Freudentänzer
Born 1984 1.72 cm

Freudentänzer passed his stallion performance test in 1987, and went on after a brief period as a breeding stallion, to compete at Grand Prix level, under the guidance of Nicole Uphoff. He was a spectacular mover but always a horse with a difficult temperament and his success was very much a tribute to Nicole’s skills.
His sire, Frühlingstraum II won the Westfalien stallion licensing in 1970 and produced many highly sought after mares during his lengthy career at Wadesloh. His most famous performer was the 1982 World Champion showjumper, Fire II ridden by Norbert Koof. Frülingstraum is by the great Westfalien stallion, Frühling.
Freudentänzer’s dam is by Sioux who stood at the Varl stallion station and again, was highly regarded as a brood mare sire. Romulus I, the sire of Romadour I and II appears in the third line of this pedigree - although there is some doubt as to whether Romadour II is in fact by Rolulus.
Freudentänzer passed his stallion performance test in Münster-Handorf in 1987, and thereafter established himself as a top class dressage performer. As a sire he produced three approved sons, including Freudentraum who was awarded a 1b premium at the 1992 approval and who is a popular sire in southern Germany. He has produced almost 100 competition horses but the most spectacularly successful is his only international Grand Prix performer, Farbenfroh who was part of the German Gold medal team at Sydney in 2000, and World Champion in Jerez in 2002 with Nadine Capellmann.