Warkant

Born 1983, 169 cm

The Celle state stud stallion Warkant by World Cup/Grande was the Hanoverian Stallion of the Year for 2002.
Warkant was born in 1983 on Helga Axhausen’s farm in Schiffdorf near Cuxhaven where his movement was exceptional right from the start. At the age of four days he was noticed by the State Stud Manager and scheduled to join the stallion prospects at the Celle raising farm at Hunnesrück.

He spent his youth on the stallion rearing station Hunnesrück where he stood out as the exceptional stallion of the group. According to Gerd-D Gauger in his tribute to Warkant in The Hannoverian, "When the shipper from Hunnesrück arrived at the farm of Axhausen, Warkant just hopped on the trailer. His well-balanced, bright termperament is not only a characteristic which remained all through his career as a breeding stallion, but also a characteristic which he passed on to all his offspring. He became the unchallenged champion at the licensing of the stallion prospects from Hunnesrück, a stallion with type and nobility, with excellent lines, prominence and a strong foundation (Pix As xx), a somewhat low neck set (Grande) and - of course - movement (Wöhler)."

Because of an injury, he could not participate at the stallion performance test's finals. His final result was projected up to 119,20 points. Warkant was the winner of the licensing of the Hunnesrück stallions.

In 1987, he started his breeding career in Beedenbostel. From 1993 to 1998, Warkant was stationed in Celle before he moved to Grethem in 1999. He was one of the stars of the Celle stallion parades because of his excellent basic gaits and his expressive trot.

Warkant’s offspring caused a sensation on auctions and at tournaments. 37 of his offspring were the best horses of their auctions, 13 of them were sold at top prices of more than 50.000, EUR. Prices went as high as 200.0000,- EUR for Wilberforce by Warkant/Eiger or at the sensational amount of 255.000,- EUR for Wahajama by Warkant/Acapulco. Many of his offspring followed the successful path of auctions, federal championships and tcompetition.In 1991, Wanessa by Warkant/Eiger won the Federal Championships of the German Riding Horse. In 1999, Wahajama followed in the dressage horse category before going on to compete successfullly at Grand Prix with with Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff. Wansuela Suerte by Warkant/Wachmann is another example. She is of the most successful Grand Prix-horses trained by dressage trainer Hubertus Schmidt.

Wansuela Suerte - in the gold medal winning German team at the Aachen WEG

Even though Warkant produced 18 licensed sons (ten in the Hanoverian Stallion Book 1) in his local breeding area, his reputation is as a mare producer, and some exciting stallions are now coming on the scene out of Warkant mares - the most famous of which is Londonderry.

Warkant is the sire of 54 state premium mares. His daughters passed their mare performance tests with excellent results. It ensued that Warkant achieved a breeding evaluation in the 2007 Hanoverian Stallion book of 146 points to finish in 12th on the top 20 list of dressage stallions..

From the FN results it is clear that Warkant is very much a dressage sire. He has a positive dressage score of 130, and a negative jumping score of 65. He had 231 dressage competitors up to the publication of the 2007 Hanoverian Yearbook, with only 55 jumpers. This is further emphasised when we look at the results based on the Hanoverian mare tests, where we see a score of 146 for dressage ability as against 64 for jumping.

In the 2007 Hannoverian Yearbook he is recorded with 536 competitors and winnings of Euro 725,512..Wansuela has won Euro 277,312 while another mare, Wahajama-UNICEF is the winner of 99,584.

A slightly old fashioned type, Warkant needs mares of quality to produce really good foals - but when he does, they are sensational.