News:

Our newest mare, Easy Go, has just had a colt by Florencio.  This youngster is named "Floneur".  Check out our photo gallery to see the first pictures of the new colts.

Our St.Pr./Elite mare, Aronja, has just presented us with a handsome colt.  This colt is by Las Vegas is named "Lord Willing".

We have acquired and will soon be importing Tantriste.  She is out of the famed St.Pr./Elite mare, Tantieme.  Her sire is the wonderful young stallion, Samarant.

Elisabeth and Olivier have qualified for the Olympic selection trials.  We will keep you posted about their spectacular progress.

Vermont Warmbloods has purchased a new filly, Tantriste, (barn name is Trixie).  She is the daughter of Samarant (Sandro Hit/Brentano II) out of St.Pr./ Elite mare, Tantieme, (Feiner Stern/Bonjour).  Pictures and more information will follow soon.

Innuendo (Marty) won again at the  2007 Dressage Championships to become the USDF Region 5 First Level Champion and stands 16th in the Horse of the Year standings.  We couldn't be more proud of both Marty and Alysa.

Elisabeth Austin and Olivier continue to dominate the dressage scene with a win in the CDI Grand Prix Freestyle at the Centerline Events CDI-W, held at the HITS-on-the-Hudson show grounds in Saugerties, New York.

Our gelding, Innuendo, continues his dressage career by taking two high score awards and placing either first or second in every recognized show that he has entered in Colorado.

Elisabeth Austin and her stallion Olivier successfully defended her 2006 Brentina Cup win to become the 2007 Brentina Cup Champion.  A hearty congratulations to this outstanding pair. 

Idocus and his rider Courtney King won the Grand Prix Freestyle at the 2007 Festival of Champions.  Idocus is the sire of Olivier and Marty and grandsire of Orion and Ocarina.

Canaan Farm's Donates won Reserve Champion at the 2007 Markel/USEF Young Horse Championships, scoring an impressive 7.90.  Our mare Sazarac is in foal to Donates.

At the 6th Oldenburg Elite Foal Auction (Aug. 24-25, 2007), a Florencio filly, Elfenschau, set the record price for a filly.  Sired by the two time World Champion Florencio, (known for scoring perfect 10's at the Championships) this filly sold for 72,000 euros  Florencio also sired 2 other top selling foals, who sold for 33,000 and 45,000 euros.  Our wonderful mare Easy Go has just had a colt by Florencio and we're very excited about this news.

Elisabeth Austin and Olivier competed to the win at their first Grand Prix competition in the US, at the Wellington Dressage Derby.

Elisabeth Austin and Olivier  completed her training with Klaus Balkenhol in Germany.  They are gaining invaluable experience in preparation for international competition.  They are now continuing their training with Klaus and working, as well, with Tuny Paige in Florida.

Farewell III, sire of our colt, Farenheit, beat the double world champion, Damon Hill, to become the champion 6 year old dressage horse at the 2006 Bundeschampionate in Warrendorf, Germany.   He was scored extremely high for his walk and overall elasticity, which were the two biggest reasons that we chose this stallion as a sire for Farenheit.

At our 2006 Vermont GOV inspection, two colts by Olivier (Owillie) were awarded premiums.

Elisabeth Austin and her stallion, Olivier, won the 2006 annual Brentina Cup at Gladstone.  Congratulations Elisabeth and Olivier.

Marta Kaufmann's Donnerschwee/Grundstein mare, Donegal,  ridden by Jaye Cherry won the CDS Intermediare 1 horse of the year open in California.  In addition, Donegal won Grand Champion mare with the incredible score of 88.6%.  Not only was this a record breaking score, but it is also Donegal's fifth year in a row to win this award.  Our promising young mare, D'Nantes, is also a Donnerschwee/Grundstein daughter. 

At the 2006 elite mare show in Germany two of Holly Simensen's mares not only made premium, but were selected for the Brilliant ring.  This is a great honor for any breeder and is particularly notable as Holly is one of few American breeders to reach that goal.  Let's hear it for American warmblood breeders!  Congratulations Holly!

Eurodressage.com has pointed out that the Hanoverian stallion, Feiner Stern is "the most successful dam sire of the moment".  This stallion is the dam sire of our newest imported mare, Easy Go.

At the 2006 Swedish stallion performance tests, both the first and second placed four year olds are Rubinstein grandsons.  Both horses scored exceptionally high in gaits and rideablity -- a common result of Rubinstein's influence and evidenced in our fine broodmare, Aronja.

The 2005 breeding value indices in dressage are listed and it's interesting to note, though deceased, that Donnerhall is still ranked highly (BV 154, Assurance 99%).  He is the sire of the number one (Don Schufro) and number two (Don Frederico) ranked sires.  Rubinstein, Florestan, and Sandro Hit sons are also all in the top 20 sires (out of 2,738 dressage stallions).

Aug, 2005  Duino, a Donnerschwee son, won the 3 year old stallion riding championship at the 2005 Bundeschampionate in Warendorf, Germany with a total score of  65.5.  His guest riders gave him scores of 10.00 and 9.50!  Outstanding!  Donnerschwee is the sire of our mare, D'Nontes and grandsire of her filly, Donali.

Aug, 2005  A Sir Donnerhall x Florestan filly became the 2005 German Filly Champion at the 2005 German Foal Championships.  Both bloodlines are represented in our foals.

Aug, 2005  All three of our 2005 foals made premium at the first Oldenburg Inspection held in northern Vermont.  The GOV inspectors were Mareile Oellrich-Overesch and Bastian Sharmann.  In addition, Suki Flash’s colt, Savoir Faire, out of Rio’s Girl by Sempatico also made premium.  There were twelve horses inspected at this event.

July, 2005  The Oldenburg Verband has selected numerous young horses with direct connection to our bloodlines including  Fürst Heinrich sons, Donnerschwee sons, a Rubenstein mare, and Sir Donnerhall to represent the Oldenburg breed at the 2005 Bundeschampionate.