Three-times reserve world champion and second place in the Burg Pokal series
Vitalos received the only perfect 10 in the Dressage World Breeding Championships for Young Horses seven year-old final for his super-smooth trot and excellent balance and cadence – both in collection and extension. He also received highest scores of the competition for his uphill canter and his outstanding potential: a 9.5 in each case. The judges were full of praise for the harmony, elegance, light-footedness, weight-carrying ability and rideability of this model sports horse – awarding 91.800 percent for quality. This gave Vitalos his 3rd silver medal at the Dressage World Breeding Championship for Young Horses as a 7 year-old with trainer and rider Leonie Richter. He had previously won silver medials in the five and six year-old championships with scores of 91.386 and 88.400 percent respectively. The highlight of Vitalos’ 2024 season was second place in the Burg-Pokal final, where he was one of the youngest horses in this prestigious competition to find Germany’s most talented young horses. At the same event he won the “Siegerpreis” freestyle class with a score of 9.2. At the tender age of four, Vitalos won a gold medal at German Bundeschampionat with a record-breaking overall score of 9.6 (10 for rideability). He also won the Hanoverian Championship and completed his performance test in Denmark with the highest score in his age group, another perfect 10.
Vitalos also made positive headlines with his first foals. His son Vitalo GA stands out from his numerous top foals, who went to the final ring at the German Foal Championships and was subsequently sold at a high price at auction.
The father Vitalis himself was colt winner in the Netherlands in 2007, reserve winner of the NRW licensing in 2009, stallion performance test dressage index winner in 2010, placed at the Dressage World Breeding Championships for Young Horses and in the Pavo Cup Final in 2012, champion in the USA in 2013 and qualified for the World Championship again with a record number of points and won the international Small Tour at the age of seven in 2014. Back in Germany in 2016, Vitalis won the Nuremberg Burg-Pokal Final in Frankfurt under Isabel Freese/NOR and the Stallion of the Year competition at Inter I level at the World Championships in Ermelo/NED.
Vitalos’ younger half-brother Franzeniro DXB (by Franziskus) was successful in the international young horse tour of Kronenberg/NED and Deauville/FRA.
Damsire De Niro, himself already successful in Grand Prix classes as an eight-year-old and winner of the Hamburg Dressage Derby under riding master Dolf-Dietram Keller, led the WBFSH ranking list of the best dressage sires worldwide for six years in a row. His championship offspring: Desperados FRH/Kristina Bröring-Sprehe, Dablino/Anabel Balkenhol, D'Agostino FRH/Fabienne Müller-Lütkemeier, Delgado/Beatriz Ferrer-Salat/ESP, Voice/Edward Gal/NED, Deep Impact/Severo Jurado Lopez/ESP and Darco of De Niro ZS CH/Charlotte Lenherr/SUI. More than 260 advanced-level dressage horses registered in Germany alone collected over 3.4 million euros in prize money for their sire. With over 100 licensed sons, the Hanoverian Stallion of the Year 2008 had a lasting influence on breeding.The stallions Wanderbursch II and Askan follow in third and fourth place in the pedigree.
The great granddam Antje also produced the mare Waleska (by Wolkentanz I), who sired the licensed stallion Destination MS (by Destano).
Hanoverian line of Aina, which also produced the stallions Allegro (by Augustinus xx) and Fabriano (by Wendulan).
Dream mark 10 (trot, rideability)
