Bon Joker to Kristina Bröring-Sprehe

Dressage

Germany

Bon Joker, an Oldenburg licensed stallion and Bundeschampionate finalist, has moved to former German team rider Kristina Bröring-Sprehe.

Bon Joker is an 8-year old Oldenburg by Bon Coeur out of Fortunes Beauty XT (by Furstenball x Rubin-Royal). He is bred by Stefan Tietje.

Premium Stallion

The black was licensed at the 2019 Oldenburg Stallion Licensing in Vechta, where he was ranked fourth in the premium ring. Gestut Sprehe acquired him at auction for 60,000 euro.

He did his 14-day suitability test in September 2021 and scored 8,66 for dressage and 6,85 for show jumping to average 8.00 points. He did his first sport test in March 2022 and scored 8,32 points.

Bon Joker stood at stud at Gestut Sprehe and was first trained by Simone Pearce before Beatrice Arturi took over the ride.

Arturi debuted the stallion at the 2022 CDN Jaderbergn followed by Vreschen-Bokel at L-level where they won. A year later the stallion showed three times at M-level in the spring of 2023.

Kristina Bröring-Sprehe

Bon Joker has been pulled from the Sprehe stallion roster and is only available via frozen semen. The horse has moved to a new stable for Kristina Bröring-Sprehe to ride.

After a successful career as a youth rider on horses Rose Noir, Royal Flash and Donnerball, Kristina Sprehe broke through with Desperados, who was trained to Grand Prix level by Falk Rosenbauer.

Since 2012 Desperados and Kristine Sprehe were the anchors on the German dressage team at the 2012 Olympic Games (8th in the Kur). They qualified for the 2013 World Cup Final but withdrew from the Grand Prix. At the 2013 European Championships in Herning they were fifth in the Special and Kur. From 2014 till 2016 they were routiniers on the podium. They won team gold and Grand Prix Special silver at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Caen. At the 2015 European Championships in Aachen they earned team bronze and GP Special and Kur silver, although the crowds preferred to have seen him win Kur gold over Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro. At the 2016 Rio Olympics they won team gold and individual bronze. Desperados struggled with injury between 2017 and 2018 and was quietly retired from sport at the end of 2018. Desperados died unexpectedly in February 2020.

Sprehe continued on Destiny, whom she showed at small tour level at the 2017 CDIO Aachen and Darmstadt. A three year break from international sport followed for Destiny and he made his international Grand Prix debut at the CDI Herning in March 2020. It was the pair's first and last CDI together. Sprehe rode Destiny at one more national show in Herbergen-Essen in June 2020.

She then continued briefly and two more internationals on Saphira Royal in May 2021. Since then she has seemingly called her competitive career quits and is now a full-time mom of two children.

Kristina Sprehe does not reply to Eurodressage's inquiry into her future plans with horses.