German young rider Marie-Christin Kogel has lost her number one competition horse Harkon to colic. The pair had only made its international show debut in the spring of 2016.
Harkon was a 15-year old Oldenburg gelding by Harvard out of Donna (by Rouletto x Feiner Stern). He was bred by Klaus and Lenchen Becker and owned by the Kogel family.
The gelding was first started as a youngster by Holger Schulze in 2005 and competed by him until 2011. Holga Finken showed the horse once in the spring of 2011 and then Jennifer Schön continued the FEI level competition career of the horse. Tamara Habbach rode him once at M-level and he was used for the horse exchange final at the CDI Munich in 2013.
In 2014 Marie-Christin Kogel made her show debut on Harkon at M-level. In 2016 they made their international show debut at the CDI Mannheim and also competed at the CDIO-PJYR Hagen Future champions. Trained by Eberhard Geiger, the pair did its last show at the 2016 German Young Riders Championship in Riesenbeck, where they finished 10th.
Harkon suffered from a severe colic attack and was operated on, but did not survive surgery.
Photo © Jessica Konrad
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