What's Happening: December 2012 - Part 2

Tue, 12/18/2012 - 10:35
What's Happening in the Dressage World?

Congratulations to Pferd24!! After having been a couple for 12 years German young horse specialist Nadine Plaster and her life partner, horse dealer Simon Kohlenbrenner, decided to get married on 12 December 2012.

They said "I Do" at the city hall of Selsingen. The couple met each other at Nicole and Thomas Casper's Gestut Birkhof in Donzdorf, South Germany, where Nadine worked as a bereiter. Nicole was the maid of honour and Thomas best man at the wedding, which happened just a day before the CDN Frankfurt started.  Desperado OLD and Dave competed in the Louisdor Cup Finals; both horses were trained as youngsters by Plaster.

Photo © Kiki Beelitz

Norwegian Grand Prix horse Kraglunds Cladiat (by Classic x World Record xx) has passed away. The Danish bred gelding was 16 year old and suffered from a recurring colic attack on which he was operated in September. Norwegian team trainer Marianne Heltzen owned the horse and earned bronze with him at the 2010 Norwegian Grand Prix Championships. The next year Marianne offered the ride on Cladiat to Ellen Birgitte Farbrot, who won silver at the 2011 Norwegian Championships with him. Dressur Sa Klart reported that Cladiat was one of the most actively competed Grand Prix horses in the country.

Emily Ward Hansen and Sune Hansen became the proud parents of a baby boy on 17 December 2012. Their son James was born at 8.34 AM and is in good health. He weighs 3,14 kg and is 50 cm tall.

The 27-year old Dutch Grand Prix rider Lorraine van den Brink gave birth to a baby boy on 10 December 2012. Van den brink and her partner John became the proud parents of Lucca, who weighed 3,404 kg at birth.

The 5-year old Danish warmblood gelding Robinho has been sold to German horse dealer Joachim Arl. The chestnut gelding by Romanov x Don Schufro  Lavallo is bred by Jytte Strangholt and Kurt Nørskov and was trained and competed by Danish Carina Reslow Krüth. Finnish Grand Prix rider Henri Ruoste will be training Robinho to FEI level.

Jamie White-Welling's Oldenburg licensed stallion Tomahawk will be back standing at stud at Stallion Station Kathmann in Holtrup for the 2013 breeding season. The bay Temptation x Sandro Hit x Master, which sold to White-Welling for 800,000 euro at the 2011 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing, initially stood at stud at Bockmann's in 2012 but mid-season he was taken home by his owner. The stallion has now completed the 70-day Stallion Performance Test with a dressage score of 8,58 which ranked him second amongst his dressage peers.

The 11-year old Italian owned FEI team pony Mastwood Blackberry (by Mastwood Pepperson x Willoway Piper’s Gold) has been sold to Italian pony rider Sophie Fabiani. The black New Forest pony stallion was trained and competed by Dutch based Italian rider Chiara Prijs-Vitale and her younger sister Noa took over the ride in 2011. The pony will now continue its career in Italy.

Ingrid Klimke has received the ride on the newly approved 3-year old Westfalian premium stallion Diamond Magic (by Diamond Hit x Roh Magic).

David Pincus Tells You What Happened in His World!

During a non horsey dinner party I found my self seated next to a pregnant lady, in order to make conversation I inquired if that was her  first or has she other children already. She replied that this was her first and then proceeded to elaborate how difficult it was for her to conceive, she spent many years under doctors and specialists treatments and only after many years to her delight it happened, and then she added “I suppose with your horses you just let nature take its course easy peasy “
I felt I had to put her right about the matter and explained that often I have mares which are difficult to get in foal, just like in humans, science is there to intervene and help. As she was interested to know further I went through the whole procedures that we have to go through in order to get some mares in foal. I explained how we induce the mare to come into season with the aid of prostaglandin, the extensive use of ultrasound scanning to accurately follow the cycle to determined ovulation, I further explained that often ovulation has to be induced with luteinizing hormone and  then extensive uterine cleaning with anti biotic is required to insure hospitable environment for the new embryo. It seemed that all this fascinated her as she had to endure similar procedures herself.
And then she asked “ if after all that the mare is still not in foal what do you do then?” “Sometimes we change the stallion,“ I said. She looked at me and said “how funny, that's what worked for me.”