Special at Munich Indoors, scoring more than 80%. Show- time FRH is definitely “one to watch” at future international competitions! Rising stars on the American dressage scene include 2016
AHS FEI Dressage Horse of the Year Shakespeare RSF (Sandro Hit–EM Acapella/Arrian.) Te brilliant bay Ha- noverian stallion was bred in the U.S. by Maurine (Mo) and Jim Swanson of Rolling Stone Farm in Slatington, Pennsylva- nia, who still own him. Mo does her own breeding work. She thawed the Sandro Hit semen herself and inseminated the dam, whom she had bought as a weanling, and the rest is history! After a successful year, Shakespeare RSF was honored with the title of USDF 2016 Reserve Champion Horse of the Year in Intermediate II (74.145%). He also won the AHS USDF All Breeds National Champi- onship at Interme- diare II. Shakespeare
American-bred Shakespeare RSF here ridden by Marcus Orlob was awarded the 2016 AHS FEI Dressage Horse of the Year.
RSF has done something no other dressage sire has accomplished
to date. As a sire, he was named 2016 USEF Dressage Sire of the Year for Sport Horse breeding, while winning his own USDF and AHS Horse of the Year titles for his outstanding performances in FEI dressage in the same year. Shakespeare RSF won the 2009 North American 70-Day Stallion Per- formance Test at Silver Creek Farm in Broken Arrow, Okla- homa. To date, Shakespeare RSF has produced three GOV licensed stallions (Shotgun, Shavane and Shortstop).
Global Success in Show Jumping In the world of show jumping, the Hanoverian breed has been
consistently ranked in the top five most successful studbooks in the world. Hanoverian horses like Meredith Michaels- Beerbaum’s Shutterfly and Marcus Ehning’s For Pleasure thrilled show jumping audiences for years. Shutterfly won the World Cup finals for show jumping in 2005, 2008, and 2009. For Pleasure, a flashy chestnut stallion with a blaze and high white stockings, helped win two Olympic team gold medals in show jumping. High drama played out in the show jumping arena at the
2016 Olympics. Eric Lamaze and his 13-year-old Hanoverian mare, Fine Lady 5 (Forsyth x Dorina/Drosselklang II), rode to glory for Canada, earning the individual bronze medal.
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Teir path to the Olympics was unorthodox. Lamaze chose to train Fine Lady 5 mainly in classes below 1.50m, many of them Jump Off and Table A speed classes, as that is what she does best. Every time Lamaze did the lower classes with her and then asked her to do a big 1.60-meter class, she always did it easily. Never in- tending Fine Lady 5 to be his 1.60m horse, he rode the chestnut mare to third place finishes in the 2016 CSI5* 1.55m Credit Suisse Grand Prix and the 2016 1.60m Rolex Grand Prix in Geneva, Switzerland. More recently the pair won the $130,000 Adequan Grand Prix CSI 3* at the 2017 Winter Equestrian Festival in January. As far as Lamaze is concerned, Fine Lady didn’t win the
jump-off but she won the Olympics. “She was the best horse overall. She was the only horse who started the jump-off with zero faults. But at the Olympics, it’s a brand new slate on the last day, and those [earlier] clear rounds don’t count. Tat’s the way it is. It was a grueling competition, and for Fine Lady to be one of the best horses at the Olympic Games is incred- ible,” he said, as published on the Torrey Pines stable website at
ericlamaze.com. U.S. rider Leslie Burr-Howard has ridden top Hanove-
rian show jumpers her entire life. One of her current horses, Quadam, is no exception. Quadam (Quite Easy I–SPS Sen- sation/Stakkato) is a 10-year-old bay Hanoverian stallion bred in Germany by Manfred Schaefer, chairman of the German Hanoverian verband. At the 2008 German Hanoverian stallion licensing and auction, Quadam became a premium stallion and sold to Staj Mustang in the Czech Republic for 53,000 euros. He was then shown in Germany in young jumper classes by Gerd Sosath (owner, trainer and rider of the famous Landor S) and Gerd’s son, Hendrik Sosath. Quadam was sold to the U.S. in 2014, where he owned/
shown by Richard “Ricky” Neal of Pasadena, California, who recently graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in history, is a top young rider and 2010 inaugural winner of the USHJA Emerging Athletes Program National Training Ses- sion. On Valentine’s Day 2015, the pair won the $10,000 Arti- san Farms U25 Welcome Grand Prix in Wellington, Florida. In May 2016, Quadam sold to Laure Sudreau-Rippe, a na-
tive of France and now a successful lawyer in the U.S.—and Quadam began a new era in his life with Leslie Burr-Howard
Fine Lady 5 and Eric Lamaze of Canada win the individual bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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