Vigo d’Arsouilles well and truly fulfilled the predictions that he was the son who would inherit the mantle of his sire, Nabab de Rêve, when he starred at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky...... more

Vivaldi - He's the shooting star of Dressage Stallions, rocketing into the world top ten, and popular in The Netherlands AND Germany...... more

Voltaire was shunned in Germany as a young stallion but went on to be one of the most important of the modern jumping sires in Holland...... more

The Celle state stud stallion Warkant, by World Cup out of a Grande mare, was the Hanoverian Stallion of the Year for 2002.... more

Wellington’s dam, Patty is by the famed Thoroughbred, Lucky Boy – or at least we assume she was...... more

Welt Hit II has been one of the more successful sons of Weltmeyer...... more

Welt Hit I 0 was the first of the famous foals of the Hill Hawk xx mare, Cileste to be discovered by the Kasselmanns...... more

Weltmeyer was a sensation the day he was born, according to his breeder, Hermann Meyer, and he proved Mr Meyer right when he was champion of his licensing in Verden.... more

One of the first of the ‘Dressage’ sires, Wenzel was always a somewhat controversial stallion, and there are those who suggest that he did not throw horses with the most cooperative temperaments...... more

Werther was crowned Hanoverian Stallion of the Year for his exceptional progeny...... more

The first public appearance of the two and a half-year-old Woermann at the Hanoverian licensing in 1973 at Verden signalled a total turnaround in Warmblood breeding...... more

Woermann was a sensation at his licensing, the Hanoverian world had never seen a trot like this before, and he went on to establish one of the most influential of dressage lines, the W line - but then, what happened? ... more

Wolkenstein was one of the very few sons of Weltmeyer to breed horses with a ‘jump’, and all in all, he has probably been the most successful stallion son of Weltmeyer...... more

Wolkentanz is very much a product of the family Lühr who live in Borgholzhausen in Westphalia. Gerd Lühr and his wife, Ursula are devoted to their Hanoverian breeding program...... more

1995 – 2015  Chestnut 169 cm Wolkentanz II stood at the Böckmann Stud from 1998 to 2009. From 2009 to 2015, he stood in Canada. For details on his breeding see the entry for Wolkentanz I. Wolkentanz II was fourth in the 3 year old stallion class at the Bundeschampionate in 1998. He was the reserve […]... more