Veneno, Rose Oatley's Junior Team Ride and Breeding Stallion, Passed Away

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Veneno, Rose Oatley's German junior team ride in 2022 and a popular breeding stallion, has passed away last week.

Veneno was a 2011 born Westfalian stallion by Vitalis out of Diamond Lady (by Diamond Hit x Landadel x Argentinus). He was bred by Rotraud Haarlammert .

Breeding Stallion

Veneno was first licensed at the 2014 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing in Vechta and he did his 30-day suitability test in Schlieckau in November 2015, scoring 8.26 for dressage and 7.20 for show jumping.

The chestnut stood up for stud for one season in 2015 and sired no less than 6 licensed offspring in Germany, all of them born in 2016. It was a remarkable feat for such a young stallion who did not bred to a big amounts of mares. As his offspring turned out to be so good, Veneno came back up for stud in 2024 for one season until the end of June when he was brought back home due to an injury.

Anemone Samyn

Veneno was purchased as a young stallion by Anemone Samyn of HC Stables in Belgium from Helgstrand in Denmark, who bought the stallion for 310,000 euro at the 2014 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing.

Samyn allocated the ride on Veneno to Anna Sophie Fiebelkorn. The pair won bronze at the 2015 Westfalian Young Horse Championships and finished 6th at the Bundeschampionate.

Samyn then ended her collaboration with Fiebelkorn and the stallion moved barns a few times, first to Denmark, then to Belgium and finally back to Germany to find continuity again with Beatrice Buchwald in 2017. The new duo first competed in Langenfeld in July 2017. They did a couple of shows at developing Prix St Georges level in 2018 and competed a bit more in 2019 in the Nurnberger Burgpokal qualifiers in Bettenrode and Dorsten. Their last show was Dorsten in September 2019.

Samyn, who invested massively in expensive auction horses in Germany almost ten years ago, is currently selling all her top horses. She sold the Oldenburg licensing champion Bonds to Buchwald, has shipped Furst William again to Denmark to be sold (second attempt).

Sold to Oatley

Veneno sold to Kirsty Oatley as a rising Grand Prix hope in February 2020 but he became Rose Oatley's junior rider horse.

Kristy made her show debut on him in November 2011 in Schenefeld in the Intermediaire II, finishing third. However, in 2022 Rose Oatley competed him at junior rider's level and the stallion got selected as her direct reserve horse to her number one, Rock Revolution, for the 2022 European Junior Riders Championships in Hartpury. Due to a hoof abscess Veneno substituted for Rock Revolution. He finished 7th in the team tst (73.303%) and won team gold with Germany. In the individual they were 32nd with 67.735%.

Hartpury was the pair's last international. Rose competed Veneno nationally through 2023 both a junior and S/Young Riders level. They showed at the 2023 Preis der Besten but new horse Sommernacht took over the baton as number one. Their last show was in Verden in December 2023.

Sad End

Unfortunately the 13-year old stallion passed away last week. The cause was not disclosed.

"We are absolutely heart broken," Kristy told Eurodressage.