Sire Biotop

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GOLDSCHMIDT

The best Trakehner bloodlines come together to produce movement, brains, rideability and beauty. This is one way you can describe this stallion.

Goldschmidt has a wonderful temperament and stamps his foals with everything that is good about him.

Goldschmidt’s Sire, the Trakehner stallion Biotop was born in 1985 at Kirov Stud in Russia, and was later sold to Belgium, where Dr. Reiner Klimke first spotted Biotop in 1992 when the stallion was 7 years of age. Biotop had a prolific international dressage career, and was the final Grand Prix horse to be ridden and trained by Dr Reiner Klimke, prior to his retirement. During his career, Biotop won and placed in more than 60 FEI level dressage events, including many Grand Prix and Grand Prix Specials. Biotop was Westphalian Dressage Champion in 1993, Dressage Champion of the Western European Volvo World Cup in 1994 and 1995, individual and team Silver Medalist at the 1995 and 1996 German Dressage Championships, and a member of the 1996 Silver medal winning German Dressage team.

With Dr. Reiner Klimke, Biotop competed successfully in Grand Prix events held at Hertogenbosch, Bremen, Münster, Wiesbaden, Aachen, and Los Angeles, and had career winnings totalling well in excess of 125,000 euros. With his spectacular movement, and high degree of elasticity and rhythm, especially during the extended trot, Biotop was the most extravagant dressage horse Germany had ever seen. The European crowds adored him, despite the fact that he was highly unpredictable and had his own ideas as to how each test should be performed. Although he was undoubtedly Reiner Klimke's "greatest challenge" of his dressage career, he was also said to be his greatest love. . Dr. Klimke was hospitalized with his later fatal heart attack when he asked his daughter, Ingrid, to step in and show Biotop at the Riesenbeck Grand Prix and GP Special. He witnessed on TV how the elegant rider and the stunning stallion won both tests, and only a couple of days later, Dr. Klimke died. Biotop remained with the Klimke family, although offers were made from many sides. He was shown under Ingrid for another, highly successful season at Grand Prix, before he was retired at stud. Today, Biotop is one of the Trakehner breeds most popular dressage sires and is presenting excellent young horses in dressage shows across the country.

 Biotop's dam, Plaksa, was by the great stallion Hockey, who sired in excess of 40 Grand Prix dressage and showjumping competitors including Elmar Gundel's outstanding Olympic and World Cup showjumper Almox Prints, Ulla Salzgeber's international dressage champion Perechlest, and the Russian National Multi Champion Podhkod.