The chestnut gelding Daquiery became the price highlight of the very first Winter Mixed Sales Auction in Vechta, Germany. The Winter Mixed Sales replaces the Spezialauslese auctions and includes dressage and show jumping brood mares besides the regular collection of sport horses.
Unique Star, the Reserve Champion of the Oldenburg Show Jumping Stallion Licensing (OS) sold to the Netherlands for a top knock down price of 49,000 €. Unique Star is by Quick Star x Corland and was bred by the Dutch Mr. Van Haar from Daable, The Netherlands. The runner up of the licensing, a Rivero xx x Argentinus get, sold for 16,000 €.
The Don Gregory x Quattro B offspring Daquiery achieved a price of 23,000 €. Following the trend at Munster and Verden, Vechta was not able to achieve really high prices with their first auction of the 2004 auction year. Nevertheless, Daquiery was a very interesting dressage prospect and was sold to the dressage stable of Reinhold Diestel in Frankfurt, Germany. Diestel also purchased Silvaplana (Silvio x Ampere).
The sponsors of British dressage rider Nicola McGivern purchased two brood mares: Harmony (Davignon I x Hill Hawk xx) who is in foal to Wolkentanz II (Weltmeyer x Ludendorff) and the chestnut mare Brentanda (Santander x Brentano II) who is in foal to Rubin Royal (Rohdiamant x Grundstein).
The average price for a riding horse at this 2004 Winter Mixed Sales was 10,075 Euro. A brood mare cost an average price of 9,167 Euro. Five sporthorses and nine brood mares were sold abroad.