July 2008
Five Star's breeder, Axel Windeler, wins the most prestigious breeding award for The Best Hanoverian Mare Family, The Herwart von der Decken Championship Show in Germany, beating all other breeders.
October 2008
Five Star's full brother (2.5 yrs) is selected for The Stallion Licensing at Verden, Germany. He becomes The Reserve Champion Dressage Stallion from over a 100 young stallions. Sold at Auction the following day, gaining the second highest price of the sale, Euros 170,000.00 !
Five Star is the end product of 4 generations of consolidated breeding from his damline, which has produced the Graded stallions Sir Calypso, Lambourgini Diablo (Spr. Kl.S), Lomitas (Spr. KL. S), Schwarzenneger ( Prix St George Dressage), Five Star and Five Star II). The Championship mares, (StPr St Larissa, StPrSt Wisconsin, StPrSt Caprice) as well as the International showjumper El Paso (Markus Beerbaum) The National Showjumping Championship 2006, Germany and The Olympic Games 2008 Silver Medalist, Sunrise (VA) rider Imke Schellekens-Bartel.
Five Star starts his first Stud Season in South Africa. Fee R10,000.
November 2008
Our new youngters from Germany arrive at quarantine in Cape Town,including the full brother of Status Quo (Stedinger-Quando Quando), the Champion of The Oldenburg Stallion Licensing 2006, Germany.
December 2008
Finally, we get to bring 7 of our youngsters to their new home at Compton House Stud in Devon Valley, Stellenbosch. First stables finished, first paddocks fenced!
2009
Our first foals by Five Star have arrived. In October, StPr Wolandia gave us a lovely
black/brown filly. Wolandia did her usual 5 minute foaling, and once again, we hardly
had made the 3 minute walk to her box, her foal was already delivered. This is
Wolandia's 2nd filly for us and we will keep her, as well as Hightime by Hotline, to add
to our group of broodmares. We have named the filly, Fortuna. Wolandia is once again in foal to Five Star
Our next mare, StPr Rudina, produced a bay colt. He is a very correct, elegant foal, with potential
to be a Licensed stallion as well as a dressage horse. Rudina is one of the most exceptional
mares of her year in Germany, which is an important qualification, when thinking about
keeping a youngster as a potential stallion. We have just sold her 2yr old filly, Kariba, by the World Champion
Dressage Stallion, Kaiserkult, to Berghof Stud and a video of her is online (www.berghofhannoveraner.com).
We named our new colt, Five O'Clock as he was foaled on the dot of 5pm. Five O'Clock
is for sale. Rudina is in foal to Five Star again for Oct. 2010.
In December, our 2 new broodmares arrived from Germany. Both arrived well, and came out of Cape
Town Quarantine just before Christmas. Our 5yr old, StPr Helvita, is in foal to the new
young star in Germany, Royal Classic. Our 2nd young mare, Rosenstolz, is rising 4yrs,
and also STATE Premium A, but has had a ridden career, so we will wait to put her in foal with Five Star in 2010.
2010
Our new mare, Helvita, produced a lovely filly in February. A tall elegant bay filly, with beauty
and presence. Her name is Regalia, and we also plan to add her to our growing herd of Hanoverian broodmares.
May is here and the vineyard is quiet, giving us time to do more work on the "horseside"
of things. We love living on a hill, but lack of flat ground, makes it difficult to train,
and next year, start competing the horses. We have taken the decision to build an indoor riding
school, which is now under construction. If the weather is kind to us, it should be finished by August.
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