Kristy Oatley Adds Veneno to her Collection

Dressage

Australia

Australian Olympic team rider Kristy Oatley has added the Westfalian stallion Veneno to her collection of horses. Oatley purchased the licensed stallion in October.

Veneno HC is a 2011 born Westfalian stallion by Vitalis out of Diamond Lady (by Diamond Hit x Landadel x Argentinus).

The chestnut is bred by Rotraud Haarlammert and was previously owned by Belgian Anemone Samyn.

Breeding Stallion

Veneno was first licensed for breeding at the 2014 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing in Vechta and he did his 30-day suitability test in Schlieckau in November 2015, scoring 8.26 for dressage and 7.20 for show jumping.

In his short career as a breeding stallion, he has already sired 6 licensed offspring in Germany, all of them born in 2016. It is a remarkable feat for such a young stallion who has not been bred to a big amounts of mares.

Belgian Owned, German Shown

Veneno was purchased as a young stallion by Anemone Samyn of HC Stables in Belgium from Helgstrand in Denmark, who bought the stallion for 310,000 euro at the 2014 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing.

Samyn allocated the ride on Veneno to Anna Sophie Fiebelkorn. The pair won bronze at the 2015 Westfalian Young Horse Championships and finished 6th at the Bundeschampionate.

Samyn then ended her collaboration with Fiebelkorn and the stallion moved barns a few times, first to Denmark, then to Belgium and finally back to Germany to find continuity again with Beatrice Buchwald in 2017. The new duo first competed in Langenfeld in July 2017. They did a couple of shows at developing Prix St Georges level in 2018 and competed a bit more in 2019 in the Nurnberger Burgpokal qualifiers in Bettenrode and Dorsten. Their last show was Dorsten in September 2019.

Samyn, who invested massively in expensive auction horses in Germany almost ten years ago, is currently selling all her top horses. She sold the Oldenburg licensing champion Bonds to Buchwald, has shipped Furst William again to Denmark to be sold (second attempt).

Veneno has sold to Kirsty Oatley as a rising Grand Prix hope.

"He is an absolute amazing horse," she told Eurodressage. "I don’t have any (show) plans as yet. First up is my campaign for Tokyo and (daughter) Rose’s for the Pony Europeans."

She also added, "he is just so divine in every way. Rose also has a ride on him, a gentleman in every aspect. He shows great potential, but it’s also a long road until they actually enter the arena."

When asked if Veneno will be Du Soleil's successor, Kristy replied, "I have a couple more on their way who are extremely promising."