Stallions
VITO DIMA (imp)
Premium Awarded Fully Licensed German Riding Pony Stallion
VITO DIMA is a approved and registered with westphalian Studbook, ACE Studbooks Inc., AHSA (Arabian part-bred 28.6%) and WPCSOA (welsh part-bred 25.25%).
Born 2008
colour: bay diluted buckskin
Height: 147.75 cm / 14,2 1/8 hh
Breeder: Arno Leufkens, Germany
Owner and Rider: Anne-Katrin Liebe
VITO DIMA the elegant and impressive son of VOYAGER, was clearly one of the crown favorites at the 2010 Stallion Licensing in Wickrath, Germany. He is a strikingly beautiful German Riding Pony Stallion with great train-ability. VITO DIMA is a brilliant modern type with top quality movement, sensational temperament and exceptional conformation. His fantastic ridability and high aptitude for dressage and eventing make him best suitable for breeding dressage and multi-talented performance ponies or smaller horses. His dam COSIMA is by FS CHAMPION DE LUXE who is multi talented and was the federal champion at the 2001 and 2002 German Federal Championships.
VITO DIMA has boundless talent, stamina, fantastic ridability and combines some of the best versatile German Riding Pony bloodlines available in Germany and Australia to date.
VITO DIMA (imp) was awarded many Champion titles in 2016 he was awarded NSW Arabian State Titles Champion, Derivative Novice Dressage, NSW Arabian State Titles Champion Elementary Dressage, NSW Novice Dressage Pony Reserve Champion. In2015 vITO DAMA was the winner of the pony of the year placed every Elementary Dressage test entered achieving a high score of 73% and in 2014 he was awarded Hawkesbury Novice Dressage Pony Champion, Hawkesbury Dressage Highest Scoring Pony, Hawkesbury Show Preliminary Dressage Pony Champion.
Watch VITO DIMA on Youtube performing in 2015 Elementary Dressage at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcftXzXnjAw , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAB7fSG2YfM and in 2010 at the Rhineland GRP Stallion Licensing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5Ekcc9MTcw.
Download 2022-23 Breeding Agreement GRP stallion VITO DIMA (imp)
Semen Supply $1,870 inc GST (fresh and chilled), $870 per dose inc GST (frozen)
Pedigree of VITO DIMA (imp)
He is by VOYAGER and out of the main stud book mare COSIMA by FS CHAMPION DE LUXE.
His sire VOYAGER is the winner of German Riding pony 30 day stallion performance testing 2004 in Muenster-Handorf, Germany. He is licensed for Weser Ems, Westfalen and Rheinland in Germany. He has boundless talent, endurance and character. Voyager was named Federal Champion of both Eventing and Dressage at the 2006 German Federal Championships (Bundeschampionate) in Warendorf. It was the first time in history of the German Federeral Championships that a pony or horse was named Federal Champion in two different disciplines.
He was also the 2005 Federal Champion in Eventing at the German Federal Championships. Voyager was the Champion at the 2011 Pony-dressage Derby in Hamburg. In 2012 he was named Reserve Pony Champion at the CD13* in Austria.
He has been siring two approved sons and seven state premium mares so far. His sire Vivaldi is a well-respected Westphalian German Riding Pony stallion by Valiant Starlight out of Nica by Nathan.
Success of sire: VOYAGER
- Westfalen Champion 2003
- Nordrhein-Westfalen Reserve Champion 2003
- Westfalen Reserve Champion 2004
- Federal Champion Eventing at the German Federal Championships (Bundeschampionate) in Warendorf 2005
- Federal Champion Dressage at the German Federal Championships in Warendorf 2006
- Federal Champion Eventing at the German Federal Championships in Warendorf 2006
- Winner Rheinland Championship Dressage 2008
- Winner Nordrhein-Westfalen Dressage Foerder Cup Mettmann 2008
Watch VOYAGER at his cross country course and dressage test at the 2006 German Federal Championships in Warendorf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM93NkZulo0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Enj_BLwbIg&feature=related
Watch FS Champion de Luxe at his dressage test and the show in Germany.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txNbTkjftiQ on Youtube
His granddam Verb.Pr.St. KELLY is by the well-respected stallion KAISERJAEGER xx one of the most influental thouroughbreds of the German Riding Pony breeding in Germany. He has sired twenty approved sons, among them the German Riding Pony stallions Kentucky and Kaiserstern.
KAISERJAEGER xx is also the sire of Kaiserwalzer, King Bjuti and Kaiserstolz all are winner of the 30 day stallion performance testing. His son the German Riding Pony stallion Kennedy WE competed successfully at advanced level dressage and was a finalist at the German Federal Championships in Warendorf.
German Riding Pony stallion VITO DIMA (imp)
The imported premium licensed German Riding Pony stallion VITO DIMA will be available for the 2022-23 breeding season via fresh, chilled and frozen semen.
If you wish to breed your mare or you wish to purchase a foal in utero to one of our mares and to order a breeding agreement contact the office.
Broodmares and foals
The German Riding Pony Breed
The German Riding Pony (Deutsches Reitpony) is the smaller version of a competitive athletic german warmblood maintaining the type and character of a pony, that is able to perform successfully in the dressage arena, the show jumping course and the cross-country course.
The German Riding Ponies are ridden by children, adolescents and smaller adults. In Germany a very active pony competition scene in the disciplines dressage, showjumping and eventing has developed. Competitions for German Riding Ponies are held in all disciplines at regional, national and international level.
Pony competitions or tournaments are popular in continental Europe and German Riding Ponies are shown by riders up to sixteen years of age. Major pony tournaments include the German Youth Championships, the European Championships and the Preis der Besten.
Presently the height limit for pony competitions is 149 cm including shoes. Smaller adults compete German Riding Ponies successfully in open competition classes against horses. Very popular as an equestrian sport partner for smaller adults are the overheight German Riding Ponies from 150 cm to 155 cm.
Under experienced and talented riders the German Riding Pony competes with great success up to advanced level, for example the overheight German Riding Pony Stallion FS Pearcy Pearson who placed fifth in Grand-Prix Dressage.
In the sixties the breeding associations and pony breeders wanted to create a larger pony breed that would be suitable for children to compete at national and international competitions in all disciplines.
In 1965 the breeding of the German Riding Pony began and first attempts to cross thouroughbred to fjord or arabian to haflinger did not lead to the desired results. The breed started off when the german pony breeders imported british ponies like the welsh ponies from England.
They began to cross the british pony, particularly welsh ponies, to arabians, anglo-arabians and thouroughbreds. By 1975 a German Riding Pony type was developed. The type includes a small head, large and lively eyes with small ears, a clean throat latch, a long, well-set neck, pronounced withers and long croup. The movement should be correct, rhythmic, spacious and elastic with distinct impulsion from the hindquarters. The systematic selection of the breed over the first twenty years has led to a pony that is athletic, elegant, intelligent and well-dispositioned.
To further improve the breed the breeding associations developed a system of performance testing for German Riding Pony stallions and mares, like the Stallion Licensing. Young quality German Riding Pony stallions are presented at a two day Stallion Licensing of a stud book association of each state like Rheinland or Westfalen.
Stallions that are approved to be licensed are then entered into a stallion stud book. Only the best stallions at each Stallion Licensing get awarded a premium title. Quality German Riding Pony mares are tested for and entered into a stud book or main stud book and through a mare performance testing quality mares can achieve a premium title (St.Pr.St., Verb.Pr.St. or Verb.El.St.).
In Germany the best young German Riding Ponies and German Riding Horses from all states compete anually at the German Federal Championships (Bundeschampionate).
The German Riding Ponies and horses aged three to six compete in dressage, showjumping and eventing. The three and four year old German Riding Pony competition classes are broken into stallion and mare plus gelding classes and the riders are not allowed to weight more than sixty-two kilogramms including the competition dress. In Germany the most successful German Riding Ponies are bred and trained in the states Rheinland, Westfalen and Weser-Ems.
