In principle nothing special took place on a particular day in 1981 at the yard of Germany's most renowned and successful horse dealer, Ulrich Kasselmann: a client looking at an unbroken youngster whose breeder had dropped it off not long before. It was the beginning of a partnership that made Germany's Monica Theodorescu famous and that will always be remembered as one of the most inspiring of the past decades. That moment the young Monica became united with a black power house of a horse called Ganimedes.

They are known as the biggest equine breed in the world. the Shire Horse is a magnificent giant with long feathers, once bred to pull a plough which became the backbone of the British farming community 100 years ago. Today the breed, which was feared to die out after the tractor took over after World War II, is popular amongst pleasure riders