The elite Trakehner stallion Banditentraum has passed away at age 22. Bred by the Böttcher family in Petershagen, Germany, Banditentraum was by Kiebitz out of Beauty (Mozart x Cardinal xx).
The chestnut stallion Banditentraum was licensed at the Trakehner Stallion Licensing in Neumunster in 1986 and he won his Stallion Performance Test with an index of 130.39 points. He was always a very undervalued stallion but still was named "Elite Sire" in 2001, because the small number of offspring (only 158 registered sport horses in 2003) he produced proved to be successful in the show ring.
"For a long time, he was the only Trakehner stallion approved by the three major German stud books in Hanover, Westfalia and Oldenburg and it was mostly there that his reputation as a top notch dressage horse producer arose. The lack of promotion, his un"wanted" color and the fact that more attention was paid to one front foot instead of the big picture caused his Trakehner breeding numbers to drop to a joke. He ended up serving 40 Hanoverian mares in relation to 3 Trakehners and it is no question that not only a rare bloodline is gone, but a superior sport horse sire once again was not seen as such. Banditenatraum produced 3 approved Hanoverian sons," Maren Engelhardt of Trakehners International wrote.
His most famous offspring include Ingrid Klimke's Prix St George horse Kira K and Yvonne Losos de Muniz' upcoming Grand Prix horse Bernstein, who is also a licensed breeding stallion for the Hanoverian verband and Danish Warmblood society.
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