The Hanoverian breeding goes all back to our foundation broodmare SPS Firnbrot by DLG champion Firnis. Lines go on with SPS Abeduta by Almjäger then SPS Anweisung who was foaled back in 1932. SPS Anweisung is a stem-foundation mare who's family has produced 24 approved stallions (as of 2006) including a stallion performance test champion over the past decades.
This lineage can be tracked down the thoroughbred sire The Colonel who was foaled in 1863. Heinrich achieved Firnbrot when she was a raising 16 year old and had been barren for 4 seasons in a row. The mare had done hard work in harness for several years and her previous owner had given up on her.
Magically - to be credited to either plain good luck or change of water - Firnbrot conceived and produced another row of healthy foals before she was humanely euthanized at the age of 24 due to an exceeding hoof tumor. Heinrich decided to breed his substantial and somewhat out of fashion yet great moving and conformationally correct mare to Perser xx, a full brother to the wider known Pik As xx. He kept the resulting foal Piroschka a 1a rated tall mare of great athletism, will to perform and firy temperament. From Piroschka we kept several daughters for our breeding programme including Gadina aka Gazelle by Gardeulan II who sadly deceased in 2007, Ayoscha aka Aline by Archipel, and Hannelore by Hohenstein all of which have scored at least one 1a award at mare shows and are performance tested.
While Grace by Gotenkönig never achieved a 1a score at show she has produced a successful FEI-level competitor who achieved his first Inter I success at the tender age of 7 already and most recently was the hightest scoring Baden-Würtemberg participant at this years junior and young rider German championships at Steinfeld with his owner Hannah Dopf.
