2008 News
Hanoverian Mare Lines
After the first edition from 2000 was sold out, a second, expanded, updated edition became available. Through 272 pages, the reader gets an impression of the wide-reaching Hanoverian mare lines. Some lines are represented in detailed accounts and pictures. This book is supplemented with full-page, detailed pedigree charts, which were newly-created for this edition. These charts give a very good overview and contain the complete mare lines of the licensed stallions that come from these lines. There are some new six-generation pedigrees in which the individual horses and their associations are indicated with the corresponding mare line.
Each licensed stallion is listed with three generations of ancestors. They are itemised per mare line where the licensing and stallion performance test champions, and National Young Horse Champions are specifically displayed, if applicable. Exceptional sport horses are pointed out. In addition, each field of discipline is shown in order to provide a reference to further literature.
This book is a reference guide and represents an absolute must for the people who busy themselves with the genetic connections to the Hanoverian breed and expands the meaning of the mare lines for those who wish to deal with the subject.
Both books can be found at the Asmussen website. Click on "zum Shop."
Hanoverians at the Olympic Games
The Olympic Equestrian Games are taking place in Hong Kong from August 9 to August 21. Twenty-eight hanoverians were longlisted to compete at the games. (The following list may not include all hanoverians at the games).
Hanoverians top the World Cup charts
Salinero and Shutterfly - unforgettable
 Salinero and Anky Van Grunsven at the prizegiving ceremony, with FEI first Vice-President, Sven Holmberg. Photo: Kit Houghton |
Back in March 2008, Dutch rider Anky Van Grunsven and her black Hanoverian gelding Salinero (Salieri/Lungau) danced their way to a decisive victory in the 2008 FEI Dressage World Cup, with a score of 85.2%. It was Anky's ninth World Cup and her fourth with Salinero.
Defending Champion Isabell Werth and the Hanoverian gelding Warum Nicht FRH (Weltmeyer/Wenzel I), with 82.6%, were 2½ percentage points behind them in second place.
Fourth place with a score of 77.4%, went to Imke Schellekins-Bartels of Holland, riding the Hanoverian mare, Hunter Douglas Sunrise (Singular Joter /Werther).
The fourth Hanoverian to gain a spot in the top fifteen was the black Donnerhall mare, Donna Carrera, (Donnerhall/Raphael), which came in 11th for Australian Rozzie Ryan with her score of 69.6%.
As at the end of May 2008, Salinero was leading the WBFSH rankings for dressage horses.
 Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, and Shutterfly, winning the 2008 jumping World Cup. Photo: Kit Houghton |
Shutterfly and Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum have won the FEI Jumping World Cup for the second time, in what was reported to be an exciting finish. The 15-year-old Silvio I/Forrest xx Hanoverian gelding did not have a rail down during the three days of jumping competition over what has been reported as the biggest fences ever seen at this event. As at the end of May 2008, Shutterfly was lying in fourth position in the WBFSH rankings for jumping horses. |
New Zealand Hanoverian Society Raffle 2008
The New Zealand Hanoverian Society is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 raffle, which was drawn on Friday, May 30, 2008, under police supervision. The results are as follows:
First prize, the hamper to the value of $1500 went to C. Rear - Pukekohe
Second prize, two nights at a luxury lakeside cottage in Taupo went to Jenny Veitch
Third prize, $500 in petrol vouchers went to Robin Potter
The committee extends congratulations to all winners.
Stakkato: Hanoverian Stallion of the year 2007
 Stakkato (Spartan/Pygmalion) shows his style over a fence. Text and photo courtesy of the German Hanoverian Society |
Stakkato is an active breeding stallion for the Celle State Stud, but also an active international competition horse under Eva Bitter from Bad Essen.
Stakkato was raised by Andreas Mundt and presented at the stallion licensing in autumn 1995. The fantastic lines of Servus and Gotthard are combined in his sire's pedigree. His dam Pia successfully competed up to elementary show jumping level. At her mare performance test, her jumping skills were judged with the perfect score of 10.0.
Stakkato presented exceptional and spectacular free jumping skills in Verden so that Dr. Burchard Bade purchased him for the Celle State Stud. He was the best jumper at his stallion performance test. He won the Federal Championships of German show jumpers in Warendorf in 1998 and developed into the best show jumping stallion in the Hanoverian breeding area. In 1999, he earned the vice championship title. Four years later, the bay stallion won the German Championship in the ladies' division under Eva Bitter. Apart from countless international top placements, Stakkato competed five times for the German Nation's Cup team. One of his most outstanding successes was in 2007: second place at the highly renowned Nörten-Hardenberg Grand Prix.
The Celle State Stud Stallion passes on his fantastic jumper qualities to his offspring. Rückenwind with Holger Wulschner, Sambuca with Eva Bitter or Stritzel with the Bulgarian rider Angel Njagolov are successful international competition horses. The four-year-old Sicerto is the youngest of his successful offspring. He won the Hanoverian Show Jumping Championships under Oliver Ross.
188 of Stakkato's offspring are active sport horses, 17 sons are approved stallions and 26 daughters awarded state premium mare. He has supplied 45 foals for foal auctions and 10 offspring for elite riding horse auctions. He has been among the top-class horses of the breeding evaluation of the Hanoverian Society and the German Equestrian Federation for years.
NZ Young Rider Championship 2008
 Henton Attorney General, (Anamour/Delphi, by Distelfink), bred by Dave and Bridget Sutton, carries Lizzie Brown to victory in the NZ Young Rider Championships. © Fabio Lapa |
They competed in a strong field of 18 riders and it was rather nice to see a slip of a girl line up first with the next five placing going to boys, and good ones at that. Attorney General had the only clear round in the showjumping, which was held at Foxton. The pair did an excellent cross country to sail home on their dressage score of 30.4.
Success for MH horses at the 2008 HOY Show
 Dream World MH with owner/breeder Judith Matthews (right) and rider Casey Johnson, calmly wears her Championship sash and rug © Barbara Thomson |
Horses bearing the MH suffix in their names rose to the fore in the new, Performance Bred Sport Horse classes and in the Dressage at the 2008 Horse of the Year show held in Hastings in early March.
Champion overall was the mare, Dream World MH (Dream Boy/Weltmeyer). Seven year old Dream World (or Donut, as she is affectionately named at home), won Best Mare to Breed from 4 years and over, then Best Performance Bred Sport Horse for Dressage, going on to be judged Champion over the males, a significant achievement for a mare.
In the under 3 year old classes, Dream World's full sister, Dream Girl MH, owned and shown by Ali Harper from Winton, won the 2 year old class then, the Best Filly as a Potential Broodmare and was Reserve Champion 3 yrs and under.
In the Dressage - Level 1 Champion was Guisto MH, (Gymnastic Star/Graf Landau), owned and ridden by Susan Tomlin from Palmerston North
Level 2 Champion was Domino MH, (Dream Boy/Anamour), also with Susan Tomlin.
Level 2 Reserve Champion was Geldof MH, (Gymnastic Star/Allermund), owned and ridden by Sarah Matheson-Reay
Level 4 Reserve Champion was Dream World MH ridden by Casey Johnson. She was also 2nd in NZ for the Zilco Freestyle Accumulator. In all, Dream Wolrd achieved one 1st and three 2nd placings.
Ali Harper and Galahad MH (Gymnastic Star/Anamour), won the Champion Rising Star Saddle Hunter.
Breeder Judith Matthews points out that interestingly, the imported Weltmeyer mare, St.Pr.St.Wel Kantje, features in the breeding of four of these six successful horses. Dream World MH, and Dream Girl MH are full sisters from Wel Kantje, Domino MH and Galahad MH are out of Wel Kantje's daughter, Adleheid by Anamour. Wel Kantje had three embryo transfer foals while still being ridden. The first was Adleheid, by Anamour. Adelheid suffered an injury as a two year old and has since had five colt foals - DominoMH by Dream Boy, Galahad MH by Gymnastik Star, two by De Niro and the one at foot, which is by Don Frederico. She is in foal again to Don Frederico. Wel Kantje's second embryo transfer foal, by Anamour, died in a paddock accident. The next was Dream World MH. After Dream World, Wel Kantje started having her own foals and unfortunately the first were twins. The surviving twin is Bardot MH by Brentano, which is just being started. After Bardot came Dream Girl MH, and at foot she has Danzare MH by Dancier. She is again in foal to Dancier. All her foals have been fillies.
Performance Bred Sport Horses: a new initiative at the Horse of the Year Show
 Dream World MH (Dream Boy/Weltmeyer), receives a first place ribbon in the inaugural Performance Bred Sport Horse section at the 2008 HOY Show. © Barbara Thomson |
The aim of this interesting and sometimes overwhelming exercise was to put the NZ breeding industry into the HOY Show as part of the whole equestrian package. After eight months in the melting pot, many discussions and listening to the many and varied views on how best to do this, we decided, for this first year of competition, to leave the classes open. There was no prerequisite for entry, the only requirement was for the entrants to produce their Breed papers and some back ground on their stud/breed/horses and whether or not their entry was for sale.
In the past the Sporthorse section averaged four horses per class over four classes in the Hack/Hunter show ring; this new format attracted some 60 horses over eight classes in the Premier arena. This was very exciting on one hand and a logistical nightmare for time and planning on the other! Somehow on the day it came together although things were somewhat chaotic for the first few classes.
After the entries closed on February 6, collating all the entries and checking their breed papers, assembling them into a master file, assembling stewards and judges files, letters to competitors, judges, announcers, sponsors, chasing those who did not send in the correct information, those entered in the wrong classes, ordering ribbons and rugs etc etc, consumed many hours of email and phone time. That was in between fielding email and phone calls from those entered, on what would be expected of them in their class, how do you run a horse out, why could they not wear their big hats and long skirts! Thank you to Eric Ropiha for agreeing to have his name put on the web page as a contact for help in running a horse out. There were many who rang him and enlisted his help, including the Champion Young Performance Bred Horse Appleton DHU (a Dutch Warmblood colt), and the winner of the 4 Years and over Horse for Jumping, Touché (a Pinto Stallion). Thank you Eric.
A big thank you to Kevin and Sue Hansen and their crew at the HOY office for their constant support and guidance through unknown territory for this greenhorn convener! They are a very well oiled crew where communication and coordination between all sectors of the show are paramount, especially in the Premier Arena, for it all to run smoothly. Coordination between the Presentations/ribbon lady Joan Cameron, Martin Williams of the showjumps arena crew, Jeremy O. Premier arena ring master to having enough pencils and rubbers for the judges' writers ... talk about multi tasking - the brain was in overdrive some days!
Then to top it off the day before the classes our English Judge flew home to England as her mother had died. Twelve hours later I had managed to find Reimer Junga (of Euroride Arenas), a very well qualified German, to step into the breach and judge alongside Luc Van Puymbroeck from Belgium. These two men were used to judging 80 horses in a class in the same amount of time!
Being in the Premier Arena time was paramount and we came in under time!
Thank you to all those who entered their horses; the turn out was great. Of the eight classes Hanoverians won five.
Congratulations to Judith Matthews; wow what a result for Wel Kantje. Congratulations are also in order for Vollrath Stud and Lessing.
The crowd around the arena was more than awestruck when Dream World MH and Lessing appeared in the arena. Dream World started off walking along like a dairy cow, then she took a look around half way through her first class, decided she was queen of the pack ... she danced ... just stunning to see her literally waltz beside her handler. The crowd gasped!
Lessing came in at the full trot beside his handler for the stallion class. The presence; the movement; these impressed not only the judges, but the crowd and fellow competitors alike.
We were more than fortunate to have Mike Tucker from England announcing the classes; he knew every bloodline put in front of him, and then some. Stuart McLeod and Alysia Bridge ably assisted Mike. Alysia is a young, up and coming radio announcer, very keen to learn and to this end, we will be teaming her up with Stuart in the future. Without this constant information on breeding and bloodlines coming over the P.A. system these classes would not have attracted the crowds they did. The announcers were a very important part of the overall success of our classes, thank you.
A big thank you to the team of stewards and judges' writers ... next year we will all have it running in a more orderly fashion! A great job done, thank you. The show jumps crew will have the jumps well out of the way before our classes start. An area of concern is the verbal, email and cellphone abuse received throughout this entire exercise, life is way too short for this sort of unmitigated manure ..., just get on and enjoy being with your beautiful horses.
To the future there will definitely be more structure to the judging format; an individual walk, trot, halt and conformation look for each horse, competitors and judges will know well in advance what is required of them. There will be no chasing of horses with whips or bottle of stones to make them run! Badly behaved horses will forfeit the right to be judged, they must be trained at home, not in the Premier arena.
There are a number of areas that have little glitches to be ironed out to make everything run more smoothly and more information on general housekeeping to go on the web page for 2009. This first year may not have been what all competitors expected or wanted, however they served as a guideline to whom and what were entering our classes. The classes themselves are being reviewed and some prerequisites for entry will be in place for next year. Next year's judges are already being contacted and planning and meetings with Kevin and HOY organisers are already underway.
The HOY organisers were generally very pleased with how the classes went, the numbers of entries and the crowd that they attracted. We have definitely a firm foundation to build on. Thank you to all those who played a part in putting these Performance Bred classes together.
Bates 2008 NZ Dressage Championships - Hanoverians in the Results
Level 1 Final: 2nd: Giusto MH, Susan Tomlin, 69.855%
Level 2 Final: 1st Domino MH, Susan Tomlin, 71.358% 3rd Geldof MH, Sarah Matheson-Reay, 66.296%
Level 3 Final: 2nd Aristoc (Anamour/Cinnamon, by Witzbold, bred by Gary and Wendy Freeman of Bilbar Lodge), Sue Hobson, 64.786%
Level 4 Final: 2nd Avant Garde, Rebecca Goldsbury, 66.93% 3rd Dream World MH, Casey Johnson, 65.789%
Intermediate I Advanced Final: 3rd Winter Acacia (Anamour/Arctic Oak xx, bred by Judith Wear), Laurel Cross, 63.25%
CDI*** Grand Prix Freestyle to Music: 4th All Black II, Charlott Bayliss, 63.3%
Performance Horse Rising Star: Level 4: Leo Dreams of Gold (Dream Boy/ Golden Legacy xx by Leader of the Band, bred by Julia Fraser), Alicia Collin.
Glenvar Trophy for breeder of the best placed NZ bred Young Dressage Horse went to Judith Matthews of Matthews Hanoverians.
Aztec Stud Young Dressage Horse: 4 year old 1st: Giusto MH
6 year old 2nd: Geldof MH
Kelt Capital Horse Of the Year Show 2008 - Hanoverians in the Results
Performance Bred Sport Horses:
Class 501. 2 Year old Performance Bred Horse (any sex) 1st: Dream Girl MH (Dream Boy/Weltmeyer), bred by Judith and Peter Matthews, Matthews Hanoverians.
Class 502. 3 Year Old Performance Bred Horse (any sex) 3rd Anamici (Anamour x Paris Rain xx), bred by Christine Paston.
Class 503 Filly as a Potential Broodmare 1st Dream Girl MH 2nd Wren (Anamour x Reign Bird xx), bred by John Holmes and Kate Klingender, 3rd Anamici
Champion Young Performance Bred horse went to the Dutch Warmblood colt Appleton DHU. Reserve Champion was Dream Girl MH
Class 505. 4 Year and Over Mare for breeding Performance Horses 1st Dream World MH, 3rd Parkridge Aje (Anamour x Young Gert xx, by King's Guard xx, bred by Carol Eivers, Parkridge Stud).
Class 506 4 Year and Over Performance Bred horse for Dressage/Riding 1st Dream World MH, 4th Parkridge Aje, 6th A Lalique Anamour x Winne Rere, by Winnebago, bred by Sue Nation.
Champion Adult Performance Bred Horse Dream World MH Reserve: Lessing (imported, unlicensed, hanoverian stallion).
Showjumping:
Performance Horse 1.25m 1st; Animal Health Direct Ltd Horse 1.15m 1st; Trojan Horse 1.25m 2nd Aerodynamic, (Dynamit/ Norfolk Isle xx by Norfolk Air xx), bred by Miles and Lynn Primrose, owned and ridden by Sandra Stanford.
Dressage:
Horse of the year level 1: 1st: Giusto MH (Gymnastic Star/Graf Landau) ridden by Susan Tomlin, bred by Judith and Peter Matthews, Matthews Hanoverians.
Horse of the year level 2: 1st: Geldof MH (Gymnastic Star/ Allermund), owned and ridden by Sarah Matheson-Reay, bred by Matthews Hanoverians 3rd: Domino MH, (Dream Boy/Anamour), owned and ridden by Susan Tomlin, bred by Judith and Peter Matthews, Matthews Hanoverians.
Level 4 Musical Freestyle: 1st: Avant Garde (Anamour/Dynamit) bred by Debbie Smith, ridden by Rebecca Goldsbury. 2nd Dream World MH, ridden by Casey Johnson.
Horse of the year, Level 4: 1st Avant Garde 2nd Dream World MH
Level 5 Musical Freestyle: 3rd Anaheim II, (Anamour/Winter Koenig), bred by Tina Thorowgood, ridden by Sharlene Royal.
CDI-W Grand Prix (title) 3rd All Black II (Anamour/Little Brown Jug xx) bred by Mary Wilson, owned and ridden by Charlott Bayliss.
All Black II was also placed 4th in the Grand Prix Freestyle held on Sunday, March 9th.
Clarification for inclusion of other European Breed Populations (origins) into the NZ Hanoverian Stud Book
It has been deemed necessary to remind members about the rules - their meaning and intentions - as a result of the appearance of overseas bloodlines in our Stud Book.
5.2a - thoroughbred mares, with a minimum of 4 generations recognized by the New Zealand Racing Conference, which gain an overall mark of SEVEN in the Stud book inspection and do not have a mark in any section which is lower than 5 ... is self explanatory as we are used to the thoroughbred mares being there from the outset.
5.2b - the introduction of mares from Verband recognized populations MAY under special circumstances, be considered for selection ... this needs some clarification.
This is quite normal in Germany where mare owners seek dual registration but not so common here in New Zealand and is therefore possibly the cause of some confusion.
For examples - mares that have been passed into the Oldenburg, Trahenher, Holstein or Westfalian Stud Books are able to seek registration in the Hanoverian Stud Book. When they pass their inspection they are then recognized as Hanoverian Stud Book mares as well. There are both financial and sound breeding reasons for this. The mares can add value in terms of refinement, movement or jumping qualities which the Verband sees as disirable.
Going onto Clause 5.3 - which states that these mares must be paired with a Hanoverian birth branded licensed stallion (for their foals to be branded Hanoverian) It also states that registered mares from these other populations (with brands from THEIR register of birth) with at least 50% Hanoverian blood are considered ON A PAR WITH MARES BEARING HANOVERIAN BIRTH BRANDS for the purposes of breeding and competition.
Likewise with the Stallions - the Verband introduces stallions from other populations eg Holstein, Oldenburg, Trakehner and approves them for breeding over Hanoverian birth branded mares. The stallions must have a higher than normal average score in their own licensing to be considered and they too are chosen for various reasons that the Verband sees as adding value and performance to the Hanoverian race.
Obvious choices are the jumping stallions from the C and R lines - Contender and Ramiro families, the Trakehners Caprimond and Hohenstein for their elegance and refinement and the Oldenburg stallions Sando Hit for his extravagant movements plus Donnerhall for his rideability and distinctly successful knit with the Pik Bube mares.
As always, if there is any particular area of confusion in your mind, please contact us.
Robin Potter
Stud Book Keeper