“Te Hanoverian Society has been the most successful studbook in international
dressage competition as ranked by the WBFSH and FEI since these standings began to be published in 2001.”
top Hanoverian-branded international dressage horses include Salinero, Satchmo 78, Sunrise, Bonaparte 67, Brentina and Wansuela Suerte. Since the 1956 Olympic Games, Hanoverians have earned three individual gold medals (Salinero twice, and Gigolo), four individual silver medals (Satchmo, Gigolo twice, and Woycek), and four individual bronze medals (Bonaparte, Weyden, Mehmed, and Dux). Hanoverians have been members of no fewer than seven gold medal dressage teams (2008, 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992, 1976, 1968, and 1964).
ABOVE: Christopher Hickey aboard Cabana Boy at the 2009 National Dressage Horse Championships awards ceremony with owner Jane MacElree (front) and breeders Douglas and Shannon Langer of Maple Run Farm, WI. © Erin McCardell/Hilltop Farm
RIGHT TOP: The domestically-bred Hanoverian stallion Pikko del Cerro HU (Pik L-Rohweena/Rohdiamant), along with rider Lisa Wilcox of Loxahatchee, FL, won the Six-Year-Old Developing Horse Championship with an overall score of 70.482%. Pikko del Cerro, owned and bred by Horses Unlimited, Albuquerque, NM, was also licensed this past summer by the American Hanoverian Society and is now an AHS-approved stallion. © Richard Malmgren
RIGHT BOTTOM: The jumper-bred Hanoverian stallion Viva’s Salieri W (Viva Voltaire-Salinja/Salieri) owned and bred by W. Charlot Farms of Ontario, Canada won the Silver Medal with the Canadian Dressage Team at the recent Pan American Games in Mexico. Viva’s Salieri W and his rider, Tom Dvorak, also finished fourth individually. Viva’s Salieri W’s sire, Viva Voltaire, was the only stallion that had two offspring compete in dressage at the games. © Cealy Tetley
88 March/April 2012 Te World Equestrian Games, which are held every four years
to split the non-Olympic years evenly, have also been won by many Hanoverians. Dressage champions at the World Equestrian Games that bore the Hanoverian brand include Mehmed (1974), Gigolo (1994, 1998), Satchmo (2006) and Salinero (2006, freestyle). Hanoverians have been members of eight gold-medal winning WEG teams since 1966 (1966, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1994, 1998 and 2006). At the age of 25, the late Hanoverian stallion Weltmeyer was the world’s third most prolific sire of international-caliber dressage horses, behind the second-placed Donnerhall, who was sired by the Hanoverian Donnerwetter. In the United States, notable Hanoverian Grand Prix
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