Ehrentusch
Born 1984, 171 cm
Breeder - Johann Lenzen

This is traditional Westfalien breeding, in an era where that studbook has basically been swamped with Hanoverian bloodlines. Ehrentusch’s sire, Ehrensold stood at the State Stud in Warendorf and was mainly used in the Rhineland area where he was a noted producer of competition horses. His most famous son is the dressage gelding, The Entertainer, first ridden at a World Cup final by Georg Theodorescu and later by both Reiner and Michael Klimke. But Ehrensold was also a solid producer of excellent showjumpers – his two stars being Italy’s Eileen with Giovanni Govoni and Switzerland’s Elastique with Willi Melliger.
Ehrentusch’s dam is the State’s Premium mare, Rheinfee, who was the reserve champion at Germany’s DLG show in 1989. She is also the dam of Klaus Balkenhol’s international dressage star, Ehrengold (also by Ehrensold). Her sire, Rheingold was the champion stallion of the Rhineland in 1977.He is by the well known dressage sire, Romadour II. Her maternal bloodline leads to the Artland mare dynasty of Amaltrud (by Almarich-Schwarzenberg) which has produced a number of state and private stallions.
Ehrentusch was the champion of the 1987 stallion performance test at Warendorf finishing first in both the dressage and jumping sections. At the 1989 DLG show is Frankfurt, he was reserve to Weltmeyer.
Ehrentusch has been a consistent sire of young horses at the Bundeschampionate – including Ecciavelle, Euro Design, I Cestelli and Espania. He has also produced a number of top priced auction horses, 33 state premium mares, and ten licensed sons including: ECU, Ehrentanz I & II, Ehrenwert, Edinburgh, Ehrenwort, Escobar, Externstein, Ehrenpreise and Ehrenmarsch, none of whom have exactly set the world on fire. But he has been a producer of really top dressage horses, like Etienne, a member of the bronze medal winning US team at the Sydney Olympics with Christine Traurig, and Egalite, ridden by Nina Stadlinger for Austria at the 2006 WEG… he has also produced the international carriage horse, Excalibur W, driven by Josef Dobrovitz for Hungary.