Sleep Late

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Sleep Late
Race: British sport horse
Father: Kuwait beach xx
Mother: Fast Asleep xx
Mother, father: Evening Trial xx
Gender: gelding
Year of birth: 1991
Year of death: 2012
Country: Germany
Colour: Mould
Equestrian: Ingrid Klimke , Frederike Weitkamp

Sleep Late (* 1991 ; † November 30, 2012 ) was a successful eventing horse .

The gray gelding Sleep Late was a British sport horse ( Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain ), his father was the stallion Kuwait Beach xx , his dam mare Fast Asleep was descended from the thoroughbred stallion Evening Trial xx . Sleep Late was born at the age of 3 by Dr. Annette and Dr. Peter Wyrwoll imported to Germany from Great Britain and joined Ingrid Klimke in 1998 . Sleep Late was nicknamed Blue in the Klimke stable .

Ridden by Ingrid Klimke, Sleep Late took part in the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004 as well as in the European Championships in 1999 and 2005.

Sleep Late was retired from sport in Münster in 2007 and was then only ridden by Ingrid Klimke's mother Ruth for leisure purposes. In May 2010 he returned from retirement and was first presented at the CCI 1 * Everswinkel by Frederike Weitkamp, ​​who previously rode ponies. Supported by Ingrid Klimke, she took part with Sleep Late in the German junior championship. After taking part in international CIC / CCI 1 * exams, he was finally taken out of the sport and was allowed to spend his life in the paddock from then on. He died at the end of November 2012.

Greatest successes

  • 1998 World Champion of young eventing horses in Le Lion d'Angers
  • 1999 1st place German championships eventing
  • 2000 1st place German championship eventing
  • 2000 Participation in the Olympic Games in Sydney (4th place team competition / 2nd place team test)
  • 2000 1st place in the ranking of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses in the eventing category
  • 2004 Participation in the Olympic Games in Athens (4th place team ranking)
  • 2004 3rd place German championship eventing
  • 2005 silver German professional equestrian championship eventing
  • 2005 Bronze individual ranking at the European Championships in Blenheim
  • 2006 2nd place CCI **** Badminton

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FEI horse database: Sleep Late
  2. ↑ Derived from Sleep Late , hippomundo.com
  3. ↑ Ruth Klimke turns 70 ( Memento from April 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), www.horseweb.de, April 29, 2010
  4. ↑ Do it again, Blue ( Memento from December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), www.buschreiter.de
  5. ^ Horses: Sleep Late (Blue) , www.klimke.org
  6. ↑ Ingrid Klimke's Sleep Late is dead , St. Georg , November 30, 2012

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