Sir Donnerhall
Young Horse National Champion and Reserve World Champion
Breeding
His sire Sandro Hit ushered in a new era in dressage horse breeding. In 1999, he became federal
champion six-yearold dressage horse and world champion six-year-old dressage horse under Dr. Ulf
Möller and meanwhile masters the advanced class. His daughter Poetin I repeated her sire’s success in
2003 by securing the title of federal champion six-year-old dressage horse and world champion six-yearold dressage horse for herself in Warendorf and Verden. His approved sons Show Star and FS Sandro
Classic were federal champion three-year-old stallions in 2001 and 2004 respectively. The phalanx of
more than 60 approved Sandro Hit sons includes several champion stallions: Sir Willson, Sandrit,
Stedinger and Samba Hit II. The Sandro Hit son Valeron, who became runner-up of the 2005 KWPN
approval in s’Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, was auctioned for the peak price of Euro 150,000 via the
KWPN Select Sale. The dam, state premium mare Contenance did her rounds in the diamond ring at the
1998 Oldenburg Elite Mare Show in Rastede (I-g). Her sire Donnerhall had the character of an idol and
set standards in both breeding and competition, like next to no stallion before him. His latest highlights
were Don Kennedy, the champion Oldenburg stallion of 2003 and the two champion Oldenburg mares
Fabina (2003) and Love Story V (2004). Feldherr in the third generation was also a vice-champion of the
Holstein approval and had dressage successes up to advanced (S) class. The thoroughbred Grundyman
xx rounds off the pedigree well. The damline leads to Denmark via the stallions Ratibor and Zarif
Klintgard.
Performance
Sir Donnerhall came third in the 2003 Oldenburg approval in Vechta. The following year he completed
his 30-day test in Schlieckau, where he received top scores for rideability (extraneous rider’s score of 9.5)
and the quality of his basic gaits (i.a. galloping 9.5, trotting 9.75). Sir Donnerhall moreover also received
the first class score of 9.5 for jumping, thus attaining one of the highest scores since the establishment of
the 30-day test.
Progeny
Sir Donnerhall’s very first age class in 2005, produced foals that gained admission to the Oldenburg
Elite Foal Auction in Vechta and the Westphalian Elite Foal Auction in Münster-Handorf.He was the 2005
Hauptpremium Winner based on the quality of his offspring and his Stallion Performance Test results. Sir
Donnerhall set new records with his 2006 crop of foals. Numerous highly paid auction foals such as Salut
d’Amour, sold for 46.000 Euro confirmed the expectations held already by many breeders. As he did in
2005, Sir Donnerhall has been extremely successful as a breeding stallion; his foals enriched almost all
auctions in Germany achieving top prices. Three of the ten best colts at the 2006 German Foal
Championship were by Sir Donnerhall