The Grand Prix Dressage stallion Aktion has passed away at the age of 21. World famous as the steady partner of one of the first Kur to Music star riders, the Hungarian Gyulla Dallos, Aktion has been the most successful KWPN breeding stallion in the competition ring, besides Olympic Ferro.
Known in the arena as Babolna Aktion, the dapple gray stallion won bronze medal in the kur at the 1993 European Dressage Championships in Lipica, Slovenia. At the 1994 World Equestrian Games, Aktion and Dallos finished seventh. Aktion won multiple World Cup Qualifiers and has over 100 Grand Prix victories on his list of achievements.
Chris Hector of the Horse Magazine wrote about Aktion: "Aktion was just amazing at the World Championships in 1994 at The Hague and again at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, under Hungarian rider, Gyulla Dallos. Aktion brough a new meaning to piaffe and passage."
Aktion was born in 1982 and was by Pion out of an Akteur dam. At the age of 17, Aktion was proclaimed Keur Preferent Stallion at the 1999 KWPN Stallion Licensing. 1999 was hist last year of competition before he retired and devoted the rest of his life to breeding.
Partial Source: Horse-Gate
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