Rivendell Fairbanks
Rivendell Fairbanks
D.O.B 22/10/2023
Rivendell Fairbanks is a very beautiful and well conformed young colt by our PSG stallion Florimon, out of imported Hanoverian mare Donna Rika.
Florimon is an eye-catching imported Hanoverian stallion with an extraordinary, noble and elegant conformation. He has a fantastic character and rideability, which he passes generously onto his offspring. The aim is to have him lifetime licensed with the Hanoverian Verband on performance once he is successfully competing at Prix st George level. His pedigree features an exceptional bloodline combination.
Florimon was the winner of his stallion performance test and completed his 30-day test with highest scores for all three basic gaits. He scored 8 for trot and 8.25 for canter, the highest scores assigned in the field of 17 competitors. But he also earned above-average scores for walk (7.75) and rideability (8.38).
His sire Falsterbo completed the 30- and 70-days performance test in 2001 in Prussendorf with above-average scores in all disciplines. He won various riding horse ability classes and show jumping ability competitions of novice and elementary level at the age of four and five.
In the meantime, he is a successful dressage competition horse with victories at Intermédiare I-level, and he just recently placed at Grand Prix-classes under Jonny Hilberath. Falsterbo supplied extraordinary foals, lots of them being top-priced auction foals and champions at shows.
Dam’s sire Defacto served as a stud stallion for a short time only, but with Donnerhall and Pik König, his pedigree features international top-class dressage horse genes. A convincing quantity of his few daughters was especially awarded. Walt Disney I in the third generation placed at the final of the German Riding Horse Championships in Mannheim, and he won the subsequent stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf. As he was the best stallion completing the stallion performance test in that year, he was awarded with the Fritz-von-Stenglin-Prize. He was trained up to Grand Prix-level and was for years one of the famous “Celle chestnuts”, the famous, worldwide popular quadrille formation of the Celle National State Stud. In his first breeding years at the Unterweser Insemination Station, he supplied fantastic, exceptional mares with a captivating, perfect exterior, approved stallions and extremely successful competition horses up to highest dressage level. The pedigree is complemented by Lemon xx who produced tough and long-living dressage and event horses, and the valuable Seefischer.
The dam, state premium mare Die Lady, was first-class awarded at the Ratje-Niebuhr-Show, and various other ancestors were also awarded with special prizes. Granddam, state premium mare Walt Lady, was the champion mare at the Louis-Wiegels-Show in Sandbostel in 1999. In 1998, she earned a first-class prize at the Federal Mare Show in Warendorf and in 2008, she supplied an approved son, also by Falsterbo. Her full sister, state premium mare Wendla, is the dam of the approved Oldenburg stallion Fin de Siècle by Florencio I. Great-granddam, state premium mare Larina, is also an approved and highly awarded mare, earning for example a first-class prize at the Louis-Wiegels-Show in 1999 and at the same event, the victory in the family division. Her daughter, state premium mare Wariness (by Weltmeyer), supplied the popular Marbach state stud stallion Epikur by Espri.
Florimon goes back to the Hanoverian mare family 657/Kareda resp. Kroatin (by Kirkland – Denar – Königsleutnant etc.) that has its origin in the area of the long-established Oiste Service Station near Verden. Among the 20 licensed stallions out of this line, Alpdruck (privately owned stallion Westphalia, Bavaria), the important black stallion Amor (privately owned stallion Westphalia), Can Can (state stud stallion Neustadt/D.), Equitano (privately owned stallion Bavaria), the Celle state stud stallions Ernö, Grandseigneur, Lausbub (champion of the Stallion Licensing), Ludendorff and Weingraf, Reccio L (privately owned stallion Hanover) and the Dillenburg state stud stallions Adlerhorst, Weltpoet and Windfang as well as Freya, Fugosa and Faschingsfee, the successful show jumping horses in the 50ies and 60ies, are the most famous representatives out of this line.
Donna Rika, the dam of Fairbanks, is by the stallion Don Frederico, who was a 1997 born stallion by Donnerhall out of Cleopatra (by Consul x Gardeulan x Wendekreis). Don Frederico was licensed at the 1999 Hanoverian Stallion Licensing in Verden, where he was also named champion stallion.
He was sold to the Celle State Stud and did his stallion performance testing in Adelheidsdorf, finishing second in a field of 45 with a dressage index of 151.67 points.
Under Ole Kohler, he finished fourth at the 2002 Bundeschampionate as a 5-year old and sixth at the 2003 Bundeschampionate as a 6-year old.
He was the first state stud owned stallion to compete in the Nurnberger Burgpokal Finals in 2006 in Frankfurt, where he finished sixth.
Don Frederico was trained up to S-level and his last competition was in 2010 at a local show in Alvern.
Don Frederico became a foundation stallion in his own right, receiving the Grande Prize in 2009 and the title of Hanoverian Stallion of the Year in 2012.
As a breeding stallion Don Frederico had a huge impact on modern dressage sport horse breeding. In Germany he sired no less than 41 licensed sons of which 23 are submitted to Studbook I. He sired 806 daughters registered as broodmares with the German equestrian federation and no less than 167 of them being state premium mares.
Amongst his licensed sons are Don Darius, Don Frederic, Don Henrico, Don Corazon, Dramatic and Don Ricoss.
His offspring were not always known to be the most rideable, but the black stallion sired a huge number of progeny who were highly successful in sport. The two stand-out horses are Isabell Werth’s German team horse Don Johnson and Dorothee Schneider’s 2012 German Olympic team ride Diva Royal. His offspring collected prize money of more than 1.8 million euro in sport. The German equestrian federation has 1660 (!) of his offspring registered for sport.
From his first crop came Bundeschampion Dantonisius and reserve champion Dark Carlotta. He further sired Bundeschampionate bronze medallist Don Darius (later a Grand Prix horse with Nina Neuer), the 2008 World Young Horse Champion Dramatic (Jana Freund), and the Russian Grand Prix team horse Diavolessa (Tatiana Kosterina), Grand Prix horses Davinia la Douce (Anna Buffini), Don Diego (Juan Matute Guimon), Doktor Schiwago (Florine Kienbaum), and Don Weltino K (Laurienne Ditmann), Brazilian Paralympic medal winner Don Henrico (Rodolpho Riskalla). Donna Romma represented Sweden at the 2012 European Young Riders Championship under Elin Aspnas and Decoeur (Celia Giorgetti) won silver at the 2016 European Children Championships.
Donna Rika’s damsire is the stallion Welser, who was by Wolkenstein II.
Wolkenstein 11 was vice-champion of the 1992 Verden approvals, federal champion German riding horse in Mannheim in 1993 and winner of the stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf in 1993. He presented eight sons from his first crop for approval at the Verden stallion approvals in 1997. Numerous Wolkenstein 11 progeny have already been successful in riding horse competitions. The damsire Lanthan has the reputation of being one of the most versatile sires of Hanoverian breeding and has lately seen to the dissemination of the valuable genotype of his paternal line through numerous sons and daughters. The maternal line goes back via the sires Wendekreis, Lateran and Seneka 1.
Welser was the first vice-champion of the 1997 stallion approvals in Verden. In 1998 he absolved the stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf as once again runner-up in front of his half brother Wattenkieker. Welser came second in the partial index of rideability but also ranked above average in jumping.
His maximum score of 10 for canter is noteworthy.
He also scored 8 for temperament, 9 for walk, and 8 for trot.
Welser carries the wonderful World Cup 1 and Weltmeyer genes which give wonderful movement to their progeny, along with the trainability to make excellent dressage horses. The first offspring of Welser were born in 2000. The foals have fine heads and a good conformation (long well set up neck, long sloping shoulder, good croup, lean and correct limbs and joints).