47. Holsteiner Körung und Reitpferde-Auktion

The Elite Riding Horse Auction:

The Holsteiners and successful international show jumpers Calmond by Clarimo (Richard Howley/IRL), Camalita by Cracker Jack (Laura Klaphake/GER) or Chichester by Casall (Alonso Valdez Pado/PER) have one thing in common: Same as many others which later became successful sport horses, they found a new owner at the Holsteiner elite riding horse auction. The Holsteiner marketing and auction company team have succeeded in selecting a high quality auction lot this year. “We have successfully put together a first-rate selection“, says executive manager Dr. Jörgen Köhlbrandt, and continues: “In the course of our nationwide selection trip we have seen roughly 100 young Holsteiners, but we have also been at various horse shows across Schleswig-Holstein where we’ve discovered quite a few horses for the auction, as well.“ By this means, the Holsteiner Verband marketing and auction company’s offer to interested buyers includes almost 40 promising three- to six-year-old Holsteiner youngsters, which might prove a valuable contribution to international competition stables as well as to ambitious amateurs.

According to Dr. Jörgen Köhlbrandt, the auction lots have been selected for their rideability, their riding horse qualities and their training level. While the three-year-olds have naturally not been competed yet, many of the older horses already boast results in young horse classes, with some of them even qualified to the National Championships. The offer includes highly talented six-year-olds like for example a Nerrado offspring, Nerrado Junior, the winner of the youngster final at the Wiener Lake Arena CSI, or the Quadros mare Quanta, a serial winner of young horse jumper classes. Quick Flight by Quo Vados and the Quiwi Dream daughter Quiwiti, both of them with results in young jumper classes at A and L level, are one year younger. So, in addition to the three- and four-year-olds without horse show experience, these are only a few choice examples of the promising 2017 Holsteiner Verband auction horses.

The Holsteiner Stallion Grading

This year, more than 200 colts born in 2015 had been presented to the selection committee at the Elmshorn Fritz-Thiedemann-hall, with 69 of them admitted to Holsteiner stallion grading in Neumünster. “The fact that the colts presented for pre-selection have come from a great variety of bloodlines is also reflected by the colts admitted for grading “, states breed director Dr. Thomas NissenCornet Obolensky and Cascadello I are the most frequent sires, each of them represented by seven sons. One of them, 18-year-old Cornet Obolensky counts among the most successful sires in the world, with his showjumping offspring having accumulated more than six million euros in prize money. Expectations are high for the other, Cascadello I, to achieve a similar success. And the Casall son might be well on this path, as he has demonstrated with his offspring already at a young age. Exceptional sire Casall comes next with six offspring, and his sons, Casalito, Casaltino, Clarcon, and Connor are being represented by sons at the 2017 Holsteiner grading, as well. Five stallion candidates represent Dinken, one of the Holsteiner Verband stallion keeping departments great hopes, whose 2nd sire, Diamant de Semilly, is also represented by one offspring. “Considering our expectations as to jumping ability, he seems to deliver“, Dr. Thomas Nissen commented on the admission of three colts from the first Holsteiner crop of outcross trial stallion Kannan. In addition to that, the colts‘ damline is of mayor importance, as well.

The second dam of one of the six colts by the Holsteiner breed’s current figurehead, Casall, a mare by Rocadero, is also dam to the Holsteiner Verband licensed stallions Contiki (by Contender) and Skyman (by Silvester). The offspring of Casall son Cascadello I includes half brothers to Verband stallion Cornetino (by Cornet Obolensky) and to Pikeur Canvaro (by Cannavaros), Holsteiner Verband licensed stallions as well as successful sport horses, both of them. One of the seven Cornet Obolensky colts has prestigious family ties, as well. Bred in Spain, he is out of a Candillo dam whose produce includes the licensed stallion Clarucci by Clarence I and the successful international show jumper Corcega la Silla by Casall. These are only a few examples for the high-quality dam lines of the colts presented for grading. “I think this year’s selection of stallion candidates is going to be very interesting for breeders same as for riders “, said breed director Dr. Thomas Nissen. And indeed, this year’s selection is certain to comprise several stallions able to “follow in the hoof steps“ of Quiwitino Z, runner-up in the World 5-year-old show jumper Championships in 2017, of Cascadello I, who has already made breeding history at a young age, and of many other proven breeding and sport stallions.

Neumünster timetable (subject to change)

Thursday, 2 November

1.00 pm: presentation of colts on hard surface (part I)

3.00 pm: presentation of colts on hard surface (part II) followed by colts walked on the ring

Friday, 3 November

8.30 am: colts at liberty/ free-jumping

6.00 pm: presentation of auction horses followed by breeders’s party

Saturday, 4 November

8.00 am: presentation of all colts/ stallion grading status

11.00 am (approx.): riding horse auction

followed by selection of champion stallion

followed by auction of premium graded stallions

followed by auction of graded stallions and non-licensed colts