{"id":42862,"date":"2018-08-17T11:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T01:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=42862"},"modified":"2018-08-17T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T06:40:15","slug":"world-champion-genes-at-the-ps-online-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2018\/08\/world-champion-genes-at-the-ps-online-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"World Champion Genes at the PS-Online Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chic, Charm and World Champion Genes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fifth edition of the PS-Online-Foal Auction is now live &#8211; and it is characterised by world champion genes.<\/p>\n<p>In the Dutch city of Ermelo, the World Champions have just been chosen from the best young dressage horses of the world. At the CHIO in Aachen in July, the world\u2019s best show-jumping horses competed, for perhaps the most coveted victory in a Grand Prix in the world. Exceptional horses with exceptional genes. Genes that also characterise this fifth collection of the PS-Online-Foal Auction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Isabel-Freese-Vitalis-C25A0484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Isabel-Freese-Vitalis-C25A0484.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Isabel-Freese-Vitalis-C25A0484-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Vitalis, a winner himself and sire of winners\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Ermelo, the son of Vitalis, Villeneuve, was very impressive with fantastic paces, expression, elasticity and amazing rideability. Villeneuve was the Vice World Champion of the six-year-olds! In the PS selection, three foals represent the exceptional sire Vitalis, and they all have amazing dressage bloodlines in the maternal lines too.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26794\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/F\u00fcrstenball-2016-TU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/F\u00fcrstenball-2016-TU.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/F\u00fcrstenball-2016-TU-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/F\u00fcrstenball-2016-TU-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>F\u00fcrstenball, modern high quality bloodlines<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Among the seven-year-old World Championship competitors in Ermelo, two of the medal winners on the podium were sired by one of the most popular stallions in the world: F\u00fcrstenball &#8211; modern and high-quality bloodlines. Two colts by F\u00fcrstenball were selected for the PS-Online Auction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BalouDuRouetHERO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BalouDuRouetHERO.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BalouDuRouetHERO-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Balou du Rouet, ranked amongst the Top Ten in the world<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Aachen this July, 40,000 spectators saw five exceptional show-jumping horses fight to take \u00a0victory in the jump-off of the Grand-Prix. Out of the five who were clear in the tough first two rounds, two of them were sired by Balou du Rouet. Balou du Rouet, is permanently ranked amongst the best Top Ten sires of the world, and is &#8211; of course &#8211; represented in the PS Foal Auction collection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BigStarNickSkelton-e1415857470329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Big Star, competitor and sire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The combination of the world-star genes of Big Star and Eldorado v.d. Zeshoek also brings a sparkle to the eyes of show-jumping experts. The filly Big Eldacenta, born in June, combines these genes.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth PS-Online Foal Auction is also all about modern, performance-oriented breeding. The PS-Online Foal Auction, that started out as a pilot project just last year, has successfully established itself in a very short time &#8211; the concept is right and offers a win-win situation for all participants: The breeder, the customers looking for foals and, most importantly, the mares and foals. No travel stress. No rush. A relaxed stage to watch and bid for a selection of amazing foals wherever you are in the world.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the foals now on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps-online.auction\"><u>www.ps-online.auction<\/u><\/a>\u2013 in videos, with photos and descriptions, their pedigrees and veterinary inspection certificates.If you would like to bid, you can register in a few clicks and submit a bid. The bidder will be informed via email or text (optional), when he is the highest bidder and if someone else has submitted a higher bid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Don\u2019t miss it: The online auction ends on 21 August!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihb.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018ihbPsi-logo-no-bleed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018ihbPsi-logo-no-bleed.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018ihbPsi-logo-no-bleed-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Champion Genes at the PS-Online Auction  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":42866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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],"tags":[523],"class_list":["post-42862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-psi"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42862","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42881,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42862\/revisions\/42881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}