Laudabilis Passed Away

Breeding

Hanoverian

Mathieu Beckmann's business building breeding stallion Laudabilis has passed away on 26 March 2025. He was 25 years old.

Laudabilis was a Hanoverian by Lauries Crusador xx out of Wassia (by Warkant x Eiger I x Busoni xx). He was bred by Georg Hardekopf-Hartmann.

Licensed

The bay was licensed at the 2002 Hanoverian Stallion Licensing in Verden, where he sold to Mathieu Beckmann and Adolf-Theo Schurf. He became stationed with Beckmann in Wettringen as one of the first stallions to launch his business.

He did his 30-day performance test in Munster-Handorf in March 2003 and scored 9,25 for dressage and 6,56 for jumping. He achieved his full licensed status through his sport results as a young stallion.

Laudabilis was approved for Westfalia in 2003 and for Oldenburg in 2004.

Sport Career

Laudabilis's career in the spotlight and popularity as a breeding and sport stallion was rather short and mainly in the first years of him standing at stud.

Eurodressage visiting Laudabilis in 2004

He was first competed as a 4-year old in 2004 by Oliver Oelrich, while at home he was ridden by Elisabeth Niehues-Rembeck. In 2005 they qualified for the Bundeschampionate and in Warendorf finished third in the 5-year old division . Oelrich returned to Warendorf a year later in 2006 and landed 6th place in the 6-year old finals.

The stallion then disappeared from the show scene for six years. He made a brief come back under Tanja Krampe at M-level in 2012.

Breeding Stallion

As a breeding stallion he mainly made his mark in the first years while he was successful in sport.

He sired 10 licensed sons of which 7 made it into studbook I. They are Laurestan, Lauricio, Limnos, Lindner I and II, Lino Ventura, Looking Forward, Luciano Pavarotti, Lecoux and a nameless one. Nine of those are from his crops born between 2004 and 2006.

He has 161 daughters registered as broodmare and 31 of them are state premium mares.

The German equestrian federation has 336 offspring registered for sport and 21 of them are showing at S-level. His last offspring is born in 2013. His most famous offspring is probably the Grand Prix horses Love Light (under Stefanie Wolf and Monica Iemi), LAir du Temps (Sylvain Guasco), Like the Wind (Tara Schneider), and Lorenzo van de SRF (Shelly van den Neste), as well as small tour horses Lauda (Anna Guseynova), La Fleurette (Hana Vasaryova), Luciano Pavarotti (Jacky Stolper), Luciano (Leonie Guerra).

His most earning offspring in Germany is jumper (!) Lauricio (under Lukas Wappler).

Passing

Beckmann announced the stallion's passing on Facebook.

A headstone for Laudabilis at Beckmann's

Mathieu reminisced on the impact Laudabilis made on his stallopn station. He was "a stallion who has and will continue to have a very special meaning for our farm and the stallion station. He was the stallion of the first hour and enjoyed great popularity. (He) filled the licensing, auction and show arenas with his offspring. Even today, his offspring are still successfully competing up to advanced dressage level. Laudabilis has been given a worthy farewell and may continue to stay with us on the farm."