Silver lake (horse)
| Silver lake | |
| Race: | Selle Français |
| Father: | Silver Matal xx |
| Mother: | Cibelle |
| Mother, father: | Quastor |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1973 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Colour: | Mould |
| Owner: | Holstein Association |
| Equestrian: | Michael Rüping |
Silbersee (born May 23, 1973 ) was a French gray stallion of the Selle Français breed . He was used as a stallion in Holstein horse breeding and was one of the most successful show jumpers in the world in the 1980s. The hallmark of this stallion was the frequent wedging with the hind legs between the individual obstacles.
Silbersee was licensed in Holstein in 1976 . At the stallion performance test, however, he presented himself poorly, he only just passed the 100-day test and completely resisted jumping. Nevertheless, the Holsteiner Verband placed him at the Siethwende stallion station near Elmshorn, but hardly any breeder wanted to use the stallion. This should change after he came under the saddle of Michael Rüping and was the most successful stallion in German competition as early as 1982 with twelve S-jumping competitions. In 1984 his internationally coveted frozen semen cost 1000 DM. His rider Michael Rüping called Silbersee an "individualist" whose characteristics, which made him an outstanding jumper, became more and more apparent the more he recognized his peculiarities and responded to them.
In 1983, Silbersee had already won DM 142,400 as a jumper. In 1985 he was German champion and winner of the Grand Prix of Aachen, in 1987 he won the German Jumping Derby in Hamburg and was by the readers of Reiter Revue for Horse of the Year chosen. Soon after, he was sold to Sweden.
About his son Silvester, he is the grandfather of the Holstein dressage stallion Silvano, who won silver in the team classification at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney with his Dutch rider Ellen Bontje .
Successes as a show jumping horse
- 1985: Winner of the Aachen Grand Prix
- 1985: German champion
- 1987: Winner of the jumping derby in Hamburg Klein-Flottbek
literature
- Holger Heck, Lars Gehrmann: The most famous horses in Germany. Jumping, dressage, eventing. Ahnert, Friedberg 1984, ISBN 3-921142-53-9 .