Diva Royal
Hanoverian, * 2002, bay black mare
by Don Frederico - Donnerhall - Consul
Breeder: Heinz Braul, Lehrte
Owner: Katharina Roth, Alsbach-Hähnlein
When Diva Royal came to me in autumn 2009, she had already been successful with the young Tom Berg at the Bundeschampionat for dressage horses and at the Prize of the Best. We grew together in a very short time and came fourth in the Burg Pokal final in Frankfurt. With Stella Charlott Roth, Diva Royal collected further successes up to team gold at the Youth European Championship 2011 as well as fourth and sixth place in the European Championship individual ranking. In 2011, Diva Royal's collection of titles also includes overall victory in the Tesch Inkasso Cup for young Grand Prix horses.
In the summer of 2012, everything happened very quickly. After fourth and fifth place at the German Championships in Balve, we were in the running for Aachen, where I probably put in the freestyle ride of my life. And it got even better: We were allowed to go to London/GBR for the Olympic Games. A dream came true: representing Germany at the Olympic Games ... Diva Royal danced in the Grand Prix and in the Special. And I just enjoyed it. In the freestyle there was a bit of sadness mixed in that, as agreed, our career together would end after this performance. After all, Diva Royal had been made available to me by the Roth family, but was then to go back to chasing ribbons with Stella Charlott Roth. And the pair did so most impressively, winning the Piaff-Förderpreis and the Otto Lörke Prize for the best young Grand Prix horse.
Diva Royal descends from the Donnerhall son Don Frederico, who himself was named Hanoverian Stallion of the Year in 2012. The Celle state stud also sired Isabell Werth's successful horse Don Johnson FRH. The dam Weronika produced other dressage horses from various pairings which, like Diva Royal at the time, were sold at the Verden auction. Weronika is a full sister to St.Pr.St. Wanja, who produced the licensed Robespierre (by Rosentau). The Hanoverian stables of Nandura also produce the licensed stallions Sir Schölling and Call Me Paul as well as the Grand Prix dressage horse Sir Sherlock/Catherine Haddad/USA.
Achievements
2012
2. Pl. Olympische Spiele der Dressur in London/GBR
7. Pl. Olympische Spiele der Dressur in London/GBR
4. Pl. Deutsche Meisterschaft Dressur in Balve-Wocklum
5. Pl. Deutsche Meisterschaft Dressur in Balve-Wocklum
1. Pl. Nationenpreis Dressur in Bad Aachen
4. Pl. Grand Prix in Neumünster
5. Pl. Grand Prix in Dortmund-Westfalenhalle
6. Pl. Grand Prix in München-Riem
6. Pl. Grand Prix in Bad Aachen
8. Pl. Grand Prix in London/GBR
4. Pl. Grand Prix Special in Bad Aachen
6. Pl. Grand Prix Special in London/GBR
7. Pl. Grand Prix Special in Dortmund-Westfalenhalle
4. Pl. Grand Prix Kür –Weltcup in Neumünster
3. Pl. Grand Prix Kür in Bad Aachen
4. Pl. Grand Prix Kür in München-Riem
2011
3. Pl. Grand Prix in Frankfurt
3. Pl. Grand Prix Kür –Weltcup in Frankfurt
1. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S*** in Münster-Schlossplatz
1. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S*** in Münster-Schlossplatz
1. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S*** in Heroldsberg-Nürnberg
1. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S*** in Heroldsberg-Nürnberg
2009
1. Pl. St.Georg Special* in Verden
2. Pl. St.Georg Special* in Neu-Anspach/Wintermühle
1. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S*in Frankfurt
1. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S* in Oldenburg
2. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S* in Verden
4. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S* in Frankfurt
5. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S* in Frankfurt
Élysée GV
Westphalian, *2015
Bay mare
Breeder: Gestüt Vorwerk/Elisabeth Max-Theurer
Owner: Gestüt Vorwerk/Elisabeth Max-Theurer
Élysée GV is a very charming mare who I haven't shown much at shows yet, but who has a lot of potential: The future looks bright.
Élysée GV did not compete in her first tournaments until 2023, immediately converting her first starts in class S into valuable placings. In 2024, she added a series of victories in the Small Tour and also on the international stage. And in 2025, she made a successful debut in the Grand Prix class.
Élysée GV is a daughter of Escolar out of Verb.Pr.St. O La La (by Sandro Hit). Her dam Orchidee is a half-sister to the top stallion and Grand Prix winner Fidertanz (by Fidermark) as well as to San Ravallo (by San Amour I), who is also successful in Grand Prix classes, Berney (by Boston), who placed in Inter II, and Querida Mia FRH (by Quotenkönig), who was a finalist in the Burg Cup.
Élysée GV was born in 2015 at Sissy Max-Theurer's Vorwerk stud farm, hence her suffix GV, and is still owned by the Olympic dressage champion.
Achievements
2025
1. pl. Inter II in Rüsselsheim
3. pl. Inter II in Görlitz
3. pl. Inter II in Ankum
3. pl. Inter II in Pforzheim
2024
1. pl. St. Georges in Samorin/SVK
1. pl. St. Georges in Zeutern
1. pl. Dressage Kl.S* in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
1. pl. Dressage Kl.S* in Görlitz
2. pl. Inter I in Samorin/SVK
2. pl. St. Georges in Görlitz
3. pl. Inter I in Zeutern
2023
4. pl. Dressage Kl.S* in Liederbach
4. pl. Dressage Kl.S* in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
2. pl. Dressage Kl. S* in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
In 2016, when he was eight-years-old, Faustus moved to my stable. At the same time he was bought from the Stud Fohlenhof by his current owner Prof. Dr. med. Bernd Heicke. Dirk Linden had discovered and trained Faustus as a youngster. The two had competed in young horse, St. Georges and in a S9-test before.
Faustus and me, we completed our first show season 2017 more than successfully. So we won the Inter II in Ankum and were afterwards unbeatable in the Inter II and in the short Grand Prix in Zeutern. Together with his considerable height Faustus just owns all the attributes as aura and talent for the grand tour. As annual highlight, we took a great second place in the final of the Louisdor Prize.
Hanoverian, * 2008
Bay gelding
Breeder: Heino Bruns, Gödenstorf
Owner: Gestüt Fohlenhof, Prof. Dr. Bernd Heicke, Hassloch
Faustus
In 2018, he placed second in the Grand Prix and fourth in his first Grand Prix Special in Münster. The first international Special victory was celebrated in Mannheim, followed by further top placings, nationally and internationally.
In 2019 Faustus was called up to the Olympic squad and in 2020 secured his first championship medals by winning DM double bronze in the Special and Freestyle.
In 2021, Faustus was part of the German European Championships gold team in Hagen a.T.W. Previously, he was nominated as my Olympic reserve horse for Tokyo/JPN, after setting a new personal best in the Kronberg sighting freestyle (82.370 percent).
In 2022 came victories and placings in the Grand Prix and World Cup tours in Munich, Donaueschingen, Aarhus/DEN, Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
Faustus can point to very successful relatives. He descends from Falsterbo, who recorded Grand Prix successes with Jonny Hilberath and moved to the USA in 2012.
His dam Flocke also produced the Don Frederico son Del Corazon, who achieved placings up to Inter II with me.
The Thoroughbred dam's sire Forrest xx sired Karen Tebar's championship horse Falada M, among others.
The granddam Wachtel produced the advanced (S) level show jumper Frenchy (by Foxhunter).
The great-granddam Grandessa, herself successful in elementary (L) level show jumping, became dam of the advanced (S) level dressage horse Sultano (by Spitzweg). Her daughter Mien Droom (by Monaco) produced the Celle state stud stallion For Feeling (by For Pleasure).
Fohlenhofs
Rock'n Rose
Hanoverian mare *2004
by Rubin Royal OLD - Feiner Stern
Breeder: Heinrich Lahmeyer, Bassum
Owner: Gestüt Fohlenhof, Inh. Prof. Dr. Bernd Heicke, Haßloch
The beautiful Fohlenhof Rock'n Rose, with her mighty neck rather reminiscent of a stallion than of a mare, was highly sensitive and sometimes even a "hot oven". I had intensively dealt with her psyche and was very happy how much trust "Rosi" had in me later. Although she was sometimes overmotivated and excited, as for example at her Grand Prix freestyle premiere in 2018 in the big riding stadium of Mannheim, but still always on my side.
Subsequently, she achieved valuable victories and placings up to World Cup freestyle.
In 2021, Rosi tragically died as a result of an aortic rupture during the award ceremony at the tournament in Pforzheim.
Forward looking
Westphalian, * 2001, bay mare
by Fidermark - Dinard L - Granat
Breeder: Dr. Jan Heitmann, Sundern
Owner: Gabriele Kippert, Bad Soden
The training of Forward Looking has been in my hands almost from the beginning, and I have grown very fond of her. "Fietje", as we call her, is charming, always positive and very people-oriented, a horse to sit on and ride straight away. In the test she fought along. In the beginning she was a bit nervous, but then she concentrated completely on me. However, she has one weakness: her preference for eating. Her stall was directly opposite my front door and it was part of our fixed rituals that I called her by name and she answered with a growl. After her successful sport career including the appointment to the German squad she is now in breeding.
Salvina
Bavarian, * 2013
Dark bay mare
Breeder: Konrad Klein, Oberscheinfeld
Owner: Gestüt Fohlenhof, Prof. Dr. Bernd Heicke, Hassloch
Salvina could be Sammy's sister: a paint-black, picture-perfect uphill horse. Great trot, very nice side gaits, clearing canter and always with hind leg "motor". She was purchased at auction by the Professor Heicke family as a foal.
She has now been with us since mid-2018 and is the horse of our rider Hannah Milena Rother's heart. Under her, Salvina made her debut victoriously in tests for young dressage horses and also proved her strong nerves during our lesson at EQUITANA 2019 in Essen. The pair placed in the 2019 Bundeschampionat Final for six-year-old dressage horses and achieved their first victories in the advanced class in 2020 - also on the international stage.
In 2021 I took over Salvina from Hannah and immediately placed third with her in the Burg-Pokal Qualifier in Kronberg (71.854 percent). Currently we are successful in the three-star class.
Salvina's sire Genesis is descended from the Trakehner trademark stallion Gribaldi and is trained up to the advanced class.
Salvina's half brother Del Campo (by Dr.Doolittle) was approved for breeding in Southern Germany in 2011.
The dam's sire is the successful Grand Prix stallion and third in the WBFSH ranking of the best dressage sires, Rubin-Royal OLD, who is also the sire of Fohlenhof's Rock'n Rose.
The granddam Sarah produced several medium (M) level dressage horses as well as the successful Royal Diamond son Royal Harry in advanced (S) level dressage.
Rothenburg J, following in third place in the pedigree, was able to assert himself in medium (M) level show jumping competitions as well as in medium (M) level dressage competitions.
Frequently asked questions
Salvina
DSP Sammy Davis Jr.
Bavarian, * 2006, Black gelding
by San Remo - Wenckstern - Lanthan
Breeder: Hans Volkert
Owner: Matthias Herbert
Sammy Davis Jr. has the lightness, elegance and presence of his eponym, the US-American entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. The name fits to this incredibly charming and bright Rappen, who knows how to score in trot, gallop and with his super Piaffe-Passage-Tour.
After our victory in the Louisdor-Prize-Final 2016 in Frankfurt, it went blow by blow. In 2017 we were appointed to the A squad, won freestyle bronze at the German Championships, were part of the winning Nations' Cup team at the CHIO Aachen, won team gold at the European Championships in Gothenburg/SWE and also won the World Cup freestyle in Salzburg/AUT.
"Sammy" continued his picture book career in 2018 with World Cup victories in Neumünster and in the final of Paris/FRA. At the German Championships bronze in the special and silver in the freestyle were added.
With the recent victory in the Aachen Nations' Cup in our pockets, we also belonged to the German gold team at the WEG in Tryon/USA and qualified for the freestyle final of the best 15, which unfortunately had to be cancelled due to weather conditions.
Afterwards, we reached second place in Grand Prix (78.196 percent) and third place in Freestyle (84.725 percent) at the Top 10 Dressage Tournament in Stockholm/SWE with a personal best.
In 2019 we qualified for the World Cup Final in Gothenburg/SWE for the second time, but Sammy could not participate due to a slight infection.
In 2020, further victories and placings in the Grand Prix tours of Achleiten/AUT, Oldenburg, Amsterdam/NED and Hagen were added.
Through his sire San Remo, Sammy Davis jr. is a grandson of Sandro Hit, who is also responsible for the Olympic team gold medalist Showtime.
His dam Wenja also produced the Grand Prix horse Lukas under Franziska Stieglmaier and the advanced dressage horse Lothar (both by Lagiator).
The granddam Legende (by Lanthan) produced Weltvision (by Welt Hit II), who was successful up to Inter I. Sammy Davis jr. was trained and brought into sport by Dr. Cornelia Herbert. Under her saddle, the seven-year-old Bavarian gelding recorded his first successes in advanced dressage in 2013. In 2014, I took over "Sammy's" training. Unfortunately, Dr. Cornelia Herbert passed away a short time later. She always believed in this horse. Therefore, she would have been very happy about the incredible career that Sammy Davis jr. owned by Matthias Herbert has made in the meantime.
Sezuan
Danish Warmblood, * 2009
Black and brown stallion
by Blue Hors Zack - Don Schufro - Lionell
Breeder: Linette Jaeger, Aulum / DEN
Owner: Gestüt Peterhof, Perl-Borg
In 2012, Sezuan completed his stallion performance test in Denmark with an unprecedented record rating: he received the maximum score of 10.0 ten times.
In 2013 he became the Danish Champion Stallion. He was rated 10.0 for walk and canter and 9.5 for trot.
He then secured the title of the best four-year-old dressage horse in Denmark. He received another dream grade of 10.0 for trot, canter and willingness to perform, and 8.9 for walk.
With a total of 9.68, the title could not be taken from him.
From 2014 onwards, Sezuan became world champion three times in a row in the classification of five-, six- and seven-year-old dressage horses - with the dream marks of 9.76, 9.72 and 89.00 percent. The judges always pushed the scale up to 10.0.
Sezuan presented his first foal crop in 2013. In the meantime, the Danish stallion of the year 2020 has over 30 licensed sons, many of them award-winning and even internationally successful sport offspring.
Sezuan is an absolutely exceptional horse with three spectacular basic gaits and enormous rideability. I was correspondingly happy to be able to train him. We became dressage horse world champions three times in a row, something no other stallion has ever achieved. Subsequently, he made his victorious debut under me in the international Small Tour.
His sire Blue Hors Zack combines even through Rousseau-Jazz and Belisar most valuable bloodlines and was winning stallion in the Netherlands as well as in Denmark. Sezuan's dam is the gold medal mare Bøgegårdens Don Romina, who advanced to mare of the year in Denmark.
The dam's sire Blue Hors Don Schufro, a son of Donnerhall, who continues to shape the dressage sport, won team bronze with the Danish team at the Olympic Games in Hong Kong.
Achievements
2017
3. Pl. St. Georg Special in Mannheim - Einlaufprüfung
Qualifikation Nürnberger Burg-Pokal
3. Pl. St. Georg Special in Mannheim - Qualifikation Nürnberger Burg-Pokal
1. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S* für Nachwuchspferde in Überherrn
1. Pl. Prix St. Georges in Münster
2. Pl. Intermediaire I in Münster
1. Pl. Prix St. Georges in Darmstadt
1. Pl. Intermediaire I in Darmstadt
2016
2. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S* in Heroldsberg
1. Pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S* in Überherrn
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung Kl. S international (Weltmeisterschaft) in Ermelo/NED
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung Kl. S international (Weltmeisterschaft) in Ermelo/NED
2015
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung Kl.M in Heroldsberg
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung Kl.M international (Weltmeisterschft) in Verden
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung Kl.M international (Weltmeisterschft) in Verden
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung Kl.M international in Perl-Borg
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung Kl.M international in Perl-Borg
2014
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung Kl.L international in Perl-Borg
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung Kl.L international in Perl-Borg
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung international (Weltmeisterschaft) in Verden
1. Pl. Dressurpferdeprüfung international (Weltmeisterschaft) in Verden
Oldenburger, * 2012
Dark bay mare
Breeder: Silke Pelzer, Schäpe
Owner: Elisabeth Max-Theurer, Achleiten/AUT
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Sisters Act MT OLD
What excites me about Sisters Act is her uniformity: she has three very good basic gaits, is super congenial in character and learns incredibly easily. In addition to her practical canter, her ground covering walk and her energetic trot, she also has a high level of collection. She really has no weakness - except for eating ...
Sisters Act OLD won the 2016 Bundeschampionat for four-year-old riding horses with Anna-Sophie Fiebelkorn in the saddle. Under Lena Waldmann, she also won elementary (L) level tests for young dressage horses at the age of five.
Right at our first appearance together at the 2017 Dressage Horse World Championships Sightings in Warendorf, we were able to recommend ourselves for Ermelo/NED, where we placed a great fourth in the five-year-old final. In 2018 six-year-old Sicters Act won medium (M) level tests for young dressage horses and finished sixth at the World Championships for Young Dressage Horses in Ermelo - behind her pit neighbor, the runner-up Villeneuve, and ahead of seventh-placed Flying Dancer OLD. In 2019, she continued her winning streak in the heavy class: right at the beginning of the season with a double victory in the international tour of Ebreichsdorf/AUT.
In 2020, she won in series in the Small Tour including the qualification for the Nürnberger Burg Pokal with over 77 percent. In the final, which was held in Kronberg due to Corona, she won the entry test and had to settle for second place in the final test, narrowly beaten. In 2021 she debuted victoriously in the Grand Prix class, numerours other successes followed one year later.
In 2023, Sissy performed her first freestyle and immediately secured second place in Mannheim - not far from the 80 percent mark!
Sisters Act descends from the stallion Sandro Hit, a Bundeschampion, dressage horse world champion and sire of over 200 licensed sons. Numerous offspring are internationally successful, including my Olympic partner Showtime FRH.
The dam Prima Nera produced, among other sport horses, the two medium (M) level dressage horses Christie Diamond (by Christ) and Lance (by Laurentio). In second and third generations follow the rideability sires Royal Diamond and Donnerhall. The granddam produced Carpe Diem (by Caprimond/T.), who was successful up to St. Georges.
The dam line also produced the stallions Danzarino OLD (by Diamond Hit), Sashimi (by Sandro Hit), Playboy (by Pik Bubu I), Sir Gregory (by Sir Donnerhall I), Swing King OLD (by. Sandro Hit), Don Romeo (by Don Romantic), San Gregory (by Sandro Hit), Weyrudo (by Weyden), Don Gregory (by Donnerhall), Don Graphit (by Donnerhall) and Aldaro (by Aldato).
Achievements
2023
1. pl. Grand Prix de Dressage in Kronberg
3. pl. Grand Prix Freestyle in Wiesbaden
2. pl. Grand Prix in Wiesbaden
2. pl. Grand Prix Freestyle in Mannheim
2. pl. Grand Prix de Dressage in Mannheim
3. pl. Grand Prix Spécial in Lier/BEL
3. pl. Grand Prix de Dressage in Lier/BEL
2022
1. pl. Grand Prix Spécial in Aarhus/DEN
1. pl. Grand Prix in Neu-Anspach
1. pl. Intermediaire II in Ludwigsburg
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S*** in Ubstadt-Weiher
2021
6. pl. Grand Prix in Kronberg - Final Louisdor-Preis
1. pl. Intermediaire II in Oldenburg
1. pl. Short Grand Prix in Reutlingen
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S*** in Pforzheim
2020
2. pl. St. Georg Special in Kronberg - Final Nürnberger Burg-Pokal
1. pl. St. Georg Special in Kronberg
1. pl. Intermediaire I in Ising
1. pl. St. Georg in Ising
1. pl. St. Georg Special in Darmstadt-Kranichstein - Qualifier Nürnberger Burg-Pokal
1. pl. St. Georg Special in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
1. pl. St. Georg Special in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S* in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
2019
1. pl. int. Dressage (7y.) in Wiesbaden
1. pl. int. Dressage (7y.) in Wiesbaden
1. pl. int. Dresage 7(y.) in Ebreichsdorf/AUT
1. pl. int. Dressage (7y.) in Ebreichsdorf/AUT
2018
6. pl. Final World Championships for Young Dressage Horses (6y.) in Ermelo/NED
2017
4. pl. Final World Championships for Young Dressage Horses (5y.) in Ermelo/NED