Swiss young rider Dominique Tardin has acquired the Oldenburg licensed stallion Danzas (by De Niro x Weltmeyer) as her future dressage star. Dominique, who has dual citizenship in South Africa and Switzerland, is based at Dolf Dietram Keller's stabe in Germany.
"I never in my wildest dreams thought I would have a horse like Danzas," Tardin told Eurodressage. "He is so special and I love him."
Danzas is born in 2001 and is bred by Margarete Limburg. He is by De Niro out of Winnie Puuh (by Weltmeyer x Argentan x Duden II). He is approved for Oldenburg, Berlin-Brandenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Sachsen, Thuringen and the Swedish Warmblood society. He finished fourth at the 2005 Neustadt/Dosse 70-day Stallion Performance test with 125.04 points and a dressage index of 145.91.
As a five year old, he qualified for the 2006 Bundeschampionate under Christian Flamm but retired in the qualification round in Warendorf.
Swedish Eva and Per Pileryd of Ängagården bought a share in Danzas from the Landgestut Neustadt/Dosse and the black stallion moved to Sweden where he stood at stud for several years. He was trained and competed by Peggy and Dietmar Schulz as well as by Flyinge head rider Susanne Gielen before moving to Keller's barn in Germany a year ago. Dolf Dietram's young rider daughter Kathleen showed Danzas briefly.
The 19-year old Tardin is now aiming to ride Danzas in the young riders classes and qualify on the Swiss team for the 2011 European Young Riders Championships held in Broholm, Denmark, next summer.
"I will start competing from February at some national shows here in Germany just to get into it," said Dominique. "Then I will do the CDI's around Europe and the Swiss Dressage Championships."
Tardin disclosed that her ultimate goal and dream is competing at the FEI Young Riders World Cup Finals. "We'll see how it goes and at least I have two years to try and achieve this," said Tardin.
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