Follow Me OLD, the Oldenburg licensing champion, is on the move again. He has been sold to Italy and will be a schoolmaster for an Italian youth rider.
Follow Me is a 14-year old Oldenburg stallion by Furstenball out of elite mare Cariana (by Donnerschwee x Alabaster ). He is bred by Jurgen Fetzer.
Licensing Champion and Auction Price Highlight
Susanne Limbecker presented the stallion at the 2012 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing where he was named champion and sold for 400,000 euro to the Swiss Wespe family of Dressage Performance Center Lodbergen in Germany.
He did his 30-day stallion performance test in Schlieckau in the autumn of 2013 and scored 9.29 for dressage and 7.35 for show jumping, finishing on a total of 8.32 points.
He was first competed by Therese Nilshagen in 2014 and won the Oldenburg Young Horse Championships in Rastede. She showed him through 2015. He was 7th in the 2014 Bundeschampionate. In 2015 he scored 8.4 in the Hille qualifier and that was his last show for almost three years.
In 2018 he returned to the show ring with Patrik Kraft began showing the stallion and took him to small tour level. They did their last show in Vechta in August 2021.
Junior Horse for Poland
In September 2021 the stallion sold to the Dusseldorf based Polish Pawluk family as a junior rider's horse for daughter Caroline.
She first showed him at a local show in Willich, followed by a start in Ankum in October 2021 before heading to the CDI Brno in June 2022, where the pair placed in the top five in the team test with 68.990%.
Junior Horse for Germany
The horse did not prove to be a match and sold again. He was acquired by the Bienk-Kurp owners' group and relocated to Gestüt Nordvorpommern, a breeding and training center owned by the Kurp family.
The ride was allocated to junior rider Antonia Kurp, who premiered him in Schenefeld in March 2023. The pair rode at M-level in Germany at shows in Hagen, Reez and Güstrow.
Junior Horse for Italy
Follow Me moved to a dealer's yard near Frankfurt and has been sold as a junior rider's horse to Italy. He will continue his sport career under the Milan based Elisa Borghesi.
The 16-year old Borghesi made her international show debut this year with the Polish bred Tiger Woods P (by Ron William x Corleone Z - previously shown by Dominika Krasko) at the CDI San Giovanni in Marignano and from there went to compete in Ornago and Gössendorf.
Elisa's young brother, Matteo (14), represented Italy at the 2023 European Children Championships with Grace DBG (by Bordeaux x Fruhling). Sister Beatrice (15) is into show jumping.
Elisa trains with Norma Paoli and Italo Cirocchi.
Photo © Mhisen
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Follow Me OLD Sold, Ride Allocated to German Junior Rider
Oldenburg Licensing Champion Follow Me OLD Sold to Poland