Handorf Advent Auctions started

Benicio-daughter dominates price structure

Price statistic Westphalian youngster and broodmare auction

Münster: The Handorf Advent Auctions started with an auction exclusively for mares. 17 young prospects and broodmares in foal were offered for sale. The most popular young prospect was the Benicio/Don Frederic daughter Brianna. She changed hands for 34,500 Euros. A new customer from Luxembourg particularly enjoyed this Westphalian auction and secured seven mares.

Four online auctions following the four Sundays of Advent were still pending at the Westfälisches Pferdestammbuch this year. The first auction was held this evening exclusively for mares. Six broodmares in foal and eleven two-and-a-half-year-old youngsters were for sale. The most popular offer of this evening was the Benicio/Don Frederic-daughter Brianna (breeder and exhibitor: Sabine Brandt, Münster) with the head number 8. The quality mare descents from a dam line that is well known on the Westphalian auction floor. The Benicio son, Benito, also descents from this line. The colourful chestnut did not only convince with his eye-catching colour in spring this year. With first-class movement quality he trotted to the top price of the auction at that time. Brianna changed to Norwegian ownership at the top price of 34,500 Euros.

A new customer from Luxembourg especially liked the mares on offer. He won the bidding duel seven times. He especially liked the pregnant broodmares. For more than half an hour, the two most expensive broodmares stood in the final BidUp. Customers from the USA, the Ukraine and Germany outbid each other with the Luxembourg. In the end, the new customer from Luxembourg had the most staying power. He secured the top price for both the jumping and dressage broodmares at the knockdown price of 20,000 Euros. This was on the one hand with head number 14 Fancy in Black by Floriscount/Don Crusador (breeder: Ferdinand Meyer, Arzfeld; exhibitor: Anja Gutschmidt, Rottach-Egern), who is in foal to Total Diamond, and on the other hand head number 16 Candice by Cornet Obolensky/Numero Uno (breeder: Anja Haßmann, Münster; exhibitor: European Youngsters, Münster), in foal to Contagio. Another daughter of Cornet Obolensky, also in foal to Contagio (breeder: Torsten Schröder, Bad Freienwalde; exhibitor: European Youngsters, Münster) cost the new customer 15,000 Euros. Furthermore, the top price of the two and a half year old jumping mares, head number 4, Salima by Sandro Junior/Cornet's Stern (breeder and exhibitor: Silvia Palster, Horstmar) will travel to the same stable for 11,500 Euros. The head numbers 7, 9, 16 and 17 also changed into the possession of the new customer.

Of the 17 mares offered for auction, 14 changed hands. All broodmares in foal were successfully sold. With a total turnover of the sold horses of 198,000 Euros, the international clientele invested an average of 14,625 Euros in a pregnant broodmare and 13,781 Euros in an unbroken youngster. Eleven horses will eat their oats abroad in the future: seven of them in Luxembourg, two in the USA and one each in Norway and Sweden.

The BidUp for the next Westphalian Youngster Auction is already coming up in one week. This auction will focus on the future stars of the dressage ring. The lot contains 38 promising, unridden colts and geldings. The collection can already be viewed at onlineauction.westfalenpferde.de with photos and videos. Bids can be placed from Thursday, December 2. Only a short time later, on December 13, 21 youngsters with jumping potential will be up for sale, before a small but fine selection of young riding ponies will close the Westphalian auction year on December 20.