Blue Hors Stud is selling its most successful dressage horse, Blue Hors Cavan. The licensed stallion, who was gelded last year due to a testicle hernia, has recently won the CDI Stuttgart and CDI Stockholm
and is ranked third in the BCM/FEI Dressage Rankings. Cavan's steady rider Lars Petersen is moving to the United States and Blue Hors considered it best that his mount would be sold.
Cavan is a Hanoverian bred stallion by Cavalier and rose to stardom on the international dressage scene in 1998. At the World Equestrian Games in Rome, Cavan excelled with the Danish Petersen and the pair was considered to be the most promising combination for the future. Petersen and Cavan fulfilled their role as dream duo as they came to win numerous World Cup competitions. They participated in the European and World Championships, but had to cancel their entry for the 2000 Olympic Games due to that hernia. Cavan used to be trained by Rudolf Zeilinger but is currently in training with Norbert van Laak, in Germany. Cavan's sale price is rumoured to be astronomical.
All this considered, it is worth mentioning that Blue Hors Stud itself reports that Petersen will be taking Cavan to the United States and continue to ride him in order to qualify for the Danish team for the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Spain. What will happen after Spain has not yet been arranged. The sale of the horse is a very likely to happen.
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