Marcus Hermes’ Grand Prix Ride Rovereto Passed Away

Dressage

Austria

The Austrian owned Grand Prix horse Rovereto has passed away on Wednesday 10 June 2020 following a severe colic attack.

Rovereto was a 13-year old Hanoverian gelding by Rousseau out of Wonne (by Wolkenstein II x Matcho AA). He was bred by Malte Klar.

The bay was first competed as a 4-year old in 2011 by Esther Maruhn. At the 2012 Bundeschampionate the pair was 15th in the 5-year old consolation finals. Maruhn took him up to M-level and at the 2013 Bundeschampionate they were 15th in the 6-year old Finals.

In the summer of 2014 the Austrian Ahorner family purchased the horse from Jasmin Troike as a future young rider's horse for their daughter Nicola.

In 2016 the horse was sent to Marcus Hermes in Germany to be trained to Grand Prix level. He first competed him in the Developing PSG horse classes in the autumn of 2016 and moved him up to Medium tour level in January 2017.

Hermes and Rovereto showed on the 2017 Louisdor Cup circuit and finished 9th in the Finals in Frankfurt. In 2018 the pair made its international Grand Prix level debut in Nieuw en St. Joosland and went on to show in Hagen and Zakrzow.

In the spring of 2019, Rovereto moved home to Austria and was put in training with Ahorner's coach, Austrian Grand Prix rider Christian Schumach. The new pair had scheduled to make their CDI debut at the 2020 CDI Mariakalnok at the end of the month, but unfortunately it was not meant to be.

Last week Roverto suffered from a severe bout of colic and was immediately transported to the equine clinic.

"It all went really fast," Nicola Ahorner told Eurodressage. "During the colic attack he sustained a stomach rupture. Our vet couldn’t help him anymore. I am devastated."