Lord Sinclair Passed Away

Dressage

Bavarian

The Bavarian bred breeding stallion Lord Sinclair has passed away on 11 September 2025 at the blessed age of 31.

Lord Sinclair was a 1994 bron Bavarian warmblood by Lanciano out of Cleopatra (by Raueck x Capitol). He was bred by martin Niedermair

Licensed Stallion

Sourced as a 2-year old by Paul Schockemöhle and Ulli Kasselmann, Lord Sinclair was first licensed in 1996 at the Oldenburg stallion licensing and approved for Westfalia in 1998 and for Hanover in 1999. All major studbooks followed later.

He did his 100-day stallion test in Neustadt-Dosse in April 1999 and scored 132.12 points as the high scorer of the group. He got 147.16 points (1st) for dressage and 96.54 (24th) for show jumping

PSI Auction Highlight

Lord Sinclair became the biggest sensation of the PSI auction when he sold for 2,800,000 DM to Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong sale was to Swiss based entrepeneur John Müller (Johann Heinrich Müller), who co-founded the Hong Kong based mountain gear company Ozark with Hans Schallenberger. John bought the horse on the phone from the toilet in his house in Switzerland, where he preferred to do business from in quiet. Müller passed away Suddenly in 2002 and since then Schallenberger has been listed as Lord Sinclair's owner "on paper" with the German equestrian federation, but the heirs of the Müller family always retained the ownership.

Sport Career

The horse was trained at Hof Kasselmann in Hagen and Miriam Henschke achieved her biggest successes on him. She rode him to the gold medal at the 1997 and 1998 Bundeschampionate.

He represented Germany at the inaugural edition of the World Young Horse Championships in Arnheim in July 1999. He competed in the first round, placing 14th with 8.10 points, but was then withdrawn from the show as the horse felt too tired. Two months later he was sixth at the 1999 Bundeschampionate. A year later he finished 17th in the 6-year old finals at the 2000 Bundeschampionate.

Henschke competed the stallion up the levels. They did their first Grand Prix tests at national level in 2006. Henschke kept on showing the stallion at national shows through 2011. Their last competition being in Schenefeld in July 2011 when Lord Sinclair was 17.

Retirement

At the 2003 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing Show

Lord Sinclair spent his retirement at Miriam Henschke's stable in Steinhagen, where he was still lightly trained until a late age and turned out for the good life.

"He died yesterday at age 31 in in the arms of his former rider Miriam and husband Fritz Johansmann," Francois Kasselmann explained. He enjoyed the last 13 years of retirement by them, also a big hug to his owner, family Müller."

Legacy

The German equestrian federation has 443 offspring registered as still active in sport pf breeding, of which 20 are licensed sons. His most famous son are breeding stallions Lord Loxley and Sir Sinclair.

Lord Sinclair produced numerous internationally competed dressage horses including Grand Prix horses Lollipop (Emile Faurie), Lord of Loxley (hans Peter Minderhoud, Brett Parbery), Lord Leopold (Victoria Max-Theurer), and FEI horses Laetitian R (Pia-Katharina Voigtländer), Legamento (Gemma Green-Appleton), Lacoste (Amandine Prevost), Woodstock (Julia Watchorn), and Lautrec (Tina von Block).