Brentano Ultimo has been started for Dressage Training at Whispering Dream Farm in Florida

Ocala April 28, 2009. One week after famous US Dressage Horse Brentina under Debbie McDonald has been retired in an emotional ceremony during ROLEX World Cup Finals 2009 in Las Vegas, Brentina’s half-brother, the 3 year-old Hanoverian Brentano Ultimo has been carefully started for Dressage at Whispering Dream Farm in Florida.

While still under the emotions of the touching tribute event at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Alice Stuebling-Salm, owner of Brentano Ultimo said that it might be time to start this young horse with the prominent heritage getting him to see the arena.

Brentano Ultimo sired by famous Brentano II and out of dam sire Weltmeyer cannot deny his family relation to the most celebrated Dressage horse in US history. The 16.2 chestnut gelding just differs by one less white sock than his legendary half-sister but otherwise is the perfect match by his exterior.

Brentano Ultimo was born in 2006 at a small farm near Ankum, Germany when Alice Stuebling-Salm had traveled to Germany acquiring a two-year old Rotspon offspring. Seeing the Brentano offspring she immediately fell in love with the 4-months old Hanoverian colt and bought him right on the spot. She kept him for a few more weeks with her mother and a sister foaled a year earlier before she moved him to close by Rudi Rehkamp’s stable in Bersenbrueck, Germany. He already had successfully started the Rotspon offspring for Alice and they were trusted for their personal attention for each and every young horse.

Traveling frequently to Germany, Alice checked on the development of young Brentano several times a year. Brentano Ultimo – who got this name since he is one of the last offspring of both now retired Brentano II and dam sire Weltmeyer – was making great progress while still being playful and enjoying the lush pastures of the Emsland region in northern Germany.

“At the time Alice picked him up in December, I had 37 young stallions at my stable. All by outstanding heritage. But no one compared to the young Brentano”, says Rudi Rehkamp, owner of Rehkamp’s Training Stable in Bersenbrueck, Germany. “Brentano Ultimo is truly a once-in-a-lifetime horse and I’m sure that we all will hear back from him in the future”.

But according to Alice Stuebling-Salm, only time will show if Brentano Ultimo will fit into the big foot-steps left by famous half-sister Brentina in the Dressage World.

Company Profile:

Whispering Dream Farm of Ocala/Morriston, Florida is a Dressage Training facility owned by Dressage Rider Alice Stuebling-Salm. Whispering Dream is a 100 acre Horse Training Farm just a few miles west of HITS showgrounds of Ocala – The Horse Capital of the World. Alice Stuebling-Salm, who also owns FARMSCOUT.COM Realty, a brokerage company specialized in Horse Properties and Florida Farms, was training with horses in Germany before she moved to reside permanently and train horses in Florida in 2001. As a German-American Dressage enthusiast she focuses on helping making Dressage even more popular in the North-Central Florida region. While Whispering Dream is also devoted to rescue a variety of horses – mainly Quarter and Paint Horses – it is also home of some exceptional Hanoverians: 16 year old Hanoverian Limbo King has been showed successfully at FEI levels, Rehkamp’s Opal from Germany, a 5 year old sired by Rotspon, has been carefully started under Alice with the support of well-known trainers such as Anne Gribbons and Siegfried Winkler and last not least Brentano Ultimo, sired by famous Brentano II out of dam-sire Weltmeyer. Brentano Ultimo is a three-year old half-brother of the most celebrated US Dressage Horse Brentina ridden by Debbie McDonald and owned by Peggy and Parry Thomas. Brentina has just been retired at the Las Vegas Rolex FEI World Cup Finals 2009. Brentano Ultimo is one of the last offspring of retired Brentano II and in 2006 retired Weltmeyer.

Media Relation and Executive VP:

Alice Stuebling-Salm
Whispering Dream Farm
1991 SE 195th Terr
Morriston, Fl 32668
U.S.A.

Phone: +1 352 342 6469
Fax: +1 501 325 8691
www.whisperingdream.com
alice@whisperingdream.com

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