Esperanza was selected for the Verden Elite Foal Auction, where she stood out due to her superb movement and good conformation. Only the best foals in Germany are selected for this yearly prestige event. She is a tall (end height 172cm), very elegant, pretty mare, the size and shape we breed for.
Esperanza's sire, the Celle State Stud owned black stallion, Earl, has been proclaimed Best Hanoverian Stallion Born in 1999 in the Niedersachsenhalle in Verden, Germany. Earl is by Escudo out of Ladina (by Lanthan x Aragorn). The same dam line produced dressage horse Whitney (by Watzmann) and the licensed stalion Wittfield (by Watzmann).
In 2002, Earl became the champion of the 2002 Stallion Performance Test. He scored 143.91 overall; 139.93 (2) in dressage and 127.55 (3) in jumping. He is known for the good movement and conformation of his offspring.
Earl's sire, Escudo I was the winner of the stallion performance test in 1994 and achieved a convincing 144.90 points in the jumping category. He is a son of the Celle State stallion Espri, who is known worldwide for producing outstanding jumping horses. Escudo I exhibited phenomenal jumping talent at testing and won the six-year-old Jumper Champion title in 1997. He was also the winner of several show jumping competitions at "S" level in 1999. Escudo I is outstanding in type and expression, is well-muscled and has excellent gaits. So far, Escudo I has produced convincing crops of foals, including several winning foals at regional foal shows and the top price foal of the Verden Spring Auction in 1998.
Earl's dam sire is Lanthan. For a very long time Hanoverian breeders have preferred the elegant Lanthan as a producer of excellent dressage horses. But he also has proven to be an important sire of jumping horses. Because of these successes, Lanthan was for many years placed first in the overall breed values of the National Equestrian Federation (FN). Over his breeding career Lanthan has produced many successful performance horses as well as 15 licensed sons and 65 state's premium mares. His offspring are mostly beautiful horses with elastic movements and a great rideability. They are known for being typy, with good interior attributes and above average rideability. He has sired many conformation champions in Germany and his daughters and their descendants are noted broodmares. The high percentage of Thoroughbred blood in his pedigree makes him a valuable performance and refinement sire. In 1999 Lanthan was the stallion with the highest breeding value in his age-group.
Gibraleon, is Esperanza's dam sire. Gibraleon establish himself firmly in the Hanoverian breed by way of exceedingly noble horses of excellent type. Gibraleon's dam, Top of Tower was herself a good show jumper and derives from the 1981 Adelheidsdorf stallion performance test winner and DLG stallion Titus. The supreme transmitter of type, Absatz appears in the third generation. His progeny were choice dressage show jumping horses. Gibraleon had a number of placements in conformation classes in 1993 and absolved the stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf as sixth out of 53 contenders in performance class I, receiving a points score of 9.0 or for all criteria concerned with show jumping. Gibraleon has thus far been successful in show jumper competitions up to and including intermediate class. In 1995 he was champion Hanoverian five year old show jumper at the Dobrock, whilest in 1996 he was placed third in the Hanoverian six year old show jumping championships. He was a federal championship contestant in both years, receiving a high placement in 1996. In 1997 and 1998 he first started at advanced class and here too almost instantaneously had wins and high placements.
Gibraneon’s first batch of foals resulted in a group winner in the two year old class at the Lilienthal Mare Show. He has moreover presented three state premium mares to date. In addition, he also presented a number of entries at the Verden elite foal auctions. In 1997 he presented the winning foal of the Ahlden foal show. His oldest offspring are enjoying successes in elementary sport and the approved stallion Godefroot was a finalist at the Federal German show jumping championship in the year 2000.
