Trakehner Sire Easy Game Passed Away

Breeding

Trakehner

The elite Trakehner breeding stallion Easy Games has passed away on 10 July 2023. He was 20 years old.

Dutch Born

Easy Game was born in The Netherlands. He is by Gribaldi out of the Danish bred Evita (by Schwadroneur x Cannon Row xx). He is bred by Flip and Jikkie Willemsen.

In 2001 his dam Evita, who was bred by Bjarne Noergaard in Denmark, won the mare performance test in Denmark with 8.46 points and sold in the riding horse auction during the 2001 Trakehner Stallion Licensing as price highlight for 110,000 DM (55,000 euro). She moved to the stables of the Willemsen couple in Bergharen, The Netherlands, in foal to Kaiser Wilhelm.

After foal Evivva was born, they bred Evita to Gribaldi. Easy Game was born in 2003.

Dutch Discovery

Dutch stallion keeper Joop van Uytert purchased Easy Game and presented him at the 2005 Trakehner Stallion Licensing in Neumunster. There he sold for 50% to Petra Wilm of Gestut Tasdorf.

Easy Game's first crop of foals was born in 2006 after having stood up for stud at Gestut Tasdorf. From that first crop came Olympic champion Dalera BB out of Dark Magic (by Handryk x Hohenstein), bred by Silke Druckenmüller (née Fass).

Easy Game stayed at Tasdorf until 2010 and then moved to The Netherlands as a 7-year old, where he continued to stand until the end of 2014.

Sport Career

Easy Game did not have a prominent sport career and was competed up to Prix St Georges level in Holland.

He was initially started at Tasdorf by Dieter Ingwersen, Mareike Peckolz and Hannes Lütt and then ridden by Jan Lens, Theo Hanzon, and John Tyssen.

In December 2014 the Belgian based Dutch veterinarian and rider Veronique Swagemakers and her partners acquired half ownership in the stallion from Van Uytert and Wilm. He stayed in Belgium for two years as a schoolmaster and was returned to Van Uytert to resume breeding in 2017.

Not Popular

Easy Game was never the most popular breeding in Van Uytert's KWPN dominated stallion collection. By 2021 he had 80 offspring registered as Trakehner and just 40 with the KWPN.

From his first year at stud in the Netherlands (in 2011), 32 offspring were born in 2012. Twelve of them are competing and two at Grand Prix level: Hummer (by Easy Game x Jazz) under Nars Gottmer and Hermès under Dinja van Liere.

Elite Stallion, Stallion of the Year

Alexander Kuschel (sponsor of the award), breeder
Jikki Willemsen-den Bierman, Joop van Uytert, Danny Sneiders,
Petra Wilm

In 2014 Easy Game was proclaimed Trakehner Elite Stallion as he had sired licensed sons Sir Easy (out of a Tuareg dam) and the premium stallion and 2010 licensing reserve champion Millennium (out of a Ravel dam). The latter is dominating Trakehner breeding at the moment as he himself and his sons (Helium, Freiherr von Stein, Ivanhoe, Hopkins) are dominating the bloodlines. Since then Easy Game produced two more licensed sons, Honoré du Soir, Avalon’s Easy, and Best Game.

In 2021 Easy Game was approved for breeding with KWPN and Hanover based on the success of his offspring. In October 2021 he was proclaimed Trakehner Stallion of the Year at the Trakehner stallion licensing in Neumunster, Germany.

Untimely Death

The sport successes of Dalera and Hermes in the international arena has attracted renewed interest in breeding with Easy Game. Unfortunately Van Uytert confirmed today the stallion's untimely death.

Van Uytert disclosed to Eurodressage that Easy Game died during breeding, most likely from an aortic rupture. It only took seconds. The Trakehner elite stallion Partout died at Van Uytert's in 2008 in exactly the same way.