Graf George ends sport career
For Gunther Seidel Rome was the last international competition with his mount Graf George. The sixteen year old Hanoverian gelding (by Graphit x More Magic xx) ran its first Olympic Games in 1992 under Michael Poulin.
The combination then got awarded with the bronze team medal. Graf george will stay with his owner and be conditioned by them as long as he pleases. He will no longer be put into the show circuit.
Peron ends sport career
Peron, probably the most famous Trakehner stallion besides Abdullah, has ended his sport career. After his latest performance at the CDI Donaueschingen, owner Dr Carole Meyer-Webster has decided to stop showing this beautiful bay stallion and focus him on his breeding duty.
Peron's biggest achievement was definitely the bronze team medal at the 1996 Olympic Games of Atlanta. Rider Michelle Gibson made a wonderful combination with this German Trakehner but only few months after the Olympics Dr Meyer-Webster transported the stallion back home to Germany. He was further trained by Rudolf Zeilinger, who showed him at the 1997 CHIO Aachen. Zeilinger's student Ann Kathrin-Ehlen took over the reins and showed him through 1998, establishing decent scores between 67% and 70%.
Peron is now up for stud in the South German breeding farm: Hofgut Albfuhren. Peron is a purebred German Trakehner by Mahagoni out of Peru II (by Coktail)
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