The 6th Lodbergen Foal Championship was a true feast of foals at the Dressage Performance Centre Lodbergen (DLZ) on Saturday 18 June 2016. The Lodbergen champion foals were sired by Dante Weltino OLD and For Romance.
"Not only a record of over 120 entered foals was impressive, but also the quality of the presented youngsters gobsmacked us," said DLZ managing director Urs Schweizer. And quality leads to desire. "At the show more than 40% of the present foals switched owners to our knowledge and several of them were accepted for the auctions in Vechta, Germany, and Borculo, The Netherlands."
Schweizer had double reason to celebrate because the black Kabayo's Djamal (by De Niro x Sir Donnerhall), which he and his wife Barbara have bred, received a dream score of 9.66 in the colt category. The second placed foal and winner of the Lodbergen Foal Championship was a Rhinelander bred Dante Weltino OLD offspring, bred by the breeders' group Mölko. A chestnut by For Romance x De Niro, bred by Berit and Jens Sager, ranked third in the colt division.
The filly category virtually needed a jump off for the foal inspection committee, which included Paul Baune, Heinrich Behrmann and Antonius Schulze Averdiek, to reach a verdict. A chestnut filly by Diamond Hit x Bretton Woods, bred by Johann Martens, became the winner. She tied with the same score of 9.38 with the Lodbergen Champion filly by For Romance x De Niro, bred by the renowned Olympic horse breeding family De Baey. A For Romance x Totilas filly, bred by Bernhard Schwertmann, scored 9.0 and ranked third.
In the pony division the filly Movie Girl, by the current Bundeschampion Movie Star, topped the board. The cremello filly is bred by Clemens Wahoff.
"We can only congratulate the breeders who not only expertly paired breeding stallions to their mares, but who also have been using highly valuable mares from proven lines. This is and always will be the key to success," said Schweizer.
Offspring by the DLZ stallions dominated the scene. Thirteen out of 22 tickets given for the 2016 German Foal Championships in Lienen went to foals sired by Grand Prix star Dante Weltino OLD and double champion For Romance. Also other DLZ sires, such as Buenos Dias, First Ampere, Follow Me OLD, Rock For Me and Sean Connory, shone with their offspring.
Urs Schweizer and his team are now preparing for the next foal event in Lodbergen on Thursday 23 June 2016. At 10h00 the Oldenburg breed society will be holding a foal inspection to hand out premium labels. At this foal event, breeders will also have the opportunity to have their foals selected for the Oldenburg Elite Foal Auction on 27 August and 1 October in Vechta. Already 70 foals have been entered for this foal show. Champion Kabayo's Djamal as well as several other placed foals will make a re-appearance then.
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