German Olympian Dorothee Schneider has expanded her collaboration with Gestüt Gut Neuenhof by welcoming three of their stallions into her barn in the last half year In the last decade stallion owners and dressage lovers Axel and Sandra Schürner developed a strong partnership with Hubertus Schmidt who rode their flagship stallion Escolar to the German Olympic team reserve spot in 2016 Since Schmidt's retirement as a competition rider more of their stallions have been distributed to other riders Dorothee Schneider got the ride on Vainqueur in 2023 The horse was sold by Neuenhof to Schneider's long-time sponsor Gabriele Kippert and Eva-Maria Mann Schneider announced that she expanded her string of horses with Neuenhof's Etienne and Maxim-N after Esperado already joined her last summer She made her public premier with Etienne at the stallion show during the Agravis cup in Munster "Together with Sandra and Axel Schürner - who saved the historic E-line by their breeding sense and a nose for good horses - I will continue to promote these impressive horses and work with them on new challenges potential and character impressed me immediately," Schneider said in an official statement on social media I’m honoured to be a part of this success story and I’m excited for what’s ahead." The 9-year old Westfalian Esperado (by Escolar x Danone) already arrived at Schneider's in August 2024 He was previous trained and competed by Katharina Hemmer She rode him to a 24th place in the 6-year old preliminary round at the 2022 Bundeschampionate Before Hemmer there were Charlotte Tollhopf and Lukas Fischer who first showed the horse The 8-year old KWPN bred Maxim-N (by Toto Jr x Johnson) was first ridden by Charlotte Tollhopf followed by Anna Schölermann and then Moritz Treffinger at Bonhomme He last competed the stallion in August 2024 The 6-year old Westfalian stallion Etienne (by Escolar x Sir Donnerhall) was debuted by Lisa Horler in 2022 while in 2023 Treffinger took over the ride Photo © Thoms Lehmann Stalls for Rent at Durondeau Dressage in Peer, Belgium Exceptionally Well Located Equestrian Facility in Wellington, Florida Well-built Equestrian Estate With Multiple Business Opportunities in Sweden Stable Units for Rent at Lotje Schoots' Equestrian Center in Houten (NED) For Rent: Several Apartments and Stable Wing at High-End Equestrian Facility Stable Wing Available at Reiterhof Wensing on Dutch/German border Real Estate: Well-Appointed Country House with Extensive Equestrian Facility in the U.K. Rémi Blot From early history to today’s success: Stud farm Gut Neuenhof is proud to present its digital video portrait “Our life’s passion” How can a stud farm provide the breeders with information and get in contact in times of corona The team of the German stud farm Gut Neuenhof have now come up with a new concept: They have produced opulent films together with “ClipMyHorse” These films can now be found on the stud farm’s website “Our life’s passion” is the title of one of these films which focuses on Gut Neuenhof’s history and philosophy “You meet our brood mares grazing on the pastures in Nideggen visit the stallions‘ training sites and get a glimpse of international horse shows all around the world” says farm owner Sandra Schürner to describe the viewers’ experience The film puts emphasis on the breeding site and upbringing of sires such as Escolar as Schürner says: “We invite you to go on a journey with us – from the past right up to the future.” the film also targets the dam lines that have had a crucial impact on the sires reaching back until the very beginning of the stud farm's history Even a digital walking tour of the farm is part of the film Gut Neuenhof also presents its 2021 stallion roster with a dedicated online video presentation Gut Neuenhof is home to highly acclaimed dressage stallions Escolar Collaborating closely with German Olympian Hubertus Schmidt to secure the best possible training of the breeding stallions Further information as well as both films be found on Gut Neuenhof’s website: www.gestuet-neuenhof.de Make yourself at home: This year’s stallion presentation hosted by stallion station Gut Neuenhof goes beyond the scope of a typical stallion show the station’s team is inviting breeders to get to know the stallions in a far more personal way Gut Neuenhof will present its 2021 breeding stallion roster with a digital "home visit" video The journey of this digital presentation starts at the training stable of show jumping experts Eva Bitter and Marco Kutscher where Cashmere last year’s reserve Bundeschampion is currently in training We then proceed to dressage rider Hubertus Schmidt’s training centre and of course the outstanding dressage star Escolar move into focus At this point, stallion station Gut Neuenhof has an ace up their sleeve: To pay tribute to the idea of a personal meeting and a visit at home a well-known equestrian journalist takes a ride on famous Escolar This encounter will surely be a must-watch for many viewers Schmidt working Goldberg in handWhat are the specific hereditary qualities that distinguish the sires What character traits and strengths are their dam lines known for These important questions that are crucial for many breeders will be answered as well Interviews with the stallions’ breeders and the stud station’s team serve to deepen the impression of stallions such as Caressini a glance at their offspring is also part of the digital experience The “visit at home” is concluded with a quick glance on the upcoming show season and its goals such as the Bundeschampionate Ivan Nieto schooling the KWPN Stallion Kane (by Dark Pleasure) at home at FleyenhofThe team of stallion station Gut Neuenhof invites all interested breeders to experience this personal presentation and visit the sires digitally The stallion presentation is free for everyone and will be broadcast by www.clipmyhorse.tv on Sunday Discover the 2021 stallion roster of Gut Neuenhof at www.gestuet-neuenhof.de Swiss Urs Schweizer has taken up a second job as breeding consultant at Gut Neuenhof alongside his job as ceo at Gestut Nymphenburg After having been managing director of the Wespe family's Dressage Performance Centre Lodbergen for eight years Schweizer left Lodbergen to focus on his own Schweizer started working as chief executive officer at Helmut von Firkcs' Gestut Nymphenburg As Nymphenburg will not be standing any stallions in 2019 He has now joined the Schürner couple's Gut Neuenhof (home to Escolar) and will assist stud manager Volker Hagemeister as a breeding and marketing consultant "Helmut von Fircks has closed his stallion station for 2019 so I have no conflict of interest for Stud Gut Neuenhof and his stallions to do the breeding advice," Schweizer told Eurodressage I work as a freelance employee in the form of a consulting mandate - so it will not be a problem to get both jobs under one hat and I'm looking forward to my new job at Gestüt Gut Neuenhof." Related LinksUrs Schweizer Becomes Chief Executive Officer of Gestut NymphenburgSchweizer to Hand Over Management of Dressage Performance Centre Lodbergen Police in large-scale operation after amok alarm in Siegburg Large-scale alarm in Siegburg: After an amok alarm and possible shots were fired in front of a building the police went to the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Realschule with a large contingent on Wednesday morning No suspicious persons or objects were discovered in the school there was a second scene at the vocational college two kilometres away and the adjacent railway station which turned out to be harmless after a four-hour operation in the city centre due to the ongoing large-scale operations At the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Realschule and the adjacent comprehensive school at the Neuenhof school centre in Siegburg the police had been on large-scale deployment since Wednesday morning The school administration had triggered an amok alert As the police confirmed to our editorial staff The police initially also spoke of "found ammunition" but retracted this information in the course of the operation The police were deployed with special forces and two helicopters circled over the school centre and the neighbouring area in the meantime A second youth is said to have fled in the direction of Kaufland The police said on Wednesday evening that they had apprehended a 14-year-old who matched the description of the perpetrator The officers took the youth to the police station checked him and also searched the flat with the parents' consent A police spokesperson had previously said: "Several persons matching the description of the perpetrator were encountered we cannot speak of an arrest." Later it was said that "two young men" had been checked and questioned The police did not give further details at first As the headmistress of the secondary school a person dressed in dark clothing had been seen at the school's bicycle racks from a neighbouring factory site in the morning The person was said to have been holding a dark object in his hand The school administration was informed and triggered the amok alarm at around 10.20 am two shots were allegedly fired at the building A witness reported to the police that a masked person had fired a long gun into the air the police also spoke of shots being fired but then corrected the statement to "banging noises" remains of fireworks were found on the searched premises no suspicious persons or objects were found Special forces from Cologne and Düsseldorf were deployed as well as more than 40 patrol officers from the region Pupils from classes located on the ground floor are said to have escaped to safety via the windows The pupils on the upper floors locked themselves in the classrooms and waited to be led outside by the police officers The school was searched by special forces and the manhunt for the fugitive is ongoing police have no information that the person seen by witnesses has entered the school." After the school was searched special forces took the students to the adjacent gym Parents of the children have also been able to go there since 1.15pm Police and emergency chaplains are on standby to assist the police finally announced that the searches in the school had been completed and that the children would now be handed over to their parents there were fewer pupils than usual in the building today as a counselling day is taking place there today Siegburg's mayor Stefan Rosemann (SPD) interrupted an out-of-town appointment in Cologne and made his way to Siegburg the police are still investigating the violation of the Weapons Act Original text: Sebastian Fink and Andreas Dyck Most recently he excited everyone in the Frankfurt Festhalle 18 February 2018 at 2 pm (14:00) at the Oldenburg Horse Center in Vechtan Germany Burg-Pokal second and main sire of the stallion station Gut Neuenhof Wherever the now nine-year-old Westphalian enters the arena with his rider Hubertus Schmidt he sets new standards with his incredible movement not seldom rated with a 10.0 by the judges Coming along to Vechta are Escolar’s neighbours: above all his father Estobar NRW who is successful up to Grand Prix the Westphalian reserve champion stallion and schooled up to the advanced classes Goldberg as well as the promising young stars Vainqueur being double talented an reserve champion stallion jumping attracted attention at his licensing in Münster-Handorf 2017 The program of this well worth seeing collective stallion show in Vechta is brought to you by the stallion station Gut Neuenhof with the stud Peterhof stud Tannenhof and the Ludger Beerbaum Stables This was the audience can look forward to seeing the triple Dressage Horse World Champion Sezuan who will be presented by Patrik Kittel for the first time the warmblood breeding approved Lusitano stallion Dragao das Figueiras under Sascha Schulz/LUX the Grand Prix placed Jumper Chacco Chacco GT with Andres Knippling as well as Ludger Beerbaum’s hope for the future Comme le père Tickets – 10 Euros for a seat ticket and 5 Euros for standing room plus presale fee – can be ordered online at www.nordwest-ticket.de or at the hotline number 0049-421-363636 For further information please visit www.gestuet-neuenhof.de The 17-year old Westfalian stallion Estobar has moved from his home Gut Neuenhof to stand at the Redefin state stud for the 2022 breeding season Estobar is by Ehrentusch out of Florence (by Ferragamo x Florestan) The bay was champion of the 2006 Westfalian Stallion Licensing and sold at auction for the record price of 535,000 euro to Axel and Sandra Schürner of the Rhineland based Gestüt Neuenhof It was announced that he would be stationed at Gestut Ligges He did his 30-day performance test in Munster-Handorf in 2007 and scored 8,98 for dressage and 8,10 for show jumping In 2009 he did the 70-day performance test in Adelheidsdorf and was the dressage high scorer with 154.74 points but finished at the bottom for show jumping (70.97) HIs index of 119,15 points ranked him sixth out of 31 participating stallions Estobar was first competed by Ingrid Klimke in 2007 and he stayed with her for two years he reappeared with Wolfhard Witte in 2010 and placed seventh at the Bundeschampionate in Warendorf Witte took him to Prix St Georges level in 2011 before Hubertus Schmidt took over the ride In 2012 Estobar did the developing Grand Prix horses classes but then sustained an injury and was off for a year He stood at stud at Ludger Beerbaum's stallion station at that time Hubertus Schmidt and Estobar in 2014He returned to fitness in 2014 and in 2015 he made his international show debut at medium tour level under Schmidt at the CDI Perl It was his first and only CDI in his career Between 2016 and 2017 Ivan Nieto Sanchez and Danica Duen shared the ride From 2017 till 2019 Nieto was his sole rider Estobar competed in his last national show in Munster in August 2019 age 15 On 16 December Gut Neuenhof moved Estobar to state stud Redefin for the 2022 breeding season Estobar's most famous offspring include the popular licensed breeding stallion and German squad listed Escolar (Hubertus Schmidt) as well as international Grand Prix horse Ein Traum (Borja Carrascosa Paulina Holzknecht) and FEI level horses Emilia Galotti (Heinz Kemper) Photos © Volker Hagemeister - Astrid Appels who has been trained and competed up to small tour level by Hubertus Schmidt has moved in training with a German pony team rider as her future junior horse Goldberg is an 11-year old KWPN bred stallion by Amazing Star out of Whoopy Goldberg (by San Remo x Jazz x Akteur)  The dark bay Goldberg was bought by Axel and Sandra Schürner of Gut Neuenhof for 70,000 euro at the 2011 KWPN Foal Auction in Dronten He became the third ranked premium stallion at the 2013 Westfalian Stallion Licensing and did his 30-day stallion performance testing in Neustadt/Dosse in 2014 scoring 8.52 points He got 8.66 for dressage and 8.30 for show jumping He got his first training from Danica Duen In January 2016 he did an A-level test at the regional show in Ankum Schmidt and GoldbergIn the spring of 2016 Goldberg moved into training with Hubertus Schmidt Schmidt showed him once at L-level in June 2016 but then the stallion sustained an injury and was off for a while Goldberg recovered and returned to the arena in November 2018 at S* level In 2019 he competed on the Nurnberger Burgpokal circuit/  who started to make his mark as a breeding stallion with 6 state premium daughters 10 licensed sons of which 4 are in Studbook I and 152 offspring registered for sport in Germany He returned to the arena in 2022 under Schmidt's assistant rider The new duo made its debut in April 2022 at a local show in Holte rode four further regional shows and concluded their partnership at the 2022 German Young Riders Championships in Verden Duen and Del Estero at the 2021 CDIO-P HagenFor the 2023 show season Goldberg has been allocated to German pony squad listed rider Sophie Duen Duen has been competing ponies Del Estero (by Dance Star x Marsvogel) and Cosmo Royale (by Cosmopolitan x Casino Royale) at international pony level this year but has reached the age limit and will need to move onto horses in 2023 for FEI level competition Duen will now make the transition to junior level with Goldberg "I‘m very thankful that the Schürner family decided to choose me for Goldberg He stays at our stable and will be available for the breeding season for the Gestüt Gut Neuenhof," Sophie told Eurodressage "It‘s just a pleasure for me to ride Goldberg as we know him very well My mother has ridden him very successful as a young horse until he was 5 years old We all are very happy to have him back at home." Sophie Duen on GoldbergSophie will now have two horses to ride for next season Sweet Hero (by Sir Donnerhall l x  Bonheur)