Sonnenberg Farm I News 2009

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NEWS 2009
2009 Year End Results:

Dolce S- Champion USDF DSHB All-Breeds - KWPN, Yearling Colts with a median score of 78%. Dolce S was also ranked 4th in the nation for USDF DSHB Horse of the Year Yearling Colts.

Dimora S- Champion USDF DSHB All-Breeds - KWPN, Yearling Fillies with a median score of 78%. Dimora S was also ranked 3rd in the nation for USDF DSHB Horse of the Year Yearling FIllies.

Dolce S (Quaterback x Idocus)

Dimora S (Sir Donnerhall x Ferro)

Zen Rosa S, elite - had an incredible 2009. She ended up USDF All-Breeds Champion KWPN 4-5 year old mares material and USDF All-Breeds Reserve Champion KWPN mature mares. In addition, Zen Rosa was the 2009 Champion of the 5 year old DG Bar Cup at the Pacific Northwest Keuring held at Donida Farm and was North American Reserve Champion of the year for all five year olds that competed through out the NA in the DG Bar Cup Dressage Competition.

Zen Rosa, shown here, is in foal to Ampere (Rousseau x Flemmingh) for a 2010 foal.

Zen Rosa, elite (Farrington x Jazz)


June, 2009 - Everdance S is born. Our provisional keur mare, Raindancer S, (Zeoliet x Oldenburg) had an incredibly elegant and refined filly by Johnson (Jazz x Flemmingh). Even at 5 days old this filly shows off her exceptional movement. (pictured right) She is a full sibling to last year's colt Downtown S that was awarded 1st premium and was Dressage Foal Champion at his 2008 KWPN keuring.	Everdance S (Johnson x Zeoliet)


June, 2009 - Many people have asked what are our breeding plans are for this year. So we thought we'd let you know who we'll be breeding to whom. First, we will be breeding the wonderful Raindancer, prov. keur, to the approved GOV stallion, For Compliment (Fidermark x Compliment x Larome). Although this stallion is not known as well in Dutch circles, this is a dynamic young German stallion with a super pedigree and unbelievable movement and suppleness.

Next, we will be breeding our elite mare, Zen Rosa keur, elite to Ampere (Rousseau x Flemmingh x Amor). It’s a perfect cross on paper – Rousseau/Flemmingh to Farrington/Jazz and Ampere was the 2008 KWPN stallion show champion

Finally, we will be leasing one of our favorite mares, Tamora keur, (Ferro x Notaris x Leurphelin) from Lana Sneddon, who is the dam of our filly Dimora by Sir Donnerhall (Sandro Hit x Donnerhall), and breeding her to Vivaldi, (Krack C x Jazz x Ulft).

We are hopeful to have three positive pregnancies soon and we will update you with the news.

May, 2009 - Zen Rosa elite, Dolce and Dimora all went to the Ft. Vancouver USDF DSHB in hand and Materiale show. Dimora won the yearling fillies class with score of over 78%. Dolce' won the yearling colts class with a score of over 77%, then Dolce' was Reserve Colt Champion as a yearling.. very tough to do. Finally, Zen Rosa scored almost 79% in the Mares class and was the Mare Champion of the show! Later, Zen Rosa and Dan competed in the 4 & 5 year old Materiale class and scored 79.7% the highest Materiale score.

May, 2009 – Adagio S just returned from his first show and showed in a qualifier of the USEF FEI Four Year old test. Ridden by Brooke, Adagio was absolutely super and we couldn’t have expected more of him. This was his first show and only the second time he’s ever been off the farm. Adagio scored over 76% and was the highest scoring four year old at the show. Adagio will be offered for sale to the right home – please see sales page. He is a very special horse.

April, 2009 – Sonnenberg acquires a super keur, sport mare, Melanda keur, sport (Houston x Purioso x Makelaar). Melanda will be Gina’s riding horse for the next few years prior to breeding her. She is a powerful mare, with strong gaits and is trained through fourth level. (Pictures forthcoming)

March, 2009- Just returned from the KWPN-NA Annual Meeting in Del Mar, CA and it was probably one of the best annual meetings the KWPN-NA has ever had. We spent a day and a half with Cor Loeffen, a KWPN judge, former KWPN stallion committee member and trainer of Olympic horses, and he carefully taught us linear scoring of both dressage and jumping horses. Using that information, we judged many horses for ourselves and then discussed with them with Cor and the KWPN-NA Jury. It was a fantastic "live" learning experience. Later, Cor gave a clinic with young horses in both jumping and dressage and went through the riding and training preparation for the development of young horses for competition. It was clear to all of us why Cor has had such a successful career with sporthorses.

Steffen Peters then rode a super young stallion by Rhodium and discussed what he looks for in young dressage prospects. Steffen said he looks for three things: "Suppleness, suppleness and suppleness." He said this with a smile, but truly was serious in that is the most important quality to a horse. As he rode the young stallion, he offered training tips and advice in working with young horses. The highlight with Steffen was when he rode Ravel, his 2008 Olympic Horse and World Cup qualifier. Steffen went through his warm-up with Ravel and then, rode him to his new World Cup freestyle. We were the first people to see the new freestyle prior to the World Cup the following month. It was fantastic!

Finally, the meeting was ended by an exciting awards ceremony and silent auction. Congratulations to the Breeder of the Year, Dr. Deborah Harrison, the Member of the Year, Janko van de Lageweg and the Horse of the Year, Hickstead. During the ceremony, our mare Zen Rosa keur, elite, (Farrington x Jazz x Purioso) received a beautiful trophy and check for winning Reserve North American Champion for the four year old DG Bar Cup. We are very proud of her.

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