Foal market culminated in a big night show

This could become a new must-attend event for all horse lovers in the Miesbach district: The cold-blooded horse breeding cooperative invites you to the foal market with mare competition and night show.

District – Foal auction with supporting program for young and old, competition for young breeders and their coldblood mares, DJ party to round off the event: What the Miesbach-Tegernsee coldblood horse breeding cooperative and the Miesbach breeding association have planned for Saturday, September 14th, in the Miesbach livestock auction hall is sure to send the hearts of all horse lovers into a euphoric gallop: the first Oberland horse day with a big night show. More than 80 entries from all over Bavaria have already been received, reports committee member and co-organizer Florian Heiß. Based on the numbers alone, the event should be able to compete with the foal market in Rottenbuch, which took place just over a week earlier on September 6th.

According to Heiß, the idea of ​​expanding the historic foal market into an “unprecedented” all-day event with an evening show is intended to further fuel the enthusiasm among young breeders, which has been growing again in recent years. The supporting program with food stands is also intended to attract all those families who otherwise have no direct connection to horse breeding. The 14-member committee of the breeding cooperative finds it difficult to estimate how large the crowds will ultimately be. However, around 1,500 to 2,000 visitors came to the countless foal auctions alone. “It should be good that the event will be busy,” estimates Heiß.

150 horses and thousands of visitors

This makes the challenge for organisation and logistics all the greater, especially as there will be around 150 horses on site (not including the foals to be auctioned). Animal welfare is particularly important to the cooperative. For example, the party in the hall will not start until all the horses are outside again.

Josef Erhart, chairman of the cooperative, explains that the idea of ​​refining and improving horses through targeted breeding is also in line with the purpose of the cooperative, which was founded in Miesbach in 1909. In the past, the animals had to support the farmers with their work on the farm all year round. “That's why it was important that they were long-lived, healthy and easy to feed,” Erhart emphasizes. Since horses have now been replaced by machines on the farms, their use is mostly limited to Leonhardi and traditional rides. Nevertheless, it is important to the owners to maintain the breeding success in the Oberland and therefore to get the young people excited about handling the horses from an early age.

This is what will happen all day long at the Oberlandler Rostag. It starts at 9 a.m. with the foal market for cold-blooded horses and Haflingers in Miesbach, where the top animals from the breeding area will be sold. Stalls and a supporting program for young and old are intended to appeal to a wide audience. According to Heiß, there are plans for a show blacksmith shop where hooves will be shod on site, as well as presentations of old handicrafts and insights into the interaction between horses and humans in leisure time and traditions. Things will get exciting at the Oberlandhalle from 5 p.m., when young breeders from all over Bavaria can demonstrate their horse-handling skills in a competition.

Cooperative Cup as a team ranking

The mares, divided into the age groups young/middle/old, are presented by their breeders in three rings at a standing, walking and trotting age between 14 and 30 years. Two judges each assess the type and performance and select one winner and one reserve winner per class. In the cooperative cup, each breeding community can nominate three horses from its ranks and compete for the challenge cup in the team ranking.

After the champions have been determined and honored in the arena, the Oberlandler Horse Day ends with a big after-show party with DJ Roughness. And while the breeders and their guests are still celebrating, the horses can already recover from their big performance.