Theresa Friesdorf's Quotenkonig Moves on With New German Young Rider

Dressage

Germany

Theresa Friesdorf has handed over the ride on her number one, Quotenkönig, to German young rider Celestine Kindler.

Quotenkönig is a 14-year old Westfalian gelding by Quaterback out of Fleet Street (by Furst Piccolo x Sandro Hit x Contender). He is bred by Frank Dahlhoff.

Licensed Stallion

The liver chestnut became the third ranked premium stallion at the 2011 Westfalian Stallion Licensing. He was owned by Karin Dust at the time and she bought back her own colt in the auction for 170,000 euro. He did his 30-day suitability test in 2012 in Munster and scored 8.38 for dressage and 7.18 for show jumping. He achieved his full licensed status through the Bundeschampionate qualifiers.

Quotenkönig was first competed by Lisa Lindner (née Neukäter) in 2012. They won bronze at the Westfalian Young Horse Championships and silver at the Bundeschampionate that year. In 2013 there was gold at the Westfalian Championships, but did not start at the Bundeschampionate. They repeated gold in 2014 at the Westfalian Championships and got fourth place at the Bundeschampionate. Wolfgang Suttrop was listed as his owner at that time. In 2015 the pair finished 9th in the finals at the World Championships for Young Dressage Horses in Verden. At the 2015 Bundeschampionate they were fifth. At the 2016 World Young Horse Championships in Ermelo they were 6th in the consolation finals for 7-year olds.

In 2018 Quotenkönig moved to Isabell Werth's yard to be developed to Grand Prix level and sold. He was gelded to be focused on sport. Niklaas Feilzer showed him in the Nurnberger Burgpokal qualifiers and in 2019 they moved to Grand Prix level. Werth Werth competed the horse herself once

Theresa Friesdorf

In February 2020 he sold to the Friesdorf family for Theresa to ride.

Friesdorf and Quotenkonig at the 2020 CDI Hagen

The pair made its international show debut at Young Riders' level at the 2020 CDI Sint-Truiden in Belgium and they competed internationally through July 2022 with starts in Hagen, Le Mans and Aachen. In 2020 and 2021 they were 9th at the German Young Riders Championships

2022 was Friesdorf's last year as a young rider and at the start of the year she ride him in the Piaff Forderpreis selection trial for German Under 25 riders in Warendorf. At the end of the year they were 6th in the 2022 German Young Riders Championships.

Friesdorf rode her last show on Quotenkönig in October 2022 in Mönchengladbach at Intermediaire II level

Celestine Kindler

The 19-year old Celestine Kindler has now taken over the ride on Quotenkönig.

Kindler began competing in 2016 on pony Valencia (by Viscount x Top Gun II). In 2019 she moved onto horses with Deal or No Deal (by Don Juan de Hus x Florestan) and showed him at L level.

She premiered at junior M-level aboard Romeo, a 13-year old Danish warmblood by Romanov x De Noir which she discovered when he was offered for sale on Eurodressage in the early spring of 2020.

Kindler and Romeo first competed internationally at the CDI Hagen in September 2020 and then went to the CDI Ornago a year later. They did one international in Achleiten in 2022. She rode her first young riders' level tests on Romeo in the autumn of 2022.

With Quotenkönig, Kindler will have a confirmed Prix St Georges horse to rely on for her time as a young rider.