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2000
December 26
 | Season's Greetings! |
| The USDF Horse of the Year Awards with our Wonderful Sport Horses!
 | 4th place nationwide, and the highest ranking Hanoverian yearling colts and gelding division - Weltenzauber (Wonderful X Diamantenzauber by Davignon) owned
and bred by Sharon Hardy of New Jersey. |
| Reserve champion, AHS and nationwide, Training level (2842 horse competing, 600 qualified) - Winwood 75.786%.
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| AHS champion (9th nationwide) First Level (2784 horses competing, 529 qualified) - Winwood (Wonderful X Arisma by Amarillo) 70.857%
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| Wish you a most "wonderful" new year!
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December 18
| I have just learned that Wonderful is rated the BEST
young stallion by German FN (German competition federation) based
on his 44 offspring competing in Germany. He is rated #1 with the breed
index of 156. This is really great considering he has only 99 foals
in Germany before I bought him and interrupted his breeding career there.
Also many foals by him are actually imported to the US, so they can't
help Papa with the German points with their US winnings. Yippie!
Prepotency rules! |
December 4
| All the Arabian and half-Arabian sporthorse enthusiasts take note!
Wonderful is now a sweepstake nominated sire for IAHA.
Millions of dollars of prize money is offered annually by IAHA competitions.
Foals from Arabian and part-Arabian mares bred to Wonderful can be nomiated for
the sweepstakes for prize money. Please go to
IAHA website for more information. |
| German trip report was completed on November 17, but didn't get a chance to make an announcement. Read all about it here.
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| Yippie! New video production is finally completed. I did all the work on the video myself with my newly acquired desktop video editing skills. I'm pretty
proud of the final masterpiece. It may be a bit long (30 minutes for both
stallions), but, well, you have
the fast forward button, right? I think I did a 1derful job, and you will
enjoy it. In addition to showing my stallions off, I also included information
on their sires and grand sires, Wonderful's offsprings and some interesting
bloopers.
To order one for priority shipment, please click the PayPal
button, or call Violet at (408)803-0888.
| Video of Wonderful and Rubino Bellissimo (~ 30 minutes) --
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| Montserrat will start his training in Germany soon. Holga Finken, trainer of
multiple recent Bundeschampions will start working him in Mid-December. I am
very excited! Mr. Holga Finken's recent fames include:
| Bundeschampionship winner with Wahajama, the 5,000,000 DM mare, two years in a row. Well, when he first started riding her, she was "ONLY" 510.000 DM. :-)
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| Bundeschampionship winner with Wildest Dream in the gelding division.
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| Bundeschampionship winner with Duvalier in the gelding division. Duvalier
now also competes at FEI level with Holga Finken. |
| FEI competion winner with White Magic (3/4 brother of Wonderful).
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| Grand Prix winner with Wie Weltmeyer (1/2 brother of Wonderful).
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| Half brother of Montserrat, Mambo No. 5, was sold for 1.1 million
DM at the PSI auction on November 26. |
October 29
| Violet had a trip to Germany in October. Trip highlights will be compiled in a report to be published soon.
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| Wonderful's son Winwood won ABIC/USDF Regional Championship with 80.2% at
training level, and he also scored 74.265% at first level and was second.
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| 1derful.com farm is in contract to add one more wonderful stallion in
her collection! The new stallion is Montserrat, a dark brown/black with 4
short socks. He is by Metternich, no doubt the most prepotent Matcho AA son,
out of a states premium mare
by Abajo xx X Lungau. He scored very well in both dressage and
jumping, overshadowing his sensational half brother, Multistar,
the reserve champion at 1999 licensing. |
September 27
| Rubino went to his very first show competing at First Level in an AHS, USDF, CDS recognized show. He won all 6 classes entered under trainer Michael Lieberg. Scores received from international judge were 70.7%, 74.2%, 74.5%, and 78.2% for his first level tests. He received 87 and 89.5 for his USDF Material classes. Judge commented on score sheets suggesting we try for AHSA FEI Young Horse qualifying for 5 years old. US will send three horses to World Championship in 2001. Wonderful's 5-year-old son Winwood went back to Germany to represent the US at the Championship this year. Pretty good for my 4-year-old little boy. I'm a proud mama! :-)
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September 8
| Made the last shipment two days ago, and I can now announce that
2000 breeding season has completed! Whew! |
| Hmmm, I thought taking care
of all the requests and shipments was tough,
but I don't think it even compares to the piles of paperwork... |
| Hey, when the job gets tough or rather quite monotonous, I make it
a web application! Now breeders can make payments directly at my website
using the secured, easy and fast PayPal service, and I'll let PayPal handle the transaction records. Click on the X.com PayPal button and take a look!
I encourage all breeders to use PayPal for receiving invoices and payments.
Maybe I can offer some incentives for the next season... ;-) |
| I'm setting up the video clips to go through a Real Streaming video site - EarthNoise. Yap, I'm making more noises; I mean movies. :-)
Hopefully I can publish more horse movies this way. Take a look at the movies
by clicking on the EarthNoise links on my home page. BTW, I'm
still at silent movie time, but sound will come soon. Have fun! |
| While learning all the video goodies, all mare owners, please know that
you're encouraged to send me your video clips, and I'll select footages to
incorporate them in the stallion video, and publish them to the web. I need
fairly good quality (hopefully first or second generation), or else there won't
be much to see but really special effects, like snow.
P.S. Please email me often to urge me to give up
my sleep to do the video. :-) |
| Don't forget to try our new Google search engine... It even found my long lost pages for me. Cool!
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| Almost forgot what I promised last time... Here is some old news on
Wonderful's offspring:
| Winwood, owned and ridden by Heather Bender, was high
points at all of the first three shows that Heather entered him:
Indio, Del Mar and DG Bar. At DG Bar his high score was 81.6%. |
| Hanoverians dominate Morvern Park Breed Show - Weltenzauber (Wonderful X
Diamantzauber/Davignon) contributed greatly:
 | First in Yearling Colts/Geldings
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| Reserve Champion Colts/Geldings
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| Winner of the Hanoverian class
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| Many thanks to owner Sharon Hardy for breeding her excellent mare
to Wonderful and showing Weltenzauber. We all look forward to
seeing Weltenzauber's new full sibling soon too! |
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July 19
| Yippie! Rubino is now a proven fertile stallion with shipped semen.
One mare in Georgia is checked in foal after one insemination from the
shipped semen. I booked only a few mares with a deeply discounted
stud fee for this test breeding season. We'll have some sample foals to
see how he produces. Of course, we all have high hopes and
expectations based on his outstanding bloodlines and stallion test scores.
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| Finally we'll have our family vacation from July 20 to August 8. Gee, I
haven't even started packing...
For all breeding requests, please contact Julie Lamoree, and you can
find her contact information in this webpage.
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| Some excellent breed show results for last year and this year's Wonderful
foals have been reported in by their owners. I'll detail them after we get
back from vacation. We probably will have even more to include by that time.
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June 28
| Winwood's talents are recognized at 2000 FEI World Breeding Championship
for young dressage horses! The event was held at Arnhem, The Netherlands from June 21 to 25. Winwood had a tough go on his second test due to difficult weather condition, but
judges made very positive comments regarding his talents. Click here
to read more about it! Click
here to see all related articles, where Winwood is also mentioned.
Many thanks to Astrid Appels for the reports, and please visit her very
informative website! |
June 16
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Great news! Wonderful's 5-year-old son Winwood out of mare by Amarillo and his owner/rider Heather Bender have been selected by the AHSA Dressage
Committee to compete at World Breeding Championship Dressage for Young horses in Germany.
Owners had to nominate the horses and submit either test scores (Second Level Test 3 or 4
for 5-year olds, and Third Level Test 2 or 3 for 6-year olds), or a
videotape of the horse performing FEI Young Horse Test. Competitors are
responsible for all expenses, which certainly would cut down on the number
of nominations; however, it was a great honor nontheless. Two other horses from
the US selected are:
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New Tango, a five-year-old Dutch Warmblood by Contango, owned by Tara
Stegen, of Wellington, FL, and ridden by Robert Dover. |
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Festrausch, a six-year old Westfalen stallion by Florestan, owned by
Hilltop Farm and ridden by Scott Hassler. |
The horse/rider pairs represent their perspective breeds, not their owners' nations. However, all nations are invited to introduce international experience to
the young horses and their riders. Best wishes to Heather and Winwood for a "Wonderful" showing!
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| Wonderful finally has 15 daughters done the mare performance tests, so he
is listed in the 2000 stallion yearbook (Hannoveraner Jahrbuch hengste 2000).
His offspring are doing really well. Out of 99 foals he produced for the
Hanoverian Verband, there are 35 competition horses, 5 states premium mares, 3
elite auction horses, and 3 other Verden auction horses. He received 144 points
for his dressage breed index from his offspring's competition winnings, which don't include
the outstanding records of his super daughter Wondergirl and geldings that left
Germany before they competed there, such as Winwood. You bet I am very pleased
with his production records! |
| We plan to show Wonderful for the Prix St. George level at the end of
July. Please stay tuned for the exact dates to coordinate breeding requests. Thanks.
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| Rubino has moved to the new facility since June 10. He hurt his eye slightly probably by bumping into something in the new environment at night. He is under veterinary
care, and hopefully will recover fully soon. Wonderful and Rubino are now living
next to each other. It took a couple of hours to settle them down after several sessions of showing off, but they seem to really enjoy each other's company now.
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June 6
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It's been a while since the last update. I can tell you moving is
not fun, especially with all the junk we accumulated for the past 15 years.
:-) |
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Both Wonderful and Rubino are doing fine. Wonderful will be moving
with his trainer Michael Lieberg to a new facility that is only few minutes
from UC Davis Vet School Teaching Hospital for the semen collection. With the closer distance, we should alleviate the 5-hour round trip for each
collection that has certainly put some stress on the farm manager and the stallion.
Please review the new
semen request instruction, and you are always welcome to call me for
any questions or suggestions. |
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I've enjoyed riding Rubino for the past 4 months. However, he will
go to Michael's training facility shortly because my vacation is coming up, and
it's a lot easier to manage his breeding at Michael's place. Also, he can certainly use some classical dressage schooling without me messing
around with him. Even though he just turned 4, he has been really
great for even a novice like me to ride. He has grown quite a bit taller.
It must be the California hay. :-) |
April 3
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Breeding season has started! |
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Wonderful will be managed by Karen, the owner of Meadowlarks farm, and
collected by Dr. Mary Scott from UC Davis. |
March 13
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We will be moving. The new address is: |
13909 Lynde Avenue
Saratoga, CA 95070 | |
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Old phone number will be fowarded automatically to the new number: (408)803-0888,
and email will remain the same. |
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We are happy to announce that we will have Dr. Mary Scott at UC Davis to
manage Wonderful's breeding this year. New semen request instruction will
be sent out by end of this month. Wonderful is with a FEI trainer in that
area, so I decided it would be the best to go with one of the best vet
facilities in the nation. We plan to show Wonderful lightly; however, his
breeding duties will be his higher priority. |
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As usual, please feel free to call or email me should you have any questions. |
February 29
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Very sad news - Welt Klasse was put to sleep on February 28 due to complications
after two colic surgeries performed on 2/7 and 2/12. He was very courageous
and bright till the very end. We're all heart broken, but he will be in
our memories forever. If you wish to know more details on his courageous
fight, you can look at this
page. |
January 28
|
A lot has happened since the last news update. That is in addition
to that my family and I went on vacation in Florida for two weeks and hit
every amusement parks at the pace of one per day. I did visit the
Thoroughbred breeding farm Adena Spring. That was a really impressive
setup. |
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Rubino was out of the quarantine on 12/22. My trainer Maryanna picked
him up since I was on vacation. He has been doing really great.
He is a very ridable horse with excellent movements. He looked very
immature, probably not much bigger than when he was licensed at two and
half years old. The only issue we have witih him is that he loves
to talk, but he stays completely submissive even when he calls. We
tell him "shhhh", but he hasn't quite gotten over it completely yet.
I may book a couple of good mares, but I intend to let him have the time
to grow up more. |
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Welt Klasse and I rode at Steffen Peters clinic on 1/22 and 1/23.
It was the first time I rode him away from home ever, and first time for
me to ride in front of many strangers in 13 years. I was very tense
at first, but Steffen was just really great. Click here
to see the full report. |
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I finally ordered a desktop computer based video editing machine.
It has not arrived yet, and I've heard it takes a while to learn, but the
hope is that I can update the marketing tapes much more often to include
the new footages of the stallions as well as their babies. Stay tuned.
(I'll try my best, but don't hold your breath... :-) |
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AHS 2000 Stallion Directory finally arrived two days ago. There are
three pictures of Wonderful's daughter Wonder Girl. Click here
to see the pictures I scanned in. Please also take a look at all
the other horse albums I made recently. There are lot of
foal pictures. More to add... |
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Check out the new year 2000 calendar
pages. |
1999
December 02
|
Rubino is in California! He went to UC Davis for CEM quarantine and is
scheduled to be released on 12/22. He is going to be a perfect Christmas
present ... for me ;-) However, I haven't had the luxury to see him yet.
:-( |
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Some good news from a breeder who has a 1997 Welt Klasse colt: (it was
sent a few weeks ago, but I forgot to publish it in the last newsletter.)
| I took Weltinvader to the USDF Sport Horse Breeding Seminar in Croton,
Ohio this weekend as a demo horse. Hilda Gurney was the clinician, and
Vader ended up the Champion horse of the seminar. The seminar is for prospective
breeding judges as well as other breeders or interested people, and they
verbally evaluate them and give a score. Hilda said she would have given
his trot an 8.5, and his overall score was in the low eighties. She said
he was by for the nicest horse at the seminar, and in a class all his own.
:) Hope your boy s are doing well! (I actually had an "S" judge ask me
if he was for sale). Bev |
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Wonderful is in training with Michael Lieberg, and we are trying to apply
for the Kyra Kirkland seminar in Feburary to ride at Prix St. George level.
Wish us luck to get in. |
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I have been riding Welt Klasse since mid-September, and have been the sole
rider since mid-October; it's been great fun though his big movements also
made it a very humbling experience. We're now doing lots of extension and
collection, and started some canter pirouette work. I couldn't even trot
a 20 meter circle without panting and fainting a few weeks ago, so I think
this is a great improvement. It's really nice of him to put up with me. |
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Check out the December Calendar with our gorgeous Rubino. |
November 17
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Well, I've been busy with all the year end paperwork for the breed associations
and mare owners. Everything should be in order by end of this week. All
mare owners who bred their mares this year should receive all the documents
necessary for registering the foals shortly. |
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I bought a new stallion at the end of October, and it looks like everything
is put in motion, and the horse should arrive California in just a couple
of days. He is three and half years old, just passed his stallion performance
testing at Adelheidsdorf with a dressage score of 123.10. He is by the
famous Westphalian stallion, Rubenstein I, and out of a Bergkristall (Bolero
X Shogun xx) mare. He will be appropriately named Rubino Bellissimo
(The Most Beautiful Ruby) for his perfect conformation and intense red
color. Please take the time to see his photos (go home
and click on his picture under his name) as well as his video clips; click
on Video button, and look for
Rubino Bellissimo. I don't know if I will start breeding him this year,
but if you're interested, please contact me in January. |
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I placed a full-page advertisement in a few magazines: Hunter and Sport
Horse, Equine Trade Journal, and California Dressage Letters. Look for
it. If you wish to publish ads jointly with me to promote your foals, please
contact me for more details. |
August 31
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Lots of great news in August, and the most important one is that both stallions
are recovered well, and I have been having a lot of fun riding them. |
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Welt's Classique by Welt Klasse out of a Kalypso mare was the champion
filly out of 19 fillies at Glenwood Farm inspection. |
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Another colt by Wonderful was the inspection champion out of 12 foals inspected.
More details coming. |
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Wonderful
Pik did very well and received excellent remarks at River House inspection.
No ranking was done at the River House inspection. |
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Wonder
Girl by Wonderful received 8.33 for her mare performance test, and
was the obvious champion. She received 9 on ridability, all 8's for
her three gaits, and 8 for her jumping. |
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Wonderful is fully approved by ISR/Oldenburg NA and has received his life-time
breeding license. |
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Don't forget to download the new calendar for September! |
Congratulations to all the owners!
July 09
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Both stallions are healing nicely though Welt Klasse still has large patches
of missing hair, and Wonderful still has some small open sores. |
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We started riding them since last week, and both seem to gain strength
quickly, much quicker than I do, but I am getting longe lessons daily on
them. |
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Thanks to our hauler Pam, the new breeding arrangement is working out fine.
The stallions are hauled to Valley Equine Clinic whenever needed. |
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Other than the ISR/Oldenburge NA inspection for Wonderful, we haven't had
any firm plans for any outtings yet. Welt Klasse is qualified for CDS championship,
so we are hoping to get him back in shape for that. |
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Two out of our three video machines are broken, so we can't make copies
of videos in the past few weeks. Hopefully they will be repaired soon.
I apologize for the delay of sending out the video. |
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Sorry about the delay of the July calendar, but it'll be done in a couple
of days. |
June 11
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:-( My happy face turned into a really sad face when Welt Klasse arrived.
His legs were all scraped up, and his left front was swollen though he
walked sound. Also, he is quite thin, and looks depressed. I am very upset
with my horses' condition. |
June 09
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Welt Klasse's return has been delayed. There is a mare at the breeding
farm for him to breed on Friday. He will be back on Friday instead. |
June 08
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Everything is all set to change our collection and shipment service to
our new vets: Dr. Richard McCormick and Dr. Lori Kayashima in Gilroy. Click
here
to see the details. Snail mails via postal office have been sent to mare
owners. If you have any questions, please be sure to call me. Thanks. |
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Good news: Both stallions will come back home on Wednesday (6/9). |
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Terrible news: Wonderful jumped out of his 6 feet tall paddock a few times
at night at the new breeding farm, and had an accident during one of the
jumps; his stifle was scraped. Unfortunately, we need to ship to two mares
today, and possibly tomorrow morning. He will be back tomorrow. The vets
at our training facility will examine his injury as soon as he arrives. |
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June calendar
is here - pictures of Wonderful and his first son born in Canada. |
May 31
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Dr. Mennick has moved! The new contact information:
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Tel: (530)529-0703
Fax: (530)529-1698
Truck phone/voice mail: (530)570-4994
Emergencyy pager: (530)899-6327 |
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The stallions will be back for training around June 10, and Valley Equine
Clinic in Gilroy will provide the collection and shipment service from
that point on. More details will be published here and sent to all mare
owners soon by June 6. |
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Please always feel free to contact me (Violet) at (408)803-0888
you have any questions. |
May 18
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Welt Klasse had only eight rides before the DG Bar show, but did quite
well at the show, and received all qualifying scores. He has gone back
to the breeding farm on 5/17 and resumed his other duty! |
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Two video clips for Welt Klasse are now available. Enjoy! |
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Pictures of a filly by Wonderful out of an Andalusian mare - see pictures
at ClubPhoto.com
<-- click. |
May 3
May 2
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May calendar
is here! Help yourselves. |
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Wonderful's first Canadian baby is born - a colt that sounds just like
him - chestnut with blaze and 3 socks/stockings. Mare owner claims the
colt is even better than the previous 6 premium foals produced by this
mare, and considers him a stallion prospect. I requested pictures and am
anxiously awaiting. |
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New video clips - Wonderful,
Wonderful's daughter, West Virginia, 1998 state stud performance testing
champion, Rotspon (Rubenstein X Argentan). |
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Welt Klasse is back in town after 15 days at the breeding farm... only
10 days before DG Bar Show. He will be back to breed on 5/17, and will
be back again in a week for SFP show. Busy boy. |
April 27
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Send faxes to my email box - use eFax number: (707)988-8893. |
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Video section is open for business - |
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First clips are taken today, starred Weltanna, by Welt Klasse out of Wotanna
(Wenzel X Absatz). Enjoy! |
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Video clips of Welt Klasse and Wonderful will be here - well, the VHS video
machine is definitely not as portable as the Hi-8 camecorder. Stay tuned. |
April 16
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Wonderful and Welt Klasse arrived at the breeding farm safely. |
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Welt Klasse was on the waiting list, but didn't get in the Golden State
Dressage show. That's really a big bummer. Since the breeding farm is just
next door, Maryanna might still ride him there if there are scratches of
the right classes. |
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New feature at the 1derful site - 1derful
Shops! |
April 04
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New calendar with a picture of Weltmeyer is up. |
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Enhanced the navigation index at our website. |
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Published a show and breeding schedule using Yahoo Calendar. I love Yahoo!
:-) |
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More facelift to the homepage coming soon ... |
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Video is coming soon... Stay tuned! |
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Welt Klasse is only on waiting list to get in to the Golden State Dressage
Festival show. If he doesn't get in, he will start breeding season as scheduled
on 4/15; if he gets in, he will start on 4/19. |
March 02
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Pictures I took from Dr. Reiner Klimke and Linda T-J Symposium are on-line!
Click on "Home" on the navigation panel on the left, and click on the link
that says "Slide show - pictures form ...". Enjoy! The trip report will
be available later. |
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March Calendar is here! Click on "Free Calendar", and follow the links
accordingly. |
Feburary 23
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Well, we are getting ready to go down to Los Angeles. Maryanna also decided
to take Wonderful though she will not ride him during the clinic. We haven't
had much experience riding him away from home even though we trail ride
him out all the time; I rode him once at the breeding farm that was 2 and
half hours from us, and that was fine. The little girl who exercised him
3 times a week for me had no problems either. However, this is more like
the show environment. |
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I received (finally) the October issue of Der Hannoveraner, and found the
information on Wonderful's daughter, Wanja, winning her class and was the
Grand champion at the Bargstedt show. I also went though the last year's
magazine again and found more information on his other daughters at the
Bargestedt show. I'll get some help to have them translated and published
after I come back from the symposium. |
January 14
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Yippie! Welt Klasse and my trainer Maryanna Danielson have been selected
to ride at the Reiner Klimke Symposium. I am really excited. |
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Extended the deadline of early booking discount to 2/15 due to AHS postponed
the deadline of AHS stallion service auction to 2/12. |
January 5
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January calendar is ready. This year I'll attempt to publish monthly calendar
with more varied horsey artwork! |
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Two new pictures for the eCards too! Check them out. |
1998
December 30
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Published Wonderful Incentive program. The program has existed since I
started breeding Welt Klasse, but the information was only sent to people
who planed to sign the contract. Now, it's published to all potential breeders. |
December 23
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Join the internet craze and fun! I am offering a breeding to Wonderful
at eBay auction for a fraction of the regular stud fee. No reserve!! |
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On my way to Las Vegas ... Chat with you after 12/29. Merry Christmas and
Wish you a most Wonderful New Year! |
November 30
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Read
about it! OK, read about it in English.
Wonderful and Welt Klasse's sire Weltmeyer, following his sire World Cup
I's footstep, won the 1998 Hanoverian Stallion of the Year title. |
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1derful eCards with new holiday season theme backgrounds are here. Send
a holiday card to your horsey friends. |
October 15
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It's Winwood
who fetched 65,000DM! He was sold to a USA buyer. I wonder where he is
going to be? |
October 11
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Words have come back from Germany - One of Wonderful's son was sold for
65,000DM at the Elite auction last night! Don't know which one yet, but
will definitely send out another message when I find out. |
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Went to visit my mares at Glenwood farm getting ready for the auction.
Dividend is in foal to Wonderful, and she looks much more than 2 months
pregnant. Aktiva is doing really well for being under saddle for only 7
weeks. Her groom told me one German came to see her and praised how nice
her gaits were, and how balanced she was! I hope both of them go to really
good homes. |
September 26
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Both boys are back to Portola Valley and back in training again. Yippie! |
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Wonderful did it again! He has sired not only the mare show champion for
both 1997 and 1998 at Bargestedt, Germany, but also sired Veden Elite auction
horses for both years. This year, two are in the Fall
Elite Auction - Winwood
and Winni-Poo
(Geez, who came up with that name :-). Both horses are described to be
excellent dressage horses. |
September 03
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Aktiva is all prep'ed up for the October Glenwood sale. It's amazing how
fast she has grown ... See the auction
picture. |
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Aktiva's mom, Dividend, is confirmed in foal to Wonderful. She will go
to the Glenwood farm to be prep'ed for the sale also. I would have kept
the mother-daughter pair should I have a farm ... sob, sob... |
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Welt Klasse is due to come back on Saturday. I can't wait! |
August 22
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Wonderful's daughter, Welfenbraut out of a Futuro mare, achieved dressage
score above 7.5, and jumping score above 8.0 at the mare performance testing
in Fredenbeck, Germany. Only a very small percentage of German mares have
made this accomplishment. |
August 21
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Anyone can call me and I will atest that all Welt Klasse's foals have great
minds. - Liz Jenner at Gateway Farm. |
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He is a real jewel. Very firendly, and quite a mover. Placed 4th
out of 15 foals at inspection. We are thrilled with him!! Decided not
to sell him - we're in love. I think the "L" line really came through
with this baby. If I can find an interested party in next year's foal,
that would be great! But, I'm worried about selling the next one - might
fall in love again ... Thanks for everything. (Anyone who is interested
in getting a 1derful Welt Klasse foal from this mare, please contact mare
owner or violet@1derful.com.) |
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I love this horse! He has the sweetest attitude and seems very amendable
to learning, but also has a real spark about him. Hilda was here as breeding
judge for Dressage at Delaware. She gave him an 82.6% and he won the Hi-Point
Hanoverian Award. I was given a cooler and am supposed to have my picture
taken with him and the cooler. (Since it's a 90 X 96", it's a little big
for him! We thought of covering him up totally except for his ears and
taking the picture that way, but thought better of it! :-) Obviously he'll
grow into it! |
Thanks to all the mare owners who brought their wonderful
mares to Welt Klasse and Wonderful!
The boys have taken care of all the mares during their short breeding
season, and will come back home in a week. We'll get back to our training
and show program.
August 14
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More 1derful news from happy breeders! A two-month-old colt by Welt
Klasse went to USDF Delaware dressage/breed show, and beat out foals three
times his age, and got the high-point Hanoverian horse with 82.6% score
awarded by judge Hilda Gurney. He followed his dad's footstep and won an
American Hanoverian Society cooler. He was overall second. Owner said the
judge commented that the handler didn't show him well, or else he could've
won in this large group of high quality foals. Congratulations! |
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Another breeder sent in a
picture of her foal at 3 weeks old. This colt was ranked 4th out of
15 foals presented at the inspection. Owner is so happy and totally in
love with the foal that she decided to not to sell the foal and breed back
her mare next year, but is worried that she may fall in love and keep the
next foal too. |
August 10
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1derful news from a breeder: A black filly with four white socks
by Welt Klasse out of an AHS approved TB mare was named top 3 foals out
of ~25 foals at Rainbow Equus Inspection site. She is also entered for
the West Coast Sport Horse Classic. Good luck to them! |
July 26
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Well, it's been a month since last update. I took a 2-week vacation in
between, but there are quite a few exciting news... |
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A 4-year-old son of Wonderful named Wonder Boy was for sale in Washington
State. He was marketed for $40,000. |
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All foals have been reported in, and so far two flashy chestnuts, and all
the others are dark with very nice markings - star, some with small strip,
matching socks. |
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Saw one dark brown/black filly with matching hind socks at Glenwood inspection.
She is out of a studbook Hanoverian mare by Lortzing. The filly is definitely
an improvement over the dam, who didn't qualify for main studbook. The
breeder is planning to keep the filly in her breeding program to improve
her stock. My Hi-8 video camera is broken :-(, so I can't play the tape,
or else I wouldn't miss the chance for creating another web slide show. |
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Wonderful did it again - he sired the grand champion filly at the state
mare show in Bargstedt, Germany second year in a row! |
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Dr. Bade, the state stud manager, Dr. Wilkens, and the president of Hanoverian
breeder president, who's name escaped me, took time from they busy inspection
tour schedule to visit my stallions. The breeder president is from the
district of Welt Klasse's breeder, so he was particularly interested, and
took a lot of pictures. He promised that he would send me the pictures.
Though my stallions were in breeding condition, not prep'ed for show or
pictures, I hope we still got a few good ones. They seemed to be pleased
with them. I was actually very honored that they took the time in 105 degree
temperature for this extra trip. |
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Another Welt Klasse's full sister, Weltluna, is in the April issue of Der
Hannoveraner magazine. She is one of the 13 mares who got 7.5 or better
in her mare performance riding test held in Adelheidsdorf. |
June 26
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Several more foals have been born since my last report. However, I have
been too busy to write about all the new foals, and I will be out of the
country from 6/29 to 7/13. I will give you more details when I come back. |
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For all breeding contracts and shipment requests, please contact Dr. Paul
Mennick directly at (916) 354-1867. He has both Wonderful and Welt Klasse
at his breeding farm right now. |
May 25
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I went to visit the new foal and three yearlings by Welt Klasse at Gateway
Farm.Take a look at the slide
show of all the snapshots I took. |
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Took some picutures of Aktiva too. She is all grown and ready to be started.
To see the picture, click on Photo Gallery at the index panel on the left. |
May 24
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Welt Klasse is at the breeding farm taking care of mares. He will be there
until end of this month, and then will be home 6/1 to get ready for the
San Francisco Peninsula Annual show. |
May 22
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A new colt in California
- a bay with a star and strip, very handsome and uphill! Can't wait to
see him move. |
May 18
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Another baby filly! She is also black with four white socks (what other
color can they be?) and a small star. I heard she has been showing off
her daddy's trot with a lot of suspension already. |
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Klasse will be available at the breeding farm from May 24 to May 31. He
will be showing on 6/7-9. Many thanks to all the mare owners who cooperated
by synchronizing the mares. He will take care of half a dozen mares this
time. |
May 15
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Welt Klasse a daddy again! A chestnut colt was born last night. He has
four high stockings, and we all wonder where in Klasse's family tree got
that much markings. |
May 9
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My trainer was still sick and couldn't show Klasse :-( We will try to show
him at CDS San Francisco Peninsula chapter annual show in June. Showing
gets increasingly harder as he will be busy making babies, and hauling
3 hours each way between the breeding farm and the training farm is simply
not feasible. Sigh! |
May 5
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Welt Klasse is back in training after 8 days away for breeding. His first
show at DG Bar will be on May 8. Trainer, who has been suffering from a
very bad flu and allergy, rode him today, and said he was just fine, and
seemed to know that she was not feeling well and took care of her. I hope
they will be fine at the show. |
May 4
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Welt Klasse is a Daddy again. This time to a jet black colt in Texas.
He has the longest legs the owner has ever seen on a foal. He has a large
star and snip, and two hind socks! It took Mom and Mom an hour to
get the baby out, and the stall was steaming, but again both Moms and the
boy are fine. |
April 29
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A new filly by Welt Klasse was reported in from North Carolina today. She
is a black/very dark brown beauty with a small star and two hind socks.
Both Moms are happy. :-) |
April 27
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Welt Klasse went to the stud farm too. He will breed a few mares and come
back on week later to get ready for the big DG Bar show. |
April 13
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Wonderful is now standing at Dr. Paul Mennick's breeding facility in Rancho
Murieta, California. To learn more about the facility, check out
Pacific
International Genetics webpages. |
March 29
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Wondergirl's
picture (from AHS stallion directory) is scanned in and available. |
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Hey, I finally made it - not only my horses and their relatives are in
the magazines, I got in one picture in December 1997 issue of Der Hannoveraner.
There are several Breed Orientation Class participants in this picture
taken during the 1997 stallion licensing. |
March 27
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1998 second quarter calendar is ready for you. You can make a printout
easily. Just click the "Free Wonderful Calendar" link on the left. Have
fun. |
March 22
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Kit Stebbins of Flintridge Riding Club in LA called me to let me know that
Gerhard Politz imported a Wonderful's son for her. It sounded that he is
doing great, and they are just in love with him. |
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Welcome FISE - Italian Federation of Equestrian Sport. http://www.fise.it
is now added to Wonderful link page! |
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Welcome Cavallo on-line - Italian horses and riders on line. http://www.cavallonline.it
is now added to Wonderful link page! |
March 21
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The American Hanoverian Society Stallion Directory finally arrived. It
sure took them a lot of time this year. I was very glad to see Wondergirl's
picture. She is by my stallion Wonderful out of a Cavalier mare. She is
very feminine and elegant, and has modern and correct conformation. She
is one of the only 3 Hanoverian mares that scored overall 8 in the entire
1997 inspection tour I wonder (no pun intended) what her movements are
like. By the way, she is black in color with small star, actually looks
somewhat like my other stallion, Welt Klasse. Will include a picture of
her soon... |
Feburary 3
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Finally, I built a slide
show for all the pictures (video snaps) taken during my trip to Germany
in October, 1997. Hope you'll enjoy it! |
January 30
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The new video footage of Wonderful shot by the famous photographer Bernd
Eylers arrived. He was too busy to do further editing work with it, but
I couldn't wait any longer due to large number of requests from mare owners,
so he sent me the raw footage. The home made version (audio dubbing done
by yours truly, and I'm quite proud of the job) is available - Even with
just simple audio work, I guarantee that you will be very impressed!
To order a copy, please send $20.00 deposit to Wonderful Sport Horses,
719 Broadmoor Drive, San Jose, CA 95129. |
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The professional production probably will not be ready for another 3-4
weeks. I will charge $25 deposit for those. |
January 20
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New 3-month calendar
for you to print or display on screen! |
January 1
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Happy New Year! Booking started! The actual breeding season for Wonderful
and Welt Klasse will actually be from April 15 to September 15. |
1997
December 16
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Yippie! Wonderful was released from UC Davis quarantine on 12/16. He is
at his new home at Portola Valley Training Center. Maryanna Danielson will
be training him. |
November 24
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Welt Klasse's full sister, a weanling filly, was just imported from Germany
by Klaus Schengber of High Point Hanoverians. According to Klaus, she will
be used in their breeding program for their stallion Davingport when she
grows up. She is also black! |
November 15
Wonderful arrived!
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Wonderful landed in LA on 11/15, and then went to UC Davis for his 30-day
CEM quarantine on 11/17. He is schedule to be released on 12/18 - in time
for a merry merry Christmas! |
November 8
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Wonderful performed his last duty, a charity work, in Germany before he
left for America. He was dressed up with Christmas bells and ribbons, and
Hannes was in a St. Nickolas' custume, and they paraded through town. Many
the children came to pat and sit on Wonderful. |
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Welt Klasse moved in to his new home at Top Hat Farm in Portola Valley
Training Center near the Stanford University in Menlo Park, California.
I started riding him. Wow, what a dream horse! |
November 2
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I just learned that from AHS stallion directory editor that Wonderful's
imported daughter Wonder Girl is one of the only four mares with scores
8 or higher on this year's Hanoverian inspection tour. |
October 31
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Great news! Welt Klasse won the USDF All-breeds awards for American Hanoverian
Society for both Training and first level. Yippie! Double Champions. |
October 7-27
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I will be in Germany to attend the breed orientation course offered by
German Hanoverian Verband, and also to arrange to get Wonderful to his
new home in California! Stay tuned. For sure you will see a lot of new
pictures. |
September 27-28
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Welt Klasse was the Reserved Champion of CDS Training Level Horse of the
Year. |
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Welt Klasse was the Champion of CDS First level Horse of the year. |
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Welt Klasse received 75.384% and 76.8% from international judges Linda
Zang and Edgar Hotz. Hotz's remark: "Performance mirrored horse's name."
To view some show pictures, click here. |
September 14
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Welt Klasse's first filly out of a TB mare won the Premium award at the
Oldenburg inspection. To see some of the foal pictures, click here. |
September 4
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A son from Wonderful's first crop is a State Stud Stallion candidate. |
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A daughter from his first crop qualified to represent Hanoverian breed
for the 3-year-old mare group at the German Federal Championship. |
September 3
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Wonderful is now officially Verden Elite Auction Horse sire. Two
3-year-old fillies from his first crop made the preview selection for this
prestige auction. |
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