Another eventful year has passed. 2010 was another successful year for the stallions of the Gestüt Birkhof and their progeny. Hot Spirit was South German Reserve Champion, San Alfredo by Sir Alfred won the South German Riding Horse Championships, Decor by Denario was the Baden-Wuerttemberg Vice Champion, the Baden-Wuerttemberg Champion mare Championesse descends from Chambertin, Sirtaki won his 70-day performance test, the German Vice Champion and World Cup winner River of Joy descends from Rubicell, three Birkhof-horses belong to the victorious Nations Cup team from Aachen, Don Diamond competed again in the Final of the Federal Championships – all these were fantastic successes. However, the absolute highlight for the Gestüt Birkhof in 2010 was Kentucky – the World Equestrian Games with seven Birkhof-progeny.
To introduce Birkhof-horses into national and international sport is still one of the most important aims of our work. But it is as important to us to perfectly assist and advice our customers who are riding just for pleasure purposes. Therefore, we are again looking forward to a good co-operation in 2011.
„All my life I have dreamt of stabling a worldwide famous stallion. This dream has become true with Lingh,” Thomas Casper beams with joy when thinking about his new stallion. The international Grand Prix-stallion Lingh, successful under Edward Gal, will move into a stall at the Gestüt Birkhof in Donzdorf.
No less than the three-times World Champion Edward Gal trained the bay KWPN-stallion from the get go. The duo won countless international Grand Prix-tests in 2005 and 2006. Highlights in the career of the eagerly moving stallion are the silver medal at the World Cup Final in Las Vegas in 2005 and the silver medal with the Dutch team at the World Equestrian Games in Aachen in 2006. The KWPN breed society licensed the typey Lingh in 2005 because of his incredible international sport successes. Today his blood is in great demand worldwide: whether Hanover, Oldenburg, Sweden, Finland or the South German breed societies – the Flemmingh-son is popular and accepted everywhere. The reserve champion and top-priced dressage stallion of the auction at the KWPN Stallion Licensing in 2009, Beau, comes from his first crop of foals. The bloodline of Lingh’s sire Flemmingh originates in Holstein. He descends from Lacapo out of a dam by Carneval. Flemmingh is one of the most successful dressage stallions in the Netherlands, he is also sire to Krack C (Anky van Grunsven). Lingh’s dam Gazelle is one of the most highly awarded mares of the KWPN studbook. The pedigree of the daughter by Columbus, himself a successful international sport horse under Jo Lansink, features the thoroughbreds Lucky Boy xx and Uppercut xx. Seven stallions out of this dam line have already been licensed.
Lingh’s owner, Karin Reid Offield from the USA, is more than happy to have Lingh at stud at the biggest private EC-approved insemination station in southern Germany. “I purchased Lingh in 2007 and took him over from Edward Gal. I was very successful at Grand Prix-level in the USA the following season, until the then 14-year-old stallion got injured. That was the start of his breeding career. Lingh produces very noble, eagerly moving and elastic foals that have also inherited his fantastic character. I know many of his offspring in the USA. I am looking forward to seeing Lingh again at the stallion presentations of the Gestüt Birkhof.”
Events in 2011
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Stallion presentation
March 5, 6.30 pm
March 12, 6.30 pm
March 13, 1.30 pm
Support of breeders and riders, starting horses under the saddle, training, sales and mediation of Birkhof-offspring all year round.
