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The Burg Cup fourth

“Very, very appealing performance and a stallion with very, very great potential. He is on a really good path and was put in the limelight extremely well by his rider,” Christoph Hess praised the presentation of our Top Gear OLD in the strong final of the Nuremberg Burg Cup 2020. The black nobleman received an impressive 75.293 percent under his trainer Isabel Freese/NOR and finished in an excellent fourth place, just 20 points behind the winner.

With over 77 percent, Top Gear OLD had qualified for this prestigious test of the best young dressage horses in Germany. Previously, he recorded results of over 80 percent in his international debut, for example in the Wiesbaden Young Horse S-dressage.

In 2014, Top Gear OLD started his career as the celebrated Reserve Champion of the Oldenburg licensing and was also among the best at his 30-day test in 2015 in Schlieckau (8.78). He received a smooth 10 for his character and a 9.75 from the foreign riders for his rideability. He then qualified for the German Championships. In 2018, he continued his winning streak in dressage tests for young horses at medium level.

The first offspring of Top Gear OLD start promisingly in basic and advanced tests, such as the dressage test winner Takeo. Several sons of Top Gear were licensed. His colt Top Secret was one of the most expensive at the elite auction in Vechta at 17,000 euros.

The sire, elite stallion Totilas, won gold twice at the European Championships in Windsor/GBR in 2009 and three gold medals at the World Equestrian Games in Lexington/USA in 2010. He also won the World Cup final in ‘s-Hertogenbosch/NED in 2010. Several times he set completely new records in the Grand Prix arena. His offspring reached the big championship stages in record time and quickly catapulted him to the top places in the WBFSH ranking of the world’s best dressage sires – currently in fourth place. As at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo/JPN, three Totilas offspring were again at the start in Paris/FRA in 2024: in addition to our Total Hope/Isabel Freese/NOR, who finished tenth in the individual ranking, Glock’s Total U.S./Hans Peter Minderhoud/NED, who finished fourth in the team, and Gotilas du Feuillard/Corentin Pottier/FRA, who finished sixth in the team. Total Hope and Glock’s Total U.S. are two of the 48 licensed sons of Totilas.

The full brother Cartoon was placed in advanced (S) level dressage with Annika Korte, just like the half-sisters Zolla (by Zonik) and Venicia OLD (by Vivaldi). Venicia OLD is now successful with Micky Schelstraete/NED in the international Young Rider Tour, in 2024 the pair won team silver at the European Championships and placed in the top ten in the individual ranking and the freestyle.

The dam’s sire Don Frederico was Hanoverian licensing winner, German Championships finalist and won advanced (S) level dressage. In 2009 he was awarded the Grande Prize and in 2012 the title of Hanoverian Stallion of the Year. Don Frederico produced over 30 licensed sons and soon 50 Grand Prix horses, including Isabell Werth’s Don Johnson FRH and Dorothee Schneider’s Olympic team silver medallist Diva Royal.

From the granddam Saniza, the licensed stallions Rosandro (by Rosario), Royalist (by Royal Hit) and Be Smart (by Bordeaux). The former won silver at the German Championships as a five-year-old and was victorious in sport up to Inter II under Wibke Bruns, Royalist won international Grand Prix competitions under Sofia Möller/SWE and Be Smart was successful in the international Small Tour under Linda Verwaal/NED.

The great-grandfather 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 third dam Eniza produced the two advanced (S) level show jumpers Hidalgo (by Waldsee) and Confederate Grey (by Coupe de Coeur) and the two advanced (S) level dressage horses Latino (by Landor S) and Lord Leo (by Lauries Crusador xx).

In fourth place in the pedigree is the versatile sire Espri, whose offspring include the dressage team Olympic champion and world champion Elvis VA/Nadine Capellmann and winner of the jumping World Cups of 1996 in Geneva/SUI and 1997 in Gothenburg/SWE, E.T. FRH/Hugo Simon/AUT.

From the Hanoverian line of Duldsame also come the licensed stallion Movie Star W and various successful dressage and show jumping horses.

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