This stallion is shown for lineage purposes only and is not owned by First Flight Farm.

Sire: Donnerhall.
Dam: Alicante.

Privately owned stallion De Niro is the Hanoverian Stallion of the Year 2008. The Donnerhall/Akzent II-son was bred by Brigitte Pahl, Fockbek, and licensed in Verden in 1995. Since that time, he has been standing at Klosterhof Medingen. With this annual award, the Hanoverian Society and R+V/VTV insurance company honours important breeding stallions. At the Verden Stallion Market, breeder Brigitte Pahl was honored with the Wohlklang-statuette and a check.

De Niro was born in 1993, and at the Stallion Approval in Verden in 1995, he was already one of the most popular and fascinating stallions. One year later, the black youngster completed his stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf with the highest dressage score. Riding instructor Dolf-Dietram Keller trained him up to Grand Prix-level. In 2001, De Niro won the German Championships of professional riders and in 2003, the German Dressage Derby in Hamburg. Since 2006, he has been successfully competing with his young rider Theresa Wahler. De Niro's dam Alicante was successful up to medium level with Susanne Pahl, the breeder's daughter. She was an active brood mare for only a few years. The impressive result: Her four sons are successful competition horses, two of them, De Niro and his right brother Dimension, are approved stallions.

De Niro passes on his excellent rideability and fantastic movements as well as type and expression to his progeny. 1,341 offspring are registered with the Hanoverian Society. 14 of his 22 approved sons are registered with the first-class stallion book, 99 daughters were awarded state premium mare. He is the sire of 123 Verden auction foals and of 109 horses sold at riding horse auctions. 434 progeny achieved placements in the dressage ring up to advanced level and contributed to De Niro's fantastic dressage breeding evaluation of 147 points.

De Niro - Outstanding Sire Of Champions

De Niro is the dam sire of Hotline by Hofrat. Hotline won the 70-days test at Schliechau with a total score of 137.34. (Dressage was above 149 points). He received an award for being best stallion in Niedersachsen (Germany), at his performance test. Hotline was champion of the 2005 Hanoverian Stallion Licensing in Verden, Germany. His daughter De Nira is the dam of Hotline, the champion stallion of the Stallion Licensing in 2005. Hotline was the most expensive stallion ever sold at a breeding association's sales event. Donner de Nero is the dam of the reserve champion of the Stallion Licensing in 2007, Fürst Nymphenburg, who won the stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf in 2008.

De Niro is an extremely popular sire in Germany due to his outstanding movements, extremely high rideability and beautiful type. He scored an impressive 145.42 in rideability at his 100-Day Test finishing 2nd. His foals are consistently elegant, modern type, show excellent conformation as well as outstanding movement. His first foal crop got an overall note of 9 by the Oldenburg commission and based on the exceptional quality of his foals, he received the "Hauptprämiensieger" (Main Premium Champion) award in 1997. From his first foal crop, four of his sons were licensed; one in Westphalia, one in Hannover, who was taken into the first lot by the State Stud Celle and two in Oldenburg, both of which were sold for very high prices to Sweden. He now has the prestigious honor of being named as the 2008 Hanoverian Stallion of the Year.

De Niro - Grand Prix Dressage Champion

In 1999, De Niro won many dressage shows at the Fourth Level and has qualified more than once for the German "Bundeschampionate". Today, De Niro continues to advance in dressage while competing at the FEI levels. He has been winning at the Grand Prix Level since he was a seven year old and at 8 years of age won the Grand Prix Special with the top score of 73.22%.