All that glitters is gold

This is his name and he keeps his promises: Gold Garant NRW, Bundeschampion and sire of not just one, but two winning foals in a row at the German Mare and Foal Championships in Lienen.

The name says it all

Gold Garant himself became an auction record holder as a foal and was the champion stallion at the NRW licensing two years later. His show career began in 2023 at the age of four. He won a series of victories and top three placings against both ponies and large horses. He became Westphalian Champion and qualified for the Bundeschampionat Final. Under Sophie Luisa Duen, he won both the warm-up test and the final in the Warendorf dressage arena, confidently leaving the previous year's champion in his wake: Bundeschampion. Gold for Gold Garant in the five-year-old dressage ponies 2024.

Gold Garant - and then nothing for a long time

Gold Garant was highly favored by breeders right from the start and he did not disappoint them. With his first crop in 2023, he presented the Champion Stallion and Champion Filly at the German Mare and Foal Championships in Lienen, as well as the Vice Champion Stallion. This year he went one better: winning foals in both divisions, plus second to fifth place and eighth and ninth place in the fillies and second place again in the stallions, as well as fifth and eighth place. It was a Gold Garant festival. When the ranking of the fillies was announced and the announcer announced the sixth-placed foal, he introduced it with the words: "... and now the first non-Gold Garant foal". Gold Garant is already his own brand. One that was supplemented by the honorable name suffix "NRW" as part of the Westphalian main licensing.

Gold in the blood

This is no coincidence! Gold Garant's sire Golden Grey can be traced back in direct line to multi-champion Golden Dancer, was himself reserve champion at his licensing, won silver twice at the Reitpony Bundeschampionat and most recently came seventh in the final of the six-year-old dressage ponies. He already has 18 licensed offspring to his name.

On the dam's side, the leading sires of dressage pony breeding worldwide join in. Gold Garant's dam, state premium mare Championata, is sired by FS Champion de Luxe and FS Don't Worry, both sires of numerous championship ponies who have paved the way for generations of young dressage riders to enter the sport. The pedigree is rounded off with Power Boy, a direct son of Downland Folklore, who had a significant influence on both German and Dutch riding pony breeding at the time. Power Boy himself produced FS Pavarottie, who was successful at medium** level and trained to advanced (S) level.

Other highly successful ponies in sport from the dam line of state premium mare Championata include Cipollini and Smoky. The licensed Top Champy, Crash Kid and Be Champion Supreme d'Eté also come from this dam line.