Imported German Trakehner
Registered with the German Trakehner Verband, ATA, CTHS and American Warmblood Society
Passported
Mare
Born May 22, 2001
Dark bay
16.1 hh
Owner: Black Lightning Horses Inc., ON
Rendezvous was born in Germany and is registered under the name of Ravenna with the German Trakehner Verband. As a three year old she was imported to Canada as a broodmare and had two foals. She is also registered with the ATA, Canadian Trakehner Society and the American Warmbloods where she got preferred status.
In 2008 this lovely dak bay mare was bought by Lightning Horses Inc. as Dressage prospect and backed shortly after. She is since April 2008 in professional training with owner Petra Buttner and doing extremely well under saddle.
Rendezvous is a very sweet horse who wants an owner that she can trust. She would get easily upset with rough or unfair handling since she is very willing to please and always tries hard to give her best.
A flowing and expressive trot
Under saddle Rendezvous is a very sensitive mount that reacts to the lightest aids. She goes remarkably steady and with an even rhthym, perfect head carriage and exhibits three extravagant gaits. Her ease of movements makes her brilliance for the dressage ring obvious. Elasticity and suppleness are only two of her phenomenal gifts. A 10+ walk, trot and canter makes it easy for her to shine at home or in the show ring. Her walk is very long strided and she is tracking over almost a foot.
In 2009 Rendezvous won Training Level classes at all the major National shows in Ontario, Quebec and Michigan. Her very first show at Halton Place in th espring of 2009 saw her twice in first place and twice in second earning her the Championship title for the lower levels.Scores of 70% and higher are the norm for her and especially her walk and the stretch trot circle always contribute greatly to her exceptional scores. In Blainville she was awarded with the Reserve Championship with only three qualifying results. The judges' comments read "Lovely! Everything you want in a Training Level horse!", "Very correct test."(Judith Pineault), "Elegant horse! Working nice towards the objective of this level!" (Doreen Horsey), "Forward test and steady!", "Correct and balanced test." (Joanne White).
Rendezvous in 2010
Huge thrust from behind in the canter
This year the stunning mare is ready to show Second Level. She displays a perfect bend throughout lateral movements like shoulder-in, travers, renvers and half-pass. Rein back, turn-on-the-haunches, counter canter, extensions in trot and canter are part of her daily training. Her transitions walk-canter-walk are smooth and without resistance. Rendezvous stays quiet and focused at shows, is not spooky and also hacks alone or in a group.
Rendezvous has a splendid and sparkling career in the Dressage ring ahead of her with a sensitive rider with light and independant hands and a quiet seat. She is so attentative to the rider's aids that you just sit there and THINK - and she will do it. She is not a run-of-the-mill Warmblood that tolerates heavy hands and kicking and bouncing in the saddle so she is not suitable for a beginner even though she is very easy to ride. With a correct rider she is in a class of her own and shines through her limitless abilities and talent.
Only recently we discovered The mare's aptitude for jumping when we started free jumping her to broaden her horizon. She turned out to be a fearless jumper with a good scope that will improve even more with more experience.
Under saddle she jumps joyfully stadium and cross-country fences and loves to exercise on the track. She is a bold and very careful jumper and has not refused anything put in front of her. The second time jumping her under saddle Rendezvous went up and down banks, jumped a ditch and was comfortable with obstacles up to 2'8". She does not have a lot of experience yet but she has proven that she is extremely willing, brave and 100% honest. Her stamina and the long strided, forward canter will be a huge asset for the cross-country phase. Since she very much enjoys jumping we will continue her training over fences and in the cross-country and she will be ready to show eventing in the fall of 2010.
Please note that the jumping video was taken the second time jumping under saddle ever!!
Jumping for the second time in her life ...
.. and enjoying it!
Upper scale Dressage horse with magnificent movements
Bold and honest eventing prospect
Superior talent and striking expression
SIRE:
Elite stallion BENZ by Rockefeller out of Premium Mare Blinklight is an accomplished FEI dressage horse shown up to Prix St. George and Intermediare I. He is also an elite stallion based on his own performance record and the quality of his offspring, with the approved sons Emerson and Minetti. Benz’ offspring compete very successfully in advanced competition in dressage and also driving in Europe and North America.
Benz was the first approved son of his sire. At his inspection he impressed with “a good frame and nice neck line; very good type with a great neck, shoulder and back; a correct fundament with well formed hooves; ground covering movements in all three gaits.” Right from the beginning Benz was a delight under saddle and in the breeding shed.
He was the winner of the rideability index at the 100 day test in Adelheitsdorf with a score of 9.0, winning this portion of the test with 145.08 points, and finished a very respectable fourth out of 72 stallions. He earned 9’s in rideability and for his walk and 8’s for the rest of the scores. In 1992 and 1993 Benz qualified for the German Bundeschampionat (Championships of Young horses) and made it both times into the final ring placing in seventh place as 5-year-old and just missing a ribbon as 6-year-old. He then moved on to become successful in the Dressage ring.
Benz was also very popular as a sire from the very beginning, standing at the famous Hörem stud of Katrin and Hubertus Poll as a next door neighbour to his famous sire Rockefeller.
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, one of the very best mare lines of East Prussia. The chestnut mare Blitzrot was on of the few Trakehners that survived the journey to West Germany through harsh winter conditions during WWII.
Benz in the extension... and in the piaffe
SIRE'S SIRE:
Benz’ sire ROCKEFELLER by Consul out of Rauhe was a German Elite stallion and one of the best sporthorse producers in the Warmblood breed. At his stallion inspection Rockefeller convinced through his size, calibre and big frame paired with relaxed and swinging movements with lots of thrust and became Reserve Champion. In 1987 he finished his 100 day test in Adelheidsdorf as fourth out of 45 stallions and received performance class I. One year later Rockefeller competed at the prestigious German Championships of Young Horses and won the Reserve Championship. Because of his popularity he then stood at stud until the age of 10 years when he was sold and brought back into the Dressage show ring. Two years later he celebrated victory after victory in advanced classes up to Grand Prix.
He had beside Benz five other approved sons in Germany, all of them leaving quite the mark on the breed. One of his sons, 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. Chardonnay was another offspring and became not only a successful FEI dressage stallion but earned in 1997 the title of Germany's most successful 7 year old dressage horse of all breeds at Advanced level. Rockefeller was named elite stallion in 1996 due to his own performance in the Dressage sport and the many winnings of his offspring.
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. During his life that ended in 2001 he sired 84 registered brood mares, 6 approved sons and more than 150 performance horses with total competition earnings of approximately a quarter of a million dollars.
SIRE'S DAM:
The most recognised daughter out of the bloodline of Blitzrot was Pr.M. BLINKLICHT II. As a daughter of the Anglo-Arab Burnus and grand daughter of the Thoroughbred Pindar xx she was of noble type and combined very well the positive traits of the TB and Arab with the solidity of her Warmblood ancestors. She impressed with her exceptional movements and outstanding rideability. The mare was first highly successful in Young Horse classes winning every class she was started in, before she became a broodmare. She had 12 foals which were highly successful in Dressage, Show jumping and eventing, attesting to the dam’s fabulous versatility. Her daughters produced several approved stallions, Premium mares, State Premium Mares and many show horses competing at advanced levels in all 3 disciplines. Elite mare Blinklicht II is the foundation mare for the stallions EH Buddenbrock, Blitz & Donner, Bellheim, Baluster, and Belzasar. Blinklicht's sire EH Burnus became famous for his success as eventer, a talent he passed on to his son Habicht, grand son Sixtus and grand grand son Windfall.
SIRE'S GRANDPARENTS:
Rockefeller's sire EH CONSUL was also 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).
Rockefeller’s dam Rauhe goes back to the famous performance sire DONAUWIND, who has some of the most valuable blood in the Trakehner breed through the renowned stallion line founder, Pregel.
The comments from the German Trakehner Stallion Book attest of Donauwind's “very high quality, with very good breed and stallion type; good, proudly carried neck, clean overall impression; very well-balanced and harmonious in all parts of his body; quite strong and correct in his foundation; good mover. One of the best progenitors of the post-war time; equally good in producing broodmares and stallions. His get have pleasant dispositions and are easy to ride.” Donauwind stood in both West Germany and Denmark prior to being exported to Canada and the U.S. He sired 19 approved sons and more than 100 approved daughters. He was well known for producing first class, multi-talented riding horses who are very rideable and trainable. He is the sire of a large number of sport horses, among which are the stallions, Matador, Incitatus, Lucado, Mark and AmateurI. Donauwind's most famous offspring is the legendary jumper stallion Abdullah, who won World Championships as well as Olympic Gold and Silver medals. Donauwind also sired the stallion Fabian- a Grand Prix dressage horse and European Dressage champion 1980, ridden by Dr. Reiner Klimke. Donauwind with his characteristics features, is one of the most influential hereditary transmitters of riding horses in modern Warmblood breeding.
Rockefeller
Donauwind
DAM:
Rendezvous' dam Raissa is by Mahagoni out of the Thoroughbred mare Rabella xx, a daughter of Waidmannsheil xx. Waidmannsheil is a well known Thoroughbred sire, who was also approved for the Hanoverian Verband in Germany and is found in the pedigrees of many competition horses, most of them excelling in Dressage and Show jumping.
DAM'S SIRE:
MAHAGONI was one of the top sport horse producers in the world and dominated the German Warmblood breeding for many years. He was winner of his stallion performance test. Besides producing outstanding stallions like Enrico Caruso, Heinrich der Löwe, Klabautermann, Klavigo, Kostolany and Trocadero he gave the world many highly successful performance horses that excelled in Dressage, jumping and eventing. He is ranked highly on the German Equestrian Federation’s breeding values list and ranked sixth in the world for producing Grand Prix dressage horses.
On the dam's side Mahagoni goes back to FLANEUR and his sire Maharadscha, two Trakehner stallions that also left a huge influence in the modern breeding of sporthorses worldwide. Flaneur was Reserve Champion of the 1967 Körung at Neumünster, and was approved with the comments: "Exemplary model with much significance in the whole appearance. Typey head; good neck; well-positioned, broad, and well-muscled shoulder; good and uniformily conditioned body. Strong and correct in the foundation with good, straight movement. The stallion has proven himself to be a predictable, above-average sire." Performance tested at Westercelle 1968, Flaneur was highly scored and described as follows: "Quiet, very balanced temperament, playful but good in character. Constitution tight and firm. Good rideability, balanced, uncomplicated and comfortable to ride. Better than average jumping ability; good overall performance ability; good ground-covering walk, swinging and correct trot, well-balanced loose canter. A stallion with many possibilities." His sireline (Maharadscha by Famulus) is based on the Arab Fetysz. Maybe this is what makes him so special. His impact on the Trakehner breed is great, having sired 15 graded stallions in Germany (the most important generally considered to be Arogno) and 106 Stud Book daughters, including the States Premium Mare Maharani II (dam of Elite Stallion Mackensen and full brothers Mahagoni and Marlon) and Elite Mares Kanconette and Karawane II. His descendents are sought after for competition, and his son Troubadour was Christine Stückelberger's reserve mount for the Seoul Olympics. Flaneur died in 1988. Maharadscha’s dam Marke is also very influential as foundation mare of her own damline that produced sires such as Mahagoni, Matador (Top 30 FEI Dressage sire Hohenstein’s grandsire) or Mackensen.
