"A sound result achieved," is how the Hanoverian Verband described the turnover of the 2005 Equitop Auction in May. At the 2005 Equitop auction of Hanoverian riding horses and foals, 57 prospects were sold at an average auction sales price of 10,363 euro. Nearly 50% of them found new owners abroad. Spain heads this export statistics with seven horses, followed by France with five and Austria and Sweden with each four horses.
23,000 euro was the highest price, paid for the brown dressage youngster Rubens Baricello by Rubinstein/Grundsee (breeder and exhibitor Dieter and Kerstin Kandziora, Haren). He will move to a show stable in Lower Saxony. Gina by Graf Grannus/Chief Singer xx (breeder: Ulrike and Reinhold Bosse, Sickte – exhbitor: Gerhard Kröckel, Braunschweig) is next on this price scale. The bay show jumping prospect was sold at 22,000 euro, and she will be furthered in the stable of the Diederichsmeier family in Dallgow near Potsdam.
Auction manager Rainer Kiel was satisfied with the result: „The expectations have been fulfilled, many potential customers are now away on tournaments, but the reliable Verden offer is always attracting sufficient buyers.”
It was the second time that foals were offered at this sales event. 14 youngsters were sold at an average price of 4,928 euro. Foreign customers contributed considerably to this result (50%), most of them from Spain, the Netherlands, Italy and the United States. With 8,700.00 euro, the colt by Hochadel/Argentan, bred and exhibited by Hans-Heinrich Maak, Hamburg, achieved the highest price. He was sold to the Netherlands.