The drama continues concerning the ownership of the Ducth 2002 Dressage Champion Gestion Silvano N. At the end of August, the 16-year-old Holsteiner licensed stallion, Gestion Silvano N, got sold to Paul Schockemoehle
in a stock sale of the whole Gestut Im Niedern stallion station. The owners of the Im Niedern, the Neff juniors, no longer wanted to run the farm in Dreieich, Germany and sold the property and all (!) horses to Paul Schockemoehle.
Resident trainer at Im Niedern is Dutch Ellen Bontje who suddenly had no more horses to ride. Fortunately, Bontje received permission to compete Silvano at the 2002 World Equestrian Games but were dodged out of the competition after the vet check. The bay stallion was irregular and got rejected by the judges.
Although Bontje attempted to buy a part of Gestion Silvano N after his sale to Schockemoele, it is Emma Hindle's Brookhouse Stud which closed the final deal. Buying both Gestion Silvano N and the immensely popular Oldenburg stallion Diamond Hit from Paul Schockemoehle, Brookhouse Stud now owns several top FEI Dressage stallions.
Brookhouse Stud is an English owned, yet German based semen distribution center operated by Emma Hindle and Thomas Hoffmann. Emma Hindle has been riding horses from the age of four and has represented her country in International competitions since 1989. She worked at Flyinge, the Swedish National Stud for five years, before moving to Germany in 1998, working and training at Hofgut Neuhof with Ellen Bontje, the dressage silver medallist in Sydney 2000, and Conrad Schumacher, the renowned iInternational dressage trainer.
Thomas Hoffmann started working with horses when he was 12 years old. He worked in Warendorf (the German National Stud) for two years from 1995, achieving Pferdewirt Zucht und Haltung during that time. He has since worked in a range of disciplines within the equine industry, gaining a wealth of knowledge in all aspects of horsemanship.
Also involved in Brookhouse Stud, and working as mediators between Schockemoehle and Brookhouse stud are Birgit & Ulrich Henschke. Birgit Wellhausen-Henschke is a competition sports rider and both she and her husband, the Kohler protégé Ulrich Henschke, are qualified judges.
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