Viva Vitalis

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Price semen 3 ins $2241 & Agents Fee $398 & GST = Total $2900  

German Champion and Oldenburg State Champion

Mecklenburg licensing winner

Tribe of Gesine

First licensed sons

“That was a very impressive, dynamic, powerful and well-paced trot. The step was diligent and went through the body with a sure self-image. In canter, Viva Vitalis leaves nothing to be desired: jumping, uphill tendency, activity from the hindquarters, all changes safe and of absolute quality. This horse is something special and the overall impression was close to the optimum,” the judges enthused in their comment and awarded excellent individual scores for Viva Vitalis under Lukas Fischer at the German Championships for six-year-old dressage horses: trot 9.3, walk 8.5, canter 9.5, permeability 9.0 and overall impression 9.5. This meant that the licensing winner of the Mecklenburg licensing in 2021, second stallion performance test reserve champion in 2022 with the dressage final score of 8.62 (canter 9.5, overall impression 9.0) and bronze medallist in the 2023 German Championships under Linda Casper (9.5 for the canter) went in a league of his own in the Warendorf final. Viva Vitalis had recommended himself for the unofficial German Championships of the best young horses under Lukas Fischer with serial victories in dressage horse tests and winning the Oldenburg Dressage Horse Championships.

The increase in performance is no coincidence. Viva Vitalis combines the well-proven genetics of our Burg Cup winner and main sire Vitalis with the fabulous mare family of Gesina. And he reliably passes this on to his descendants. His son Vincinius VS was 58,000 Euro top price at the Westphalian OnLive Foal Auction. At the Foal Championships in Moritzburg, he produced the Champion and Reserve Champion fillies. At the Hanoverian licensing, his son XXX2, who was also exhibited by us, went on the premium ring.

The sire Vitalis is the youngest stallion in fourth place in the WBFSH ranking of the world’s best dressage sires, thanks to his Grand Prix successful offspring, including the Olympic team silver and European Championship team gold medallist Vayron with Daniel Bachmann Andersen/DEN and Ingrid Klimke, the Team World Champion, two-time individual Vice World Champion, World Cup runner-up and U25 European Championship bronze medallist Vamos Amigos with Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour/DEN and Annabella Pidgley, the World Cup final eighth First-Step Valentin/Larissa Pauluis/BEL, the Louisdor Prize runner-up and Aachen runner-up Valencia AS, the Aachen winner and Otto Lörke Prize winner Valesco/both under Fabienne Müller-Lütkemeier as well as the Salzburg winner and Nations Cup winner Valparaiso/Laura Strobel. The latter is one of the more than 100 licensed sons of Vitalis, together with the German Champion, three-time silver medallist at the World Championships for young dressage horses and Burg Cup runner-up Vitalos FRH under Leonie Richter, who won team gold at the Junior European Championships in 2025 under the young Ava Osing, and the Westphalian licensing winner Vuelta, who was auctioned off for 850,000 euros. Vitalis’ young talents include the reigning Vice World Champion for young dressage horses Viva Diamond OLD/Linda Weiß and the European Children’s Team Champion and individual bronze medallist Vodka Soda/Lilly Kasselmann. In Warendorf, Vanilla Gold was the top foal price of 110,000 euros. Vitalis himself was colt champion in the Netherlands in 2007, reserve champion at the NRW licensing in 2009, stallion performance test dressage index winner in 2010, placed at the World Championships for young dressage horses and in the Pavo Cup final in 2012, champion in the USA in 2013 and qualified for the World Championships for young dressage horses again with a record number of points, and in 2014 he was a seven-year-old winner in the international Small Tour at his first attempt. Back in Germany in 2016, Vitalis won the Nuremberg Burg Cup final in Frankfurt under Isabel Freese/NOR and the Stallion of the Year competition at Inter I level at the World Championships in Ermelo/NED. In 2025, he was crowned elite stallion in Oldenburg.

His dam Furtherance also produced the licensed and serial winner in dressage tests for young horses Go For Romance PS (by Governor). She herself is sister to ten licensed stallions, including the Oldenburg licensing winner, main premium winner, Burg Cup finalist, VTV dressage stallion and Grand Prix successful For Romance I OLD and the premium stallion and internationally placed For Romance II (both by Fürst Romancier), the two other licensing winners Feinrich (by Fürst Heinrich) and Viva Romance PS (by Vinino) and the Burg Cup fifth and Inter II winner Golden Romance Malleret PS (by Governor)/ Manuel Dominguez Bernal/ESP. The Furtherance full sister Fasine OLD advanced to become the Oldenburg Champion Mare, German Champion, P.S.I. price record holder and is successful up to Inter II. In breeding, Fasine produced the licensed stallion Fasino (by Foundation), Valarina PS (by Vivaldi), who was successful in international junior competitions and previously bred by the licensed Fascination (by Fynch Hatton), and the mare A la Fasine (by Apache), who became the dam of the licensed full brothers HP Valentino (S-Dr.) and HP Vincello (both by Vitalis). The other Furtherance full sister Fasinette produced the licensed Jovianson (by Jovian). The half-sister Fürstin Gesine (by Fürst Heinrich) was Oldenburg Champion Mare and became the dam of the licensed stallions Visino PS (by Vitalis) and Montrachtet PS (by Morricone I). The half-sister Vesina PS (by Vivaldi) also produced our short test reserve champion Sebastino PS (by Secret) and the championship-placed Drei hundert PS (by Dante’s Junior). Furtherance is also a half-sister to the British Dressage Champion and placed up to the Light Tour Mount St. John Best of all (by Bordeaux), who in turn became the dam of the Vice National Champion and fifth at the German Championships Best of Mount St. John OLD (by Fürst Romancier) and a licensed Quantensprung son. From the half-sister Fine Gesina (by Foundation) comes our Lord Romance (by Lord Europe) and the premium stallion Volare (by Va Bene).

The dam’s sire Fürst Romancier himself was Oldenburg’s main premium winner. In 2009, he was the most successful stallion of his age group and placed fourth at the World Championships for young dressage horses and the German Championships. More than 40 of his sons were admitted to breeding, of which For Romance I OLD/Therese Nilshagen/SWE and Favoloso L/Melanie Hofmann/SUI achieved Grand Prix successes, as did his sporty offspring First Romance/Dorothee Schneider, Fioretto/Anu Sironen/FIN, Fürst Enno/Juliane Brunkhorst and First Class/Lia Welschof.

Through the third sire Sir Donnerhall I and the fourth Don Schufro, there are interesting line breeds for the sire of the century Donnerhall and the no less formative half-breed Sandro in the later generations of the pedigree of Viva Vitalis.

The great-granddam Gesine also produced the first Reserve Champion Vivaldi’s Schufro (by Vivaldi) and Amadeus de l’Aubois (by Der Designer), who was covered in France. Her daughter Sadira de Malleret (by Sir Donnerhall I) produced Helen Langehanenberg’s Zaeta de Malleret (by Zonik), who won the International Small Tour.

The important Voltaire also comes from the line.