5 YO Dressage Gelding Fürst Bayram Sells for€1.7/US$1.9 million at Record Setting PSI Auction

ANKUM, Germany, Dec. 12, 2021–Fürst Bayram, the five-year-old Oldenburg State champion gelding, was bought for €1.7/US$1.9 million as the highest priced dressage horse at the 42nd P.S.I. auction Saturday night.

The black gelding (Fürstenball x Sir Donnerhall I) sold to Germany, one of nine nations that successfully bid either in person or online for dressage and jumper horses that brought in a total of €19,538,000/US$22,111,154–an average of €369,625/US$418,304 for dressage horses and €426,680/US$482,873 for jumpers.

Top price was €1,950,000/US$2,206,815 for Londina PS (Carembar de Muze x Chacco-Blue), a seven-year-old jumper mare already successful at 1.45m level that went to Switzerland.

Paul Schockemöhle who with Ullrich Kasselmann operates the PSI auction, said: “This was the most successful auction so far, also a result of the great breeding I have devoted myself to over the past 20 years. For me especially as a breeder this is a huge success because of the quality of the horses. Of the dressage horses, 18 also came from Lewitz.” Gestüt Lewitz is a Schockemöhle breeding operation in Germany.

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