I'd like to point out to our readers Chris Hector's fabulous interview with Dr Ludwig Christmann, breeding director of the Hanoverian verband. Chris asks Christmann which stallions are hot on the Hanoverian market, and investigates which sires will be called foundation stallions in a decade. If you want to know which stallion to use -- if you want to dip into the Hanoverian pool -- this article will provide some valuable insights.
Chris Hector opens his tête-à-tête with Christmann on the topic of Weltmeyer:
Is Weltmeyer still the number one stallion in the Hanoverian team?
"Weltmeyer is one of those stallions that are born only rarely - Absatz, Bolero, Weltmeyer - they leave their mark on the offspring, they are timeless. It is just not possible to reproduce such a stallion, you can try to breed them, but everything has to click and fit for it to happen. He is the number one stallion."
The criticism of Weltmeyer is always that the horses won’t collect, that there are 5000 offspring, where are they in Grand Prix?
"There are Weltmeyer offspring in Grand Prix. Weltmeyer definitely has his place in the breeding of dressage horses because of the active hind end he produces, and the regularity with which he produces that movement. It is also a question of how many Grand Prix riders we have." "I think if Weltmeyer has the right partners, then he produces Grand Prix horses."
Read the complete article in Horse Magazine
--Astrid Appels
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