Author Archives: Peter Philipps

The Westphalian Autumn Auction shone with a lot of young horses of outstanding quality. 42 dressage and 16 show jumping horses were offered for sale at this auction. A total of three-quarters were successfully transferred to new owners. At the unprecedented, sensational top price of 590,000 euros, a three-year-old son of Escamillo was sold. The Brown … Read More

Externally speaking, nothing about this brown Westfalen horse indicated that it would one day – in 2006 – carry the title of „most successful jumping horse of the year“: Its hip was crooked, a bridle was missing, it was unruly, wouldn’t walk on the reins, and its rider liked to say: „When we rode to the training ground … Read More

How about an embryo from Chacco-Blue, the only daughter of the two-time Rolex GP winner Killer Queen, or an embryo from Emerald van ‚t Ruytershof, the half-sister of the impressive Grand Prix horse Mumbai? But that’s not all; Chacco-Blue also offers embryos from the phenomenal Grand Prix mare Babylotte, the half-sister of the Olympic champion Explosion... Read More

Blue sky, 25 degrees – while heating is already on in Germany, the Mediterranean Equestrian Tour in Oliva is experiencing a summery atmosphere. The highlight and conclusion of the first Autumn Tour was the Grand Prix over 1.45m. And two German travelers in the horse world were among the twelve qualified for the competition. … Read More

That was the maximum achievement for the Dream Team of Richard Vogel, Sophie Hinners and David Will on this Sunday – in keeping with the motto of the Prussian Chief of Staff Helmuth von Moltke: Marching apart, uniting to strike. In Albführen, Richard Vogel marched and crowned his Saturday victory in the Country Classics with the next success… Read More

Six hours of auction marathon and outstanding Oldenburg horses – the 97th Autumn Elite Auction was a great success. The Oldenburg Vice Champion Frontman OLD danced to the top of the price list. The 37 horses cost an average of around 44,000 euros. The total turnover narrowly missed the 2 million euro mark. At the peak of the 97th Autumn Elite Auction … Read More

This was Kendra Claricia Brinkop’s day at the start of the Autumn Mediterranean Equestrian Tour in Oliva: With Olympic horse Van’T Merelsnest (v. Vigo D’Arsouilles), she wins the Silver Tour Grand Prix ahead of her compatriot Tom Schewe on Nestor de Mariposa (v. Elvis Ter Putter) and the Frenchwoman Marie Hecart on Drosera … Read More

It was almost obvious: As Eiken Sato swept through the course at breathtaking speed with Chacanno Jra (v. Chacco-Blue), he signaled that victory in the Grand Prix of Riesenbeck this Saturday evening was just passing him by. A total of 19 of the 58 starters made it through to the final. But in fact, he managed to … Read More

Das Samstags-Hauptspringen bei den Albführen Country Classics, das Championat der Südbadischen Wirtschaft über 1,45m, sah Richard Vogel auf Looping Luna (v. Lord Fauntleroy) als strahlenden Sieger. Knapp dahinter kam Hansi Dreher fehlerfrei mit Vestmalle des Cotis (v. Baloubet du Rouet) als Zweiter ins Ziel – vor Richard Vogel zum Zweiten: … Read More

In die Entscheidung um den Queens Cup in Barcelona ging es am Samstagnachmittag nicht ins Stechen, sondern in eine Siegesrunde. Das bedeutete, dass man mit null Fehlern im Umlauf in dem Finale nicht automatisch dabei war. Nur die 14 schnellsten Fehlerfreien durften auch um den Sieg mitreiten. Eine, die von … Read More