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Today is Murrieta,
California - September 4, 2003 Maik & Joachim will be back in California in about two weeks, delivering more jumping horses. ``Redhawk`` looks as though he'd started his winter coat already. Maik says that it gets cold starting this time of the year in Germany. That's why he comes to California so many times every year. Here's another photo of our newest colt.
Murrieta,
California - September 2, 2003
First, "Dewey Beach" was the top filly in the dressage category at the Verband Elite Foal Championships in Rheinböllen! Her final score was 8.93 (out of 10). The jury of judges (Peter Linn, Thomas Casper, and third judge) really liked "Dewey Beach" -- a lot ! She's by Y2000 Vice World Champion "D'Olympic" out of "Wanja" ("Wolkenstein II" x "Rubinstein"). I took lots of photos that day ... we were fortunate that Beate (Katharina's Godmother) braided & groomed while Joachim (PhD in Heidelberg) & his sister, Kerstin (DVM, PhD), handled our mare and foal throughout the afternoon. They're truly incredible friends. After the Foal Championships, we did spend two quiet days at a hotel on the Mosel River . . . just vegging and walking around town. It's the heart of the German wine region ... we had a chance to try lots of super German wines (which are remarkably unlike California wines). . Then we traveled down to the Black Forest .... That's where our itinerary changed. Joachim and Kerstin Gläser drove down from Obermoschel to take us to Gestüt Schlossaecker where German Federal Champion, "French Kiss," stands. He's an incredible stallion and we've already bred him to our Trakehner mare, "LaRochelle," who resides on the Gläser farm. While visiting "French Kiss," Katrin Burger and the Gläser's told us we really needed to "experience" the Baden Württemberg Elite Foal Show the next day. Well, we could relate to that ... "Dewey Beach" had completed the Rheinböllen foal show just a few days earlier. It turns out that this Baden Württemberg foal show in Riedlinger was actually a Thursday afternoon foal auction located way, way out in the remote hinterlands of Southern Germany. In general, the foals at Riedlinger were absolutely incredible. We purchased three super foals ! We'll bring two fillies ( ``Davignon`` x ``Lanciano`` and ``Sir Oldenberg`` x ``Rubinstein I``) home with ``Dewey Beach`` around Thanksgiving, while leaving our auction colt (``Deniro`` x ``Lanthano`` x ``Tin Rocco`` x ``Furioso II``) in Germany. We didn't get back Obermoschel until 1:30AM on Friday morning. Oh well, not much R&R that night. Friday, we vegged. Saturday we caught a Bullet Train from Frankfurt to Hamburg. Vicki and Maik picked us up at the train station, we checked into Schwerin's Niederländischerhof on Karl-Marx Strasse by 4PM. On Sunday, we drove to Maik's 220 acre farm. Vicki presented their 11 week old foal (who was champion of his ``keuring`` and qualified for the All-Germany foal championship). This colt is incredibly well bred (``Rosario`` x ``Sandro Hit``) and he can really move ! Maik and I shook hands, before celebrating the sale with a champagne toast. We'll leave him (``Redhawk``) on Maik's farm along with our Riedlinger colt (``Diego Garcia``) until they are three. More news later. r/bob ``Dewey
Beach`` and Bob ``Dewey
Beach`` St.Pr.A.
``Wanja`` und ``Dewey Beach`` ``Dewey
Beach`` St.Pr.A.
``Wanja`` und ``Dewey Beach`` Kerstin
Gläser, DVM, Ph.D., ``Dewey Beach`` Joachim Gläser, Ph.D. Digressing
at Rheinböllen Fohlenchampionat Joachim
Gläser, Ph.D. ``Redhawk``
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