Franziskus x Showmaker x Freestyle x Avignon
Vitalos x
Fürsten-Look x Sir Donnerhall l x Rosenkavalier
For Romance x Showmaker x Hamlet x Hemmingway
Global Player x Vivaldi x Ferro x Wolfgang
Franziskus is a tall, large-framed and immensely powerful stallion. He has outstanding movement, with an active, pushing hindleg and expressive front end. In an interview with The Horse Magazine, rider Ingrid Klimke said of Franziskus as a seven-year-old: "He has so much quality, everything is easy for him, so much power, and from his build he is so much sitting on his hindquarters, so uphill, everything is easy for him. I asked for a change, wonderful change, I asked, did anyone teach him changes? No. He can do one change, four, three, two times changes, now I teach him the ones, because I didn’t know what else to do.”
Performance - Franziskus impressed the spectators at the Westphalian licensing in 2010, and was awarded a premium. He had already won the qualification for the German Championships as a foal. Franziskus passed his performance test in Münster-Handorf successfully; he got scores of 9.0 for trot, canter and rideabilty, and 9.5 for his character. Franziskus continued on his successful path, winning the Bundeschampionat as a four-year-old. Ingrid Klimke began riding Franziskus at the end of 2013, and was victorious with him in his first young horse classes. He is now competing successfully at intermediate I, winning at Münster, and finished second in the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal Trophy, on a score of 9.5.
Sire - The celebrated 2004 NRW Champion Stallion, Fidertanz dominated his 30-day test in Neustadt-Dosse a year later and then took the Vice Champion title at the Bundeschampionat in Warendorf, with a score of 9.5 from the guest rider. In 2006 he was awarded the dressage Hauptprämie in Oldenburg in recognition of his outstanding first foal crop. In 2007, Fidertanz received a score of 8.8 in a qualifier for the Bundeschampionat and thus fulfilled the performance requirements for licensing. He meanwhile won up to Prix St. Georges and competed international grand prix under Antonio Do Vale.
Damsire - Damsire Alabaster competed up to prix st georges level after winning the five-year-old Bundeschampionat. His sire Akzent II is the damsire of the great De Niro. Alabaster produced 32 state premium mares, 60 elite auction candidates and 12 approved sons, including Isabell Werth's Apache and Hayley Beresford's Jaybee Alabaster. Third sire Rubinstein was a grand prix competitor himself and is the sire of countless successful horses including Rafurstinels, Relevant, Ravell, and Ratino H; in total more than 35 grand prix horses and more than 100 licensed stallions. Other stallions from this mareline include Zaigon (by Zack), Fürstbischof (by Fürst Romancier), Didi Van De Helle (by Diarado) and Cappucino van Berkenbroeck (by Contender), who is jumping at 1.40m level internationally.
Progeny - Franziskus has 12 licensed sons from his first three crops; an enviable record for any stallion. Among them is Formel Eins, a Westphalian premium stallion. His foals are modern, uphill types with good temperaments, and his son Fehrbellin was crowned the German Champion Foal in 2012.
The jury apparently "had goosebumps" at the Bundeschampionat final appearance of Vitalos. Comments on the trot were that it was "...even and swinging through the body from the first step" for a 10! In the jump, "enormously uphill, with great shoulder action" again for a 10! In the walk a 9.0!
The contact is so precise, "you just can't better than this in a four-year-old horse", said his rider, also gaining a 10 for rideability! And the "typical, masculine physique" completes the overall picture very well – 9.0! With a total of 9.6, Vitalos won gold under his instructor Leonie Richter in the classification of four-year-old stallions, as before at the Hanover Championships in Verden. He completed his HLP in Denmark as the winner of his age group, where he also received the dream grade 10.
Sire - Vitalis was colt winner in the Netherlands in 2007, reserve winner of the NRW licensing in 2009, HLP dressage index winner in 2010, placed at the Dressage Horse World Championships and in the Pavo Cup final in 2012, champion in the USA in 2013 and qualified again for the Dressage Horse World Championships with a record number of points and in 2014 at the age of seven immediately victorious in the international Small Tour. Back in Germany in 2016, Vitalis won the Burg-Pokal final in Frankfurt and the Stallion of the Year competition at Inter I level at the World Cup in Ermelo/NED. Soon 70 of his sons were licensed. The first offspring are successful in Grand Prix dressage, such as the Louisdor Prize final runner-up Valencia AS and the Aachen winner and Otto Lörke Prize winner Valesco/both under Fabienne Müller-Lütkemeier, the Compiègne winner Vamos Amigos/Cathrine Dufour/DEN and the German U25 champion Vinay NRW/Ellen Richter.
Damline - The damsire, De Niro, himself already successful in the Grand Prix class at the age of eight and winner of the Hamburg Dressage Derby under riding master Dolf-Dietram Keller, led the WBFSH ranking of the best dressage sires worldwide for six years in a row. No championship where his descendants, including Desperados FRH/Kristina Bröring-Sprehe, Dablino/Anabel Balkenhol, D'Agostino FRH/Fabienne Müller-Lütkemeier, Delgado/Beatriz Ferrer-Salat/ESP, Voice/Edward Gal/NED and Deep Impact/Severo Jurado Lopez/ESP, Darco of De Niro ZS CH/Charlotte Lenherr/SUI, did not fight for medals.
More than 250 S-horses registered in Germany alone collected over 3.2 million euros in prize money for their father. With more than 100 licensed sons, the Hanoverian stallion of the year 2008 had a lasting influence on breeding.
Third father is Wanderbursch II and fourth father Askan.
From the third mother Antje also the mare Waleska (v. Wolkentanz I), she brought the licensed stallion Destination MS (v. Destano).
Hanoverian tribe of the Aina, including the stallions Allegro (v. Augustinus xx) or Fabriano (v. Wendulan).
National Champion and Hanoverian Champion
For Romance is the epitome of a modern sire, and is from a very successful dam line that has had great success. Blessed with three excellent gaits, his canter and trot can only be described with superlatives and his character is also noteworthy. He stood out brilliantly in the strong lot of stallions at the 2011 Oldenburg Verband licensing and the enthusiastic spectators in Vechta gave him standing ovations.
Performance - Having been pronounced Champion Stallion of his licensing in 2011, For Romance did not disappoint during his 30-day test in Schlieckau, passing with super scores. He received a 9.25 for his trot and rideability, a 9.0 for his canter and an 8.88 for character. He won his first advanced level dressage classes as a seven-year-old and competed in the final of the Nuerberger Burg Pokal. In 2012, For Romance's full sister Fasine took the Oldenburg Champion Mare title - a brother and sister winning both these titles is a feat that is so far unique in the history of the Oldenburg Verband.
Sire - Fürst Romancier took fourth place at the World Championships for young dressage horses as well as at the National Championships, and received the Hauptprämie award from the Oldenburg Verband for the best first crop of foals. He is by the influential Fürst Heinrich, sire of double World Young Horse Champion Woodlander Farouche, out of a mare by Romancier, who competed to Inter I himself and is from the mare line of Ahlerich.
Damline - The damsire, Sir Donnerhall I, gained trademark status early on in his career. He was State Champion, the record-breaking winner of his stallion performance test, Vice World Champion of young dressage horses and Bundeschampion as well as the Hauptprämie winner. More than 50 of his sons have been licensed. In 2010, three of his progeny took Vice Bundeschampion titles in Warendorf; Silbermond - the NRW Champion Stallion, Appassionata, and the licensed Snap Shot. He has also sired numerous top auction horses.
For Romance's dam Gesina is in a league of her own. In addition to For Romance I and his full sister Fasine, she has also produced their full brother, premium stallion For Romance II, another premium stallion, Feinrich (by Fürst Heinrich), and the British national novice champion Best Of All (by Bordeaux). Few mares are so successful and For Romance represents one of the most proven families in modern sport horse breeding.
Progeny - More than ten of his sons from his first two years have been licensed; among them the second-reserve champion Federico Fellini, the premium stallions For Final, For Dance, Fortunatus, For Faible and Fine Romance, and the stallion performance test winner and Vice-State Champion Fidelio Royal. Among his premium mares are the Belgian Champion Mare Frey de Mars, and the Oldenburg brilliant ring mare Marutela. Florentina has achieved the top price of €200,000 at the Westphalian Riding Horse-Auction. In 2016 one of his colts’ placed sixth at the German Foal Championships. Funkenmarie won the Lodbergen Championship and was expensively auctioned off in Borculo/NED. Rosenstolz was the top-price foal at the foal auction in Münster-Handorf. In the UK, his son Force Majeure SFS was a BEF elite foal who was the reserve champion of the 2016 series.
He was the clear champion at the Oldenburger main licensing 2018 in Vechta, with his unique presence and characteristics. All three gaits promise the highest quality with great rhythm, energy and dynamic impulsion in trot and constant uphill tendency in canter. First ridden tests have shown that this is an exceptional horse in the making.
Sire - Grand Galaxy Win was the first stallion in Denmark by Apache, who had six sons selected for the 2015 KWPN licensing in Holland. Grand Galaxy Win was the champion of the Danish licensing in 2014, and in 2016 he finished 7th in the final of the five-year-old World Breeding Championships at Ermelo under Olympic rider Severo Jurado Lopez on a score of 84.6. Apache impressed greatly in his first season at international grand prix under the Netherlands' Emmelie Scholtens, never scoring below 71%. After their first international at big tour, they were immediately cited as contenders for the Dutch Rio Olympic team, narrowly missing out on a place.
Damline - Chatel’s Schurana received a silver medal for her test and took part, for Denmark, in the World Championships for Young Horses in 2007 in Verden. She then started her breeding career. The dam sire, Don Schufro, was Danish champion in Grand Prix and team bronze winner at the 2008 Olympics in Hong Kong under Andreas Helgstrand and also sired many successful offspring. For several years he had a leading position of the WBFSH ranking list of breeding sires. Further out in the pedigree you find Ravage Quintus, the famous Trakehner stallion Donauwind and the well-known Swedish stallion, Herzog, who sired Marzog that was successful under Anne Grethe Thörnblad.