Pedigree profile of Rivendell Franklin
D.o.b. 24/11/2023

Rivendell Franklin is a very special colt. He was born by embryo transfer as his dam is the imported Hanoverian mare Rivendell’s Duet, who is a competition horse at present. He is by the PSG stallion Florimon, an imported Hanoverian stallion. Franklin is a little reticent but absolutely beautiful in a liver chestnut chrome coat.

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.

Duet was bought as a foal at foot and is the full sister to the international German stallion Desperados.

Desperados was started by Holga Finken and then trained up to Grand Prix level by Falk Rosenbauer before Kristina Sprehe took over the ride in 2010. As a youngster Finken and Desperados won the 2004 Bundeschampionate as a 3-year old and Kirstin Karlisch steered the black to bronze at the 2005 Bunderschampionate.

Desperados arrived on the FEI scene with a big bang in Hagen. Rosenbauer competed him in the Louisdor Cup qualifier (then called Medien Cup) in 2010 and immediately scored a whopping 75.450%. Just a few weeks later it was announced that Kristina Sprehe had taken over the ride. In 2011 Desperados won the Otto Lorke Prize for best upcoming Grand Prix horse in Germany.

Since 2012 Desperados and Kristine Sprehe were the anchors on the German dressage team at the 2012 Olympic Games (8th in the Kur). They qualified for the 2013 World Cup Final but withdrew from the Grand Prix. At the 2013 European Championships in Herning they were fifth in the Special and Kur.

From 2014 till 2016 they were routinely on the podium. They won team gold and Grand Prix Special silver at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Caen, France. At the 2015 European Championships in Aachen they earned team bronze and GPS and Kur silver, although the crowds preferred to have seen him win Kur gold over Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro at the time. At the 2016 Rio Olympics they added team gold and individual bronze to that tally.

In 2017 Desperados was sidelined due to an injury and briefly returned to the competition ring in 2018 with starts at the CDI’s in Dortmund, and Hagen. Then it was another half year off to return at the 2018 CDI Frankfurt.

Officially Desperados was not retired from sport, as Sprehe last stated in March 2019, but the stallion struggled with injury and Frankfurt ended up being his last show in December 2018.

As a 2-year old Desperados was presented for licensing with the Hanoverian Society but was rejected by the committee. He became the most expensive, non-licensed stallion at auction and sold for 104,000 euro to Gestut Sprehe.

One year later Desperados was licensed, with premium, at the approval under saddle in November 2004. He first did the 30-day performance test in Schlieckau in 2004 and scored 8.61 for dressage and 7.26 for show jumping. He then completed his 70-day performance test in Schlieckau in 2006 and scored an index of 104.03 points to finish 19th out of 33 participating stallions. He got 116.53 points for dressage and 83.67 for jumping.

In 2017 he sired the champion of the South German Stallion licensing. Twice in a row Desperados presented the champion mares at the Herwart-von-der-Decken show in 2010 and 2011 (Doris Day and Delany). Doris Day became Bundeschampion in Warendorf in 2010.

Desperados’ most successful offspring include Grand Prix horses Destiny OLD (Kristina Sprehe, who was competing Destiny at the 2020 CDI-W Neumunster the morning her star stallion Desperados died), Diego (Karoline Valenta), Destano (Michelle Hagman), Dior (David Lessnig), Duisenberg (Jessica Süss), Harmony’s Diabolo (Michael Klimke), small tour horses Descolari (Isabell Werth, Luca Collin) and Jonstrupgaardens Cocio (Lisbet Seierskilde), and Destacado, who won the 2016 Bundeschampionate and the silver medal at the 2018 World Young Horse Championships.

Desperados has sired a minimum of 35 licensed sons, and received the Grande Prize in 2012. In 2016 he was named Hanoverian Stallion of the Year and was the number 1 ranked horse on the FEI/WBFSH World Dressage Breeding Ranking.

Duet is by the black stallion De Niro, who won the I-a main premium in Oldenburg in 1997 for his own record in sport and the quality of his first crop. By the time De Niro was seven, he made a successful debut in the Grand Prix dressage ring and later collected numerous first place ribbons in Nations Cups, the German Dressage Derby and at the German Championships for Professional Riders. In 2008 he was bestowed a special honor: the “Hanoverian Stallion of the Year” award.
Her dam, Wie Musik, is by Wolkenstein II, who was the Reserve Champion of the 1992 licensing in Verden, 1993 Bundeschampion of German Riding Horses in Mannheim and won his stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf in 1993.
A full sister of Wie Musik, named Wie Platine, took third place in the 2001 Bundeschampionat for German riding horses. Through Matcho AA and Pik König you find heroes from the traditional Oberndorf Station on the dam’s side of the pedigree. The black, French Anglo-Arabian stallion, Matcho AA, won his stallion performance test and is a sire of pronounced versatility.
Pik König, the fourth link in her chain of ancestors, has gained a reputation as a maker of dressage horses and show jumpers of the very first order. The Hanoverian dam line 53/Foersaci (by Förstergruß I-Lorenz-Amandus-Lorval-Alpenprinz-Julius-Süd-Y. Gameboy) is also the origin of the licensed stallions Condiro (State Stud Warendorf), Don Marcello (private stallion Hanover), Don Placido (AUT), Foster, Limonit and Mister A (both State Stud Celle), Londontower (private stallion Mecklenburg), Moseltal and Rocko Barocko (private stallion Mecklenburg) as well as the successful show jumpers Akrobat/Henrike Konzag and Rosalinde/Eric Lamaze/CDN.