and the 7-year old Blue are the winners of the Bundeschampionate qualification classes held at Marco Bührig and Tatjana Piontek's equestrian centre in Loxstedt on 31 May 2024 In the 5-year old division Greta Heemsoth rode Ingo Pape's Hanoverian mare Felice (by Furst Samarant x Riverside) to the win with a whopping 88 score German-French Kim Brüning finished second on Felix Becker's Hanoverian gelding Quartier Latin (by Quantensprung x De Niro) on 8.44 points In the 6-year old there were only five pairs and they were ranked by judges Lieselotte Ebrecht; Peter Olsson Maxi Kira von Planten rode Gerrit Collin's Westfalian gelding Fontenay (by Franklin x Belstaff) to the high score of 8.14 points with 7.8 for walk 8.1 for submission and 8.5 for general impression She had Christina Stricker right on her heels as she scored 8.14 points aboard Balu (by Benicio x Waterford) Ten pairs contested the S-level class for 7-year olds and Tessa Frank topped the board on Andrea Bentes' Hanoverian mare Blue (by Buckingham x Locksley II) They posted 76.877 for the winer and edged out Kim Brüning on Va' Pensiero (by Vitalis x Furstenball) with 76.110% Bianca Simon-Schön and Harry Lorenz judged the class 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 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page This Vivace "no-kill" caviar was harvested from a Siberian sturgeon via a massage-based technique Caviar was once the food of kings and czars — and for a sturgeon But a new technique of massaging the ripe eggs from a female sturgeon — without killing or even cutting the fish open— could make caviar more abundant The idea is to turn the caviar farming industry into something more akin to the commercial production of poultry, eggs or milk. The new method, being practiced at a small farm in Loxstedt, Germany, called Vivace GmbH involves first viewing a sturgeon's eggs by ultrasound a signaling protein is administered to the sturgeon several days before the egg harvest "induces labor" and releases the eggs from a membranous sack in the belly cavity the eggs can be pumped from the belly with gentle massaging Köhler says the process can be repeated every 15 months or so throughout a sturgeon's lifetime The method is considered by some an improvement over so-called "C-section caviar" production which requires making a small incision in the female fish to access her eggs The operation allows the producer to harvest the roe without using any chemicals to induce egg-laying But C-sections subject a sturgeon to the risk of fatal infection and can damage the fish's ovaries "[The Vivace method] will make caviar production more financially reasonable," Köhler says "It doesn't make much sense to take a fish that needs seven or eight years to mature and then The Vivace farm in Loxstedt produced only about 1,100 pounds of caviar last year output could eventually rise to 10 tons per year That's still just a tiny fraction of current global output But if enough other caviar farms adopt her method — which would involve paying money for proprietary information about the process — Köhler says caviar farming could become a relatively cheap endeavor low-priced no-kill caviar could undercut the market for illegally produced wild sturgeon caviar But some skeptics doubt that no-kill caviar will catch on Geno Evans, owner of Anastasia Gold Caviar has tried making caviar without killing his fish In order to massage the roe from the fish's body cavity you have to wait until a sturgeon is nearly ready to lay her eggs "[The eggs] were mushy," he tells The Salt Köhler's method addresses this texture issue by rinsing the tender overripe roe immediately in a calcium-water solution This makes the oil-rich pearls durable enough to undergo salting and curing without breaking It also improves the texture, according to Deborah Keane, owner of the California Caviar Company currently the only American importer of Vivace no-kill caviar "You get what chefs call the 'Caspian pop' — a very firm snap in your mouth as you bite each egg," says Keane Wesley Holton, the executive chef of Rose. Rabbit. Lie. in Las Vegas is among several American chefs using the product He says Vivace caviar tastes about the same as traditional caviar (The traditional stuff tends to wilt when cooked.) The Salt sampled the Vivace caviar alongside more traditional styles at Keane's tasting room The traditional caviar from Acipenser baerii the white sturgeon of Western North America with a salty flavor and an interesting finish of pond water and river fish The tiny black eggs did not melt in the mouth but with quiet hints of salt marsh and catfish an ounce of Vivace will run you $125 to $135 in Keane's shop compared to $105 an ounce for conventional caviar of the same species A custom-packed jar of Vivace "golden caviar," taken from albino fish But Keane argues that if more farms adopt the Vivace method no-kill caviar could eventually become "an everyday indulgence," bringing costs down to $20 or $30 per ounce Which brings us to the ultimate question, as raised by Sacramento, California-area sturgeon farmer Michael Passmore "Why would producers of caviar want prices to continue to drop?" Become an NPR sponsor the 2024 Bundeschampion in the 5-year old dressage horse division but German Greta Heemsoth will retain the ride Felice is a 6-year old Hanoverian mare by Furst Samarant out of Rougesse (by Riverside x Sandro Hit x Florestan) Dam Rougesse was bred by Ingo and initially co-owned by Ingo and Michael Klimke After her sport career she became broodmare in the care of Pape station's eldest employer The filly moved into ownership of Ingo Pape and the dark bay mare has been trained up the levels by stable jockey Greta Heemsoth She was first competed as a 4-year old in 2023 and picked up speed in her show schedule in 2024 She was entered for the German team selection trials for Ermelo Loxstedt and Elmlohe she easily qualified for the Bundeschampionate and in Warendorf she swept the board Felice won the preliminary round with 8.620 and scored a whopping 9.0 in the final for the title and gold medal Felice has now move into the ownership of Americans Ken and Denise They will keep the mare in training with Heemsoth "We were feeling guilty because we bought the last two Grand Prix horses that Greta was riding," Denise Steele jokingly told Eurodressage "Our ownership is purely a sponsorship and partnership with the Pape's It gives us a great excuse to travel more often to Europe and watch the pair compete." The Steeles sourced Bourani and Donja KWG at Pape's yard in Hemmoor The plan is for Felice to qualify for the World Young Horse Championships in Verden and/or the Bundeschampionate Photo © Stefan Lafrentz Für Clemens Schoppenhauer hat ein neuer Lebensabschnitt begonnen Clemens Schoppenhauer hat seine Fußball-Karriere beendet Doch für den Ex-Profi aus Loxstedt soll es kein Abschied für immer sein Für den 29-Jährigen haben der Beruf und die Familie jetzt Vorrang Schoppenhauer hat den Einstieg in die Immobilienbranche geschafft Zuletzt war der Ex-Profi der Würzburger Kickers und des FC St Pauli beim Regionalligisten FC Oberneuland am Ball Ganz vom Fußball verabschieden möchte sich der aus Loxstedt stammende Abwehrspieler jedoch nicht seine Erfahrungen irgendwann im Jugendbereich einzubringen Was Clemens Schoppenhauer über seine Erfahrungen im Profi-Fußball sagt und wie er über seine Karriere denkt, lest ihr auf NORD|ERLESEN. Dietmar Rose ist Sportredakteur bei der Nordsee-Zeitung mit den Schwerpunkten Fußball Der gebürtige Münsteraner kam 1997 nach seinem Studium nach Bremerhaven.