Carlene and Andy Ziegler’s Artisan Farms has acquired Fine Lady 5 for 2008 Canadian Olympic Champion Eric Lamaze.

The 11-year-old bay Hanoverian mare (Forsyth x Drosselklang II) had been ridden to great success by Holger Wulschner for the past two seasons. Under the German rider, Fine Lady 5 amassed an impressive performance record and, in 2014 alone, recorded wins in the grand prix of CSI3* Neumünster, Germany, CSI2* Oliva, Spain, and, most recently, the €75,000 Grand Prix of CSI4* Hagen, Germany, held April 27.

“She’s a small horse with tonnes of blood, very quick, very careful,” described Lamaze who learned of Fine Lady 5 through Germany’s Janne Friederike Meyer and Christoph Zimmermann. “It looks like a horse that is incredibly competitive and well-suited to me. There are so many shows now, and you need multiple horses across the board in order to stay competitive. I am grateful that Carlene and Andy Ziegler so very generously stepped up to the plate yet again to purchase the horse for me to add to my string.”
Fine Lady 5 will compete at the top level of the sport alongside Powerplay, Zigali P S and Quelmec du Gery, as well as several up-and-coming mounts that Lamaze is developing.
“We have a group of young horses coming up that, in the next year or two, will be able to do some big things,” explained Lamaze. “For this season, Fine Lady is the addition that I really needed to complete my string. She has been winning a lot under Holger, and is capable of doing the 1.60m classes. For us, it’s an incredibly fast and competitive horse, and that’s what we need to be able to compete at the highest level anywhere in the world.”

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