Sir Donnerhall

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Price Semen 3 ins $2988 & Agents Fee $470  & GST = Total $3800

In the tradition of his epochal father Sandro Hit

Silver at the World Championships for young dressage horses and gold at the German Championships

119 licensed sons and 94 Grand Prix offspring

An absolute evergreen – Sir Donnerhall I has earned his place in the Hall of Fame of the world’s best dressage sires with almost 100 offspring successful in Grand Prix: the Olympic participants Sir Caramello OLD/Anush Agarwalla/IND and Samhitas/Kelly Layne/AUS, the World Championship participants Valentine/Ashley Holzer/USA and Willingapark Sky Diamond/Jayden Brown/AUS and the European Championship participants Santiago Song/Thibault Vandenberghe/BEL, Sangraal/Stella Hagelstam/FIN and Sirano de Luxe/Mado Pinto/FRA as well as Serenade MF/Alice Tarjan/USA, Valentine/Ashley Holzer/USA and Syriana/Jessica Dertell/AUS, who were successful in World Cup freestyles, and Siebenstein/Mirelle van Kemenade-Witlox/NED, who was placed in the Nations Cup. Sir Hohenstein/Bianca Nowag-Aulenbrock won team gold and freestyle silver at the European Championships for U25 Grand Prix riders in Marignano/ITA.

Again and again, Sir Donnerhall I set unique records with his inheritance. In addition to Special Diva OLD (2014) and Smirnoff (2016), his full siblings Cindy OLD (2013), Sir Heinrich (2014), Candy OLD (2017), Caty OLD (2018) and Casey OLD (2020) from Wendel’s successful breeding won gold at the German Championships. Candy OLD and Casey OLD were also Oldenburg Champion Mares and thus lead the group of over 400 award-winning daughters of Sir Donnerhall I. Candy OLD also won bronze as the best mare at the World Championships for young dressage horses (5y.o.). Sa Coeur advanced to the double world champion for young dressage horses, became the top horse in our P.S.I. auction with a hammer price of 2.31 million euros and has international Grand Prix placings to his name. He is just one of many auction price record holders from Sir Donnerhall I.

More than 120 licensed sons, including numerous winners and premium stallions as well as Sir Olli OLD/Enrique Cruces Fernandez/ESP, third at the World Championships for young dressage horses and Grand Prix success, are on the books.

Many Sir Donnerhall I daughters became stallion dams, as evidenced by our licensing winners Dynamic Dream and Viva Romance PS, the reserve winner So Perfect, the Burg Cup fifth and Inter II winner Golden Romance Malleret PS, the Grand Prix successful Dante U.S./Diederik van Silfhout/NED as well as the Olympic fifth Glock’s Total U.S./Edward Gal/NED and the 1.7 million Euro price sensation of the P.S.I. auction, the Oldenburg State Champion, eleventh in the German Championships for young dressage horses and Force Majeure ex. Fürst Bayram/Frederic Wandres and Yara Reichert. The Oldenburg Champion Mare, German Champion and P.S.I. price record holder Fasine OLD and her licensed full brothers For Romance I and II also have a Sir Donnerhall I dam. At the 2019 German Foal Championships, Sir Donnerhall I once again produced a top foal with the second-placed filly. Sammy de Luxe won the AWÖ Foal Championships in 2021.

Sir Donnerhall I himself was second Oldenburg Reserve Champion in 2003, stallion performance test winner and Ia main premium stallion in 2005 and German Champion and Vice World Champion for young dressage horses (5y) in 2006. He is supported up to the advanced class. Due to the high breeding demands, he was no longer used in competitions. From 2021 to 2023, he was among the top ten in the WBFSH ranking of the world’s best dressage sires.

His sire Sandro Hit, himself World Champion and German Champion of young dressage horses, made a name for himself early on as a stamp stallion in dressage horse breeding.

The dam St.Pr.St. Contenance D also produced the licensed full brother, the World Cup seventh and Olympic, World Championship and European Championship participant Sir Donnerhall II/Morgan Barbarçon Mestre/ESP, the AES-licensed Rubberball (by Rubinstein) and the strategist/Cora Jacobs, who was also successful in Grand Prix.

The dam’s sire is the sire of the century, Donnerhall.