Donnerhall should be considered one of the best stallions of the later half of the 20th Century.  He succeeded in bridging top performance results in the dressage arena with outstanding prepotency in the breeding shed.  Shown successfully through the Grand Prix Special under Karin Rehbein whilst being trained by the late Herbert Rehbein.

At the stallion performance test in Adelheidsdorf, Donnerhall achieved the second best result - vice-champion, unbeatable in rideability, with a score of 9.5.  At the stallion licensing:

"1986 was a milestone, not only in Donnerhall's career, but also in the chronicles of the Oldenburg Horse Breeding Association. The DLG is held in Hanover. Traditionally the state stallions from Celle and Warendorf decide events there. The representatives of other breeding regions usually only have a minor role to play there. This seemed to be the case at first in 1986 too, when Hanover unleashed its "secret weapon" World Cup I, hoping that the chestnut would win the sought after trophy in the second round.
But then there was Donnerhall and he was really well-liked, especially by the audience, which celebrated him frenetically: Ingo Pape led the five-year old and he left quite a few kilometres behind that weekend. "The people just wanted him" remembers approvals commissioner Bernhard Huslage. And his colleague Folkers adds "There was a fantastic hullaballoo each time that Donnerhall entered the hall". It did not take long for the feeling of the audience to jump over to the jury, too. Whilst the German representatives tended to fault the top line of the stallion somewhat and constantly looked in the direction of World Cup I, there was no doubt about it for the Dutchman Van der Veen: The Oldenburger deserved the crown!"

At the 1998 federal championship in Warendorf as regards the pedigrees of the successful horses, more than 50 % of all the finalists of the three year old stallions carried Donnerhall's blood.  A Donnerhall foal sold at the1995 43rd Elite Auction in Vechta for 130,000DM!  Then in 1998 that sum was surpassed by a Donnerhall foal selling for 155,000DM!

Donnerhall won the team gold and Individual Bronze at the European Championships in 1998.
At the World Riding Championships in Rome that year, Donnerhall was retired from competition.
 
 

Other Reference Sires:

Coriolan
Coriander
Calpyso II
Cor de la Bryere
Donnerhall
Furioso II
Florestan I
Freestyle
Landadel
Ladykiller xx
Landgraf I
Le Champion
Stedinger
Weltmeyer