Two days ago, Leonie Richter’s Instagram account already featured the arrival of Mount St. John freestyle grandson Tokyo Style. The Oldenburg stallion has just turned five and is a Totilas son out of the Freestyle daughter MSJ À la Freestyle by Ampere. Dam and son were bred by Freestyle’s owner Emma Blundell from Mount St. John Stud in England. She has given Tokyo Style to Leonie Richter for training. The stallion is to concentrate on sport, but interested breeders can contact Zuchthof Wadenspanner for TG semen.

World Championship silver medal winner Glamdale WP

Tokyo Style is not the only promising new addition for Leonie Richter. As the Rüscher Konermann station reports, the now seven-year-old Westphalian stallion Glamdale WP is also not in stud this breeding season. He, too, will now continue to receive sporting support from Leonie Richter.

The beautiful black stallion by Glamourdale out of a full sister to the Bonhomme stallion Maracanà (by Millennium-Lord Loxley) was bred by Heike and Werner Pleines. So far, he has been presented by Stefanie Ahlert with great success. He won bronze at the Bundeschampionat as a three-year-old. He was not active in competition as a four-year-old. But as a five-year-old, he returned with a bang: three competitions, four tests, two victories and then silver at the World Championships for Young Dressage Horses in Ermelo. 2025 then belonged entirely to breeding again.

The fact that the stallion is also hereditary could be seen at the Mecklenburg licensing, where he produced the champion stallion. Now he is to take his next sporting steps with Leonie Richter in the saddle.

New independence

Leonie Richter became famous above all with the horses – mostly stallions – from Helgstrand Dressage. For example, she rode the Vitalis son Vitalos first to the Bundeschampionat title and then to three World Championship silver medals before he was sold to the junior Ava Osing.

It was also Leonie Richter who brought the Rhineland stallion Lord Europe into the sport, who was also born to the Pleines family. As a seven-year-old, he came second in the final of the Nuremberg Burg Cup with Richter and qualified for the final of the Louisdor Prize with her this year. Although he also belonged to Helgstrand Dressage (together with the Schockemöhle stallion stable), he has changed hands and will continue to be trained by Richter.

The same applies to the horses at Bellin Stud, which have been presented by the soon-to-be 30-year-old for a while now (she celebrates her birthday on January 13). This year, for example, she presented Bellin’s Morricone I son Most Wanted Nero at the World Championships for Young Dressage Horses and, after a detour via the small final, took silver in the seven-year-old class.

Leonie also won medals with her second “Bellin stallion”, Louis Löwenherz by Bellin by Lord Europe-Don Index. Lord Europe-Don Index, Leonie also won medals: silver at the Hanoverian Championships for four-year-old stallions in Verden and bronze at the Bundeschampionat.