{"id":12752,"date":"2022-02-08T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T22:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=12752"},"modified":"2024-04-14T20:45:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T10:45:14","slug":"furstenball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2022\/02\/furstenball\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00fcrstenball"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2006 1.67 cm Black<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breeder: Georg Sieverding<\/strong><\/p>\n

The black stallion was number one on the 2022 Hanoverian topliste for type, and he is one of the most influential dressage stallions in the world right now…<\/p>\n

In his annual review of breeding values in\u00a0The Hanoverian\u00a0<\/em>(1\/2016) Ludwig Christmann hailed the new number one on both the FN and Hanoverian breeding values, F\u00fcrstenball:<\/p>\n

“The first foals of the\u00a0dressage Bundeschampion from 2011 were born\u00a0in 2010. His very high dressage breed value of 175\u00a0is already very well secured by a certainty of 95\u00a0percent. This means that a large amount of information\u00a0from his offspring is already available.\u00a0Eighty-nine daughters have already been performance-tested including 54 in Hannover.\u00a0Ten sons completed the 30-day test and six a performance\u00a0test including top stallions like Farrell (Breeding Farm Blue Hors), Finest from the Breeding\u00a0Farm W.M. and the Bundeschampion and Hanoverian\u00a0champion of riding horses from 2015,\u00a0F\u00fcrsten-Look. By the end of 2014, this stallion had\u00a0completed an outstanding 30-day test in\u00a0Schlieckau with dressage-related scores between\u00a09 and 10. His success as the outstanding Bundeschampion\u00a0is not recorded in the breed value estimation,since riding horse classes do not count\u00a0while a victory in a dressage horse class at the A level\u00a0does. 132 descendants already competed in\u00a0elementary classes, which include dressage horse\u00a0classes up to the L-level. 106 returned home withat least one ribbon \u2013 that already is well-secured\u00a0data! We now have to wait, if the F\u00fcrstenball descendants\u00a0will fulfill the expectations at the upper\u00a0level of dressage. His heredity of type is also outstanding.\u00a0He heads on the list of the current producers\u00a0in the Hanoverian Yearbook Stallions in the breed value for type with a value of 171.”<\/p>\n

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F\u00fcrst Heinrich and Holga Finken – world champions<\/em><\/p>\n

F\u00fcrstenball is by F\u00fcrst Heinrich (Florestan \/ Donnerhall) who won a world young dressage horse title before his untimely death, and out of Maradonna (Donnerhall \/ Classiker), one of the stars of the exceptional broodmare band of Oldenburg breeder, Georg Sieverding.<\/p>\n

Mr Sieverding is as close as you are going to get to a traditional breeder today, but he is certainly not living in the past, he is breeding cutting-edge modern horses, though you might not get that as your first impression, since his farm and barn look right out of the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

But when they open the stable doors, out comes one after another the most beautiful mares you have ever seen in your life. You know immediately that the man who put this collection together is a thinker and a horseman with a wonderful eye\u2026 and it is no surprise to learn from him that his mentor was the great Georg Vorwerk.<\/p>\n

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That’s Mr Sieverding on the right – and the gorgeous filly by F\u00fcrstenball
\nout of a Dormello mare\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cGeorg Vorwerk was my friend, we traveled a lot together. I spoke with many breeders, but Georg Vorwerk was my main advisor \u2013 what was important for him was to see a foal at the age of three days, three weeks, three months. For Georg Vorwerk the correctness of the gaits and the bones was very important. You must have a sound horse with a very good temperament and character. The hind leg was always very important, the engine has to be correct.\u201d<\/p>\n

One great mare line at Mr Sieverding\u2019s farm is the chestnut line, which descends from a Selle Fran\u00e7ais mare, Mexicane by Mexico (the full brother to Furioso II). Mexicane was purchased by Mr Sieverding in France while he was traveling with Georg Vorwerk. Mexicane was bred to the Thoroughbred, Shikampur, and the daughter, Mon Amour, to Weltmeister, an influential Hanoverian stallion (sire of Robert Dover’s Grand Prix dressage representative, Walzertakt and Gerd Wiltfang’s showjumper, Warum 10. Weltmeister’s sire, Wedekind was the best son of the famous Ferdinand)<\/em> to produce Maureen, who was then bred to the Holstein stallion, Classiker, a son of Calypso II to produce Marella\u2026<\/p>\n

Marella bred to Donnerhall produced Maradita who is the dam of Sieger Hit (by Sandro Hit) and who \u2013 ridden by Andreas Helgstrand \u2013 won the 5 and 6 year old stallion championship at the 2011 Danish licensing.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Maradonna<\/em><\/p>\n

Maradita\u2019s full-sister, Maradonna, is the dam of F\u00fcrstenball.<\/p>\n

F\u00fcrstenball is a perfect example of line breeding to Donnerhall, since the great stallion appears as both a stallion sire and a mare sire on his pedigree. See the fascinating article – Line breeding a crucial tool for the breeder.<\/a><\/p>\n

After being sold for a record price of \u20ac110,000 as an auction foal, F\u00fcrstenball was the Champion Stallion at his licensing in 2008.<\/p>\n

He then went on to win his stallion performance test with a dressage index of 154.98 points (9.0 or higher for a total of 16 times and a 10.0 for rideability).<\/p>\n

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He won the five-year-old dressage championship at the Bundeschampionate of 2011 when he received a top score of 9.5 for trot and overall impression, 10 for walk, and 9s for canter and submissiveness for a total score of 9.4.<\/p>\n

In 2013 he won his first advanced (S) level classes and Prix St Georges tests, and during the Oldenburg stallion parade was crowned VTV Dressage Stallion of the Year. He may have competed in national small tour classes but there is no record of him on the FEI data base which records official Prix St Georges, and above, tests.<\/p>\n

F\u00fcrstenball has already produced, from his first crop, the Champion Stallion Follow Me who sold for 400,000 Euros at the Oldenburg Stallion Days 2012 in Vechta.<\/p>\n

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Blue Hors Farrell<\/em><\/p>\n

In Verden in 2013, F\u00fcrstenball presented four approved stallions, including the top selling Farrell (\u20ac 460,000, Blue Hors Stud \/ DK) and the premium winner Finest. Twenty seven sons have been licensed so far.<\/p>\n

In the 2022 Hanoverian Book, F\u00fcrstenball has a dressage value of 141 which puts him equal first (with Benicio and Don Frederic) on the Hanoverian topliste, and a jumping value of 89. His trot is scored at 132, canter, 126, walk, 144 and rideability, 149. He scores 165 for \u00a0type, and is the highest ranked horse on the topliste.<\/p>\n

He is credited with 909 competitors who have earned \u20ac378,213. He has 80 progeny at S level including nine at three star level.<\/p>\n

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F\u00fcrstenball frozen semen is available from International Horse Breeders<\/a><\/em><\/h1>\n

F\u00fcrstenball was represented at the Tokyo Olympic Games by Heiline’s Danciera, ridden for Denmark by Carina Cassoe Kruth – scoring 76.876 in the Grand Prix to qualify for the Freestyle.<\/p>\n

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Heiline’s Danciera<\/em><\/p>\n

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Starring at the the first World Cup of the 2022 season in Aarhus with Carina Cass\u00f8e Kruuth\u00a0\u00a9FEI\/Kim C Lundin<\/em><\/p>\n

On the 2022 German FN double breeding values, F\u00fcrstenball has a young horse value of 155, and a highest achieved value of 147.<\/h1>\n

F\u00fcrstenball Gallery – Full pedigree follows:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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F\u00fcrstenball – number one for type, number one for dressage on the new Hanoverian breeding values – meet the master breeder who made the stylish black stallion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,110],"tags":[875,1246,85],"class_list":["post-12752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-great-stallions","tag-furstenball","tag-great-stallions","tag-warmblood-breeding"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12752"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67827,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12752\/revisions\/67827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}