Oldenburg licensing 2025

Champion stallions by Bonds and Kasanova de la Pomme, Sweden and Switzerland purchase

Breeding 12.01.2026

from Dominique Wehrmann

The OS Champion Stallion 2025 by Kasanova de la Pomme and the OL Champion by Bonds. Photo: Oldenburg Verband/Beelitz

Her name is Haase and she knows her stuff when it comes to young Oldenburg stallions. We're talking about Anne Haase, who was (co-)exhibitor of the champion stallion Bonds in 2015 and has now seen a son she discovered trot off the course in Vechta with the winner's sash. The OS Champion Stallion, however, was born in the Netherlands.

53 dressage stallions were entered for the 2025 Oldenburg licensing, 32 were licensed and nine were awarded prizes.

The licensing committee named catalog number 42, a black stallion, as the champion stallion of the 2025 Oldenburg licensing, for once not in the typical chestnut-with-white look of his sire Bonds. The dam is the elite and state premium mare Faszination by Diamond Hit-Florencio I-Santander H. Hans and Britta Scherbring bred the 1a premium stallion. He was exhibited by Anne Haase in Ottersberg, who was able to celebrate a very special success. Ten years ago, she was the one who – together with Wilhelm Sieverding – presented the sire of this youngster in Vechta, who was also awarded the winner’s sash at the time. Haase discovered her second champion as a foal at the Vechta auction.

The mating was chosen carefully by the Scherbring couple. The dam from the Fackese line not only competed herself at the Brillantring in Rastede, but also already has three successful S-level offspring and relatives trained up to Grand Prix level. Her half-brother Damon’s Design by Damon Hill competes for the USA in the large dressage arena. The third dam, elite and Verband premium mare Francesca, produced four Grand Prix horses when bred to Diamond Hit.

At the subsequent auction, the champion stallion was sold for 360,000 euros to Lövsta Stud from Sweden, regular customers in Vechta, who had already secured the champion stallion Verbier in 2023. Like this Von und Zu son, the champion will also make his debut as a sire at the Lodbergen Dressage Horse Performance Center in 2025. While Verbier has moved to Sweden after a successful short performance test and the first foals with the main premium, the DLZ now has the next Lövsta champion stallion in its stables, who has been christened Barnsley.

The reserve winners

Dynamic Dream-Fidertanz-De Niro is the pedigree of the first reserve winner of the 2025 Oldenburg licensing, who is clearly influenced by his dam’s sire. Elisabeth Wegert bred the dark chestnut from the mare line that produced several Grand Prix horses, including the KWPN stallion Bretton Woods. The stallion was for sale. The hammer fell at 95,000 euros.

The second reserve winner was considerably more expensive at 130,000 euros, a black Beau with a noble appearance by For Romance-Floriscount-Rohdiamant. Monika Quarz in Friesoythe is the breeder of the stallion. BG Ifversen & Schwierking exhibited him. The Oldenburg Verband’s announcement stated that an “up-and-coming stud from Lower Saxony” had been awarded the contract. It is now also clear which stud it is: Maik Kanitzky’s Famos Stud, where Dorothee Schneider will take over responsibility as trainer from 2026.

The same hammer price was achieved by the young stallion with the number 87, a pretty gray stallion by St. Emilion-San Amour-Lamerto H. The great-granddam Freesie by Floristen is a full sister to the NRW state stud stallion Fleurop. Silvia Zeyn from Langwedel was responsible for this as breeder. The exhibitor was Christoph Wahler from Klosterhof Medingen, where the sire, who is presenting his first licensed crop this year, is also stabled. A “sport stable in Lower Saxony” is to be the new home.

The other premiums

The first dressage stallion in the lot received a premium, a son of Be Sure, Bundeschampion 2024, who qualified for the Burg Pokal Final 2025 with Leonie Richter. Be Sure only had this one offspring in the lot, here in combination with a Danish Sezuan-Temptation dam. Although the Chateau de Fontaine stud farm was and is the breeder and exhibitor of the unsaleable stallion, the dark bay has no relationship to its figurehead Wendy de Fontaine by Isabell Werth.

Dynamic Dream produced seven offspring in Vechta, although the NRW champion stallion, who had been stripped of his title due to banned medication, has no performance test due to an accident that denied him a career as a riding horse. They wanted to make his entry in Stallion Book I dependent on his first foal crop. In the meantime, the Dream Boy son, who was officially sold to Helgstrand for 1.9 million euros, already has 43 licensed sons, including the Hanoverian champion DC-10. The oldest offspring are now four-year-olds.

Of the seven “Dynamic Dreams” in Vechta, all were licensed and two were awarded premiums. In addition to the reserve winner already mentioned, number 53 by Dynamic Dream-De Niro-Plaisir d’Amour also received a premium. Petra Klaus is the breeder responsible here, BG Senf & Kampmann presented the youngster. Among others, the dam produced the Grand Prix horse Friedolin by Hayley Beresford as well as a Brillantring mare. The line also produced the World Championships dressage horse medal winner Sultan des Paluds, for example, who later won European Championship medals for Great Britain with Annabella Pidgley. Customers from Qatar invested 80,000 euros in the smart bay.

Vivaldi’s grandson Asgard’s Ibiza was represented in Vechta with two offspring, both of which were licensed. There was also a premium for the Dutch-bred KWPN stallion with the number 72, who goes by the name of Identity and is by Ibiza-Painted Black-Jazz, thus combining three of the four most popular Dutch dressage lines with Vivaldi, Gribaldi and Jazz (except Ferro). The stallion was also exhibited under the Dutch flag and was for sale. The auction hammer fell at 50,000 euros and the Netherlands is also listed as the destination.

Secret-Grey Flanell-Desperados is the pedigree of the award-winning black stallion bred by Markus Geng and owned by Dutch Olaerts Equestrian. Olaerts Equestrian did not want to part with the youngster, who is full of action and whose second dam already has two licensed Millennium sons. Robert Dover’s 1988 Olympic horse Federleicht by Federgeist xx, for example, comes from this line.

Another premium stallion with the blood of Sezuan was the catalog number 86 by So Perfect-Franziskus-Wilkens. The sire, who is now Intermédiaire II successful with Leonie Richter, was reserve champion at the 2019 Oldenburg licensing but has since been laid. He sired three sons in Vechta, all of whom were licensed. The one with the premium comes from Denmark from ZG Hansen & Mark and was exhibited by Michael Barnekow. His new owners are at home a little further north. The winning bid went to Sweden for 120,000 euros.

OS Champion by Kasanova de la Pomme

The Oldenburg International Jumper Breeding Association had originally entered 31 candidates in the catalog, but one fell out and another was eliminated. Nineteen stallions left the arena with the verdict “licensed”, six of them also with a premium.

The commission named the only son of the 2013 BWP Champion Stallion Kasanova de la Pomme, who has since been successful with Koen Vereecke in 1.60-meter jumping competitions, as the 2025 OS Champion Stallion. C.G.J. De Gier in the Netherlands bred the athletic bay out of an Apardi-Cassini II dam with a Dutch pedigree. Egbert Schep exhibited him and saw him go to new owners from Switzerland for 72,000 euros at the auction. Representatives of the Dutch T crop already had a name when he competed in Vechta – very fitting: Tomba la Bomba (van de Zwethove).

The reserve winner of the show jumping stallions carries the blood of Darco via his sire Asterix de Couleur. Josef Kathmann bred him out of his proven Nea’s Caretina by Caretinus-Controller , who also produced the Ic Brilliant Ring mare Nea’s Fantastisca by Flic en Flac AA. The granddam produced the licensed Catapult. The line also produced the 1.60 m successful Lasse K with Philipp Weishaupt. The colorful bay found a new home in Belgium for 55,000 euros.

Comme il faut presented two offspring in Vechta, one of which was awarded the Ic premium, the one bred by Hans Trainer at Gestüt Neugschwent out of a Calido-Carolus dam. This dam was not only successful at advanced (S) level herself, she also has two successful offspring. The granddam also produced an advanced (S) level horse and a licensed son, the great-granddam a Grand Prix horse. Several 1.60 meter show jumpers have come out of the dam line. The entire package cost 70,000 euros.

The award-winning OS stallions

The top price among the stallions bred for jumping in Vechta went to the prize-winning but unranked son of Candy de Nantuel. Thanks to his full sister Hello Folie, this French star sire has been a household name for anyone interested in breeding since the European Championships in La Coruña at the latest. His eye-catching son in Vechta is out of a Cumano-Chellano Z dam, who represents the line that also produced the well-known 1.60 jumping horses Cupcake Z by Sanne Thijssen and USA Today by Robert Whitaker. Egbert Schep was both breeder and exhibitor here. The youngster found new owners for 100,000 euros.

Finally, the son of Hickstead White also received a premium. His breeder Lea Beckmann from Meppen had bred what is probably the only son of the great Hickstead of breeding significance to the KWPN mare Allenger by Royal Bravour-Goodtimes. Gestüt Sprehe exhibited the result. The hammer price was 39,000 euros.

Price statistics OL

26 licensed dressage stallions for sale achieved an average price of 72,212 euros, with the cheapest stallion going for 23,000 euros. Nine went abroad, 17 remain in Germany.

Vivaldos-Fürstenball-Sandro Hit, bred by Margarete Strohm in Nordhorn, achieved the highest price among the unlicensed stallions. He went to Poland for 36,000 euros. Eight of the unlicensed stallions were for sale and fetched an average of 26,200 euro.

Price statistics OS

15 of the 19 licensed OS stallions could be purchased at the auction. The average price paid for one of them was 47,900 euros.

Six of the unlicensed stallions were available for an average of 14,833 euros. The highest price was 16,000 euros for the son of Chaccothage Blue PS-Califax-Aletto by Hans-Georg Töbelmann. He moved to the Netherlands.