As the youngest stallion, Vitalis is placed eleventh in the WBFSH ranking of the world's best dressage sires. He owes this top ranking to his offspring who are successful in Grand Prix, first and foremost to Vamos Amigos/Cathrine Dufour/DEN, team World Champion, double individual Vice World Champion, placed second in the World Cup and victorious in Aachen. First-Step Valentin/Larissa Pauluis/BEL, World and European Championship participant, Valesco, placed third in the Louisdor Prize and winner of the Otto-Lörke Prize, Valencia AS/both Fabienne Müller-Lütkemeier, placed second in the Louisdor Prize, and Valparaiso/Laura Strobel, Van der Veen/Carl Hedin/SWE, Valerias/Philipp Paradiso/ITA, Vom Feinsten/Maike Schreiner and Vanotti/Jasmin Schaudt are also worth mentioning. Vinay NRW/Ellen Richter/GER won the team gold medal in the U25 European Championships and won the gold medal in the U25 German Championships. In 2016, Victoria's Secret became World Champion in Ermelo/NED after winning the German Championships the year before. ZINQ First Vienna FH/Lucie-Anouk Baumgürtel was bronze medallist at the German Championships for young dressage horses. Valentin H/Ines Knoll won the gold medal at the DSP Championships and at the Baden-Württember Regional Championships (3y.o.). Violetta D won the silver medal and Vanilla Sky won the bronze medal. Weihvirgin (4y.o.) came second at the Oldenburg Regional Championships and Vital Hit Caledonia took the lead in the three-year-old stallion class.
The number of Vitalis' licensed sons now amounts to over 60, including our stallions Vitalos (Vice World Champion, German Champion and Hanoverian Champion), Viva Vitalis (Champion Stallion and third at his stallion performance test), Valverde NRW (Champion Stallion, triple Westphalian Champion, German Champion, fourth at the World Championships for young dressage horses and placed in Inter II), and Vogue (Westphalian Reserve Champion, 940,000-euro Stallion Market top price, stallion performance test winner, Hanoverian Champion and Danish premium stallion) as well as the stallions Villeneuve ( Reserve Champion, Vice World Champion of young dressage horses, third at the German Championships and eighth in the Burg Cup), Vaderland (Westphalian Reserve Champion and bronze medallist at the Regional Championships), Va’Pensiero (German and Hanoverian Champion), Vangelis (DSP Vice Champion), Geyer’s Vivendi (Austrian Warmblood Champion Stallion) and Obsession Taonga (KWPN stallion performance test winner), who clearly stand out.
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Vitalis was Vivaldi’s first licensed stallion. Vivaldi was Reserve Champion of his stallion performance test in the Netherlands. In 2007, he won the Pavo Cup for five-year-old dressage horses and in 2008 and 2009, ridden by Hans Peter Minderhoud/NED, he won the KNHS/KWPN stallion competition, where he was awarded 10 for his trot. He was then internationally successful up to Prix St. Georges. In 2013, he won the VHO trophy at the KWPN licensing. After that, he was predominantly used for breeding and Vivaldi produced numerous exceptional stallions, namely in the Netherlands with Desperado N.O.P./Emmelie Scholtens/NED, Glock’s Dream Boy N.O.P./Hans Peter Minderhoud/NED, Expression/Diederik van Silfhout/NED, Eye Catcher and Ferdinand, and in Germany with Van Vivaldi (Westphalian Reserve Champion), Versace (Oldenburg Reserve Champion), Cennin/Madeleine Witte-Vrees/NED (Oldenburg Ic main premium stallion), Veneziano/Daniel Bachmann Andersen/DEN (second Oldenburg Reserve Champion), Livaldon (Hanoverian premium stallion) as well as Vivino, record top price of the Stallion Market, sold for over two million euros and Hanoverian premium stallion.
His dam Tolivia was the three-year-old Champion Mare in the Netherlands. Vitalis’ full brother My Vitality is a Danish premium stallion and won the gold medal at the Danish Championships for four-year-old dressage horses in 2021. His second full brother One Two Three was a premium stallion at the KWPN licensing in 2022.
The dam’s sire D-Day was Oldenburg premium stallion in 1994, and winner of his stallion performance test in Neustadt/D in 1996. In sport, he won competitions up to Small Tour. From a breeding perspective, he particularly left his mark in the Netherlands and in Sweden.
The great-grand-sire Argus was successful in Grand Prix in dressage but also in show jumping and Aktion J, who follows in the fourth generation counts as one of the most successful dressage stallions of his generation ridden by Gyula Dallos/HUN.
