Münster: Riding horses, riding ponies, youngsters and broodmares were up for sale at this year's first auction of the Westphalian Studbook. The daughter of Secret Unforgettable Feeling was the top-priced horse with a hammer price of 66,500 euros. The most expensive show jumper at the auction was Ezra vd Haterbeek Z, who cost 37,000 euros. The best-paid youngster with a hammer price of 29,000 euro was a son of Lord Europe.
The Westphalian auction year opened this Sunday afternoon. A diverse lot of riding horses, riding ponies, youngsters and broodmares in foal was up for sale.
A total of 26 dressage-orientated auction candidates were on offer. From recently started young horses to highly placed competition horses, everyone could find a suitable partner here. The 19 dressage horses sold for an average of 26.197 euros. The most popular offer of the day was the Secret/Swarowski daughter Unforgettable Feeling (breeder and exhibitor: Gerhard Beeken, Bösel). The strong-moving black mare can already boast numerous placings in dressage tests up to medium level. She will remain in Germany for further training at the top price of 66,500 Euros. Head number 4 Roberta Hill also cracked the 60,000 euro mark. Breeder and exhibitor Frederik Vekens had paired his home-bred stallion Robert Downey junior to the Inter I successful performance mare Dana by Dancing Dynamite. Roberta Hill's granddam is none other than the Rubinstein daughter Romanze, who is the dam of Olympic silver medallist Damon Hill NRW. The talented mare moved to good hands in Switzerland for the hammer price of 62,000 euros. The lot of dressage horses was completed by two broodmares in foal to Fürst Samarant and Qaside. Both found new owners at this auction.
The jumping specialists had the chance to secure a talented young horse eleven times that afternoon. At an average price 19.639 Euro 9 jumping horses changed hands. Head number 41 Ezra vd Haterbeek Z. The daughter of Excalibur De La Tour Vidal/Canturo (breeder: Stal Haterbeek BVBA, Belgium, exhibitor: AB/S&I BV Belgium) is a half-sister to two successful CSI show jumpers. She herself can also boast competition successes in Belgium. At the hammer price of 37,000 euros, the grey mare will continue her competition career in Switzerland.
A total of eleven unridden youngsters were included in this Westphalian auction lot. Among the youngsters with an emphasis on dressage, a son of Lord Europe/Hofrat with the head number 32 advanced to the top price. The beautiful black stallion (breeder: Gestüt Schultenhof, Norden-Norddeich; exhibitor: Sportpferde Beckmann GmbH & Co, Wettringen), who comes from the dam line of the top-priced foals at the 2022 and 2023 Westphalian OnLive Foal Auctions, was worth 29,000 euros to his new owners from Germany in the end.
With this winter auction, the Westfälisches Pferdestammbuch generated a total turnover of 814,500 euros. Of the 39 auction candidates sold, 21 will be based outside Germany in the future. The 28 riding horses sold were worth an average of 24,089 euros to customers, while the nine youngsters sold for an average of 13,917 euros.
