Hanoverian Sire Livaldon Passed Away

Breeding

Hanoverian

The Celle state stud based Hanoverian breeding stallion Livaldon has passed away on 7 October 2024. He was 14 years old.

Livaldon was by Vivaldi out of Donna Littchen (by Donnerhall x Eiger II). He was bred by .Hans-Heinrich Schnadt.

Premium

Rolf Trute presented Livaldon at the 2012 Hanoverian Stallion Licensing in Verden, where he was named premium stallion. He sold for 260,000 euro and to a newly formed partnership between the Celle State Stud and Hubertus Poll of Gestüt Hörem. Two months later Livaldon got approved for Oldenburg.

He did his 30-day suitability test in the autumn of 2013 and scored 8.8 for dressage and 6.65 for show jumping to finish on a total of 7,86 points.

He then achieved a sport test score in competition but in the end did the 70-day performance test in Schlieckau to obtain the full licensed status. His score was 8.41 for dressage and 6.69 for show jumping to average 7.74 points.

Livaldon was only lightly competed in his life time. He did his first show in 2014 under Anna Sophie Fiebelkorn and in 2015 Sascha Böhnke climed on board for some local showing. In 2016 it was Wolhard Witte's turn who took him to Prix St Georges level. The stallion's last show in his career was in May 2017 in Alvern.

Legacy

Livaldon fulfilled his duty as a breeding stallion and was fairly popular in his younger days. He sired 12 licensed sons of which 4 are in studbook 1. His most well known sons are La Vie and Life Time.

He has 314 of his offspring registered for sport in Germany. His most successful are 2024 World Young Horse Champion Life Time (Charlott Marie Schurmann), La Vie (Therese Nilshagen), L' amore per sempre (Santiago Damil), L'Avion (Manuel Perez), Lagavulin (Carolin Ehrich), Lake Worth (Sascha Böhnke), Lausanne (Renate Gohr-Bimmel), Linkwood (Maike Schreiner), and Las Vegas (Hermann Burger).

Colic

"The best often go first, and so yesterday we had to say goodbye to our beloved stallion Livaldon with a heavy heart," the owner explaind. "Last week he underwent a serious colic operation from which he unfortunately never recovered. To spare him further suffering, we put the 14-year-old stallion to sleep yesterday evening."

Celle concluded, "we will miss Livaldon very much at the Celle State Stud, but he will continue to leave his mark in breeding and in sport through his offspring."