The sire
EH Münchhausen TSF was the champion of his approval in 1997, a top scorer at his stallion performance test, won the National Riding Horse Championships, placed at the Bundeschampionat, won the Reserve World Champion title at the FEI Young Dressage Horse Championships in Verden and finally, in 2005, was selected for the Danish Team and participated at both the European Championships in Hagen/Germany, as well as the CHIO Aachen with his Danish rider Fie Skarsoe. A popular sire from the very beginning, he is approved for almost all European Stud Books and has several approved sons in Westfalia, and Sambatänzer, Meraldik and Mon Baron in the Trakehner breed. Many of his daughters have received premium scores and with his first crop of riding horses coming into the right age now, several pop up as excellent dressage talents, e.g. the gelding Garbor (Bundeschampionat 2005) or the mare Media Luna (FEI World Championships, Bundeschampionat and now at S level). Münchhausen TSF is the most successful of the many EH Hohenstein sons in the breed so far. His dam Mohnblüte is an in hand champion mare and her sire, the black Königsstein, although not known very well, has made a name for himself. Second dam sire Arrak was a direct Ibikus son and produced horses for the highest levels in all three disciplines, e.g. the Olympic dressage horse Merlin TSF with Carolin Hatapla/Austria.
The dam
Dam sire Pentathlon xx also sired the TB approved Limbo xx, the Trakehner and Hanoverian approved Frescobaldi xx and the stallion Don Pedro xx, who in turn sired the Angloarabian jumper stallion Dorpas AA, who has left some significant daughters for the Trakehner breed over the years. The falling mare family carries some of the biggest and most important German TB lines after WWII like Orsini xx, Birkhahn xx and Oleander xx. Dam line of the TB approved Garzer xx, Girlandajo xx, and Garofalo xx.
Photo by Werner Ernst
