Fifty-Fifty, Freigeist, Ibiza Dream, Va-Pensiero Win 2023 Weltmeyer Prize

Breeding

Hanoverian

Fifty-Fifty, Freigeist, Ibiza Dream and Va'Pensiero were decorated with the "Weltmeyer Prize" for the young stallions with the best results in the performance test in 2022.

For the eleventh time, the Hannoveraner Verband awarded the Weltmeyer Prize in front of a large audience at the show of privately owned stallions in Verden on 4 February 2022.

While in the first years after its inception only the best young stallion of his year was awarded with the Weltmeyer prize, since 2012 the Hanoverian society has been decorating more stallions each year with the distinction. In 2019 no less than five stallions got the award. In 2021 three dressage stallions won it and this year four stallions get the prize, making the achievement less exclusive.

Four Prize Winners

In Denmark, the Fürst Toto x Royal Classic son Fifty-Fifty (breeder: Arndt Schwierking, station: Helgstrand Dressage) passed his 35-day-test as one of the best. Before that, the chestnut stallion from the dam line of Sukkade already convinced at the 14-day-test in Vechta, where the judges attested him a high willingness to perform combined with high quality of his basic gaits.

Freigeist by Foundation x Competent (breeder: Dr. Michael Lühs, station: State Stud Celle) was still young when he was licensed in Verden in 2020. Two years later, the bay stallion justified the trust that Landstallmeister Dr. Axel Brockmann had placed in him when he purchased him at the stallion sales. At the 50-day- test dressage in Schlieckau, Freigeist showed his special qualities under saddle and shone with a final score of 8.49.

The Rhineland-registered Ibiza x Dimaggio son Ibiza Dream (breeder: Axel Windeler, station: Axel Windeler), who was already Vice Bundeschampion of four-year-old stallions with Sina Aringer two years ago, is spoilt for success. In the Niedersachsenhalle, the chestnut from the successful dam line of Schneiderin achieved the best result in the sport test dressage with a score of 8.81 a year ago.

The fourth Weltmeyer Prize went to the reigning Hanoverian dressage horse champion Va' Pensiero by Vitalis x Fürstenball (breeder: Zuchthof Düvel). With an ideal score of 10 for rideability in part I of the sport test dressage in Münster-Handorf, his final score was an outstanding 9.36. This is also thanks to rider Hannah Laser. The rider at Klosterhof Medingen, where Va' Pensiero was available to breeders for the past two years, rode the bay stallion to eleven victories in eleven starts, including the Hanoverian Championships and the Bundeschampionat ov three-year-old stallions.