Honors go to top German Stallion, “Fidertanz”
- Vechta, Germany (March 05, 2007) - “Fidertanz“ named German Oldenburg Hauptprämie Dressage Stallion
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- Based on his past performance as the champion of his stallion licensing, and the quality of his first foals, “Fidertanz“ was given the high honor of being named the Verband’s top premium dressage stallion. He is sired by “Fidermark“ (by “Florestan I“) and is out of the mare “St.Pr.St. ReineFreude“ (by “Ravallo“).
- Redhawk Ranch’s “Delaware Bay” is currently in foal to “Fidertanz” and they plan to breed “Photocopy” to “Fidertanz” during this spring’s breeding season.
March 11, 2007
USEF Developing Horse Program gets Sponsor
At the 2007 Palm Beach Dressage Derby, Ullrich Kasselmann, Dr. Ulf Möller, and Tim Dutta signed a contract with Gill Merrick, the director of High Performance Dressage, to become the title sponsors of the USEF Developing Horse Program. This is a special show circuit for Prix St Georges horses between 7 and 9. These horses have to compete in specially designated PSG classes for their age division throughout the country and there will be a big whopping finals at the 2007 National Young Horse Championships in Lexington, KY, in September.
“We have Scott Hassler as our national young horse coach, Debbie McDonald as our developing horse coach and Klaus Balkenhol as our national dressage coach,” Gill Merrick explained. “With the Developing Horse Program all this will be tied together.” Kasselmann and Dutta explained their motivation for sponsorship as “giving something back to the sport.”
“Many of the riders are our clients and for us this is a way to thank them,” Dutta said.
The trio added that the program is a good way for riders and trainers of small tour horses to stimulate them to move onto Grand Prix. The entire program is part of a major plan to gather a pool of talented FEI horses from which team horses for the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Kentucky could potentially be picked.