Dalera BB, the Trakehner mare that was the 2021 and 2024 Olympic champion in dressage, has delivered her first foal on 9 March 2026.
Meet Dalera
Dalera is an 18-year old Trakehner mare by Easy Game x Handryk, bred by the late Silke Druckenmuller.
The mare dominated international dressage sport between 2021 and 2024 aside from a gap year in 2022.
After winning the 2017 Louisdor Cup Finals in Frankfurt, they first made it on the German team at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, where they won team gold and placed 9th in the Special. At the 2019 European Championships in Rotterdam they won team gold and kur bronze with their celebrated LaLa Land freestyle. This was the start of their ascent to the top.
At the 2019 CDI-W Stuttgart their string of success truly started. In the 2020 corona year they won Neumunster, Hagen, and Donaueschingen. In the spring of 2021 they had a "lul" in their winning streak, meaning in four tests that year they did not win (2nd in the Grand Prix at the 2021 CDI-W Salzburg, 2nd in the GP Special at the CDI Hagen, and 3rd and 2nd in the Olympic team qualifier at the 2021 CDI Kronberg). As of then their total conquest started, at least internationally as nationally they were once beaten by Rothenberger/Fendi in Balve 2023.
They won team and individual gold at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo and triple gold at the 2021 European Championships in Hagen six weeks later. They skipped the 2022 World Championships as Jessica gave birth to a baby. They won the World Cup Finals in 2022 and 2023 and got double gold and team silver at the 2023 European Championships in Riesenbeck. They won the German Dressage Championships four times (2020 2021, 2023, 2024) and capped off their career with team and individual gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Broodmare in Retirement
After the Paris Olympic Games Dalera was immediately retired from sport, age 16, and put in foal with Vitalis (by Vivaldi x D-Day) in the spring of 2025. She carried the foal herself instead of embryotransfer.
She has now successfully delivered a dark bay filly at her home in Aubenhausen, Germany.
"Here she is and she's simply wonderful," Jessica posted early in the morning of 9 March. "Everything went well."
Jessica told Eurodressage the filly will be named Dolce Vita BB.
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