Lordswood Dancing Diamond, the 2017 World Young Horse Champion in the 6-year old division, has been sold by his British owners Alice Whitefield and Heather Stack.
The now 7-year old Hanoverian gelding by Dancier x Wolkenstein II x Woermann is bred by Heinrich Ebeling and was trained and competed by Anne-Kathrin Pohlmeier.
Acquired by the British ladies duo Whitefield and Stack as a 3-year old, Lordswood Dancing Diamond became the reserve champion at the 2014 and 2015 Bundeschampionate. He finished fourth at the 2016 World Young Horse Championships in Ermelo as a 5-year old and one month later bagged the German champion's title at the 2016 Bundeschampionate. In 2017 Pohlmeier and Dancing Diamond crowned their four-year partnership with the world champion's title in the 6-year old division in Ermelo after scoring a stunning 9.72 point result.
After the World Championships, Stack and Whitefield put the gelding on the market and the horse was no longer competed. He was also strikingly absent from last week's German selection trial for the 2018 World Young Horse Championships.
In December 2017, Whitefield told Eurodressage that family health issues prevented them both from going to Germany to meet potential buyers. Lordswood Dancing Diamond has now sold to a buyer who wishes to remain anonymous at the moment.
"At this time the new owner wants to remain anonymous so they have time to get to know each other without pressure," said Whitefield and Stack. "Without doubt he is ours and Anne-Kathrin’s horse of a lifetime and we owe him so much - he has given us experiences that very few get to enjoy and for that we are entirely grateful to Diamond, his amazing rider and trainer."
Pohlmeier remains the trainer to settle in the new partnership.
Editor’s note: Tamara Rehnig is the new owner and rider.
Photo © Astrid Appels
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