Grey Flanell Sold to Austria, Schoolmaster for Fiona Kargl

Dressage

Austria

Gestut Bonhomme's breeding stallion Grey Flanell has been sold to Austria over the summer. He is gelded and the ride has been allocated to Fiona Kargl.

Grey Flanell is a 14-year old KWPN stallion by Gribaldi x Clavecimbel x Ferro. He is bred by the late Adriaan van der Goor.

Licensed Stallion

He was licensed at the 2013 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing in Vechta and sold at auction to Gestüt Bonhomme for 72,000 euro.

Grey Flanell’s first crop of foals excelled at foal inspections and nine of his foals sold through the 2014 Oldenburg Elite Auction in Vechta, every single one changed hands for five-digit sums. He was the 2014 Oldenburg Main Premium winner.

Sport Career

He was first trained and competed by Frederic Wandres, who was head rider at Gestut Bonhomme at the time. They finished fourth in the 2014 Pavo Cup Finals. In 2015 Richard Hannöver competed him briefly at L-level followed by Moritz Gehrman.

As of 2018 Lena Waldmann continued the training of the stallion. They did their first S-level test in July 2018 and rode the Nurnberber Burgpokal qualifiers that year. In October 2019 they moved up to Inter II level and in 2020 rode at a few Louisdor Cup qualifiers and finished 8th in the Finals. Their international show debut was in June 2021 at the CDI Herzlake at medium tour level, followed by Zandhoven and Zakrzow. Those were the horse's only CDI competitions in his career, so far. Waldmann rode him through 2022 until she left Bonhomme.

Trio of Riders

After Waldmann's departure, a trio of riders briefly rode the stallion.

Simone Pearce took over the ride, but never showed him. After Pearce left Bonhomme, Moritz Treffinger took over and he showed him for the first (and only time) in August 2023 in Donzdorf at S*** level.

Bonhomme's assistant rider Emma Gömmer took over the ride at the start of 2024 to have the opportunity to try for the German Piaff Forderpreis circuit. She did not make the cut, but ended up showing him one more time nationally in March

Sold to Austria, Gelded

In the summer of 2024, Grey Flanell sold to Austria to the company PW Dressage. Austrian Grand Prix rider Astrid Neumayer as well as the Kargl family are involved in that company.

Grey Flanell was gelded and the ride allocated to Florian Zimmermann's student Fiona Kargl. She made her national show debut in Perchtolsdorf in August at Young Riders level. It was their first show.

As a breeding stallion Grey Flanell has sired 9 licensed sons. Only in recent years his offspring is beginning to stand out now that they have reached S-level. He sired, for instance, Grand Prix horses Gossip Girl (Evelyn Eger), Gentleman (Charlotte Lenherr), George Clooney (Lena Hassmann), and small tour horses Global Power (Evelyn Eger), Grey C Carrus (Miki Yang), and Gremlin (Quinn Iverson).