(Elmshorn) With an average price of around 40,000 euros and a top price of 125,000 euros for the four-year-old Nixon van het Meulenhof-Uriko son Nightwish, the Holstein elite riding horse auction at the autumn event “Holstein meets Italy” over.
The wealthy gelding bred by the Holsteiner Verband (Elmshorn) aroused great interest in advance and will be at home at the DOKR in Warendorf in the future. “I am very pleased that this highly talented horse is being given every opportunity to pursue a successful career in top sport,” says auction manager Felix Flinzer. Nightwish's mother produced, among others, the association stallion Zuccarello by. Zuccero, she is the half-sister of Crunch by. Clarimo (Rolf-Göran Bengtsson) and Dito v. Diarado (Denis Lynch). The second most expensive offer was the United Way-Diarado subsidiary Maybe M, for which ZG Meyn-Winder (Bimöhlen) is responsible. Long-time customers from Italy invested 72,000 euros for the mare, which has already been tried and tested in tournaments, from whose direct dam line Jérôme Guérys (BEL) produced Olympic hero Quel Homme de Hus by. Quidam de Revel emerges. The gray mare Miss Colman by. Colman-Graf Grannus (August Stucke, Hodorf) struck. She is already placed in show jumping classes up to 1.30 meters and will make her new owner from America happy in the future. Cornelius v. was worth 57,000 euros. Cascadello I-Catoki (Bettina Friemel, Oyten) worth its new owners. He comes from a legendary Holstein family: The five-year-old goes to none other than the exceptional horse and Olympic champion Fein Cera by. Landadel (Peter Wylde/USA) and is already victorious in jumping horse competitions up to 1.20 meter level. Auctioneer Hendrik Schulze-rückamp beat the Federal Championship qualifier Kai v. for 50,500 euros. Kannan carpaccio (Norbert Nowak, Haren/Ems) in Colombian ownership. “Customers from all over the world have once again secured valuable Holsteiner genetics; new customers from Berlin and Mallorca alone bought three talented horses for Garau Sport Horses,” says Flinzer.
