It were the show jumping prospects that stole the show at the 2006 Elite Auction of Hanoverian Sport Horses and Foals in Verden, Germany. Price highlight was Codex One, a Contendro x Gluckspilz offspring, who sold for 170,000 euro. The licensed stallion is bred by Wilhelm Berghorn and presented at auction by Katrin Dubbers. The new owner is Bernfried Erdmann, who is known from the Buddelei fashion chain.
Most expensive dressage youngster was catalogue number 1, Darwin B (pictured). This Davignon x Lauries Crusador xx gelding sold for 75,000 to Blue Hors Stud in Denmark. The most expensive foal was Stand By Me, a Stedinger x Rubinstein colt.
Thirty young sport horses sold abroad of which fourteen went to the United States. Fifteen of forty-six auctioned foals sold outside Germany. The average price for a young sport horse at the 2006 spring elite auction was 26,134 euro; the average price for a foal was 7,593 euro.
Photo © Tammo Ernst
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