Articles
Former Westfalien State Stud director Dr Lehmann is not happy with the direction of modern breeding, in particular the breeding policies of the Hanoverian Stud Book.
March 1999: A giant of a horse, in statue and character, a true mate whom I will miss as long as I will live.
Hanoverian Verband deputy breeding director Dr Ludwig Christmann takes a look at the stallions on offer, and comes up with the radical suggestion that perhaps we should be looking to certain jumping horses to breed top dressage performers!
Berny Maubach has always marched to the beat of his own drum when selecting stallions and breeding sport horses; if he hasn’t always been in step with the perceived wisdom, he hasn’t been the least concerned.
An article on Vollrath Stud featured in the October 2008 issue of Breeding News.
The Hanoverian Landgestüt in Celle received a heavy blow in 2004. One of their two most important Thoroughbred breeding stallions died. Prince Thatch xx passed away July 22, 2004.
Vollrath Lessing’s sire Londonderry, a *1995, chestnut 16.2hh Hanoverian stallion, was born for success.
Vollrath Lessing, Berny Maubach’s handsome black five-year-old stallion, ridden by Jutta Rosenblatt, immediately took the eye in the Astek Stud Young Dressage Horse championship at the recent Bates NZ Dressage Championships, writes Joan Gilchrist.
Here is a informative article about a very great ‘little’ stallion, whose bloodlines New Zealand has in Genius and Worldwide P.B. and way back in Dynamit (Goldfisch II) and Distelfink (Duellant).
Title-winning stallions relevant to Vollrath Stud resident sires.
The foundation sire of the modern D-line was the chestnut stallion Detektiv, who stood at stud from 1926 – 1943 leaving (for NZ relevant) the chestnuts Dolman (1933) and Dwinger (1939)
Warmbloods are bred on the same principle as our NZ Sheepdogs, to achieve utility and performance. What we can expect of them is already genetically embedded and needs only development and training to maximise this inherent potential into an absolute top class riding horse.
Berny M
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