Editors:  Charee Adams, Debbi Bly, Helen Gibble, Donna Graham

July/August 2000
Vol. XIII, Issue 4

Updated Mare Inspection Schedule
Annual Meeting Reminder
New Exceptional Mare - Kokett *Ps*
Abiza *E* now also Elite Mare in Germany
Retirement Opportunity
Horses Needed for Auction - Last Chance
High Score Dressage Ribbon Winners
Attention Breed Class Exhibitors
Nuemünster Trip coming up
Lithuania 10th Verband Daughter
Medigen Spring Auction Huge Success
Trakehner Verband Has New Managing Board
Trakehner Verband Statistics for 1999
Branding Opportunity


UPDATED MARE INSPECTION SCHEDULE

Mare Inspection Schedule
Information for Handlers of Mares at Inspections

DON'T FORGET TO SEND IN YOUR INSPECTION APPLICATION BY THE STATED DEADLINE (SEE SCHEDULE) - OTHERWISE THE INSPECTION WILL HAVE TO BE CANCELLED!


ANNUAL MEETING REMINDER

Remember to mark your calendars for the Annual Membership Meeting in Lake St. Louis, MO, November 2-4, 2000.

Trustees should plan to arrive before 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 1, and to stay through 11:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 5.

All other members and guests should plan to arrive by Thursday morning, November 2, for the Trakehner Mare Show. Other activities that have been planned include a Welcome Reception on Thursday evening with a lecture or demonstration by Olympic Medalist, Hilda Gurney; stallion and mare inspections Thursday through Saturday. Friday evening there will be a Stallion Parade followed by a Material Class, the Mare Championship, and educational demonstrations on showing in-hand and eventing. The Trakehner Auction - if sufficient horses are consigned - will probably be held on Saturday afternoon.

The horse related activities and educational sessions will be held at America's Exposition Park, 880 Freymuth Road, Lake St. Louis, MO 63366. The Annual Awards Banquet and the membership meeting will take place at the Holiday Inn Wentzville, a 45-minute ride from the airport (taxi fare $50!) and 10 minutes from the Exposition Park. It might be prudent to plan to share a rental car with friends.

Further information and meeting registration forms will be provided in the September/October newsletter.


NEW EXCEPTIONAL MARE - KOTETT *Ps*

By Kalluster, out of Koralle XI by Pasteur has been awarded the Silver Performance award for eventing, the first ATA mare to have earned this award. Congratulations to her owner Tim Holekamp, Columbia, MO, and her breeder Henry Snyder, Pittsford, NY.

Kokett *Ps*


ABIZA *E* NOW ALSO ELITE MARE IN GERMANY

Since her sons Abdullah and Amiego were also approved in Germany and she has produced several additional offspring that were successful in international competition, the German Trakehner Verband has awarded the Elite Mare title to this exceptional mare. She is probably the only mare in any breed who has earned that designation on two different continents.

Abiza *E*


RETIREMENT OPPORTUNITY!

If you have or know of an older black horse (Trakehner!) in lightly rideable condition who needs an excellent and tax-advantaged home, listen to this.

One of the most respected and academically advanced military schools in this country is Culver Military Academy in northern Indiana, a college prep school for grades 9-12 (plus a huge summer camp program). Their Horsemanship Department is very prominent in their curriculum and in fact is an amazing set-up, that should be seen in person. Culver has become virtually the last bastion of US Cavalry horsemanship, and the stable and entire program are a living and working memorial to the Cavalry. It is fascinating to learn about but is even better to be part of. Students who excel there can become part of the famous Culver Black Horse Troop, which has been in continuous existence for 103 years and has appeared in 12 Presidential Inaugurations, including the last one.

There are approximately 54 mounts in their troop currently, but even more riders.

They are in immediate need of about 15 more horses. What better breed than the ultimate cavalry mount, the Trakehner? The requirements are: at least 10 years old, at least 14 hands, all black, a blaze or stocking is acceptable, and a good disposition. The sounder the better, but these are parade horses, not jumping competitors, so there is definitely some leeway.

I can attest personally to the very satisfactory way these horses are kept and treated. None of us would fault them. Their facility is enough to send anyone into green envy. This school needs and would truly appreciate your contribution and will help in any way possible to make it easy for you. Please contact Horsemanship Director Ed Little directly at 219-842 -8355 or me at 573-442-0442 or E-mail to Holekamp@aol.com if you have any questions. Tim Holekamp


ATTENTION MEMBERS WITH HORSES FOR SALE - LAST CHANCE!

We have been receiving many telephone calls inquiring about an ATA sale at this year's annual meeting in St. Louis, November 2-4, 2000. Before we organize it and commit ourselves to hiring an auctioneer, etc., we need to know if people are interested in consigning enough horses to make it feasible.

If you are thinking about consigning, please call, fax or write the ATA office by July 31 so we can proceed. You need not commit yourselves at this time, nor pay any consignment fees, just let us know that you have a horse that you can send. If we haven't heard from any consignors by July 31, there will be no sale!

Any questions, please fax the sale chairman, Tom Nowaskey, at 847-359-1787 (IL).


HIGH SCORE DRESSAGE RIBBON WINNERS

With the Board's permission the Awards Committee has begun a new program intended to recognize successful Trakehner dressage horses, publicize the ATA, and attract more members. The overwhelming majority of competing Trakehners are involved with dressage, so recognized USDF shows were chosen for this initial program. The organizer of every show has been or will be contacted and a ribbon offered to give to the rider of the ATA-registered horse who achieves the highest percent score of the show (under saddle, regular classes, training level and above). 

After only three months of operation this program is seemingly a success. So far 120 ribbons have been requested and sent. The reported results of the first six weeks are listed below. Rider interest in the ribbon has been high, and we have received several compliments from organizers. Perhaps in the future we will be able to use this model to expand into other sports.

Josephine - OSB-A-M1166 (Potentate - Martini)
80.40% Training Level 4 - Miami Dade Dressage Assn., 2/27/00
rider Andrea Hilling, owner Nance J. Wolter, Cooper City, FL.

Josephine
72.00% Training Level 4 -Gold Coast, SC, 3/12/00

Halbmond ORB-A-S1221 (Memphis - Matador)
69.70% First Level 4 - Heidelberg Cup, 3/23-26/00
rider Shawn Filley, owner Kathryn Groves, Winter Garden, FL

Aegypt ORB-A-S1371NA (Samurai II - Staccato)
Pro-Am Challenge All Breed and Arabian Dressage Championships, Glen Rose, TX, 3/31/-4/2/00
rider Brenda Brewster, owner Susan Quensel, Lawton, OK

Eastwind ORB-A-S1482G (Abdullah - Patron)
72.40% Training Level 4 - Arizona Dressage Assn Spring Show, 4/8-9/00
rider/owner Suzanne Downey, Tempe, AZ

Josephine
70.40% Training Level 4 - Double Delight Festival II, 4/9/00

Rappenhof Beatrix ORB-D-M835 (Carino - Grecian Isle xx)
62.60% First Level 3 - Dressage at the Meadow, 4/22/00
rider/owner Nancy Barnett, Succasunna NJ

Encore (reg. Encore Encore) ORB-A-G405 (Justiz - Condus)
71.60% Training Level 4 -Denville Kanani Dressage, 4/22-23/00
rider Maryanne Stevens, Owner Jean Levenstam, San Rafael, CA

Falkland ORB-A-S587 (Vincent - Flaneur)
67.222% Second Level 2 - HDCTA Dressage Show IV, Barber's Point, Hawaii, 4/23/00
rider Dana Ishii, owner Drinda Maxwell, Honolulu, HI

My Shadow ORB-B-S555G (Donauwind - Royal Commando xx)
65.385% Training Level 3 - Texas Dressage Classic I, 4/27-28/00
rider Brook E. Ray, owner Leslie Schmidt, Fort Worth, TX

My Shadow
63.20% Training Level 4 - Texas Dressage Classic II, 4/29-30/00

Sadaka ORB-D-M941 (Ibsen)
63.214% First Level 1 - Columbine Dressage Show I, 4/29/00
rider/owner Marguerite Porter, Peyton, CO

Hondo ORB-A-G323 (Koree - Falke)
58.421% Third Level 2 - Adashi Dressage Series, Houston, TX, 4/29/00
rider Leslie Rohrer, owners Jim & Cathy Woods, Bay City, TX

Hondo
55.714% Third Level 3 - Adashi Dressage Series, 4/30/00

Handsome ORB-E-G285 (Memelruf - Istanbul)
63.333% at Fourth Level - Dressage Saddlebrook Ridge, 5/6/00
rider Gail Osterlund, owner Carol Meise, Little Silver, NJ

Mondlicht ORB-E--G484 (Lions Club - Bergsturm)
65.0% (tie) Training Level 1 - Silverwood Dressage Show, 5/6-7/00
rider/owner Anne Scrivner, Rochester, IL

Ali Baba ORB-A-S959G (Morgenglanz - Troubadour)
65.0% (tie) Training Level 3 Open, Silverwood Dressage Show, 5/6-7/00
rider/owner Lisa Froehlig, Camp Lake, WI

Midknight Mover (reg. Mojave) ORB-A-S867G (Insterruf - Amagun)
69.60% Training Level 4 - Happy Valley Farm Dressage Show, 5/6-7/00
rider Katie Robicheaux, owner Jennie E. Robicheaux, Lake Charles, LA

Rappenhof Beatrix
64.571% First Level 3 - BFK North Spring Dressage Show, 5/7/00

Precious Commodity ORB-D-M774 (Mahon)
66.4% Training Level 4/Junior - Oklahoma Dressage Society Spring 2, 5/7/00
rider Megan Marso, owner Sally Marso, Edmond, OK

Mahlon ORB-B-S644 (Mahon - Runny Richard xx)
67.693% Fourth Level 3 - Dallas Dressage Club Spring I, 5/13/00
rider/owner Leslie Schmidt, Ft. Worth, TX

Mach I (reg. Mach One) ORB-B-S662G (Falke - True Level xx)
60.23% Second Level 4 - Grand Valley Dressage, 5/13-14/00
rider/owner Dr. Susan Schneider, Montrose, CO

Mahlon
72.3% Fourth Level 3 - Dallas Dressage Club Sping 2, 5/14/00

Farran ORB-A-S616NA (Adolar - Matador)
63.513% Second Level 3, VADA/NOVA Spring II, 5/14/00
rider/owner Capri Windsor, Montpelier, VA

Zachary (reg. Bb's Zachary) ORB-B-G369 (Bütow - Bupers xx)
(percentage not given) Training Level 4, Silverwood Dressage, 5/20-21/00
rider/owner Luanne Hageman, Antioch, IL

Espirit ORB-A-M1866 (Sieg - Schwalbenzug)
70.833% Training Level 3, Dressage at the Peak, 5/20-21/00
rider/owner Patricia Long, Colorado Springs, CO

ATTENTION BREEDING CLASS EXHIBITORS

For the first time this year, the United States Dressage Federation (USDF) is going to give Horse of the Year Awards for horses showing in dressage sport horse breeding classes.

To qualify for the awards, a horse must be registered with the USDF at the time the scores are earned. The owner must be a Participating Member of the USDF, the handler need not be a member.

If you are showing in USDF recognized Sport Horse Breeding classes or in the USDF Breeders Championship Series - in-hand classes only - please go to the USDF website  to get more detailed rules, or call USDF at 402-434-8550, Fax 403-434-8570.


ANOTHER TRIP TO NEUMÜNSTER COMING UP

Trakehner Stallion Inspections and Auction 2000 and Tour of Stud Farms
October 25 to November 3, 2000.   Trip Details


LITHUANIA 10th TRAKEHNER VERBAND DAUGHTER

After two years of negotiations, the "Trakehner Friends of Lithuania" signed an agreement with the Trakehner Verband, like nine other worldwide groups before them, among them the ATA, to breed Trakehner horses according to the breeding rules of the Trakehner Verband.

In Lithuania, the Trakehner horse is one of the best known and most popular riding horse breeds. Twenty primarily private breeding farms own roughly 200 Trakehner mares and close to 20 stallions. The state-owned farm Nemunas is the largest Trakehner stud farm of the country. Most of Lithuania's Trakehners are based on old Trakehnen bloodlines that came to them from the Russian Stud Kirov and on East Prussian lines obtained in Poland. These horses were inspected by a delegation from Germany in cooperation with Lithuanian breeders and only the best of them - purebred Trakehners - were selected for breeding under the agreement. Their progeny are eligible to be branded with the double moose antler with an addition to indicate Lithuania.


MEDINGEN SPRING AUCTION AGAIN A HUGE SUCCESS

Not one but several records were broken at the Spring Medingen auction in April. Eight horses sold for more than DM 100,000, three for more than DM 200,000, bringing the average for the 35 horses that found a new home to DM 80,000. After a suspenseful bidding process, the hammer for the top price horse, Global Player, a 4-year-old dark bay by Hohenstein, fell at the staggering sum of DM 340,000 paid by a Swedish Olympic dressage rider. Anky van Grunsven's trainer, Sjef Janssen, bought two coming dressage stars for the World Champion, Paukenschlag by Pomerol and Sommelier by Napoleon Quatre, both 4-year-old geldings. All in all, 10 horses were sold to countries outside of Germany.

A seldom used rule was unearthed a few weeks before the auction according to which a special stallion inspection can be held - at the expense of the stallion owners - if at least three stallions are presented for approval. The only colt approved at this year's special inspection was the stunning 4-year-old dark bay Tanzmeister II by Caprimond, out of Traumweise by Tenor. He is a full brother to the approved stallion Tanzmeister I, foaled in 1993. As the last horse in the auction, the freshly approved Tanzmeister II still managed to bring his owners DM 300,000.


TRAKEHNER VERBAND HAS NEW MANAGING BOARD

At their annual membership and delegates meeting April 29, 2000, eighty Trakehner Verband delegates from all over Germany elected the following new Managing Board:

President - Rolf Radzuweit, Euskirchen
First Vice President - Petra Wilm, Tasdorf
Second Vice President - Hans Werner Paul, Rethwisch
Member - Hubertus Poll, Hörem
Member - Pius Harlacher, Oberhausen-Rheinhausen

Former President Klaus Wittlich, well known to ATA members from his attendance at ATA meetings, declined to run again after having served in his position for nine years.

The new President, Rolf Radzuweit, 51, is a business manager in the healthcare industry and the organizer of the annual all-Trakehner horse show in Cologne. He is also a member of the Trakehner Sport Committee, a recognized horse show judge and a member of the board of the German Stallion Owners Society.

Petra Wilm, 44, is an active dressage rider who has competed up to the Grand Prix level, is a member of the dressage long list and, among others, State Dressage Champion of Schleswig-Holstein.

Hans Werner Paul, 61, is a native East Prussian, successful breeder of several approved stallions and champion mares. For many years, he has been the chief delegate of the Schleswig-Holstein breeding district and has been a member of the Trakehner Stallion Inspection Committee for 23 years.

Hubertus Poll, 52, frequent visitor to ATA functions, is a Trakehner breeder in the third generation (with the 4th generation growing up rapidly). He has bred and stood many very famous Trakehner stallions and is the longest serving member of the Trakehner Verband Managing Board.

Pius Harlacher, 50, is a banker who has been breeding Trakehners for more than 30 years and has served in a voluntary position as the Trakehner Verband comptroller.


TRAKEHNER VERBAND STATISTICS for 1999

Breeding Stock:

4530 mares (including 115 Thoroughbreds and 25 Arabians)
215 approved stallions (86% Trakehner, 10% Thoroughbreds, 4% Arabians)

Members:

2944 regular members (active breeders)
2007 associate members (friends and supporters of the breed)
4951 total members (3.5% less than in 1998)

Registered Foals:

1615 (7.3% less than in 1998)

Newly Approved Broodmares:

617 (3.9% more than in 1998). 88% of breeders own one or two mares = 69% of all approved broodmares

Breedings:

2564 mares (41.2% by natural cover, 58.4% by fresh semen AI, 0.4% by frozen semen)

BRANDING OPPORTUNITY

Suzanne Downey of Tempe, AZ, is planning to have Trakehner horses branded at her place on October 14-15, 2000. Anyone interested and with an eligible horse, please contact Suzanne at 480-491-3398, fax 480-491-1862, or E-mail her at stdrider@aol.com. Her physical address is 8615 S. Stanley Pl, Tempe, AZ 85284

Contact the ATA Office (740-344-1111, fax 740-344-3225, E-mail atahorses@alltel.net) for a branding authorization for your horse.

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