They did it again! Excalibur MT (bred by my mother) and his rider, Charlotte Dobretsberger/AUT, took second place in the CIC*** of Cameri/ITA. The couple ended second in dressage, fourth in the cross country and 13th in show jumping, resulting in a total score of 49.80.

The third colt we presented has also been admitted to a licensing. Our bay Westphalian by Ehrenpreis-Donnerhall-Aarking xx received his ticket for the 21st NRW licensing which will be held in Münster-Handorf/GER on Novenber 21st to 23rd.

A Balou du Rouet colt and a Quaterback colt that we bought as foals have already been admitted to the Oldenburg licensings in Vechta. 
By the way, a colt from the first crop of our Fackeltanz bred by Jürgen Fetzer, Zimmern/GER and exhibited by René Tebbel/GER will also be in Vechta.

Our Quaterback-Stedinger colt presented at the pre-selection for the Oldenburg licensing was admitted. This bay bred by Dr. Hans-Hermann Lagershausen, Berne/GER, now has a ticket for the main Oldenburg licensing that will take place in November this year. 

Just a few days before, our Balou du Rouet colt had been admitted to the OS licensing. 

At the stallion pre-sellection for the Springpferdezuchtverband Oldenburg-International, abbreviated OS, in Vechta, our Balou du Rouet-Quidam's Rubin son was admitted to the licensing. Even as a foal, this striking chestnus bred by Birgit Ebken/GER made a lot of waves by winning the 2009 German Foal Championships in Lienen  (see photograph).

Karlchen, the pet name given to Excalibur MT by his rider, Charlotte Dobretsberger, will be honored the middle of November at the Vienna City Convention Hall for his achievements in eventing. This eleven year old gelding by Ex Libris-Rubinstein bred by my mother won the Austrian Championships this year with his young Austrian rider as well as gold at the EC for amateur event riders in Aston-le-Walls and bronze at the Austrian State Championships in Vienna Neustadt.

The reactions to the new free-style with Augustin OLD that we presented for the first time in public at the Austrian State Championships were all positive. The music, choreography, degree of difficulty were all appropriate and in harmony. I have to admit that it took a pretty long time - and a lot of discussion - to develop it. But the effort was obviously worthwhile - and that makes me very happy.  The success of the free-style, which we will still fine tune a bit, is also certainly the result of the great job Michael Erdmann did with the music arrangement.