally, we are shown the stalls, and the indoor arena. Many of the hors-es are in their summer paddocks, and only a few of the horses remain. We greet the remaining horses with much enthusiasm, and the mood of the group improves. We see the ornamented driving bridles, collar harnesses and breast plates, some in silver, some with gold. We are then taken upstairs to where the royal carriages and sleighs are stored.

This evening, like many other evenings before it, the group sits outside with our beverages, and discuss the trip and what we have seen. The trip from Stockholm back to Travemünde means the end of our trip, but not the last time most of us will see each other—several of us will meet again in Hanover, and many of us plan to meet at the 50th Hengstmarkt in Neumünster, to show off our stallion prospect, Avatar.

At the end of our trip, the MS Deutschland sailed on to serve as lodging for the German Olympic teams while they were in London, where it docked on the Thames.

This journey was wonderful on every level, and one that I would gladly repeat in whole or in part. I would encourage anyone with the opportunity to take such a trip to make the time—you won’t regret and you won’t forget it!

Left: On our way to the post office. Above: Members of our group on the dunes on the Curonian Spit. Right: Carriage bridle, Swedish royal stables.

Our group in Estonia.

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Recently Approved Stallions

Foaled March 28, 2003By Best Before Midnight, out of Virginian Girl xx by Limbo xxBred by Heinz-Hermann Schroeder, Suestedt, GermanyOwned by Fontana Syndikat, Hamburg, Germany, and Natalie Rooney, Napa, CAMeasurements 16.1 hands (166 cm), 190 cm girth, 20.5 cm cannon bone

Virginian Sky, inspected at the age of nine years, reflects his high degree of Thoroughbred genetics. Through three generations he is three-quarters Thoroughbred and one-eighth Shagya Arabian and therefore is more angular than most other Trakehners. He is a stallion that shows good harmony and balance, and he possesses a good saddle position with a well-proportioned neck and a good shoulder angle. He has a fairly good foundation with good joint size but his forelegs could be better aligned. The walk, trot and canter were all fairly good but would have benefited from more suppleness and engagement of the hindquarters. The stallion is a very willing and techni-cal jumper who showed relaxation and much confidence. He is a modern sport horse with a workmanlike attitude showing athleticism and good manners. He may be useful to breeders wishing more blood horse genetics in their breeding programs.

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Foaled April 29, 2009By Tzigane *Pb*, out of Schöne Symphonie by PolarpunktBred and owned by Kimberly Hunter, Argyle, TexasMeasurements 16.1 hands (165 cm), 191 cm girth, 21 cm cannon bone

Semper Fidelis is a modern, athletic, bay stallion showing stallion masculinity and good expression. He is well-balanced and well-proportioned especially in his frame where he possess-es a comfortable saddle position. The horse is rectangular and stands over a lot of ground. His legs are dry and well developed with strong bone despite being ever so slightly back at the knee. The walk showed a good over-stride and the trot was rhythmic and elastic. His canter was fairly good but could be more uphill at times. He is good, enthusiastic jumper with good bascule, scope and especially good hind leg technique. The stallion is attractive, tractable and very well-mannered and demonstrated good rideability in the under-saddle phase. His pedigree has a number of ancestors that performed well in all of the Olympic disciplines. As a breeding stallion, he should be a good match for most mares.

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Foaled January 17, 1998By Sea Salute xx, out of Ivory Today xx by Caveat xxBred by Roger Toffolon, New YorkOwned by Pam Fisher, Los Alamos, CaliforniaMeasurements 16.1 ½ hands (167 cm), 191 cm girth, 21.0 cm cannon bone

Sea Lion xx (previously known as Sea Elephant) is an impressive, attractive and athletic, dark bay, 14 year-old Thor-oughbred stallion. He shows a great deal of stallion masculinity, nobility and is harmonious throughout. He is very well bal-anced and well muscled and his neck is set with proper length. His top line is strong. His legs are very good, being correct, well-aligned and having strong joints and well-shaped hooves. All of his gaits - the walk, trot and canter - show good impulsion, ground cover, elevation and elasticity. He also showed modern movement, with good suspension and self-carriage in all the gaits. His jumping technique is fluid, willing and effortless with plenty of power and scope. The stallion’s performance record is strong as a winning racehorse as well as an eventing horse that has competed at the 4-star level at Rolex Kentucky. Sea Lion xx is an outstanding Thoroughbred stallion with very good sport horse gaits. He represents an excellent opportunity for Trakehner mare owners to breed to a proven performance blood horse with good temperament and good movement in all of the gaits.

2012 Mare Inspection Champions

and Reserve Champions

High Point: Klaree *M* High Point: Creme BruleHigh Point: Constellation KD High Point: Beatrixx High Point: Schwalbe NSF *M*

Reserve High Point: Kyrenia Reserve High Point: HravelleReserve High Point: Tinkerbelle KD Reserve High Point: Dea Dianthe Reserve High Point: Tupelo

Inspection Results July through September

Longmont photos by Jeff Foltz Watertown photos by Brad Kerbs Auburn photos by Allen MacMillan

Auburn, Illinois, September 8

Host Margaret MacGregor,Holders Hill, Auburn, ILInspector Brad Kerbs, Eureka, MO

High Point: Beatrixx ✦ Chestnut, 15.3 1/2 h., foaled June 16,2009, by Kaiserkult, out of Bakira *M* by E.H. Sixtus, breeder Horst Ebert, Germany, owner Margaret MacGregor, Auburn, IL: 7, 7/7, 8/8/7, 7 = 51 - approved for OSB.

Reserve High Point: Dea Dianthe ✦ Chestnut, 16.0 h., foaled 4/12/2008, by Troy, out of Devi Danae by Abdullah *Pg*E*, bred and owned by Margaret MacGregor, Auburn, IL: 8, 7/7, 6/7/6, 7 = 48 - approved for OSB.

Premium Colt Davidas by Horalas*Pg*E* out of Devi Danae (Abdullah*Pg*E*)

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Columbia, Missouri, September 22

Hosts Tim and Cheryl Holekamp,New Spring Farm, Columbia, MOInspector Brad Kerbs, Eureka, MO

High Point: Schwalbe NSF ✦ Bay, 16.3 h., foaled May 17, 2005, by Lowelas, out of Scarlett NSF by E.H. Biotop, bred by C.D. van de Ree, Ellerrau, Germany, owned by Tim and Cheryl Holekamp, Co-lumbia, MO: 8, 8/6, 9/9/8, 8 = 56 - approved for OSB - now Schwalbe NSF *M*.

Reserve High Point: Tupelo ✦ Dark bay, 16.1 1/2 h., foaled April 8, 2009, by Baron Verdi, out of Thabana by E.H. Buddenbrock, bred and owned by Tim and Cheryl Holekamp, Columbia, MO: 8, 8/7, 8/7/8, 8 = 54 - approved for OSB.

Longmont, Colorado, July 21

Host Valerie Foltz,Somerset Farm, Longmont COInspector Rhea Gibble

High Point: Klaree ✦ Liver chestnut, 15.2 3/4 h., foaled June 7, 2006, by Glenn Livit F, out of Klarisse by Schwalbenflug, bred and owned by Susan Alvey, Hotchkiss, CO: 9,8/7, 8/8/9, 8 = 57 - approved for OSB - now Klaree *M*.

Reserve High Point: Kyrenia ✦ Chestnut, 15.3 1/2 h., foaled April 26, 2008, by Baron Verdi, out of Kapree by Vincent, bred and owned by Susan Alvey, Hotchkiss, CO: 8, 8/7, 9/7/7, 8 = 54 - approved for OSB.

Watertown, Wisconsin, August 18

Host David Beattie and Kevin O’Meara,KD Trakehners, Watertown, WIInspector Neal Westgerdes, DVM, Carter Lake, IA

High Point: Constellation KD ✦ Bay, 16.1 h., foaled May 18, 2009, by Blitz und Donner *E*, out of Cassio Pao by Almox Prints J, bred and owned by David Beattie, Watertown, WI: 7, 8/8, 7/8/8, 8 = 54 - ap-proved for OSB.

Reserve High Point: Tinkerbelle KD ✦ Dark bay 16.0 h., foaled May 4, 2009, by Blitz und Donner *E*, out of Taiga KD by E.H. Tambour, bred and owned by David Beattie, Watertown, WI: 8, 8/8, 7/8/7, 8 = 54 - approved for OSB.

Napa, California, August 25

Host Natalie Rooney-Pitts,Four Star Farm, Napa, CAInspector Bred Kerbs, Eureka, MO

High Point: Creme Brule ✦ Gray, 15.2 1/2 h., foaled May 17, 2007, by Asher, out of Cayla by Laiken *Pb*, bred by Nancy Fagan, Port Perry, ON, owned by Deborah Sykes Bellingham, Salinas, CA: 8, 8/7, 7/7/7, 7 = 51 - approved for OSB.

Reserve High Point: Hravelle ✦ Black/brown, 16.0 1/2 h., foaled March 6, 2008, by Windfall *Pg*, out of Haviland (PSB) by Snow Chief xx, bred and owned by Lindsey Reed and James Dominguez, Santa Barbara, CA: 7, 6/6, 8/8/8, 7 = 50 - approved for OSB. Ph

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Always Ruby2005 chestnut mare by Always, out of Granada Rose (ISR) by Grandos. Bred by Nubby Errick-son, Oregon, owned and ridden by Cindy Lee, Newcastle, WA.

✦ Equestrian’s Institute ADT (Arena Driving Trial), Cle Elum, WA, June 9, 2012: Non ADS (American Driving Society) Arena Driving Trial, 1st Training Single Horse, 1st Overall Training - 43.08, (Dressage - 43.08, Cones 3 (one ball down), Obstacles - 22.87 2 (obstacles each driven twice, .2 penalties per second in obstacle).

✦ Equestrian’s Institute Pleasure Pace, Cle Elum, WA, June 10, 2012: 3rd Training

✦ Teddy Bear CDE, Mead, WA, June 23-24, 2012: 1st Training Single Horse, 1st Overall Training Level Single - 47.70 (Dressage 47.70, Cones 0 double clear, no balls down, no time penalties, marathon 0, total 47.70)

✦ Inavale CDE (Combined Driving Event), Philomath, OR, July 13-15, 2012: Champion Training Single Horse - 48.00 (Dressage 48.00, Marathon 0 penalties, Cones 3 pen-alties--one ball down, for a total of 51.00)

American Tradition2007 chestnut gelding by Tradition *Pb*, out of Arctic Princess xx by Northern Baby xx. Bred, owned, and ridden by Lynne Kuehner, Elizabeth, PA.

✦ WPDA Classic, Jefferson, OH, June 8, 2012: 3rd - 65.35%

✦ Dressage at Grand Haven, Jefferson, OH, June 9-10, 2012: Champion Trakehner High Score Ribbon Winner 1st Training 1 - 67.91%; 2nd Training 3 GAIG Q - 67.8%; 1st Training 2 - 69.10%

Azariah2005 chestnut gelding by Khalif, out of Ardri-ane by Onassis *E*. Bred by Dogwood Trace Trakehners. Owned and ridden by Laura Mur-ray, Spring, Texas

✦ Belle Terre Schooling Dressage Show, Wil-lis, TX August 25, 2012: 2nd First Level 1 - 61.37%; 1st First Level 3 - 67.09%; 1st Beginner Novice Eventing Test A - 71.0%; 1st Novice Eventing Test A - 69.56%

Benton of Tartan Farm2008 bay gelding by Tanzeln, out of Blaire of Tartan Farm by Hailo *Pg*E*. Bred and owned by Karen Smith, Greenback, TN. Ridden by Katherine Stoy.

✦ Summer Highland Fling, Tryon, NC, June 23, 24, 2012: 1st Open Training 2 - 73.3%; 1st Open Training 3 - 70.4%; 3rd Open Training 3 - 72.8%

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✦ NWFL Classic I, Alford, FL, May 19 - 20, 2012: Reserve Champion Materialle; 1st Materialle 4 & 5 year old mares - 69.9%; 1st Intro Level Test A - 64.68%; 1st Intro Level

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Emerald Tsar2008 chestnut gelding by Oskar II *Pg*, out of Encore by Frankly Diplomatic xx. Bred and owned by Anissa Cottongim, Alford, FL, ridden by Christian Musch.

✦ Auburn Classic III, Auburn, AL, July 21, 2012: 1st Hopeful Hunters o/f; 2nd Baby Greens o/f; 3rd Baby Greens o/fTest C -

64.75%; 1st Materiale 4 & 5 Year Old Mares - 70.4%; 1st Intro Level Test B - 62.81%; 1st Intro Level C - 65.00%

Flannigan2007 bay gelding by Tanzeln, out of Fire Angel by Emeer. Bred and owned by John and Kari Cassel, Wellborn, FL, ridden by Erin Root.

✦ American Dressage Concours I, Venice, FL, Feb 4, 2012: 3rd Training Level 1 Open - 66.88%; 3rd Training Level 2 Open - 67.5%

✦ American Dressage Concours II, Venice, FL, Feb 5, 2012: 2nd Training Level 2 Open - 63.57%; 4th Training Level 3 Open Q - 68.2%

✦ Suddenly Farm Dressage, Lumberton, NJ, July 25, 2012: Reserve Champion Training Level Open; 3rd Training Level 2 - 66.61%; 2nd Training Level 3 Q - 69.8%

Frisk2009 chestnut gelding by Leonidas *Pg*E*,out of For Talismanic xx by For Really xx. Bredand owned by Suzette White, Joshua Tree, CA.Handled by Suzette White, Sheryl Heiar, and Cindy Allen Lapp.

✦ Creek Hollow Ranch July Jubilee 2012, Romona, CA, July 14, 2012: 3rd USDFBC Colts/Geldings Championship Qualifier; 1st 3 Year Old Colts and Geldings - 69.85%; 1st Materiale Three-Year-Old Colts and Geldings - 73.4

✦ CDS RAAC and CDS Temecula Fall Frolic, Temecula, CA, August 31, 2012: 1st Mate-riale - 76.4%;

✦ CDS RAAC and CDS Temecula Fall Frolic, Temecula, CA, September 1, 2012: 2nd Training Level Adult Amateur - 69.4%

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Froschkuss2004 dark bay mare by Leonidas *Pg*, out of Fire Angel by Emeer. Bred and owned by John Cassel, Wellborn, FL. Ridden by Madison Brandt.

✦ Summer Sizzler 1, Newberry, FL, July 7 - 8, 2012: 2nd Training Level 1 - 56.25%; 3rd Training Level 3 - 56.4%; 2nd Training Level 1 - 60.42%; 1st Training Level 3 - 67.8% K

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2011 Trakehner COLT Halloween fhm(Abdullah *Pg*E* x Harmony GS by Adrian)

2012 NEDA Fall festival 1st Get of Sire2012 PBF I usdf sport horse show: 1st get of sire2012 PBF II usdf sport horse show: 1st get of sire

2012 wnyda summer festival i: 1st get of sire

From the Show Circuits


Halloween FHM2011 gray colt by Abdullah *Pg*E*, out of Har-mony GS by Adrian. Bred, owned and handled by Dr. L. A. McCulloch, Clarence, NY.

✦ Western New York Summer Dressage Festi-val I, Houghton, NY, July 20, 2012: 1st Get of Sire 73.2%;

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Harmony GS1999 gray mare by Adrian, out of Hilary GS by Bukephalos. Bred by Gerhard Schickedanz, Ontario, Canada. Owned and handled by Dr. L. A. McCulloch, Clarence, NY.

✦ Western New York Summer Dressage Festi-val I, Houghton, NY, July 20, 2012; Reserve Champion Mare; Champion Mature Horse; Champion Materiale; 1st Trakehner Breed Class - 73.0%; 1st High Point Trakehner - 73.0%; 1st Materiale - 73.3%

✦ PBF USDF Sport Horse Show I, Colden, NY, August 25, 2012: Champion Mare; Champi-on Mature Horse ; 1st Yeld Mare - 70.3%; 1st Trakehner Individual Breed Class - 72.7%; 1st Materiale Class Mares - 77.3%

✦ PBF USDF Sport Horse Show II, Colden, NY, August 26, 2012: Champion Mare; Cham-pion Mature Horse; 1st Yeld Mare - 73%; 1st Trakehner Individual Breed Class - 73.35%; 1st Materiale Class Mares - 70.0%

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Iggy Pop2008 dark bay gelding by Ichi-Ban out of Imbrium by Incantator. Bred and owned by Valerie Vaden Jarosek, Temple, Texas. Riddenby Claire Darnell.

✦ HDS Dressage Summer I, Katy, TX, June 9, 2012: High Point Grand Champion for the

Show; 1st Training Level 2 - 79.64%; 1st 4 year old Young Horse 7.78;

✦ HDS Dressage Summer 2 Katy, TX, June 10, 2012: High Point Grand Champion of the Show; 1st Training Level 2 - 75.71%; 1st Training Level 3 - 72.8%

Laugallen2002 black/bay OSB mare by E.H. Michelangelo out of St. Pr. u. Pr. St. Lossainen by E.H. Louidor. Bred by Hedwig Korioth-Hermes, Monschau, Germany. Owned and ridden by Caroline von Asten, Charleston, SC.

✦ Dressage at Camden, Camden, SC, June 16-17, 2012: 1st Second Level 2 - 68.15%; 1st Second Level 3 - 65.47%; 1st Second Level 3 - 65.11%

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Lazio2003 bay gelding by Zorab (NA) out of Libelle by Letzter Wind. Bred by Bernhard Straube, Ontario, Canada. Owned and ridden by Tanya Ghingold, St-Lazare, Quebec.

✦ Beaulieu Dressage, Ste-Justine-de-Newton, Quebec, August 26, 2012: 2nd First Level 1 - 64.1%; 2nd First Level 3 - 61.3%;

Newman2001 bay gelding by Donaudeen, out of Norita

by Bütow *E*. Bred by Rolling Oaks Farm, Elgin, IL. Owned and ridden by Lydia Gray, Elburn, IL.

✦ IDCTA Summer Kickoff, Wayne, IL, June 22-23, 2012: 6th Second Level 3 - 58.69%; 6th Second Level 3 - 54.64%; 3rd Second Level Freestyle - 63.16%

✦ Silverwood, Camp Lake, WI, July 28, 2012: 5th Second Level Freestyle - 62.16%

✦ Indian Hills Driving Trial, Gilberts, IL, August 18, 2012: Champion High Point Dressage-Training Level Division; 2nd Single Horse Training

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Oryon2005 chestnut gelding by Fandango, out of Oceana by Hadrian. Bred by Sherry Tourino, Nipomo, CA, owned and ridden by I.N. Fore-man, Orlean, VA.

✦ Dressage at Lexington, Lexington, VA, July 13-15, 2012: Champion Sport Horse Amateur Challenge 2nd Level, 1st Open 2nd Level 2 BLM/SHAC - 71.97%; 6th Open 3rd Level 3 - 62.37%; 2nd Qualifying Open 2nd Level GAIG - 68.69%; 4th Qualifying Open 2nd Level 3 GAIG 67.5%

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Paladin SF2007 chestnut gelding by Aul Magic ox out of Padua Go by E.H. Maizauber. Bred by Heather Buttrum, Sovereign Farm, Buckeye, AZ. Owned and ridden by Laine Sklar, Tucson, AZ.

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WI, August 4, 2012: 4th Training - 29.8 ✦ Richland Park HT, Richland, MI, August 24, 2012: 2nd Training - 35.0

Velluto2009 bay stallion by Schiffon *Ps*, out of Pr. St. Viva Vanessa by Ursprung. Bred and owned by Lea Ann Hansen, Doswell, VA. Handled by Quintten Alston.

✦ VADA/Nova Summer Breed Show 1, Lees-burg, VA, August 1, 2012: Champion Young Horse; Overall Grand Champion of Show; 1st Three Year Old Colts/Geldings - 77.4%

✦ VADA/Nova Summer Breed Show 2, Lees-burg, VA, August 12, 2012: Reserve Cham-pion Colt/Gelding; 1st Three Year Old Colts/ Geldings 82.6%

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Velvet Raine2007 gray mare by Rumpleminze (NA), out of Victorys Secret ox by Star Victory ox. Bred and owned by Kim and Doug Stone, Marysville, CA. Ridden by Doug Stone.

✦ Pacific Coast Arabian Sport Horse Classic, Elk Grove, CA, June 28-29, 2012: Champion HA/AA Sport Horse Mares In-Hand - 76.6%

✦ Region 3 Arabian Sport Horse Champion-ship Show, Elk Grove, CA, June 30, 2012 - July 1, 2012: Champion HA/AA Sport Horse Mares In-Hand; Top 3 HA/AA Sport Horse Mares In-Hand ATH Championship; HA/AA Sport Horse Mares In-Hand - 82%; 3rd HA/AA Sport Horse Mares In-Hand ATH - 76.1%

Wrascal2003 dark bay gelding by Happy Hour, out of Walk Softly xx (PSB) by Code Word R. Bred and owned by Dianne Roberts, Thompson’s Station, TN. Ridden by Katie Hopkins, Longview, TX.

✦ Brownland Farm Summer Show, Franklin, TN, June 27-29, 2012: 5th Low Working Hunter; 5th Special Hunter 2'6" Handy

Wremingten2005 black bay gelding by Kostolany, out of Whispering Hope by Saxon. Bred by Alida Darlington, Hutto, Texas, Owned and ridden by Katrina Jones, Leander, Texas.

✦ Windy Knoll Summer Show 1 and 2, Magnolia, TX, July 21-22, 2012: Champion Junior/Young Rider; 1st Training Level 2 - 71%; 2nd Training Level 3 - 67%; 1st Training Level 2 - 67.5%; 1st Training Level 3 - 69%

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Windchill2008 dark bay gelding by Windfall *Pg*, out of Ferari by Troy. Bred and owned by Cathy Bal-ance, Huntley, IL. Ridden by Brittany Burson.

✦ Dressage at Lamplight 1, Wayne, IL, July 20-21, 2012: High Score Training Level JR/YR; 1st Training Level 1 - 68.75%; 1st Materiale 4/5 yr old Stallions/Geldings - 65.9%; 2nd Training Level 3 Q - 66.6%; 1st Materiale 4/5 yr old Stallions/Geldings - 70.3%;

✦ Dressage at Lamplight 2, Wayne, IL, July 22, 2012: 2nd Training Level 3 Q - 66.6%; 1st Materiale 4/5 yr old Stallions/Geldings - 70.6%

✦ Dressage at Lamplight 1, Wayne, IL, August 23, 2012: Champion JR/YR; Champion Ma-teriale 4/5 yr. old Geldings and Stallions; 1st Training Level 1 - 71.45%; 1st Training Level 3 - 68.2%; 1st Training Level 1 - 64.16%; 1st Training Level 1 - 68.75%; 1st Materiale 4/5 yr old Geldings and Stallions 71.7%

Zauberteufel2005 black gelding by Waitaki, out of Pr. St. Zaubermaus by E.H. Tambour. Bred and owned by Shawnda Nadeau, Mirabel, Qc. Ridden by Thomas Thys.

✦ Vallee des Bois, Laval, Qc, June 15-17, 2012: 3rd Open Jumpers (3'3" - 3'6"); 4th Open Jumpers (3'3" - 3'6") Speed

✦ Centre Equestre Milles Illes, Laval, Qc, June 22-24, 2012: 6th Open Jumpers (3'3" - 3'6")

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✦ TDC Fall Festival and 2011 State Champion-ships, Tucson, AZ, November 19-20, 2011: Champion Adult Amateur; 1st First Level 1, AA - 70.0%; 1st First Level 2, AA - 69.18%; 2nd Training Level 3, State Championship - 70.2%

✦ Tucson Dressage Club March Madness, Tuc-son, AZ, March 17, 2012: Champion Adult Amateur; 1st First Level 2, AA - 72.02%; 1st First Level 3, AA - 73.38%

✦ ADA Spring Celebration, Scottsdale, AZ, March 31 - April 1, 2012: Champion Adult Amateur; Champion Arizona Dressage Asso-ciation Futurity; 1st First Level 1, Futurity - 75.08%; 1st First Level 2, Futurity - 68.85%; 1st First Level 2, AA - 73.64%; 1st First Level 2, AA - 66.35%

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✦ Iowa Dressage Classic I, Cumming, IA, June 16, 2012: 1st Dressage Equitation - 75%; 1st Training Level 2 - 67.50%; 1st Training Level 3 - 63.20%

✦ MLEC Fantasy Schooling Show I, Cum-ming, IA, June 23, 2012: 1st Training Level 2 - 65.71%; 1st Training Level 3 - 71.80%; 1st Dressage Equitation 72%

✦ MLEC Fantasy Schooling Show II, Cum-ming, IA, July 28, 2012: 1st Training Level 2 - 73.75%; 1st Training Level 3 - 75%; First Level 1 67.24%

✦ MLEC Fantasy III B, Cumming, IA, August 26, 2012: 1st Training Level 3 - 66.80%; 1st First Level 1 - 68.62%

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✦ ENYDCTA Horse Trials, Chatham NY, July 8, 2012: 1st Open Novice - 26.1

✦ Riga Meadows Horse Trials, Salisbury, CT, July 15, 2012: 1st Open Novice - 25.1

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✦ The Summer Event at Woodside, Woodside, CA, August 9-12, 2012: 1st Novice Horse - 29.5

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✦ Otter Creek Spring HT, Wheeler, WI, May 18, 2012: 4th Training - 41.7

✦ IEA Horse Trials, Indianapolis, IN, June 1, 2012: 5th Training - 42.6

✦ Silverwood Farm Spring HT, Camp Lake, WI, June 16, 2012: 3rd Training - 34.7

✦ Fox River Valley Pony Club HT CIC1* and CCI1*, Barrington, IL, June 22, 2012: 2nd Training - 35.5

✦ Hunter Oaks HT, Bloomington, IL, July 21, 2012: 1st Training - 31.8

✦ Silverwood Farm Summer HT, Camp Lake,

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Lord LucianoLord Luciano by Enrico Caruso *Ps*, out of Lily of the Valley by Unkenruf *Pg*E*, bred and owned by Tylord Farm (Debra Tyler), ridden by Tehri Stegars.

✦ August 17-19, Bouferterhall “National Lux-embourg” Championships • 2nd Prix St. Georges 71.30% • 2nd Intermediare I 69.30%

International Competitions ✦ Perl-Borg, Germany Sept. 6-9 CDI**** • 2nd Prix St. Georges 73.026% •1st Intermediare I Kur 73.426%

✦ September 12-16, Leudelange, Luxembourg, CDI*** • 7th Prix St. Georges 66.30% • 2nd Intermediare I Kur 70.90%

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Editor’s Note: As well as this recent news of Lord Luciano’s international success, we would like to mention that Lord Luciano is a recipient of an ATA Foundation Grant. This fact was accidentally omitted from the recent article about Lord Luciano (American Trakehner, Summer 2012, Membership issue). The Foundation is very pleased to have been able to support this American-bred stallion that is doing so well in Europe.


Hunter seat (formerly known as “hunt seat”) is a term used to describe the forward-seat style of North American riding both over fences and on the flat. It is based upon the tradition of fox hunting, and both the courses and judging are a reflec-tion of this tradition. While not one of the Olympic disciplines, this discipline reflects a large portion (indeed an ever expanding part!) of the North American market, and a discipline to which I feel the Trakehner horse is ideally suited.

George H. Morris, often considered a “founding father” of the American system of forward riding and hunt seat equita-tion, traces the roots of this forward seat to his mentor Gor-don Wright. Gordon Wright (1903–1990) was a self-taught cowboy and bronc rider who began to develop his own style of riding in the 1930s. He realized his own deficiencies, and made a point to go to the event rider Jimmy Wofford’s place for lessons. Colonel Wofford, Jimmy’s father, was the one who continually preached, “Wright, get your heels down.” This was Gordon Wright’s introduction to the Fort Riley School of Horsemanship. Fort Riley, in northeastern Kansas, was the training ground for the United States Cavalry. General Harry D.

Chamberlain, one of the instructors, had studied forward-seat riding in Europe, and had rewritten the cavalry manual with an emphasis on balance and impulsion, a manual which Wright later revised. George Morris called that manual, and Wright’s Learning to Ride, Hunt, and Show, “two of the best examples of the synthesis between a Westerner’s understanding of the horse’s instincts and the European/military approach to disci-plined horsemanship.” Herein lay Gordon Wright’s genius.

Gordon was the oldest person to enlist at Fort Riley, volun-teering for the U.S. Cavalry during World War II, and remaining at Fort Riley as an instructor until the cavalry was eventually disbanded in 1948. Gordon Wright also competed in the 1949 National Horse Show international division, and was this coun-try’s only rider. His trainees included Archie and Hugh Dean, Ronnie Mutch, Bill Steinkraus, Victor Hugo-Vidal, and George H. Morris. He produced more winners of the Alfred B. Maclay trophy than any other trainer of his era.

Over the years, the sport of showing hunters has changed a great deal. Years ago “we used to see lots of middleweight and heavyweight horses, both thoroughbred and half-bred. These

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horses had lots of bone and strong quarters, were good gallop-ers, and could often jump a big fence. Today the overwhelming number of horses showing as hunters are lightweights,” wrote George Morris over 30 years ago. While those horses were often “pretty,” he noted, they “lacked the substance to do more than the lower fences.” Through the importation of European warm-bloods, “we are again seeing bigger horses coming back into the hunter ring and competing successfully.”

Fashion changes. Until the mid-1950s, the emphasis was “pace, and a brilliant, long jumping effort. Most of the horses were not schooled, and bordered on runaways,” notes Mor-ris. “Today we want balance and precision. Speed? Why that is hardly noticed. Eight jumps, exactly alike, working on straight lines and bent turns is what wins the blue ribbon.”

Hunter seat showing might be best described as “dressage over fences.” Horses are judged on the horse’s movement, form, style, and regularity of gaits both on the flat and over obstacles. The most significant difference between the hunters and the jumpers is the type of course. Show hunter courses are com-prised of smoother lines, fewer combinations, and wider turns, more reflective of the cadence of riding in large fields and the fox hunting tradition. Obstacles are more reflective of this and are overall at a lower height than jumpers. Jumper courses, on the other hand, consist more of tight turns, changes in direc-tion, requiring adjustments in pace and stride length, as well as higher fences, especially at the upper levels.

Hunter Seat shows are typically divided into three catego-ries: hunters, equitation, and jumpers. Show hunters are judged on manners, way of going both on the flat and over fences, conformation and to some degree appearance of horse and rider

as a team. Examination of a judge’s score card is often one of the best

ways in which one can understand the placings at a Hunter show. Each jump is judged individually. This collection of hi-eroglyphics will indicate faults over or between fences:

1. Takeoff: good spot, long spot, cutting down, reaching, diving, or dangerous. 2) refusal, elimination, hanging legs, loose form, dwelling in the air, flat-backed, hollow-backed, 3) rail knocked down before the stifle, rail knocked down behind the stifle, rubbing a rail.

Faults between fences: breaking gait, cutting the corner of the ring, wrong lead, adding or omitting strides between the fences, pulling, head up, mouth open….

With hunters, the form with which one navigates obstacles on the course is nearly as important as leaving the rails up.

Equitation divisions are also very popular. Constituting major faults: refusals, loss of a stirrup, trotting while on course when not part of the test, loss of reins or incorrect diagonal.

Who competes in the hunter ring? Most children in the United States who begin riding “English” rather than “West-ern” will begin learning the basics of the hunt seat. From there, they may branch out into the Olympic disciplines. Many op-portunities have arisen for young riders. The United States Pony Club (USPC) has expanded its divisions to include Hunter Seat. Notably, “Equestrian” has emerged as a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sport, offering college scholarships for top female riders. Currently at least forty NCAA colleges and universities now offer “Equestrian” as a varsity sport. More con-tinue to add programs each year, and fifteen full scholarships are allowed per school. There has also been a move to include

Young rider Bree Chamberlain on Norman (by Troy, out of Nasera by Nenufar), at Illinois Youth Charity Horse Show.

equestrian competitions in high school athletic programs. Those schools which do offer equestrian activities typically include Hunter Seat as part of their program. The United States Hunter Jumper Association (USHJA) held its first national con-vention in 2004. This body was formed to represent all levels of hunter and jumper participants under the umbrella of the USEF. With the development of this organization and its competition standards comes also a regulation of the minimum amount of prize money for each rated show. For example , to receive an “AA” rating the competition must offer a minimum of $25,000 in prize money.

The Hunter Derby is a form of competition which is becoming exceedingly popular. Demonstrations held during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games at the Kentucky Horse Park in 2010 proved a huge draw, and confirmed a worldwide interest in show hunters. The 2012 Derby Finals held August 17–18, 2012 at the Kentucky Horse Park saw a record number of entries competing for the purse of $100,000. The courses for the new Hunter Derby are designed to more closely resemble the hunt field, with fewer groundlines, taller, narrower fences, ditches, banks, and other natural obstacles. The approaches vary widely, and riders are rewarded for choosing more difficult routes, which might even include optional jumps. The USHJA states: “the courses will be built to encourage and reward bril-liance and daring from the rider and true athletic ability from the horses.”

Rated Hunter shows require a minimum number of par-ticipants, and schooling shows will often have many times the number of participants than the rated shows. It is evident from the number of young participants and the quality of the mounts at many of these shows that parents (and grandparents) are more than willing to have their youngsters well turned out. Schooling shows often offer the young rider a variety of classes in which to compete, helping him gain both experience and confidence. Cross-Rails, Short-Stirrup, and Schooling Hunters are examples of such classes.

Sought-after mounts are those which (in addition to elegant appearance) are safe, sound, of quiet mind and tempera-ment with regular gaits and good form over fences. It would be a mistake to overlook this ever-expanding market—a market for which the Trakehner horse is eminently suited.

Selected Bibliography:

✦ George H. Morris: Hunter Seat Equitation (with a nice foreword by Conrad Homfeld)

✦ Anna Jane White-Mullin: The Complete Guide to Hunter Seat Training, Showing and Judging On the Flat and Over Fences

✦ Gordon Wright: Learning to Ride, Hunt, and Show (now back in print).

✦ Gordon Wright: The Cavalry Manual of Horsemanship and Horsemaster-ship


The Junior RiderTrakehner Schoolmaster

We purchased “Aussie” in December of 2010 at 18 years old as a schoolmaster to help teach my then 13-year-old daugh-ter, Jessica, and guide her along a path to what I hoped would eventually be her USDF Bronze Medal. Aussie is registered as Strudel, by Heidelberg, out of Saraberg by Koenigsberg. Aussie was imported as a youngster from Australia and had never been registered, so we wanted to get that done. Our intent was to try to qualify for the All-Breeds awards with him, but this fabulous horse had other plans for us!

My daughter Jessica Hainsworth, who just turned 16, is an amazingly dedicated rider. She began riding at 7, and has participated in Pony Club, Dressage4kids, and has won nu-merous awards including the USDF Youth Scholarship. She was appointed to the USDF Youth Advisory Committee and was selected as an Emerging Dressage Athlete Program (EDAP) participant ( getting opportunities to ride her Trakehner with Courtney King Dye, Lendon Grey and Lilo Fore last year), then was selected as one of 20 kids from across the U.S. to attend the megaclinic for this program in December, called the Robert Dover Horsemastership Week in Wellington, Florida.

Aussie could not have done more for us; in a matter of a few months he took my daughter to a new level of riding and we were encouraged to try Second and then Third Level. We were amazed at how quickly they had figured each other out.

I wasn’t sure where to go from there as I just didn’t think—as he had only shown to Fourth Level—that he had much more in there to teach before he would show us his age. Late in the summer he did a few one-tempi changes in a clinic with Lendon Grey! It was just a few, but he was doing ones! He was invited to

ride with Lilo Fore and even had a chance to ride with George Williams. It was he who told us, “He is still healthy and capable; try Fourth and then just keep going; she’s a great rider and they can do this!” That fall we entered him in Fourth Level Test 1; the second time she rode that test her score was an astonishing 73%!

That fall I ordered a shadbelly.They showed in their first-ever Prix St. Georges—for both of

them—when Jessica had just turned 15! It is now a year later. In that year Aussie has again amazed

us all and taken my daughter to a level I could not have even fathomed when I bought him! On August 3 she won the Prix St. Georges class, and in doing so finished the requirements for her USDF Silver Medal. He owed us nothing, but gave us everything!

Aussie has since gone to a new owner, to teach a new young rider; he is now the mount for an 18-year-old Paraequestrian rider trying to qualify for the Paralympics. After all the tears were shed, the message remains that this is quite a horse, maybe not an American-bred one, but a Trakehner all the same. And what this horse did for my daughter is truly an amazing story! He was her dream horse. I never expected to have him teach her as much as he did. While not an easy ride, he made her truly appreciate every great ride; every positive moment they had was one that both learned from.

I couldn’t have asked for a better place for him to go and a better new role for him to fill with another young rider. I will forever have a very soft spot in my heart for Trakehners after my two incredible years with Aussie! He is one who left that Trakehner brand on our whole families’ hearts forever!

by Julia Hainsworth

Lindsey Holleger at NAJYRC

“He’s the horse of a lifetime for her,” said Dayle Holleger about her daughter Lindsey’s Trakehner, Friedensfürst, her equine partner for the upcoming North American Junior and Young Riders Championships for riders 14-21 years old.

Now 16, Lindsey Holleger just won a place on the USDF’s Region 3 NAJYRC dressage team with the 10-year-old gelding she calls “Fenway.” Bred by Erin Brinkman of Valhalla Farm in Wellborn, Fla., Fenway is by Donaufürst *Ps*E* and out of Feodamee von Krotenbach.

“I don’t even think of him as a horse anymore,” Lindsey said. “He is very smart and he just has the greatest personality – he loves to make people laugh.” She said she picked Fenway from among several horses she looked at because of that person-ality.

“I was really looking for an upper-level horse,” she ex-plained, “but I liked him instantly, and he is so talented. He has moved up in training way faster than anyone expected!”

She added that Fenway is now “schooling, and fairly solid, at Prix St. Georges level.”

Lindsey herself moved up from the pony she’d outgrown to the big 16.2 h. Trakehner gelding and brought him from “green Third,” according to Brinkman, to Fourth Level dressage in only three years.

“Lindsey is naturally gifted in riding,” said Brinkman, who is herself an international dressage competitor and trains Lind-sey and Fenway. “She puts her heart and soul into this horse and their work together.”

Now Lindsey and other young equestrians from the USDF’s Region 3 met in Lexington July 17-22, 2012, to vie for team and individual medals. The competition is the only FEI champion-ship held annually on this continent.

Editor’s note: Lindsey and Friedensfürst placed 4th in the Indi-vidual Junior Championships and 6th in the Junior Freestyle. Good job!

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later a judge. She also showed in the jumper ring and served as a hunt master. Later she passed the instructor exam, on a Trakehner, of course, and earned a Stud-master certificate, but nothing ever made her feel happier than the birth of a healthy foal.

Her first foal was born in the spring of 1977, a chestnut filly by Ibikus, out of an Erzsand mare she had purchased from Otto Langels at auction.

In 1980 she married Walter Sauer and traveled across the ocean to Australia with six Trakehner stallions and six mares. She was a founding member of the Trakehner Society of Aus-tralia, serving as public relations officer and registrar. Later, she also joined and supported the ATA and became a member of the Canadian Trakehner Horse Society.

After divorcing Sauer and eventually moving to North America, Connie’s move to Montreal came in 1985 when she met Horst Kempter, whose maternal ancestors were from Stallupönen,

(Ebenrode), the East Prussian town near Trakehnen. Horst owned an import company in Montreal and shared Connie’s desire to breed top-quality Trakehners. His engagement gift to Connie was the yearling filly Sahara by Polarmond, out of Samland by Or-densglanz. Together they built Rappenhof Stud Farm. Sadly, Horst never realized his dream to retire as a gentleman farmer as his life was cut short when he lost his battle with leukemia in 2001.

Rappenhof was usually home to 25 or so Trakehner horses including (to name a few) the mares Lottcha by Koree, out of Lilo by Slesus; Palma Nigra *E* by Habicht, out of Passarge II by Insterruf; Onia by E.H. Consul, out of Oktave II by Lucado; Lovely Lady by Tizian, out of Lovedream by Donauwind *E*; Miracle vom Rappenhof (embryo transfer) by Carino *E*, out of Mon Fleurs by Amateur I; and Jamaica (PSB) by Enrico Caruso *Ps*E*, out of Jay’s Magic xx by Final Award xx.

In addition to Carino E*, Rappenhof stood the stallion

May 25, 1949–May 29, 2012

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Connie Kempter(left) On the road. Connie kneeling where East meets West and the last stake was driven in for the Cana-dian Pacific Railroad, Eagles Point, British Columbia. August 2011.

(right) Connie at the Rappenhof Summit, in the Okanagan in 2010. The mare is Phantasie, handled by Catherine Fong.

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Cornelia Kempter was my friend and my mentor. I met her in 1986, shortly after I moved to St. Lazare, Quebec. I had re-cently seen my first Trakehner at a boarding facility and learned that there was a breeder who owned a stallion just down the road. That breeder was Connie and the stallion was her beloved Carino *E* by Liguster, out of Catarina by Kobalt. I spent many, many hours in Connie’s Rappenhof stable, learning the intrica-cies of breeding the finest of Trakehner horses, and became comfortable and eventually skilled at handling feisty foals. Connie helped me find my first Trakehner mare, Marianne by Schwalbenflug, out of Mallorka by Gunnar. I bred her to Carino and she produced a magnificent colt, Marbach, who was ap-proved by the Canadian Trakehner Horse Society as a breeding stallion. It was not long until I had a Trakehner breeding farm of my own. Without Connie’s help and guidance, that may never have happened. Almost 30 years later, I am still loyal to the Trakehner and continue to breed to the best of my ability.

Connie was born in her hometown of Berlin, Germany,

on May 25, 1949. Mary O’Hara, the author of My Friend Flicka, planted the seed for Connie’s future Rappenhof, “Farm of Black Horses.” During geography lessons at school, Connie would try to figure out where on her atlas “Goosebar Ranch” and Flicka’s paddock might be. In 1996, Connie finally walked the trail of Flicka when she visited the Remount Ranch in Wyoming, Mary’s true-life home, a thousand acres rolling from the prairies to the snowy peaks of the continental divide.

Connie’s first Trakehner was a gray mare named Lero, who survived the great Trek as a yearling and became Connie’s school horse at the Berlin Riding Center.

Later, she spent a summer at the Government Stud farm Achselschwang, where she had the opportunity to groom the black stallion Komet, which fueled her desire to breed black horses (Komet is a full brother to Kobalt, the maternal grandsire of Carino *E*, Rappenhof’s foundation stallion).

In Germany, Connie was involved in different aspects of equestrian sport for over 15 years as a dressage competitor and


Guy Laroche by E.H. Michelangelo, out of Galante V by Lucado, for several years.

Together, Carino *E* and Palma Nigra *E* produced four approved stallions: Prince Habicht *Ps*, Prince of Prussia, Patras vom Rappenhof and Platinum vom Rappenhof *Pb*. In all, Palma had a total of 12 foals by Carino.

In October 2008, with her life partner Steve Watson and three 73'-long trucks loaded with their household, vehicles, farm equipment and horses, Connie made a three-and-a-half day, nonstop trip to the Okanagan highlands in British Colum-bia and their new home at Trakehner Summit. There they lived in a mountain-top log home and continued to breed Trakehners of distinction. Carino passed away at the age of 32, two months before the big move to Summit, BC.

Palma Nigra *E*, an ATA honor roll mare and Gerda Fried-richs Award recipient, passed in December 2010.

Shortly before her death, Connie and Steve had decided to sell their farm and make one last move, this time to Mexico. “Connie

always loved Mexico and it was her dream to stay there in the 70’s, but her employer there would not sign her immigration papers, so she could not get legal status and had to leave. She’d been in the horse business for a long time and now she wanted some time without horses in her life, though I still own Platinum (currently standing at Valhalla Farm in Florida). Also she had said times had changed since she brought Carino into Canada and she thought there were too many stallions around now. She felt things were getting too expensive and less profitable. The time in B.C. was the most fun in her breeding career, she always said and regretted nothing. A year without horses finally gave me and Connie the chance to explore the beautiful province, and we had a blast travel-ing all over the place without having to rush home to feed the horses or bring them in; you know what it’s like,” said Steve.

Connie’s death came quickly and unexpectedly. “She had no health issues and lived an active life till the day she died. We thought she had heat stroke after spending too much time in the sun. The next day she died in her sleep, at home, with her beloved dog Frodo at her side. Trakehner horses are known to be clever, sensitive, versatile and full of energy; sounds just like Connie to me. She was truly a Trakehner person and related so well to them. As a last thought, Connie had said to me a couple of months earlier that, once in Mexico, she wanted to get some Andalusian horses; she wasn’t going to be horseless very long, I guess! I have 14 Quarter Horses on the property in B.C. for pasture boarding now, and I think Connie would be happy with that. Enjoy life and live your dreams. Connie did!”

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We would like to apologize for printing ATA member Eileen Krause’s poem, “Once More Into the Arena,” with the last line omitted. In the layout process, the punch line, the culmination of the rider’s quest, was left out. Below is the full text of the poem.

C o r r e c t i o n

Once More Into the Arena

Scents of leather, horse, and nervesride the rays of the setting sun.

Tall boots hang down the sides of the huge, gray mare.

Tight hips nestle, at home in the saddle.Once-stronger abs liftwhile slumped shoulders unfurl.Gnarled fingers strain to grip slipping double reins.

Stiff hocks loosenwith the long warmup.The mare flows to the bitand offers her back like a forgotten medallion.

No thought for the Century Club.

A reassuring pat.A whisper:“We can do this.”

A joyous collected canterto a frozen halt at X. Hope soars.Heads bow in salute.

Thundering cantersdown the long side, half pirouettes and half passes,the softest velvet of flying changes.

The dance of their lifetime.The long-chased dream.The quest.

The elusive Silver Medal.

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