Gute Reise

Imported State Premium Mare ISR/Oldenburg also approved for German Trak. Assoc., ATA, American Warmbloods, CTHS Mare Born March 12, 1999 Dark bay with star, sock LF, LH, RH 16.2 hh Breeder: Hubertus Poll, Germany Owner: Black Lightning Horses Inc., ON   Scroll down for pictures and video

History

	Gute Reise aka Lucky was bred in Germany by renowned German breeder Hubertus Poll. She is a registered Trakehner and approved ISR/Oldenburg mare. In 2002 she was approved as broodmare and received State Premium Mare Status in Germany. She also won the Central Mare Inspection in Ganschow. Gute Reise was then imported in foal to Canada and is approved by the CTHS and ATA (#OSB-E-M2102) and also registered and approved for the main stud book of the German Trakehner Verband (registration # 09/01739/99).
	This beautiful mare has three wonderfully floating gaits and a perfect conformation. It is breath taking to see her stunning and suspended trot and the powerful canter coupled with a long strided walk. Both her foals are exceptional horses. Her first foal was sired in Germany by Connery, born in Canada and is showing FEI Young Horse classes. Then she gave birth to a second foal, this time by Val H, a grand son of the Russian stallion Pomeranets. Gute Reise is also going nicely under saddle in Dressage, schooling Second Level movements like shoulder-in and leg yield. Being only since a year in professional training she still requires a sensitive rider but in the right hands she would make an exorbitant Dressage horse.
	The magnificent dark bay mare displays a 10+ form over fences with a perfectly round bascule and fantastic tucked-up legs. With some jumping training she could become a real asset in the hunter ring. The incredible opportunity to own such a first-rate horse is only due to the fact that the owner is forced to downsize dramatically. This a once-in-a-lifetime chance!

 

One of the best broodmares in North America
Imported State Premium mare with phenomenal movements
Winner of German Central Mare Inspection

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Pedigree

 

Polarpunkt	E.H. Arogno	Flaneur	Maharadscha by Famulus
			Flocke IV by Gabriel
		Arcticonius xx	Apollonius xx by Archive xx
			Arctic Girl xx by Hill Gail xx
	Polarreise II	Habicht	Burnus AA by Lapis ox
			Hallo by Goldregen
		Polare	Waldzauber by Kassio
			Polaria by Schoener Abend
Gute Wahl	E.H. Benz	E.H. Rockefeller	E.H. Consul by Swazi
			Rauhe by Donauwind
		Pr. M. Blinklicht	Burnus AA by Lapis ox
			Blitzlicht II by Pindar xx
	Gute Sitte	Tarim	Condus by Ramzes AA
			Themse II by Goldgraf
		Guayana	Mahagoni by Pasteur xx
			Guarneri by Trautman

 

Gute Reise's pedigree lets every knowledgable breeder drool! She carries many of the modern, sought-after bloodlines that make the Trakehner breed as successful as it is. SIRE: Gute Reise's sire POLARPUNKT is a popular stallion in Germany, whose offspring include dressage horses at FEI levels (e.g. the approved Hanoverian stallion Peach Pit). Polarpunkt is out of the stud line of Fetysz ox and the dam family of Polarfahrt. At his performance test 1994 in Warendorf he scored second in the rideability index and eighth in his jumping index to become fifth overall out of 23 stallions with a 9.5 in character! The comments of the inspection team attested him “a very harmonious conformation combined with a striking type. His movements are always rhythmic and ground covering. He carries himself proudly and uphill at all times.” Polarpunkt was then sold to the stud farm Hoerem where he started in Young Horse classes in Dressage and Jumping and was much loved because of his rideability and outstanding character. After a while the stallion became so busy breeding that his sport career was ended in favour of his breeding career. Polarpunkt earned Premium status, sired 77 daughters (4 of them State Premium Mares), 119 sport horses and 9 approved sons. The first foal crop included Premium stallion Opernball who made himself known through his jumping ability (level 7 show jumper) and is approved for several German Warmblood stud books. The second year of Polarpunkt’s breeding career produced the approved sons Carlton who also received Premium status but never stood at stud and Glenn Livit F who was also more inclined to jumping and is very successfully breeding and showing in the United States. Another graded son Ichi Ban shared the same fate of going to the USA and was Reserve stallion at the ATA performance test.  Approved son Showtime was twice Riding Horse Champion and is pursuing a highly successful Dressage career under the saddle of Canadian Olympic rider Leonie Bramall. Capripunkt, full brother Capriccio and Premium stallion Peach Pit also attest to Polarpunkt’s Dressage genes while Premium stallion Checkpoint proves that jumping is a trait of the family as well. In 2002 the stallion Elfengeist was approved, winning the Koerung in Neu-Muenster, becoming third in the performance testing and Champion of the 3-year-old stallions. Polarpunkt’s daughters who received State Premium status are Evita out of Esprit IV by EH Benz, Schone Symphonie, full sister to Dressage sire Showtime and today broodmare in Texas, Levade III out of Legende X by Primo and our Gute Reise who was unbeatable at the Central Mare inspection 2002 in Ganschow. Gute Reise was sold in foal by the stallion Connery to Canada where she had another foal by Pomeranets grand son Val H. Polarpunkt’s full brother Praust who also earned Premium status was sold to the USA as show jumper after his grading.
	Polarpunkt
SIRE’S SIRE If there is a still flourishing sireline in modern sport horse breeding then it is the one founded by Polarpunkt’s sire AROGNO who was born only 30 years ago and is by far the most influential sire in post WW2 times. Arogno, a bay stallion standing at 16.2 hands with a picture perfect conformation and a beautiful face, was a halfbred. His dam Arcticonius was an Irish Thoroughbred inbred to Nearco. She was imported to Germany and entered into the main mare book. Later she received elite status. As a producer she was probably the best Thoroughbred mare ever to be used in a German Warmblood breeding programme. Arcticonius gave birth to three graded stallions, Avignon (sold to the U.S.) and Arogno, both by Flaneur, and Acajou by Flaneur’s son Damaskus. Her daughters Anna Karenina and Arktis also produced graded stallions. Anna Karenina’s Matcho son Amatcho sired Miss Meller TSF one of Germany’s most successful eventers ridden by former double European young riders champion, Michael Jung who in 2005 won the first two trials for the European Championships beating several Olympians. It was not only the excellent conformation and his pretty head that helped Arogno to win the Reserve Champion Stallion at his grading in Neumuenster 1978 and performance champion of his year, known as a "riding horse par excellence". It was his movement and his rideability. As a 3-year-old he was reserve at one of the first Bundeschampionate and finished his stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf as the best stallion of his breed to be examined that year. He was named "Trakehner stallion of the year" in 1996. Arogno has produced many dressage champions and international competitors, his most famous being EH Partout, World Cup winner ridden by Anky Van Grunsven, and "Stallion of the year" for 2003, Schwadroneur. Arogno sired 8 approved sons, and many outstanding daughters, such as the amazing Premium and State Premium mare Isola Irenka. (marks 9,8,8,10,9.) The Arogno line is one of the most popular lines in the modern performance horse breed. Today Arogno would probably belong to the top stallions of which dozens of doses of semen would be collected to be sent out worldwide. In 1979 it was different. Arogno was popular but only among local breeders and it took a while until his breeding career started to become really successful. Arogno often changed his stud. He served at his breeder’s farm and at other traditional stud’s like Webelsgrund and Haemelschenburg. In his later years, Arogno stood at the Amselhof Walle, built by Joachim Kemmer for his daughter Heike, today one of Germany’s Olympic Dressage riders. By far the most successful Arogno offspring was TCN Partout out of Pedola by Donauwind (Abdullah’s sire). Purchased at the 1989 grading by several Dutch Dressage enthusiasts and brought to Anky van Grunsven who took Partout on to an international career. He was Dutch champion in the small tour, two times 2nd in the Dutch Grand Prix championships only beaten by Bonfire, won several Grand Prix specials and claimed the victory at the World Cup qualifier in Amsterdam. He was also named Anky’s reserve horse for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. In breeding he was equally successful: His son Monteverdi was champion stallion at the grading and already has international placings under the Danish rider Fie Skarsoe from Wiesenhof stud in Germany. Another Arogno son, Halbgott, is successful in the U.S. with placings at several shows of the prestigious winter circuit in Florida. It seems the best offspring of Arogno sooner or later left Germany, like Schwadroneur, born in 1983 by Arogno out of Schwalbenburg (another producer of four graded sons) by Ibikus. Schwadroneur was Reserve Champion at the stallion performance test and made his career in Denmark. Ridden by Anne Grethe Törnblad (born Jensen, famous for riding Marzog in the 1980s) Schwadroneur had 36 wins up to Grand Prix Special. In the 1990s Danish dressage breeding had only one name: Schwadroneur. He sired an incredible number of sporthorses, champion mares and graded stallions. German sport statistics list an index of 151 in 2003 – a top score that gives him a place somewhere up there amongst Weltmeyer, Rubinstein and Donnerhall. In 2000 and 2001 he had the top priced mares at the International Stallion Market in Neumuenster, Tamara was sold for 140.000 deutschmarks, Evita for 110.000 deutschmarks. In 2000 he was named Danish stallion of the Year and also Stallion of the Year in Germany. Esprit by Schwadroneur and Nicole Ahlefeld were 10th in the world ranking dressage. It seems that success at Prix St George level is the least thing an Arogno-offspring wins. Many of his graded sons were successful in the small tour, and a lot of them also performed all the Grand Prix movements. Rideability and trainability has become a synonym for Arogno’s offspring. Before focusing on the biggest and most successful branch of Arogno’s line, the one based on Caprimond, just some brief notes on Arogno’s son Ivernel. This leggy chestnut was top priced horse at the auction at the Klosterhof Medingen stud where he later performed a very good stallion performance test and his son Pret à Porter died as a 5-year-old but sired Le Rouge who in 2004 was awarded champion stallion in Neumuenster and was in the finals of the 2005 Bundeschampionate. The crowd went berserk when Lars Gehrmann as breeding director at the 2005 gala show of the International Trakehner Stallion Market named Caprimond “the Pythagoras of today”. To compare a stallion to legendary Pythagoras is like comparing a contemporary scientist to Albert Einstein, a musician to Leonard Bernstein or a composer to Mozart. Pythagoras sired the unbelievable number of 70 graded stallions in only 13 years. And that was between 1932 and 1945. WW II ended Pythagoras life but his name has got a somewhat magic touch ever since then. Gehrmann for sure knew about the meaning of this comparison but he also knew how much Caprimond has improved the Trakehners’ image in all Warmblood breeds in Germany. Up to today his name is to be found in one of the first three generations of 52 graded Warmblood stallions! And in sports he was still going strong. As a 19 year old he was still in the ribbons in Grand Prix shown by his owner Burkhard Wahler’s eldest daughter, 17-year-old Theresa Wahler. Other well known horses carrying Arogno’s blood in their pedigree are Karon, EH Hohenstein, Giorgio Armani, Wakond, Traumdeuter and EH Napoleon Quatre, EH Monteverdi TSF and his son Oliver Twist, many of them competiviely successful at FEI level. In North America Arogno’s bloodlines are represented through ATA’s Avignon II, Arogno’s fullbrother, and NMS Champion Grand Passion (through Oliver Twist). Arogno’s sire FLANEUR was runner up at the grading 1968. His sireline (Maharadscha by Famulus) is based on the Arab Fetysz. Maybe this is what makes him so special. Maharadscha’s dam Marke is also very influential as foundation mare of her own damline that produced sires such as Mahagoni, Matador (Hohenstein’s grandsire) or Mackensen. Arogno
SIRE’S DAM: Polarpunkt inherited a very interesting combination of outstanding type and rideability from his sire Arogno and tough performance from his dam’s side through Habicht. Polarpunkt's dam Polarreise out of the family of Polarfahrt carries one of the important foundation lines: her sire HABICHT by Burnus is probably the breed's most versatile and proven sport horse sire of all times and traces back to the famous Shagya Arabian stallion Lapis, a grey war time hero who helped his officer, Walter Schmidt-Salzmann, to find home from Russia during WWII. BURNUS, like Habicht, was a successful international event horse and accomplished breeding stallion in many Warmblood breeds. Habicht, who also lived at the German Hörstein stud like his famous sons Sixtus and Windfall *Pg*, won the CCI*** Achselschwang under Martin Plewa and was the best German horse at the CCI**** Burghley prior to retiring at stud where he left an amazing amount of high quality brood mares and sons for the breed. He sired 12 approved sons and 133 approved daughters. His offsping earned approx. 200,000 Euro in their show careers. The sire line of Habicht-Burnus AA is very sought-after and Habicht offspring can be found at the highest levels in dressage (granddaughter Renaissance Fleur TSF/M. Theodorescu), eventing (Windfall *Pg*/D. Chiacchia) and show jumping (Livius/A. Kursinski). Habicht died at the proud age of 25 and left especially through his son Sixtus a great impact in the modern sport horse breed. Habicht’s line is equally important as the Arogno and Mahagoni lines and the crosses of these lines are high in demand (e.g. the champion sire Polarpunkt by Arogno-Habicht). DAM: GUTE WAHL by EH Benz out of Gute Sitte is of the dam family of Gundula 509. DAM’S SIRE: Elite stallion BENZ by Rockefeller out of Premium Mare Blinklight is an accomplished FEI dressage horse and elite stallion based on his own performance record and the quality of his offspring, with the approved son Minetti and offspring in advanced competition in dressage and driving in Europe. EH Benz is one of the breed's top movement producers (based on the statistical analysis of inspection scores of his daughters in Germany). He is out of the famous family of Blitzrot. DAM’S SIRE SIRE: Benz’ sire ROCKEFELLER was a German Elite stallion and one of the best sporthorse producers in the Warmblood breed. He had beside Benz three other approved sons in Germany, all of them leaving quite the mark on the breed: Fontainbleau was the champion stallion in Neumünster in 1993 and continued his career at his home stud in Hörem. He became a successful international CCI*** event horse and very sadly died at only 12 years of age. Among his many offspring are the international eventers Kunta Kinte TSF (who also won the prestigious Bundeschampionat), Karama M and El Greco. Fontainbleau sired the approved stallions El Greco and Albarrano (premium). He is the dam sire of the ATA's approved Inamorato. He is also the sire of another one of our sales horses Poster Boy. Chardonnay was a successful FEI dressage stallion and in 1997, Germany's most successful 7 year old dressage horse at Advanced level (all breeds!). He had only very limited chances in the breed, but since 2006, stands back at stud in Germany. Chardonnay sired the successful dressage stallion Alter Fritz, himself sire of the approved Chabrol (UK). Artistic-Rock is yet another FEI dressage stallion, and today stationed in the Netherlands. The very powerful mover had even less chances in the breed, but managed to produce such amazing mares as St.Pr.St. Heavenly (100,000DM auction mare in Neumünster) or St.Pr.St. Hillary (both mares were members of the National Champion mare family - get of mare - at the National Mare Show in Neustadt/Dosse 2004). EH Rockefeller was equally important and successful as the sire of outstanding mares (e.g. National champions Classic-Rock and our Gute Reise) and performance horses that competed at the top levels in all three major disciplines. Among them are the dressage horses like Rocky Balboa, eventers like the CCI*** successful Eos, show jumpers like Flambeau and driving horses like Asterix. When EH Rockefeller died very unexpectedly at age 17 in the same year that his sire EH Consul passed away, the breed had lost two of the best sport horse producers it ever had, and the gap was impossible to fill to this day. EH CONSUL was a major stallion for the breed and deserves the same recognition as Habicht, Donauwind or Mahagoni. His offspring stand for top athleticism, intelligence, high natural rideability and soundness. EH Consul was an important mare sire as well, and left also a huge mark on the Hanoverian breed (e.g. champion stallion Don Frederico, approved premium Don Vino, the Verden top seller Dark Diamond or the Olympic and World Championship Gold medalist Bonaparte all have EH Consul-dams!!). Like other famous stallions of his era, Consul was part Thoroughbred, highlighting the need of constant TB influx into our stud books most dramatically.
Elite stallion Benz		Elite stallion Rockefeller
GUTE REISE herself not only carries the bloodlines of several foundation sires but also combines the blood of three famous dam lines that all go back to the oldest German stud book: Polarfahrt, Blitzrot and Gundula. Gute Reise’s half sister Good Night by Connery out of Gute Wahl by EH Benz won not only the Central Mare Inspection 2005 in Niedersachsen-Hannover, displaying spectacular trot action and earning her State Premium Status but also became Reserve Champion of all Mares in the same year. Her scores at the mare inspection were 8.5 / 7.5 – 7.5 / 7.5 - 9.5 - 9.5 / 8.5. A full sister to Gute Reise, Guersha, bay, also by Polarpunkt, out of Gute Wahl by E.H. Benz, foaled 3/24/98, owner Les Ecuries Bois d'Elan, Melbourne, QC was approved with the marks: 9, 7/6, 7/9/8, 8 = 54, a very remarkable score.