What's New
August 1999

Additional Horses for Ashanti Farm

Gabriele and Manfred of Ashanti Farm purchased an additional Stallion in Germany. His name is "Exupery", a 5-year old Oldenburg who won the German Championship in Warendorf, Germany in 1997 for 4-year old Stallions. He arrived in Vienna on May 5, 1998, where Mr. Arthur Kottas-Heldenberg, who is the First Rider of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, agreed to train him. Arthur’s daughter, Caroline, who is a very talented young rider, will show him, once he is ready for shows. The plan is to leave Exupery with Arthur for many years to come to give him the best education in dressage available today and make him a possible future champion. It is also planed that Arthur will visit Ashanti Farm in the future, at least once a year, where he will give clinic’s and train the riders and handlers of Ashanti Farm to achieve European standards in breeding, training, and upbringing of young horses. One of Arthur’s colleagues from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna will visit Ashanti Farm occasionally to teach our riders and possibly hold clinics.

We will announce Arthur's visits at Ashanti Farm well in advance on our web site and through advertising.  Those interested will be able to make reservations for clinics and auditing.

Frozen semen of Exupery is now available. We received semen from the Veterinarian University in Vienna, Austria and stored it at our farm. Inquires are welcome!

Exupery, ridden by Patricia Kottas-Heldenberg, entered their first show (small tour) in Kottingbrunn, Austria on March 27 & 28, 1999 and they won L4 with 67%, LM3 with 65%, L2 with 70% and LM2 with 72%. Patricia and Exupery were the stars of the tournament.

Gabriele and Manfred have purchased a Stallion with the name "Carreras".  He is seven years old, of Polish descent and scored over 86% in the Championships for five year old Stallions in Poland. We purchased this Stallion from Ulrich Kasselmann in Hagen, Germany.

Carreras, stabled and trained in Vienna at Arthur Kottas-Heldenberg stables, competed from May 21 to May 24 at the CDN-A Vienna-Freudenau tournament ridden by Caroline Kottas-Heldenberg.  He placed 2^nd at the M-Class and 5^th at the Prix St Georges with scores of 66.57% and 65.58% in a very deep footing.  At the second test for the Junior European Championships on June 11 to June 13, 1999, Caroline and Carreras placed 4^th, 2^nd and 3^rd with scores of 67.40%, 69.00% and 70.00% and therefore qualified for the Junior Championships in August in Austria.

Fameux, the 8 year old Oldenburg, also currently stabled and trained in Vienna at Arthur Kottas-Heldenberg stables is doing very well too.  Caroline and Fameux won the M-class of the CDA-A tournament on May 21, 1999 with a score of 68.10%.

Congratulations to Caroline, Carreras, Fameux and Arthur, who does an incredible job in training his daughters and the horses into top performers. We are proud of you guys.

Riviera, had a filly. Her name is Windsong and she was born on February 7, 1999 and is very beautiful.  We will post pictures on the website very soon.  You can find more info under paragraph "Newborn Foals".

Ashanti Farm has also purchased Waleska M (a premium Hanoverian Mare) and her Baby Amidala from a breeder in Celle, Germany.  They arrived in Virginia in early May and are doing very well.

Schindelhof

"Schindelhof", Evelyn Haim/Swarovski’s breeding farm in Austria was Riviera’s, Alfa Romea’s and Prima Ballerina’s home. Evelyn breeds the finest Austrian Warmblood Horses for Dressage and Jumping. Schindelhof is also the home of the young Stallion "Weinkoenig". Weinkoenig is a son of "Weltmeier", the famous Dressage Stallion. Riviera pregnant to Weinkoenig and is due to foal in early February. We are all looking forward to the new baby.

Please send inquiries regarding Dressage horses for sale from Austria to Ashanti Farm.

Relocation of Ashanti Farm

Ashanti Farm relocated to Gordonsville, Virginia on October 1, 1998.

The Ashanti Farm facilites in Naples, Florida are listed for sale. For inquiries, please contact Michael Ferencsik, Arvida Realty at (941) 777-1576.

Upcoming events

We will announce upcoming events in time.

Derringer

Derringer arrived back home on June 15, 1999 and he looks extremely fit.  Thank you Steve Kanikkeberg for training him so well.

We have asked Arthur Kottas to come and evaluate him.  Arthur and Patricia are coming on July 21, 1999 to ride and evaluate Derringer and Delacroix.  There is a good possibility that both horses might go to Europe to be trained by Arthur and shown by Patricia.  Patricia, Arthur’s daughter is currently training Exupery.   Since Exupery is still very young and just starting to be shown, we would like Patricia to have a second horse for showing.

Derringer in the media

Look for Derringer in the stallion issues of "The Chronicle of the Horse, Dressage Today and USET News".  He was featured in December 1998 issue of those publications. For more articles check out Derringer in the Media.

Newborn Foals

On February 7, 1999, one of Ashanti Farm’s mares, Riviera, a beautiful Hanoverian we purchased in Austria, gave birth to a filly sired by Weinkoenig, a son of Weltmeyer. We've named this filly Windsong. She is very beautiful. The birth occurred at 9:30 P.M. much to the delight of the staff and owners and everything proceeded like clockwork. The whole birthing process took approximately twenty minutes and it wasn't five minutes after the foal was on her feet that the mare had her nursing. The foal was handled briefly at the time of birth for imprinting, which did not interfere with the natural process that the mare and foal need to experience for normal, healthy bonding. This foal entered the world with a healthy appetite, a good nature and gentle disposition. She is happy, sensible and tolerant and enjoys the company of people. Windsong is a very leggy gray with two white socks and a star and snip on her nose. She is beautiful, elegant, athletic and crispy. Around her eyes her color is turning black. We are certain that she will mature to be a fantastic horse.

Be sure and browse our web site. We've added new photos of Derringer and we've been contacting people who have bred to Derringer in the past so that we might place some more photos of his offspring on the site.

Ashanti Farm is growing day by day and developing into a center dedicated to the well being of the horse and enlightenment of horse people. We hope that we will meet you some day at Ashanti Farm.

We have several job openings at the farm.  See our Help Wanted page for details.

Be sure and check back every month to find out "what's new" at Ashanti Farm!

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