German Under 25 rider Luca Collin is looking for an experienced groom who can assist her in the care-taking of her high performance dressage horses Based with her own beautiful yard Haus Giesking in Nottuln Collin is a medal winning European Championship youth rider who has been competing at Grand Prix level in the Under 25 division She has a stable with approximately 16 horses as well as sales horses and a few stallions She offers a friendly and familiar work environment Previous experience in a sport stable  is a plus Luca Sophia CollinThe candidate needs to be passionate S/he needs to have experience handling stallions S/he will be responsible for the daily care-taking and barn duties at Haus Gieking A full-time position is offered with a long term contract possible 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 German professional dressage rider Marcus Hermes has moved yards from Haus Gieking in Nottuln to the private yard Gestüt Düvelskotten in Warendorf For the past year Hermes had been at the Tecklenborg family's Haus Giesking an equestrian yard with mote which Patrik Kittel and Lyndal Oatley rented before buying their own property "I had a really good time at Gestüt Haus Giesking and I have to thank family Tecklenborg for giving me this opportunity," Hermes explained "I knew from the beginning that Haus Giesking was for sale It was openly communicated so I always had a plan B Now that Gestüt Haus Giesking was sold to Antonia Ramel I decided to move to Gestüt Düvelskotten." (editor's note: Eurodressage reached out to Antonia Ramel to confirm the purchase of Haus Giesking Her lawyer Piotr Wawrzyniak replied in her stead stating that this information "is not correct Antonia Ramel is not the buyer of the real estate in Nottuln please note that there will be no further comments from Antonia’s side on this matter.") Hermes began his professional career at Hubertus Schmidt's stable before moving to Freiberger Hof in 2014 As of 1 January 2021 he was based independently at Haus Giesking just 10 kilometers from his previous employer Hermes found his new base at Beatrix and Frank Kühn's Gestüt Düvelskotten "I‘m absolutely grateful that Family Kühn always gave me the opportunity to move to their place if Gestüt Haus Giesking was being sold So now that this has happened there wasn’t such a big stress for me," he said Hermes connected with the Kühns when they purchased the 9-year old ride De Luca (by De Niro x Lauries Crusador xx "De Luca has already been successful on S*** level with me and already won prix St "She has one more year as a Young Rider and will hopefully make the way to Under 25 level with De Luca We are training together for one year now." Gestut DuvelskottenQuietly located in the middle of a forest Gestüt Düvelskotten is being refurbished and expanded to become a state of the art property because we have the best training conditions best food standards and everything here is really well thought out," said Marcus "For me it’s important that my horses can go out a lot and have enough possibilities to relax next to the training And this is absolutely given here at Gestüt Düvelskotten." joined by groom Ance Polane and his assistant rider Anna Muster Isabell Werth’s former dressage mare Fabienne has been put to sleep aged 29 She was one of the German Olympic medallist’s best horses in the 1990s winning the 1992 World Cup in Gothenburg with the rider Commenting on her website dressage rider Isabell Werth said the chestnut mare had become ill last weekend She had always been fit and in good shape even though she was nearly 30 but now she felt so bad and weak that we had to put her down,” she said “During her last years she had enjoyed life with Gigolo Now the two of them can graze together again I am very sad but console myself that they both had a wonderful retirement here at our place,” she added Fabienne’s field mate — Werth’s 1996 individual Olympic gold medal winning horse Gigolo — died on 23 September Fabienne was a Westfalian mare by Feuerschein I Edwin and Arlette Jasper-Kohl have decided to end their sponsorship of Swedish Grand Prix rider Patrik Kittel and have given the ride on their top mare UNO Donna Unique to German Olympic individual medal winner Ulla Salzgeber After three years of successfully working together the Kohl family decided in mutual agreement to part ways with Kittel "Our wish that Patrik Kittel could manage our top horses here in Perl-Borg together with his own competition barn in Nottuln and his show schedule could not be fulfilled," Arlette Kohl commented and consequent inability to move to Gestuet Peterhof Family Kohl and I have come to the mutual decision to go our separate ways," Kittel explained "To manage two competition stables at the level I aspire for was not possible and so the mutual decision was made to move forward." The Kohls recently built a brand new state-of-the-art facility in Perl-Borg and want to have their horses with them at home which forced Kittel to commute between two barns The Swedish rider trained the horses at Peterhof from Monday through Wednesday and then return to Nottuln Patrik Kittel trained and competed Kohl's Grand Prix horses Florett As and Silvano In January 2012 the Kohls acquired the 7-year old Danish mare Donna Unique for a rumoured four million euro from Andreas Helgstrand and breeders Joan Andreasen and Søren Melgaard Florett As was re-allocated to a different rider a while ago but Silvano and Donna Unique were part of Patrik's active show string The Kohl family had also bought the young top dressage horses Derano (by De Niro) and the Danish bred stallion Sezuan (by Zack) for Patrik to ride Aboard Donna Unique (by Don Schufro x Falkland) Kittel qualified himself for the Nurnberger Burgpokal Finals this year with a record score The ride on the talented black mare has now been given to Ulla Salzgeber The 2004 German Olympic silver medallist will do the commute between her south German stable in Blonhofen and Perl-Borg with more time on her hands since she decided to give her Grand Prix horse Herzruf's Erbe a one-year break in the field "I can rely on my excellent team at home in Blonhofen," Salzgeber said about leaving her farm behind to ride at Gestut Peterhof "We are looking forward to our co-operation with Ulla Salzgeber," Arlette added "We are thankful to Patrik Kittel for his commitment Of course we are still friends and wish him all the best in the future."