Raven

Blessed with high nobility attributes, the large-framed Raven embodies a high degree of sportiness and an extremely high-quality basic movement types, which is why he was awarded the title of premium stallion at the 2019 Westphalian licensing in Münster-Handorf. His always exemplary work attitude and constant willingness to perform should be emphasised.

His sire Revolution was a premium stallion and prize record holder in 2015, stallion performance test winner in 2016, World Champion of five-year-old dressage horses in 2018 and Vice World Champion of six-year-old dressage horses in Ermelo (NED) in 2019. The versatile and hereditary dam’s sire Christ, himself successful in the dressage ring up to advanced (S) level, has presented sensational sons at the German licensing, including several premium stallions. The highly proven Trakehner Buddenbrock adds a special blood variant to the pedigree and the extremely versatile Werther (Hanoverain Stallion of the Year 1992) as well as the Holstein top sire Calypso II, who is also the great-grandfather of Christ, round off the blood picture brilliantly.

Above Graphit and Gotthard, the valuable Hanoverian G-blood is clustered in the following generations. Raven represents the Hanoverian line 130/Anadyra I (by Angelo-Juli-Johannes-Trieglaff), which out of various branches produced such good stallions as A Conto As (PB Hess.), Abba (PB DK), Accusé (Ldb. Moritzburg), Campo Grande (Ldb. Dillenburg), Chalet’s Erbe (PB Westf.), Competent (PB Hann.), Golden Eye (PB IRL), Paganini, Premonition, Quitoll, Lustig, Sigesmund (PB Oldbg.), Wulf (Ldb. Celle) and the internationally successful dressage horse Tango Korrupti/Ina-Katrin Schmid.

His first foal crop caused a sensation with strong type, large-framed and very strong moving offspring. At the auctions he produced some top-price foals. Raven is an exceptional stallion in charisma and movement. Sensitive to his people, but always friendly and honest. We are very happy about his excellent scores in all parts at the 50-day test in Schlieckau, where the test rider also gave him a 9.0 for rideability. Out of his first crop two sons have been licensed. One of them (Raven x Franziskus, bred by Heike & Hermann Bonhorst) was awarded the title of premium stallion in Westfalen. Raven is currently learning the movements of the M-Level dressage and we think he will do his competition debut under Falk Schubert in 2024.