Congratulations go out to Thomas and Yvonne Krautkraemer on the purchase of Laura!

Congratulations go out to Anika and Marco on the purchase of Don't Stop!

Email from Freundschaft's owner Sari in Australia: 'The trimaran that we built for the French (Sodebo & Thomas Coville) just broke the trans Atlantic single handed record by +8hrs.'
HUGE congratulations from here on this crafty piece of work from your boat building company!!!

Congratulations go out to Patrizia and Alexandra on the sale and purchase of

Greendown Valentine

Good luck for the future.

Für Dich and Anika...

...took 1st out of 13 entries in their second outing (material class) scoring 7.92! Way to go, we're super proud of you both and congratulate Chris and Alaska to their first ownership show success in Germany!

Congratulations go out to Ingrid and Tamara on the sale and purchase of Da Vinci!
He has happily arrived at his new home in Austria.

Congratulations go out to Leon Eisele and his parents on the purchase of

Cennen Stormer

Watch out for the two of them in the future. This is a match made in heaven.

Don't Stop is confirmed in foal to Benetton Dream. She has also passed her mare performance test at Ihlienworth scoring 8's on rideability and walk and and a total of 7.5 on gaits and 7.75 on rideability. And all this with just one shoe on.

Mintfield Angelina (Welsh B) is confirmed in foal to Halifax.

The Papa: Halifax multiple sire of jumper superstars

Congratulations Clarissa Dennert and Don Falco on your recent successes at Tasdorf! You rock :)

Congratulations to Lisa and Ely on their first show outing!

Ely wearing his blue ribbon for the highscore

Lisa writes: 'It was a wonderful day both Maureen Ferris (my friend and Trainer) and myself. Well ... we did it! ELY and Stilton WON their show tests yesterday, coming home with BLUE Ribbons!!

This was ELY's FIRST Show and I will tell you he was a Super Star! Both ELY and I could not have done what he did yesterday without Maureen's unyielding patience and focus. YOU ROCK, Maureen!!! ELY got both a score of 60 (in his first test - got a WHITE Ribbon;Fourth Place) and a 68 (BLUE Ribbon; First Palce) in his second test. It turned out that ELY and I WON a HIGH SCORE / Best in Show BLUE Ribbon!! Imagine??!!

I can not begin to tell all of you how proud I am of ELY and Maureen. It was an Awesome feeling to be handed two BLUE Ribbons and a WHITE!!

Kareen, I hope you get this e-mail as I thought that you would be thrilled to see how beautiful a horse (Early Bird ELY) grew up to be. He looks a lot like his Papa, Ex Libres! It seems that he LOVES to show. Perhaps, he loves more all of the lovin' he gets while at the show! Please tell his breeder what a wonderful partner and companion he has become for me. I LOVE him to peices! I think you can see for yourself! I am VERY PROUD of ELY. He is sweet, gentle, patient (for the most part...) and incredibly handsome. I look forward to the many more shows he and I will be in!'

Congratulations go out to Clarissa Dennert and Don Falco for their M-level successes at Redefin
and Wedel!Way to go!

Congratulations go out to Grace in the US on the purchase of Wakaluba and Fly High!

Bonne Chance is confirmed 14 days in foal to Benetton Dream. Congratulations Michelle and Anthony in the US!

Dimata was confirmed 14 days in foal to Dauphin. Congratulations Jane in England!

Dune is 12 days in foal to Florencio.

Wakaluba was released to the pregnant pen showing a good embryonic heartbeat at 25 days. Congratulations to Wakaluba's new owner Grace in NC on her Florencio foal to come in 2009.

Hannelore was released to the pregnant pen in foal to Florencio again for 2009.

Grace is confirmed in foal to For Compliment.

Caribic was moved to the pregnant pen with a good embryonic heartbeat to confirm she is back in foal to For Compliment. Congratulations to Alexandra!

SPA Bonne Chance with her testrider at Elmlohe

Congratulations go out to Michelle on her SPA Bonne Chance mare performance test scoring 7.0/8.0/7.5! Thanks to Katja Berger for thoroughly starting her under saddle and to Stefan Blanken doing a wonderful job taking her through the test.

Congratulations go out to Ellen and Edward Louis on winning the M-level young horse test in Herford-Schwarzenmoor scoring 7.8. First show, first test, first ribbon together :) Well done Ellen and Eddi!

Hooray, all foals are born! Please welcome

Hannelore's Florencio filly

born on April 06!

Update from

Wakaluba's Romanov-filly Rizieres

After almost losing her she is now coming along nicely. Apart from a cosmetic injury and a corneal lesion on her right eye which is healing up nicely we have nothing to complain about!

Welcome Dune's Florencio colt

Fendi

born on April 04! Fendi is for sale but has been reserved by Gudrun Sibbe until April 20. Here he is pictured at the age of 4 days with his dam and our veterinary intern Abhichaya! See more pictures and video on Fendi's website

Congratulations go out to Mr. and Mrs. Mühlhaus from Fairlife-stud on the purchase of Llanarth Bacardi! He will be brought up as a stallion prospect to hopefully maintain a lifetime position on their studfarm. Good luck and please keep in touch!

News from

Whistlejacket, aka Weinrot

:
Dear Kareen,

It seems to me that it's a long time you haven't heard from me and Whistle. So now I can give you some great news. Whistle is working with two riders (a professional and an amateur) since november to help me. Indeed despite of my quite high level (galop 7), I need help to make everything good. Furthermore, I haven't enough time. As you can see on pictures, Whistle has an interessant potentiel. The weather was this day absolutly awfull : rain, wind and cold !! Whistle was very brave and behaved nicely !!! (It was so rainy that her color has changed !!) The goal for this year is to bring Whistle to Fontainebleau in September where all the best young horses all over France come if they are qualified of course.
On sunday, the competition was for every horses (not specificly the youngs one). The high of fences was 1m05 (against 80 cm on friday). Whistle did it quite well. This competition was for her training only.
Whistle continue to dispay her wonderfull work ethic : I'm proud of her.Congratulations for the new born horses in your barn !!!
I hope that all your little family is going well.
Warm regards to you and Frank, and thank you again for my wonderfull horse that I love so much !!!

Marie-France

A warm welcome to

our new arrival: Caribic's Fillyfoal

by For Compliment!Congratulations Alexandra in Langenhagen!

Welcome Abhichaya! Our guest from Bankok is in her second year of vet school and will intern with us until May 29. We're happy to have you here.

News from: Hannah Dopf and Dom Perignon. After being a constant member in the Junior Kader of Baden-Würtemberg they have now been invited into the Young Rider Kader! Well done and way to go Hanna and Peri! The two placed themselves in 3 S-level tests during their first outings end of 2007.
Also Hannah's trainer Pieter van der Raadt had a brilliant season opening with Peri winning an S-level test scoring 68+% in Eppelheim Congratulations!

Mail from Lis and Diaghilev:

Diaghilev and Lis competing

'Dear Kareen!
Just a quick note to hope you, the family and all the horses are well and to say that Diaghilev competed in his first major Affiliated competition last week.
It was the biggest venue either of us has ever been to and despite tractors, marquees, noise, crashes and bangs he rode round like a school master and won both his classes gaining 65% and 67% and qualifying us for the Regional Championships in February.
I was so very very proud of my boy and cannot believe how good he was and just wanted to write to tell you.'

Email from Stacy und Nathan Wolf:
'Hi Kareen,
I wanted to give you and Ganiluna's prior owners an update on Ganiluna. Ganiluna has had a wonderful and very successful show season. She has been Champion or Reserve Champion in the Baby Green Hunters or similar 2'6" over fence hunter divisions at the following A rated shows: Blue Rock, Mt. Nittany Classic, Quentin Fall, and Swan Lake. She is consistently the Under Saddle class winner. Ganiluna has also had a successful Breeding Class career, winning the 3 year old Non-Thoroughbred division of the Pennsylvania Horse Show Association last year and pinning 4th, 3rd, and 3rd in her Mare, Amateur Handler, and Under Saddle classes at the Devon Horse Show this year. We are very proud of her and feel so lucky to have her!
Very truly yours,
WOLF & WOLF'

Jil writes: 'Just wanted to let you know - we just returned from our first show and I am in love! Wally (had to "American-ize" his name) is great!! Corey was 2nd and I was 4th in the Level 3 jumpers (3'6")! Had a great time - he is a sweet boy. Very casual in the schooling area with golf carts, people, tents, everything... very professional in the ring! We are working things out but he is great fun and I am very happy!

Cassini went to the show too! Amanda (Jacquie's daughter) won the Pre-Childrens Jumper Classic!! first time showing in the jumpers! He is very handsome when he is braided and they are very happy also... you should see pics on the website when they get back to town next week...'

Thanks again for all your help on this VERY successful trip!!!

Congratulations to Hannah Dopf and Dom Perignon on winning the final M-level freestyle test at Schutterwald (Baden-Würtemberg dressage championships) scoring between 67.5 and 70.25%. This makes them 3rd in the championship after last year's silver medal. See detailed results.

Congratulations go out to Pieter van der Raadt on winning the M-level test at Heddesheim aboard Dom Perignon!