The dark bay Hanoverian mare Cerutti became the price highlight of the May 2003 Equitop Auction for Hanoverian Sport Horses in Verden, Germany. Bred by Ursula Niemann from Bockelwitz, Germany, Cerutti achieved a knock down price of 46,000 €. Cerutti is a 6-year old mare by Compliment x Watzmann x Lanthan, who goes by the FN-competition name C.E.I. Cerutti. She has been sold to a French dressage stable near Geneva.
Donald, by Don Gregory x Prince Tatch xx, became the second most expensive horse of the Equitop auction. For a price of 30,000 €, the 3-year old was sold to Irene Kaufmann from Switzerland. Best selling show jumper was the 12,000 € worthy Roschen. The 6-year old bay mare by Raphael x Wanderbusch x Wienerwald moves to Spain.
72 Hanoverians were sold at this Equitop auction and they had an average price of 9,673 €. 42 of them will stay in Germany, 30 horses goes abroad. England bought 10 of them, 4 go to the U.S., 3 to Luxembourg and 2 to Austria.