Holsteiners Vie for the 2014 World
Equestrian Games By Adriana van Tilburg T
he Alltech World Equestrian Games (WEG) is not only a highlight every four years for top riders and horses to compete in one venue. Te event is also sig-
nificant for the studbooks, as it allows the best horses in the world to represent their respective registries. Te Holsteiner usually places well in the WBFSH’s jumping studbook rankings and has previously been ranked number one. As of April 2014, the Holsteiner Verband is ranked third. Due to their record of past in-
ternational success, verband repre- sentatives along with Holsteiner fans have high hopes that many Holsteiner horses around the world will qualify for and compete at the WEG held at the end of the summer in Normandy, France.
SHOW JUMPING SUCCESS Breeding Holsteiner horses has a long and impressive history, which dates back to their agricultural careers. Breed- ing jumping horses is comparatively new, a focus only for the last 50 years or so. Early on, two German jumping riders became national heroes: Fritz Tiedemann and Hans Günter Win- kler earned adulation because of their success worldwide in the 1950s and ’60s. Tis had a very positive influence on the breeding of sport horses and more specifically on the breeding of show jumping horses. Fritz Tiedemann rode the famous mare Retina (by Ramzes), who won the Hamburger Derby in 1959. She started a line that produced Corland (by Cor de la Bryere), who was a 1.60m jumping horse with the Dutch rider Wout Jan van der Schans. Corland is a successful breeding stallion for the VDL Stud in the Netherlands. Te mare Cor- radina (by Corrado I) has been competing with Carsten Otto Nagel at 1.60m. Corland and Corradina are both from Stamm 104A and were bred by Professor Hartwig Schmidt.
Heureka Z (by Ganeff) is another example of an influ-
ential mare born in 1960, a time when breeding goals were changing. She won the Grand Prix at Aachen one year with Hermann Schridde. Heureka Z was Holsteiner-bred but registered as Hanoverian. (Her owner Leon Melchior from Zangersheide registered all his horses as Hanoverians at that time.) Te legacy from Heureka Z is unbe- lievable, resulting with many inter- national sport horses and stallions who became very important. Ahorn Z (by Alme) was significant for the Holsteiner breed and established his own stallion line. Full sister to Ahorn Z, Argentina
Chiara 222 and her rider Ludger Beerbaum from Germany. She is the highest placed Holsteiner in the jumpers.
Z, produced Ratina Z (by Ramiro). Ratina Z was an exceptional horse, victorious at almost every big show worldwide with Ludger Beerbaum in the irons. Her son Comme Il Faut (by Cornet Obolensky) was recently approved by the Holsteiner Verband. At only nine years old, the stallion is currently competing at 1.55m with Marcus Ehning, dem- onstrating he has what it takes to be a top performer. Joachim Tietz has written in
the latest issue from Pferd+Sport ( June 2014) an article about the development of breeding show jumpers where he states, “A mare that has been successful herself in sport has the best prerequisite for breeding, of course. Even if the de- sired results are missing in the first generation, chances are that the next and following generations will bring successful offspring. To use a successful sport mare for breeding was possible most of the times only after her performance career. She would be older then, often 14 or 15 years of age already. And then often it is very difficult to get these mares in foal and it could not be expected to receive many offspring. Tis is when the option of embryo transfer comes into play.”
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Tiffany Van Halle
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