Heike Kemmer's Grand Prix horse Royal Rubin has sold as breeding stallion to Penny Podmore of Brownscombe Farm in Great Britain. Between 2005 and 2009, Kemmer actively competed the chestnut stallion internationally at FEI level.
Royal Rubin is a 15-year old Berlin-Brandenburg and Saxonian licensed stallion by Rubinstein x Brandenburger x Oktober xx.
The 12-year old KWPN licensed stallion Originate (by Obsession x Kroonjuweel x Flemmingh) has been sold to the United States. The dark bay has been gelded to facilitate quarantine procedures in the U.S.A. Since 2011 the horse was trained and competed at small tour level by Lotje Schoots. Originate will be flown to the U.S.A begin March.
The Belgian owned Hanoverian gelding Roberto Cavalli (by Rotspon x Metternich) has been sold to the U.S.A. The black gelding represented Belgium at the 2010 World Young Horse Championships and was recently in training with Imke Schellekens-Bartels in The Netherlands.
2012 Italian Junior Riders team member Chiara Prijs-Vitale has seriously injured herself falling off her 3-year old stallion Del Ray. The Dutch based Prijs-Vitale was very fortunate as she fractured a vertebra in her back, but was millimeters away from paraplegia. Chiara now has to wear a corset and is not allowed to ride for at least 6 weeks. Her mom Raffaelina Vitale will keep her horses fit in the meantime.
The elite Hanoverian stallion Gold Luck (by Grundstein x Abundance x Alex Tudor xx) has passed away at age 26 at his owner's place Rolling Stone Farm in the U.S.A. The stallion was euthanized on 16 February 2013. The 1987 born chestnut stallion was licensed for the American Hanoverian Society and the Oldenburg society (GOV/ISR). In 1995 Gold Luck was champion Stallion and Reserve Champion Mature Horse at the Royal Dressage Festival at Port Jervis, NY. In 1992 Gold Luck was Champion at First Level at Waterloo and at Grass Lakes, Michigan before Lyme’s disease ended his promising dressage career. Gold Luck's owner Mo Swanson wrote that Gold Luck "has been a part of my life since 1994. There is a big hole in my heart. I always said if I was Bedouin, he would have lived in my tent. I loved that horse."
Each year the Dutch sports magazine NU Sport publishes a "Fortune 500 rich list" of the top 100 earning Dutch sports athletes. While for 2012 the top 10 is completely restricted to soccer players, the highest ranked equestrian athlete is Anky van Grunsven on spot 45 with an "estimated" income of 1,200,000 euro. Nine equestrian athletes are ranked in the top 100. Van Grunsven is the sole female athlete on the list.
German O-judge Peter Holler will be keynote speaker at a clinic for judges, riders and coaches at the Hastings Showground in Hastings, New Zealand on Monday 18 March 2013.
Horses.nl reported that the KWPN licensed stallion Vivaldo (by Polansky x Montecristo) has been gelded begin February 2013 due to an inguinal hernia. Owner Mirelle van Kemenade-Witlox is competing the dark bay gelding at national Prix St Georges level and is preparing him for Grand Prix.
Horse and Hound reported that the Animal Health Trust’s (AHT) Dr Sue Dyson has been awarded a place in the International Equine Veterinarians Hall of Fame in recognition of her contribution to hoof care. Dr Dyson, who is head of clinical orthopaedics at the AHT, lectures internationally and is known for both her clinical work with horses and an extensive research record, having published more than 200 reference papers on lameness and diagnostic imaging in scientific journals.
Paul Schockemohle has sold his 3-year old Oldenburg stallion Sir Calido (by Sir Donnerhall x Calido) to Jody Haswell of Logical Dressage in Great Britain.
