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The oldest Rubinstein progeny will be eleven years old in the year 2001. One can only speculate about the great things that the future has in store for them! Renoir, a nine-year old Oldenburg chestnut gelding demonstrated at a schooling performance at the federal championship of 2000 under his rider Ann-Kathrin Kroth, what grandiose collection ability and quality of movement he has in him. He is being celebrated as an absolutely exceptional horse. Relevant, a chestnut stallion with grand basic gaits was brought to peak performance under Nicole Uphoff, to win the 1998 Nuremburg Burgpokal (Cup). With a winnings of in excess of DM 16.000 in 1999, he was the most successful Rubinstein offspring in sport. At present he is being exclusively utilised for breeding purposes.

The exceptional horse Relevant with Leonie Bramall.

One would have wished the stallion many more years in his loose box in Cappeln as a sire, yet this was not to be. On the 18th of May, the stallion did not touch his feed and was checked up by a veterinarian who noticed a swollen testicle. In the veterinary clinic the diagnosis was a twisted testicle with colic like pain. Dr. Friedrich von Saldern was forced to remove a testicle. "Following that, the stallion was for all intents and purposes already on the way to improvement. We went to the pasture with him for grazing and he seemed quite sprightly" remembers Gudula Vorwerk-Happ who was quite hopeful after the operation. Yet suddenly his condition rapidly declined. Rubinstein got toxic laminitis on both front hooves, circulatory debility and on the 5th of June 2000 he had breathed his last breath. This was a sudden heavy blow for dressage horse breeding in Germany, Europe and the whole world.

Bernhard Drühe and Fiddi Möller bring the last
broodmares for Rubinstein .

Johann Hinnemann, the former federal trainer of the German dressage elite once said "when we consider a stallion of the century, we refer to Rubinstein. His hereditary transmission is unequalled in respect to rideability seating comfort, affability and preparedness to perform". Truly a legendary stallion" - and already part of the annals of history.

A sire of the century- in terms of type, interior qualities,
rideability and hereditary transmission :
Good Bye Rubinstein.