1991 – 2014 164 cm Chestnut

Breeder: Gerd Luhr

Wolkentanz is very much a product of the family Lühr who live in Borgholzhausen in Westphalia. Gerd Lühr and his wife, Ursula are devoted to their Hanoverian breeding program.

For Gerd it is a family tradition: “My father had 80 horses. He also had one of the first privately owned stallion stations after the war.”

Walter Lühr’s homebred stallions included Aristides by Anteil/Wanderfalke, Pascha by Pikant/Wanderfalke as well as Prince Rouge xx by Rouge et Noir xx/Astrophel xx, a stallion bred in France, names in the pedigrees of the family-owned mares today.

Gerd Lühr took over the Hanoverian breeding stock from his father in 1975. The most influential mare of the breeding program is Feurige by Furioso II out of a Hanoverian stud- book mare by Agram. She has only had six foals including two geldings which successfully compete at the S-level. Rene Tebel successfully competed Giorgio Armani by Grandissimo on the jumper circuit and April by Aristides placed in dressage. Feurige who also delivered St. Pr. mare Artige by Aristides is the grand dam of St. Pr. mare Lovely by Ludendorff. Lovely is the dam of Wolkentanz I and II.

Wolkentanz I born 1991 is a ‘Sunday child’. He was a correct foal with good basic gaits but was a bit too small. State stud manager Dr. Burchard Bade evaluated him at the inspection, “That is the way how a horse should move.”

Wolkentanz I remained on the farm because of his size until Heinrich Lampe, who was the President of the Association for Ponies and Small Horses in Hanover and who also was the brother-in-law, bought the small chestnut for his daughter Stefanie. The buyers and the breeders believed in the powerfully moving and impressive youngster. Martin Berkenbusch raised him. He was accepted for the stallion inspection in Verden. Before Stefanie Lampe was able to decide whether or not she wanted to sell him state stud manager Dr. Bade had already secured the young stallion for the state stud. Wolkentanz I was in the first lot of the State Stud Celle, became champion stallion of the Hanoverian licensing in 1993 and Bundeschampion in Warendorf in 1994. He successfully completed the stallion performance test with an overall score of 133,78 and became the best sire of his vintage in 1995.

Wolkentanz’s dam line also produced the full brothers, Chasseur I (Celle State Stud) and Chasseur II (Dillenburg State Stud), Weltblick (private stallion in Oldenburg) and the state premium mare Waikiki (by Werther), a prolific winner at mare shows. Wolkentanz’s full-sister, Weiße Rose, won her age class at the Louis Wiegels Show in 1994. Another full sister, Wolkentänzerin when bred to Brentano II, produced the young Celle stallion, Ballettmeister – Reserve champion of his performance test at Adelheidsdorf in 2006. The dam sire, Ludendorff produced both dressage horses and jumpers.

Wolkentanz won the Three Year Old Stallion class at the Bundeschampionate in 1994, and stood at Celle until 2014.

In the 2017 Hanoverian Stallion book, Wolkentanz I is has a dressage score of 132 with a jumping value of 83. He has an FN dressage value of 141 on the young horse breeding values, and a value of 134 for the ‘big sport’. He has produced 545 competitors with winnings of €553,360. He produced five dressage competitors with winnings of more than €10,000 – by far the most successful being Wito Corleone who won €61, 788

In the 2018 book, he has 554 competitors with €583,101 in earnings. Forty six dressage horses have reached S level. Five of his progeny have earned more than €10,000, easily the most successful being Wito Corleone with €62,273. Wolkentanz I has a Hanoverian dressage value of 130, and a jumping value of 83. He scores 114 for type, and 146 for limbs, with an excellent 154 for correctness.

His FN value as a sire of young dressage horses is 139, as a sire of open competition horses, 133.

The 2019 Hanoverian book has him with 560 competitors, winning €594,558. Wolkentanz I has produced five horses that have won more that €10,000, the most successful of which was Wito Corleone with €62,573.

He is the sire of 21 licensed stallions.