The Hanoverian stallion Bernstein has returned home to Denmark. Danish Young Rider Anne Katrine Elkjaer-Holm has purchased the Danish Hanoverian licensed breeding stallion by Banditentraum x Winterwald from Yvonne Losos de Muniz from the Dominican Republic.
The chestnut stallion competed at the 2002 World Young Horse Championships under Danish Morten Thomsen and sold to Losos de Muniz in 2004. She won the individual bronze medal with him at the 2007 Pan American Games in Brazil. Muniz and Bernstein trained and competed much in Europe. Bernstein was also shown at small tour level by Spanish rider Juan Antonio Garcia Mena in 2007 and in the Grand Prix by British Carl Hester in 2008.
Trained by Bjarne Nielsen, Elkjaer-Holm unexpectedly lost her young rider's horse Durban Marielist last spring and was looking for a replacement. Bernstein became her choice.
"We think he is a great horse," Anne Katrine's mother Kirsten Elkjaer-Holm told Eurodressage. "He is easy to handle at competitions and has just won a Grand Prix in England with 70 %. When we heard he was for sale we hurried to England to try him a couple of times and now he is in our stable and Anne Katrine is very happy again to have a good horse. We hope they will get a lot of succeses together."
Photo copyrighted Cealy Tetley
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