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see
a short video clip of Wenzel
1
from Horse-gate.com
There are not many stallions that have been as
successful as Wenzel 1, with 612 competition horses in Germany alone, winning of DM880,000 and almost all that in the dressage arena. On the world breeding in 2001 he had 7 international
competitors listed which ranked him 10th for the period 1992-2001. He was the winner of his performance test in 1979, became the best stallion of 1980 and was the 1982 reserve champion at the DLG. In Hannover alone he left 1,208 progeny, including 350 broodmares, 68 of them state premium mares. At the elite auction he was represented by 80 offspring. Eight riding horses and one approved son sold for more than DM100,000- the first to break the 100K Barrier was Walk on Top who later won the 1998 World Cup Final with Sweden's Louise Nathhorst. At the 2001 European Championships, his son, Weldon Surprise performed excellently for his Portuguese rider Daniel Pinto. Wenzel was also an excellent sire of stallions including- Wousselt, Western Star, Westerland, Westerbury and through Western Star, Jonggers Weyden. He was to his dying day a grand old horse, with that air of someone that knew they were very special. |
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