“As domestic breeding has come of age, U.S.-bred horses are climbing the ladder into the national and international spotlight.”
Dressage greats include Carole Lavall’s Gifted (Garibaldi II-Lola/Lombard), the 1991 USET National Grand Prix Champion and winner of several internationally recognized events over the course of his long career, and the aforementioned Brentina (Brentano II-Lieselotte/Lungau) with rider Debbie McDonald, who gained an enthusiastic following in this country and in 2003 became the first U.S. pair to win the World Cup Final Championship. As domestic breeding has come of age, U.S.-bred horses
are climbing the ladder into the national and international spotlight. In recent years, Hanoverians such as Cabana Boy (Contucci-Britania/Bordeaux), owned by Hilltop Farm and bred by Doug and Sharon Langer, have won multiple National Young Horse Dressage Championships. In 2010, just prior to his untimely death following a pasture accident, Cabana Boy and rider Christopher Hickey placed third at USEF Intermediaire I National Championships. Other rising stars include the 2010 USEF National
Young Horse Dressage Five-Year-Old division Champion, Caroline Roffman’s chestnut Hanoverian gelding Bon Chance (Belissimo M-SPS Wintersong/Weltmeyer), bred in Germany by U.S.-based Marefield Meadows, and Selten HW (Sandro Hit-SPS High Princess/Hohenstein), bred in Florida by Irene Hoeflich-Wiederhold and now ridden/ owned by Elizabeth Ball. Referred to as “a flamboyant young talent” by judge Lilo Fore, Selten HW was the very first horse to sweep the Four-Year-Old (2008), Five- Year-Old (2009), and the Six-Year-Old (2010) divisions of the Markel/USEF National Young Horse Dressage Championships. In 2011, the trend continued with Horses Unlimited’s own Elite Hanoverian stallion Pikko del Cerro HU (Pik L-Rohweena/ Rohdiamant) claiming the U.S. Developing Horse Dressage Championship with rider Lisa Wilcox after earning an overall score of 70.482%. At the 2011 Pan Am Games in Mexico, 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. Viva’s Salieri W and his rider, Tom Dvorak, also finished fourth individually. Viva Voltaire was the only stallion that had two offspring
compete in dressage at the games. In addition to Viva’s Salieri W, Viva’s Veroveraar (Viva Voltaire-Slim Sadie/A Fine Romance) was the second highest-placed Guatemalan horse with Canada- based Ester Mortimer finishing 28 out of 47 with 64.079%. Also competing on the successful 2011 Pan Am Canadian team was the domestically-bred Hanoverian Lymrix (reg. name
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ABOVE: The renowned Hanoverian jumper Shutterfly (Silvio I/Forrest xx) won his third Rolex World Cup with rider Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum. © Sheri Scott
Leopold Q), by the stallion Lörke out of Felicitous/Wertherson, bred by AHS Mare and Stallion Committee Chair Suzanne Quarles at her Some Day Soon Farm in Maryland.
Hanoverian Show Jumpers Te Hanoverian Society has been consistently ranked in the top
five most successful studbooks in international show jumping competition as ranked by the WBFSH and FEI since 2001. Te best Hanoverian jumpers of the new millennium have proven to be Shutterfly, by Silvio, and For Pleasure, by Furioso II. Shutterfly won the Show Jumping World Cup in 2005, 2008, and 2009. For Pleasure was second place at the 1995 World Cup, and was a member of two gold medal-winning Olympic show jumping teams. Hanoverians have been members of six Olympic gold medal teams in show jumping (2000, 1996, 1992, 1988, 1964 and 1960). Other top-notch Hanoverian show jumpers include winner of the 1995 World Cup Dollar Girl, two-time World Cup Champion E.T. FRH, and Esprit FRH, Vice-Champion of the World Cup in 1998 and member of the gold medal-winning show jumping team at the 1998 World
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