Swiss Licensed Stallion Flashback Sold to Korea

Dressage

Korea

The Swiss bred licensed stallion and WCYH participant Flashback has been sold to Korea.

Flashback is a 12-year old Swiss warmblood by Franziskus out of Sugar Love (by Sir Donnerhall x Rubioso N). He is bred by Christian Bürki.

Faith CB

Originally named Faith CB, the black was first licensed with the Swiss warmblood studbook before getting approved for Hanoverian (2018), Oldenburg (2016), Rhineland-Pfalz (2016), and the South German (2016) studbooks.

He did his 14-day suitability test in Adelheidsdorf in April 2016 and scored a total of 7.70 points with 7.84 for dressage and 7.28 for jumping. He did two sport tests in the spring of 2017. In March in Munich he got 7.28 and in April in Munster-Handorf he scored 7.95 points. He was entered for the sport test in Munich in 2018 but dropped out. He then completed his licensing process in the autumn of 2018 with a 50-day test in Schlieckaue, wher he got a dressage score of 7.88.

The horse has spent the majority of his life in Germany. First in co-ownership between Volker Brodhecker and Schleier and as of 2019 Schleier got listed as the sole owner of the black stallion.

He has 27 offspring registered for sport in Germany.

Sport Career

The stallion was first competed in Germany by Leandra Hahn in 2016, while co-owner Volker Brodhecker showed him once himself in 2017.

As of 2018 Carolin Brandt climbed aboard and in 2019 she rode the stallion in his first international shows at the CDI Wiesbaden in the 6-yeat old classes. The pair got selected for the 2019 World Championships for young dressage horses in Ermelo, where they finished 15th in the 6-year old consolation finals. In 2020 she competed the horse in his first Prix St Georges level tests.

In 2021 German Olympian Dorothee Schneider took over the ride and premiered him at the locak show in Mainz-Bretzenheim in August 2021 before riding the Nurnberger Burgpokal qualifier with him in Ludwigsburg. In 2022 the pair competed at three CDI's at small tour level: in Munich, Aachen and Ludwigsburg, winning two tests in Munich. Schneider rode Flashback in his first Inter II tests in 2023 and showed him once in January 2024.

The stallion moved to Katrin Burger's barn and she campaigned him at S*** level in Germany in March and April 2025.

Sold to Korea

Flashback has now been sold to Korea through Australian Olympian Hayley Beresford.

The stallion will continue his sport career in Korea under David Jung Kwang Lee, a student of Olympian Young Shik Hwang.

Beresford has strong connections with the Korean market and Hwang's stable, having recently sold an 8-year old Don Juan de Hus to Hwang as his L.A. Olympic hopeful as well as Kingsdale Rodenburg (by Lord Leatherdale x Negro) and McKenzie KL (by Governor x Flemmingh) to Hwang's student, Yu Jin Choi's 15-year old son, who aspires an international dressage career.