
Dio Domingo dominating horse of the Summer Auction
Don Frederico-son sold at Euro 35,000
A Celle state stud stallion is the sire of the top-priced horse of the Verden Summer Auction 2008: Don Frederico. With an auction sales price of Euro 35,000, his son Dio Domingo was the best horse of the collection.
The dark-brown horse with the convincing, elastic and swinging movements and the exceptional basic gaits will now be trained in North Rhine-Westphalia. August Struss from Elze bred Dio Domingo out of a Rotspon/Galvano-dam.
Skywalker by Stakkato/Espri (breeder: Manfred Gerlad, Ahnsbeck) was the top-priced show jumping horse of this collection. He will move to Bavaria.
108 Hanoverian riding horses were sold at an average auction sales price of Euro 12,712.96. 49 horses will be exported, ten of them to the United States, followed by nine to Great Britain. 16 nations in total bought young sport horses in Verden.

| No. of horses offered for sale | 108 horses | ||
| No. of horses sold | 108 horses | ||
| Total turnover | 1.373.000,00 EUR | ||
| Average price | 12.712,96 EUR | ||
| Highest price | 35.000,00 EUR | ||
| Lowest price | 5.000,00 EUR | ||
| Pricerange | |||
| from 4.000 EUR to 7.999 EUR | 17 horses | ||
| from 8.000 EUR to 10.999 EUR | 28 horses | ||
| from 11.000 EUR to 14.999 EUR | 29 horses | ||
| from 15.000 EUR to 24.999 EUR | 30 horses | ||
| over 25.000 EUR | 4 horses | ||
| Horses were sold to the following areas | |||
| Lower Saxony | 2 | Sweden | 4 |
| North Rhine-Westphalia | 8 | Denmark | 2 |
| Rhineland-Palatinate | 1 | Czech Republic | 1 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 1 | Hungary | 1 |
| Hamburg | 1 | Portugal | 5 |
| Bavaria | 18 | Great Britain | 9 |
| Baden-Wuerttemberg | 4 | Belgium | 1 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 1 | Luxembourg | 1 |
| Hesse | 2 | Switzerland | 1 |
| Italy | 6 | ||
| Mexico | 1 | ||
| France | 3 | ||
| Finland | 2 | ||
| Slovenia | 1 | ||
| USA | 10 | ||
| Spanien | 1 |