Sire Fuerst Heinrich

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FUERST GADOW

The Sire, Furst Heinrich was Champion of his Licensing, and Champion of his 30 Day Stallion Performance Test at Münster- Handorf in 2001. In 2002, he was named Champion of the four year old stallions competing for the Main Premium title at the Oldenburg Stallion Day. Furst Heinrich was awarded Champion 5yo of the 2003 World Young Horse Championships, beating fellow Florestan son, French Kiss, who was awarded 2nd Reserve.

Furst Heinrich sired more than 20 Licensed sons, twelve of them from his first crop of foals, as well as many top priced auction foals. One of his sons was sold at the Verden auction for 160,000 Euros, and was exported to the U.S. Furst Heinrich sired many Licensing Champions and Reserve Champions, as well as Premium Stallions, includingVan The Man, Furst Grandios, First Final, Furst Romadour, etc. He was a rising star in the sport of Dressage, under his rider, the two time European Champion, Kristina Sprehe.

The Damsire, Rubinstein I is a son of the Westphalian Romadour II, son Rosenkavalier, who was a Stallion Performance Test Winner and is considered to be one of the most significant Westphalian sires today. He was reared from the probably most eminent dressage dynasty world-wide. The dam Antime is a full sister of the top international dressage horse Ahlerich 2ridden by Dr. Reiner Klimke and Amon ridden by Annemarie Sanders-Keyzer (NL).

She later produced 2 further stallion sons, Rubinstein II (Sanders-Keyzer stables NL) and Rubinstein III. Her full sister Adone gave birth to the multiple Olympic Champion Rembrandt/Nicole Uphoff as well as the stallions Royal Angelo I and II (Westphalia) respectively.The top dressage horses Ramon / Uta Wusthof and Rosario/Sabine Ruben.The stallions Romancier and Ritterstern (Denmark). Rhythmic Dancer (Austria) as well as Flower King D (NL) and numerous other performance horses also represent this dynasty. He was winner of the Optimum of Conformation Show Horses in Munster in 1990, 1-a Main Premium Winner in Oldenburg.Vice-Champion German dressage horse in Verden in 1992, multiple Oldenburg dressage Champion, series winner of dressage competitions up to advanced level and multiple Intermediaire II and Grand Prix winner. Meanwhile Rubinstein I has won one dressage competition after the other with his rider Nicole Uphoff in the international dressage arena. Rubinstein is known as a great improver for the breed. He consistently passed on his wonderful temperament and movement. The youngstock of Rubinstein are very popular with riders professional and amateur for their willingness to please. From his first crop Rohdiamant presented some Premium foals and the top priced lot of the May Sales in Vechta, RTL was sold for 50,000 DM.

Three exceptional horses that achieved great feats. The special thing about them being that they are all very closely related to Rubinstein. Rubinstein's dam Antine is the full-sister of Amon and Ahlerich as well as the mare Adone, who together with Romadour II gave birth to Rembrandt. What's more, Romadour II is the grandsire of Rubinstein with his gold plated pedigree. And what a pedigree it is! This was exactly what caused Gudula Vorwerk-Happ to take notice. A stallion from this world wide probably unparalleled family, ritzy, black and what's more, cheap. The exceptional sire cost a mere DM 35.000 as a three-year old. Before this he had been rejected for the Westphalian Approvals at an inspection meeting. The officials tersely said that he was "too small, not enough horse, with defects on the hind leg not suitable for Approval". Yet De Baey had faith in the black horse, did not have him castrated and shortly afterwards welcomed Vorwerk-Happ with the Oldenburg Approvals Commission to his studfarm. They in turn were impressed and above all wanted to secure themselves the valuable blood for their breeding region. That confirmed it and Rubinstein went to Oldenburg where the black horse was given every opportunity to prove himself.

The double World Champion and fourfold European Champion was the world's most successful dressage horse for a long time. His full brother Amon also took part in the Olympic Games three times (if one includes Rotterdam in 1980) and was the most successful dressage horse of the Netherlands under Annemarie Sanders-Keyzar, where he was considered to be unbeatable for a long time, gaining the Dutch Championship title seven times. In October of 2000,Amon passed away at the ripe old age of 32 years. Then there is Rembrandt, the elegant dancer, who with Nicole Uphoff glided through the big dressage arenas of the world, enchanting the public with his fantastic agility. He won individual and team gold with his rider twice, making her the youngest Olympic Champion of all times, breaking the sonic barrier of the magic 1500 points delimitation in 1990 and becoming World Champion.