Schwadroneur: My father. Sire of the year 2000 in denmark!
Born 20.01.1983
He is one of the most succesful dressage horses in denmark, ridden by Anne Grethe Törnblad (victorious in 36 dressage tests up to Grand Prix level). He won vize-champion at the stallion performance test at "Adelheitsdorf" (that included winning fourth place in jumping!)
His offspring convinces with good tallness, a wonderful Trakehner type, harmony and movements with a lot of impulsion and cadence.
Up to now he has 9 sons who became sires - Neumünster 2001 his son "Sharan" out of a thorougbred mare! He is as well sire of a lot of champions and vize-champions of broodmare-shows and performance tests for bloodmares.
At the auction Neumünster 2000/2001 his daughters "Tamara" and "Evita" hit the top prize
(DM 140.000,-- and DM 110.000,--).
Every year Schwadroneur has most of the participants in the final round of the championships in denmark. He is the most successful sire of dressage horses. In march 2000 he won "sire of the year". You'll find his offspring in a lot of renowed dressage bains in denmark. More than 10 of his daughters and sons are successful in to Grand Prix level.
I am so proud of him -
Ibikus: Father to Swadroneurs mother (Schwalbenburg), was a bay Trakehner stallion born in 1967.Fourtimes Winner of the German Championship,
1st class Performancetest for Stallions, DLG-Champion, Successful in dressage competitions up to Kl.S
A Personal Memory of Ibikus by Mrs. Pia Prom:
The first time I saw Ibikus, he was 17 years old (born 1967) and it was love at first sight (from my side). I had never seen a horse with so much charm and with such movement. It was as if the whole of his body was working, when he moved, everything was so elastic. He was also a personality. In the beginning I was just a servant. It was ok that I fed him, brushed him and took him out to the paddock, but he didn't "love me" for that. After a while he accepted me and I think that he liked me the last years.
I remember once, after having had my daughter, I was a little scared of riding again, thinking of what might happen, so I thought "well, I will take Ibikus for a ride in the Forrest". He was over 20 years old at that time, so it would be a quiet ride, So I thought. But Ibikus didn't. He was very fresh and when I wanted a quiet trot. He wanted to gallop and he was so happy and made some of these gymnastic jumps (I don't know what it is called, but if you don't really keep your knees tight, you will fly off), I was exhausted When we came home.
Ibikus never got old in that sense, he was always fresh and full of spirit. When he was under the saddle, he was usually very. Well-mannered and a real pleasure to ride, but when he was going out of the stable to cover a mare, he was like a wild horse.
When Ibikus was 25 years old, Otto Langels came to visit him. They had not met for many years, but Ibikus recognised Otto at once. He was so happy to see Otto again - I can tell you, that not one eye was dry that day.
In Denmark Ibikus produced many excellent breeding mares and riding horses. His Riding horses are very much in demand because of their willingness and good movement. Ibikus was a very intelligent horse, and this trait is passed on to the children that I have breed - they understand immediately what you want them to do.
Ibikus died at the age of 29 years. Not that he seemed old, still full of life and spirit and still good looking. But the last 2 years he had a couple of times had problems with getting up, when he was laying on his left side, his left hind leg was not strong anymore. Usually we could roll him over on the other side and then he was able to stand up.
One particular afternoon, when we started to turn him, he protested highly. He had never done that before, so I went up to his head to find out what was wrong and he just looked at me, very intensely. I am not lying - he told me quite clearly - that he didn't want to get up, he wanted to get peace - he wanted to die! (I had before had these moments of understanding between him and me). There was nothing to do, I had to go and phone the vet and ask him to come and make an end to Ibikus's life.
The vet examined Ibikus before giving him the injection and found out, that he had become paralysed in his hind legs, so there really was nothing to do, he had perhaps had a stroke - I didn't know, but Ibikus did. He had the injection and peacefully he slipped into death. It still gets to me, when I think about it and it is now 5 years ago! That evening there was a light frost and the moon was so big , you could almost touch it, so near was it. The nature was completely quiet, as if it was listening and realising what was happening.
I really loved and admired that horse, not just as a horse, but also as the personality he was.
He died in 1996.
Arogno: born in 1976, father to Schwadroneur and my grandfather.
"Arogno", vize-champion 1978, elite-sire and sire of the year is one of the major sires of the trakehner breed. He started a new era with fresh accents on riding horse quality and talent of dressage horses.
Beside "Schwadroneur" he is sire of "Karon", "Traumdeuter", "Napoleon Quatre", "Louidor" and "Giorgio Armani".
Flaneur: born in 1965, father to Arogno. and my great grandfather He was a dark bay Trakehner stallion. Reserve Champion of the 1967 Körung at Neumünster, and was approved with the comments: "Exemplary model with much significance in the whole appearance. Typey head; good neck; well-positioned, broad, and well-muscled shoulder; good and uniformily conditioned body. Strong and correct in the foundation with good, straight movement. The stallion has proven himself to be a predictable, above-average sire." Performance tested at Westercelle 1968, Flaneur was highly scored and described as follows: "Quiet, very balanced temperament, playful but good in character. Constitution tight and firm. Good rideability, balanced, uncomplicated and comfortable to ride. Better than average jumping ability; good overall performance ability; good ground-covering walk, swinging and correct trot, well-balanced loose canter. A stallion with many possibilities." His impact on the Trakehner breed is great, having sired 15 graded stallions in Germany (the most important generally considered to be Arogno) and 106 Stud Book daughters, including the States Premium Mare Maharani II (dam of Elite Stallion Mackensen and full brothers Mahagoni and Marlon) and Elite Mares Kanconette and Karawane II. His descendents are sought after for competition, and his son Troubadour was Christine Stückelberger's reserve mount for the Seoul Olympics.
Flaneur died in 1988.
