Post by Chappy on Jan 12, 2011 21:01:25 GMT -5
Verrückte
the basics
Show Name: Verrückte
Nickname: Lanze
Breed: Westphalian
Coat: Black
Markings: Star, coronet band on hind right, Westphalian Stud brand
Eyes: Brown
Age: Seven
Sex: Stallion
Height: Sixteen hands-three inches
Formalities
Appearance: Lanze is an appealing, long-lined, correct riding horse with bold, expansive, and elastic gaits. His appearance is refined but obviously built for power, speed, and agility. He manages to keep a noble air about him even if he is covered in a thick coating of mud. In the ring and out, Lanze is a show stopper and an eye catcher.
Personality: Lanze is infamous for his character. He has a certain charm about him that reels you in, but he tends to get sour unexpectedly. He has a tendency to nip, kick, buck, rear, and be a complete jerk, especially when being handled by anyone other than his owner, due to his loyal nature. When undersaddle he usually gets into his work mindset immediately, settling down and working to the best of his ability. When he is feeling spirited, he settles into the usual pissy mood and gives his ‘mother’ trouble until she reprimands him.
Society
Likes: Xenia, being in the show ring, apples, stud muffins, rice bran mash, cats, jumping, grazing, galloping, being a jerk, mares, crowds, and flaunting.
Dislikes: strangers, peppermints, dogs, ponies, stallions, standing still, men, Liverpool jumps, pirouettes, and being confined to a stall for long periods of time.
Dislikes: strangers, peppermints, dogs, ponies, stallions, standing still, men, Liverpool jumps, pirouettes, and being confined to a stall for long periods of time.
History:
Lanze was bred and born at the Sonnenhof Stud in western Germany. His dam was never broke but his sire was an Olympic competitor that was related to both Farbenfroh and Goldstern. He was halter broken immediately and desensitized as soon as possible. When he was a year old, he began training and worked with a single trainer and a pessoa lounging system. With the ability to frame himself and respond to rein cues down, his basic undersaddle training began at two years of age.
He was a problem child at the start. He tried multiple times to throw his rider, succeeding more than once, and learned how to puff out during saddling. It took until he was three years old to accept a rider willingly, and he continued to excel from there. He started with Pregreen Hunter classes at mid-level shows and, naturally, scored in the high ranks all season. As Lanze finished up his Hunter phase, he was transferred to the Stud’s eventing branch, a stable in northern Germany.
Here he entered vigorous dressage training his first year, cross country the next year, and show jumping the next. By this time it was clear that he was enjoying his new discipline. He was average in dressage, proficient in cross country, and absolutely brilliant show jumping. His barrage of trainers entered him in the high level events and he came out with wonderful results, making nestling easily into the title of Horse of the Year for the show circuit’s association. It was decided spontaneously that his training would not continue and he would begin his breeding career. A friend of the manager of the Stud, who happened to be Xenia Werner’s trainer, found it to be a wasteful shame. He was offered the chance to purchase the horse, and he took the opportunity to the Werner family so they could consider it. Xenia was in need of a new partner to take her to the top and desired her own horse instead of one of her trainer’s, so her parents folded. They had to withdraw money from her college fund, but it wasn’t a terrible impact and they bought him for a hefty, yet reduced sum of 7,618 euros.
Lanze was bred and born at the Sonnenhof Stud in western Germany. His dam was never broke but his sire was an Olympic competitor that was related to both Farbenfroh and Goldstern. He was halter broken immediately and desensitized as soon as possible. When he was a year old, he began training and worked with a single trainer and a pessoa lounging system. With the ability to frame himself and respond to rein cues down, his basic undersaddle training began at two years of age.
He was a problem child at the start. He tried multiple times to throw his rider, succeeding more than once, and learned how to puff out during saddling. It took until he was three years old to accept a rider willingly, and he continued to excel from there. He started with Pregreen Hunter classes at mid-level shows and, naturally, scored in the high ranks all season. As Lanze finished up his Hunter phase, he was transferred to the Stud’s eventing branch, a stable in northern Germany.
Here he entered vigorous dressage training his first year, cross country the next year, and show jumping the next. By this time it was clear that he was enjoying his new discipline. He was average in dressage, proficient in cross country, and absolutely brilliant show jumping. His barrage of trainers entered him in the high level events and he came out with wonderful results, making nestling easily into the title of Horse of the Year for the show circuit’s association. It was decided spontaneously that his training would not continue and he would begin his breeding career. A friend of the manager of the Stud, who happened to be Xenia Werner’s trainer, found it to be a wasteful shame. He was offered the chance to purchase the horse, and he took the opportunity to the Werner family so they could consider it. Xenia was in need of a new partner to take her to the top and desired her own horse instead of one of her trainer’s, so her parents folded. They had to withdraw money from her college fund, but it wasn’t a terrible impact and they bought him for a hefty, yet reduced sum of 7,618 euros.
