2020 European Pony Champion Nasdaq Allocated to New German Rider

Dressage

Germany

Nasdaq, the 2020 European Pony Champion, has been allocated to a new German pony rider. The 13-year old German Riding pony has been sold to Hof Kasselmann and leased out for a year.

Nasdaq is by Nemax out of Vanilla Sky (by FS Don't Worry). He is bred by Gabriele Heemsoth.

Young Pony Success

Originally named PAV Nasdaq, he was licensed as a breeding stallion at the 2013 Hanoverian Pony Stallion Licensing and achieved his stallion performance test score through sport in 2016

He was first competed by Greta Heemsoth and placed 7th at the 2014 Bundeschampionate with a score of 8.3. Heemsoth and Nasdaq returned to the 2015 Bundeschampionate, but were only 15th in the qualifier round with 7.3.

Shortly after Warendorf, the bay sold to the Baumgurtel family. He was gelded to be focused on sport, having sired in 2015 one licensed offspring, PAV Nikkei.

In 2016 Helena Eickhoff competed the pony and took him to the Bundeschampionate, where he finished 8th in the preliminary round but was retired from the 5-year old dressage pony finals. At the 2017 Bundeschampionate Eickhoff returned on a mission, won the preliminary round and ended up 6th in the Finals with a 7.8 score.

In 2018 it was Anna Magdalena Muster's turn to ride and compete the pony and she rode him at local shows in the Westfalian area through the summer of 2019.

The Baumgurtel Sisters

In the autumn of 2019 Lucie-Anouk partnered with the pony and they did their first show in Ankum in November 2019, winning it all.

Lucie-Anouk, who already was European Pony Champion on Massimiliano in 2016 and 2017, decided on junior level and horses in 2019, but in 2020 it would be her last year on ponies and she chose Nasdaq.

The corona pandemic meddled with the international show schedule but the pair went to the CDI Mariakalnok in June, where they were second twice and first in the freestyle. They were selected on the German team and at the 2020 European Pony Championships, they won triple gold with an individual test World Record of 82.351%.

Nasdaq moved on with younger sister Lana-Pinoou Baumgurtel. They debuted in October 2020 at the CDN Ankum and rode their first international CDI in Le Mans in October 2020. In 2021 Lana and Nasdaq campaigned in Compiegne and Hagen, but were not selected on the German team.

Veronica Pawluk

In the summer of 2021 Nasdaq sold to the Dusseldorf based Polish Pawluk family for daughter Veronica to ride alongside pony D'Artagnan.

The new pair debuted at the CDI Aachen Indoor in November 2021 and campaigned in 2022 in Zakrzow, Mariakalnok, Lipica, Brno, and Kronberg but Veronica selected D'Artagnan as her 2022 European Pony Championship ride and won kur silver. In 2023 she only did two CDI's on Nasdaq, Geesteren, where she won both rounds, and Jardy.

Hof Kasselmann

As Pawluk reached the age limit in 2024 and has moved to junior level with horse Danclair, Nasdaq has been sold to Hof Kasselmann as a future ride for 11-year old Lilly Kasselmann

As Lilly needs to grow and learn a bit more on schoolmaster George Clooney, the Kasselmanns have leased Nasdaq for one season to Baden-Wurttemberger based pony rider Maya Wächter.

Wächter won the 2023 German Developing Pony Rider Championship on FS New Wave (by Numero Uno x Champion de Luxe).