On July 24, 2004, 96 Hanoverian horses were sold at the Verden summer auction. They achieved an average auction sales price of 11.102,00 euro – the second best result ever achieved at a summer auction.
Foreign customers spent most of the money: 53 horses (the highest export rate achieved so far - 60%!) will leave Germany. The lot went down to 17 buyers from the United States, seven horses will move to Great Britain and each five found new owners in the Netherlands and in Sweden. One regular customer from Mexico bought four show jumping prospects on the telephone.
The highest price was paid for Danny de Vito by De Niro/Warkant, exhibited by his breeder Axel Windeler from Verden-Walle. A new Hanoverian fan from Potsdam/Berlin bought the four-year-old dressage prospect.
A dressage rider from Luxembourg paid Euro 28.000,00, the second highest price, for Westerland by Welser/Loredo (breeder and exhibitor: Ingolf Missling, Wulften).
With 26.000,00 euro, Waterlily E. by Wolkenstein II/Augustinus xx (breeder: Ulrich Edel, Bad Harzburg) was the most expensive horse of the show jumping collection. The all rounder will move to Mexico.
Anton by Alabaster/Pik Bube II (breeder: Ursula Ahrens-Westerlage, Bramsche – exhibitor: Hildegard Kuhlmann, Bramsche) followed on the show jumping price scale. A trainer from the United States paid Euro 19.000,00 for this youngster.