Hendrik Lochthowe and Iowa Gold - S-winning at the first attempt

Hendrik Lochthowe took advantage of the proximity to the showground in Dorsten to slip into white breeches and tails for the first time in a long time and ride in a show himself instead of standing on the sidelines and coaching. He had entered two horses for the advanced (S*) level dressage test on curb bit, including one that he had never ridden at a show before: the nine-year-old Oldenburg stallion Iowa Gold from the Hoffrogge station in Dorsten.

Iowa Gold is quite a blank slate in terms of competition. The son of Asgard’s Ibiza is a Weihegold great-grandson by Weihnira by De Niro and Weihcine by Fürst Heinrich. Weihegold is therefore the third dam and her owner Christine Arns-Krogmann has bred another figurehead of her “Weihe dynasty” with Iowa Gold.

Dorsten was the fourth competition start in the life of the black horse. He competed in novice and elementary class dressage tests for young horses and won both. Last year, he then competed for the first time in medium (M*) level, without a dressage horse bonus. He finished in third place, his “worst” result to date. Beatrice Hoffrogge was in the saddle on all these occasions. Now Hendrik Lochthowe sat on Iowa’s back for the first time and rode him straight to victory in his first advanced (S) level dressage test with 70.983 percent.

S*** victory for Hoffrogge with hope for the future

Apart from the fact that Iowa Gold is stationed with them, Beatrice Hoffrogge also has a connection to the stallion through his pedigree. It was his great-grandmother Weihegold who made Hoffrogge – then still Buchwald – famous in one fell swoop when the pair first won the Nuremberg Burg Cup and then the Louidor Prize Final. After the first Grand Prix competitions, Hoffrogge’s then boss Isabell Werth took over the reins of the mare. Since she set up her own business on the premises of her married-in family, Hoffrogge has primarily been successful with young horses. Until now. She may have given up Iowa Gold for the time being, but since this year she has a “home-made” Grand Prix horse under the saddle again: Dancelli.

Hoffrogge got the now eleven-year-old son of Dante Weltino(you can find a detailed portrait of this stallion here) under saddle as a three-year-old and trained him from the ground up. When she told EQUI PAGES about her new addition Lodovico in January, Dancelli still had his first S*** start ahead of him. In the meantime, he has long since proven what he can do. The pair last competed in Mettmann at the beginning of May, where they came third in the Intermédiaire II with 72.810 percent and won the second S*** test of the competition with a whopping 75.40 percent.