Current
riding horses
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Dayman
Westphalian, *2012
bay gelding
Breeder: Hermann Gerland, Taufkirchen
Owner: Lian-United GmbH
Achievements
2025
1. pl. Grand Prix Freestyle in Mannheim
1. pl. Grand Prix Freestyle in Herning/DEN
2. pl. Grand Prix in Herning/DEN
3. pl. Grand Prix in München
2024
1. pl. Grand Prix Special in Donaueschingen
1. pl. Grand Prix Freestyle in Samorin/SVK
1. pl Grand Prix Freestyle in Mannheim
1. pl. Grand Prix Special in Lier/BEL
2. pl. Grand Prix Special in Wiesbaden
2. pl. Grand Prix in Mannheim
2. pl. Grand Prix in Lier/BEL
8. pl. Grand Prix Freestyle in Lyon/FRA (Weltcup)
2023
1. pl. Grand Prix Special in Salzburg/AUT
1. pl. Grand Prix in Salzburg/AUT
1. pl. Grand Prix Special in Neu-Anspach
1. pl. Grand Prix in Neu-Anspach
2. pl. Grand Prix Special in Achleiten
3. pl. Grand Prix in Stuttgart
3. pl. Grand Prix in Achleiten
Impressive and a real four-legged power bank, this is Dayman! We are still getting to know each other, but the feeling on him is simply super.
Dayman has a lot of talent for piaffe and passage and together we are getting better and better at playing off his many strengths with the necessary suppleness in the arena.
It may sound easy when you take over older horses with an advanced level of training. But here, too, you first have to feel out your partner and analyse exactly how you can come together - and what homework you have to do and, above all, how. But that's what makes the training so exciting.
I contested my first season together with Dayman in 2023 - and since then I've had some great Grand Prix series wins. Before that, he had already achieved victories and placings in the Grand Prix quadrangular with Sascha Schulz. He was brought into the sport by Jürgen Höfler, who rode Dayman to victory in the 2019 St. Georges in Rastede, but only showed him very little at shows overall.
Dayman, who is affectionately known as "Duck" in our stable, is bred in an interesting way, as his Hanoverian mare line of Galita has produced successful dressage as well as show jumping and eventing horses.
Dayman's dam, Favea, produced other dressage horses and is herself a half-sister to Daiquiri VS (by Desperados), who is licensed and successful in dressage up to medium (M**) level. Out of her half-sister Pia Zadora (by Pluspunkt) come the internationally successful show jumpers For You (by Forrester), Copido (by Co-Polit) and Chapoclap (by Contendro I).
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
First Romance
Württemberger, * 2010
Bay gelding
Breeder: Carolin Weber, Pfinztal-Berghausen
Owner: BG Gabriele Kippert and Eva-Maria Mann
"A dream horse, a world horse," enthused Christoph Hess in his commentary on our 2018 victory in the Nuremberg Burg Cup Final in Frankfurt. And I have to agree with him, because "Roman" is unbelievably talented for our sport - and has already proven this great with his victories in youngster Grand Prix competitions and third place in the Louisdor Prize Final of Kronberg.
Our journey together started in 2015 with victories up to internationally announced elementary (L) level dressage tests for young horses and the qualification for the Federal Championship. In 2016 we continued our series in the medium (M) level class, qualified again for Warendorf and recommended ourselves for the World Breeding Championships for Young Dressage Horses. First Romance was seriously injured during a jump from the paddock and had to take a one and a half year break.
Only at the beginning of the 2018 season did he return - and that with a victory in his first advanced (S) level dressage and the Burg-Pokal qualification in Mannheim. We went on to the Schindlhof in Fritzens/AUT, where we won the international Small Tour. At the CHIO Aachen we were also in front at the St. Georges and at the Blue Hors Stud in Randbøl/DEN we won with more than 75 percent. The crowning end of the year was the victory in the final of the Nürnberger Burg Pokal in Frankfurt!
In the meantime, "Roman" has been victorious several times at the Grand Prix level. In 2022 he won in Wiesbaden, at the Schindlhof and in Münster. We started the year 2023 with two second places in the Grand Prix and in the Grand Prix Freestyle (the second international freestyle ever) in Fontainebleau/FRA - with 82.250 percent!
Karlijn V.
KWPN, *2015
Bay, mare
Breeder: J.W.M. Verkuylen
Owner: BG Gabriele Kippert u. Eva-Maria Mann
In 2022, she made the leap into the advanced class. In the 2023 season, she collected six advanced (S) level victories under Hannah - five of them in a row, some with scores of more than 73 percent.
Karlijn V. also played a significant role in Hannah being awarded her Golden Riding Badge - which made me very proud. Hannah rides the horses so correctly and works them so conscientiously that I can really build on her work. This is also the case with Karlijn V., who is already showing promising approaches to the movements required in the Grand Prix class.
Achievements
2025
1. pl. Short-Grand Prix in Darmstadt-Kranichstein (Derby-Stars of tomorrow)
2. pl. Inter II in Rüsselsheim
2. pl. Inter A in Zeutern
3. pl. Short-Grand Prix in München (Derby-Stars of tomorrow)
3. pl. Inter II in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
2024
1. pl. St. Georges in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
2 x 1. pl. Dressage Kl. S* in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
2. pl. Inter I in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
3. pl. St. Georges Special in Darmstadt-Kranichstein
Oldenburg, *2016
Brown, stallion
Breeder: Kristine Munch Nielsen
Owner: Maik Kanitzky
Maxi Kraft's
Barcelo OLD
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He is only eight years old, but with his victory at the Bundeschampionat and his brilliant entry into the advanced level, he is already a real celebrity: we are talking about Maxi Kraft's Barcelo. And even though his name prefix refers to the crane company of his owner Maik Kanitzky (incidentally the breeder of the famous stallion full brothers Sir Donnerhall I and II), it also fits Barcelo quite well, because he is a proverbial Maxi talent. Horses with such potential are rare and I am very happy about this young star.
Tessa Frank rode Maxi Kraft's Barcelo to fourth place at the 2021 Bundeschampionat for five-year-old dressage horses and to gold in the six-year-old class the following year. Afterwards, the licensed Bon Coeur son switched to me and immediately won gold at his advanced (S) level debut in Rüsselsheim with over 76 percent. He also won the next two advanced (S) level dressage classes - with a score of almost 78 percent. And at the Burg-Pokal-Quali in Darmstadt he took an excellent fourth place. In the meantime, he has won several times in the big arena.
A look at the pedigree of Maxi Kraft's Barcelo is also worthwhile, as he is half-brother to three stallions who are also licensed: the Grand Prix successful Atterupgaards Botticelli (by Benetton Dream)/Charlotte Jorst/DEN, the premium stallion Atterupgaards Seebach (by Sandro Hit) and Fassbinder (by Fürst Heinrich).
Achievements
2024
1. pl. Final Nuremberg Burg Cup in Frankfurt
1. pl. Intermediaire I in Kronberg
1. pl. Prix St. Georges in Kronberg
1. pl. St. Georg Special in München (qualifier Nuremberg Burg Cup)
1. pl. St. Georg Special in München
2. pl. St. Georg Special in Aachen
1. pl. St. Georg Special* in Zeutern
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S* in Zeutern
2. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S* in Darmstadt
3. pl. St. Georg Special* in Münster
2023
4. pl. St. Georg Special* in Darmstadt
9. pl. St. Georg Special* in Darmstadt
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S* in Görlitz
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S* in Görlitz
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S* in Rüsselsheim
2022
Bundeschampion of the six year old dressage horses (Tessa Frank)
Rosé
Achievements
2025
4. pl. Final qualification Nuremberg Burg Cup in Mannheim
1. pl. Prel. qualification Nuremberg Burg Cup in Mannheim
1. pl. St. Georg Special - Finale Junge Pferde-Tour in Zeutern
2. pl. Dressage Kl. S* in Zeutern
1. pl. Dressage Kl. S* in Walldorf
Oldenburg, *2017
black, mare
Breeder: SCEA Domaine Fontaine L'Abbé
Owner: Maik Kanitzky
This incredibly talented and very easy-going Rosé, who hasn't been with me for very long but has already enjoyed great success in the Small Tour, is called Rose de Fontaine, which is her breeding name. She comes from the first foal crop of the premium stallion, stallion market price record holder, dressage world champion, three-time Danish champion, and Grand Prix winner Revolution. On her dam's side, she goes back to the famous Dutch Nomana line and is thus closely related to the epoch-making sire Vivaldi.
Rosé was discovered by her owner Maik Kanitzky at the Oldenburg Elite Auction in Vechta. Under Nicole Beinlich, she went on to achieve a string of successes in riding and dressage competitions up to class M and took part in the German National Championships.
Vainqueur
Vainqueur
Hanoverian, *2013
chestnut stallion
Breeder: Marten Hillmann
Owner: BG Kippert u. Mann
Achievements
2025
1. pl. Grand Prix Special in Görlitz
1. pl. Grand Prix in Görlitz
2024
7. pl. Grand Prix Spécial in München
8. pl. Grand Prix in München
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S*** in Aachen
2. pl. Short Grand Prix in Zeutern
1. pl. Short Grand Prix in Zeutern
1. pl. Grand Prix in Zweibrücken
4. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S**** in Münster
2023
4. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S*** Grand Prix in Ising
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S*** - Intermediaire II in Guxhagen
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S*** in Liederbach
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl.S*** - Intermediaire II in Kronberg
2. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S*** in Munich
1. pl. Dressurprüfung Kl. S*** - Intermediaire II in
Munich
2020
2. pl. St. Georg Special* in Balve
3. pl. St. Georg Special* in Balve
1. pl. St. Georg Special* in Elmlohe
2. pl. St. Georg Special at Hof Bettenrode
1. pl. St. Georg Special* at Hof Bettenrode
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This stallion keeps what his name promises: loosely translated, Vainqueur means "the winner". He brings a whole bundle of good qualities for our sport: just from his presence, his charm, his melting and of course his chocolate chestnut colour ... and of course his movement dynamics and his readiness to collect ....
At the moment we are still fine-tuning him, because Vainqeuer has not been under my saddle for very long. Hubertus Schmidt trained him and placed with him in the final of the Nürnberger Burg-Pokal when Vainqueur was only seven years old. After Hubertus' departure from the sport, the four-legged talent switched to me and in our first season we immediately won the Inter II in Munich with 73.579 percent and came second in the Grand Prix of the Louisdor Prize Qualifier. The result of our Inter II victory in Kronberg was over 74 percent. This was followed by victories in Zweibrücken, Zeutern and Aachen in 2024 - it can go on like this!
The licensed stallion Vainqueur, whose first offspring are off to a very promising start in sport, is a son of Vivaldi mated to the secured Hanoverian line of Sommerzeit. His dam Raissa also produced the Inter II horse Don Primo (by Dimaggio) and the two other dressage horses Shaolin MH (by Sezuan) and Bonito (by Belissimo M). With Rubioso N, World Champion and Lugano I, interesting performance guarantors follow in the maternal line.