Sire Donnerschwee

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D-DAY

At the stallion classification in Neustadt-Dosse, Germany 1996, D-Day was the top dressage stallion. He had as many as five 10's in his protocol! Rideability and cooperative attitude both scored 10.

All the six finalists at the Swedish 1999 "Foal of the Year" were sired by D-Day! Out of his first Swedish 3-year olds 2001, 14 received Dressage Diploma and 3 Showjumping Diploma. 53% received Class I !!!

The D-Day progeny are consistently of outstanding quality with fantastic movements, wonderful temperament and all the expression and presence needed for international competition.

By the way, Eric Lette, the former FEI "Dressage Chief" and presently Swedish national dressage coach now has a wonderful 6-year-old, named B-Day, by D-Day, showing great promise for the future.

D-Day is sired by the Donnerhall son Donnerschwee, in 1992 he was the most expensive ($220,000) horse to be sold at the elite auction in Vechta, Germany.Two full brothers, Deutsche Order and Dr Lobo also sold for record breaking sums.

Donnerschwee is by the outstanding stallion Donnerhall, who combined a sports career at international Grand Prix level with a remarkable breeding performance which is echoed in his breeding index of 160 for dressage, 132 for showjumping and 146 overall. He is the sire of such top class horses as Don Primero, Grading and Federal Champion in Germany and Don Schufro, who achieved an index of 150 for dressage when performance tested and finished as Champion as well as over 60 other graded sons and many top international dressage geldings and mares. Donnerschwee’s dam Weltwunder was National Champion in 1986 at Aix la Chapel. Her sire Freiherr was a true dual-purpose stallion, producing 8 graded stallions including the fabulous Feiner Stern (now in the USA), the international dressage horse Flashdancer and the international showjumpers Flying Scot, BB Freiherr and Fiorucci 006. Her grandsire is the great Furioso II who produced over 200 state premium mares and at least 70 approved stallions worldwide. His full brother is the French stallion Mexico, the sire of the great Le Mexico, who in turn is the paternal grandsire of Ferro.

After scoring 121.66 for rideability in his performance test, he has gone on to achieve great success both in competition, winning Championships at such events at the German Riding Horse Championships at Warendorf, and siring top class sport horses. His total winnings to date are well over £200,000. In 2005 he will be based in the U.S.A to further their breeding programmes.

The Dam, Rudira is by the famous Welt As. He was Premium Stallion of the 1981 Oldenburg licensing, and went on to sire 14 approved sons and over 60 State Premium mares. He was also the sire of expensive auction horses, including Worcester who sold for DM42,000 as a dressage prospect at the 1989 PSI Auction. Welt As has sired both showjumpers and dressage horses with his most famous son being Bonfire, World Cup and Olympic Gold medal Dressage Champion, but another son, Leroy Brown was a Reserve for the 1992 German Olympic showjumping team and went on to compete at the WEG in Den Haag, ridden by Wout-Jan van der Schans. Welt As was also the sire of Christine Stückleberger's international Grand Prix dressage competitor Diamond VIII.

His sire, the Hanoverian stallion, Weltmeister was the sire of 34 Licensed stallion sons, and 56 State Premium mares. He was also the sire of Robert Dover's Grand Prix dressage representative, Walzertakt and Gerd Wiltfang's showjumper, Warum10. The Weltmeister son, Westminster sired Franke Sloothaak's showjumping star, Weihaiwej. Weltmeister's sire, Wedekind was the leading son of the famous Ferdinand.

Weltmeister's dam, Domdoro is by Don Carlos, the sire of 43 State Premium winners and 24 licensed stallions. The Don Carlos son, Dynamo, sired Dollar Girl, Nick Skelton's showjumping sensation. Welt As' dam, Elfene is from the great Oldenburg mare line of Elfenbraut and is regarded as one of the best daughters of Furioso II. Elfene was a DLG mare, as was her dam, the State Premium mare, Elfenbraut IV who eleven times in a row won the title 'best mare' at the Cloppenburg Show in the heart of Oldenburg horse breeding territory.