At the Virginia Dressage Association show, which included GAIG/USDF Region 1 Dressage Championships, at the Virginia Horse Center, October 21-22, ES Rapture R was named Overall High Score Champion with a score of 77.308, along with his many other honors. The 2001 Elite Hanoverian stallion also had the high score in Training Level and First Level at the show. He won Training Level with a score of 77.308 and First Level with a score of 71.176. It was his first time at First Level.

Rapture R as the 2005 champion for the American Hanoverian Society (AHS) and the Oldenburg ISR Stallion License Tests at Hilltop Farm, July 28-30. His Oldenburg ISR score was the highest in the United States and Canada for 2005, and the highest at Hilltop Farm for the last three years. He has also been named 2005 USDF Horse of the Year, First Place (Materiale) with a median score of 81.9. Rapture R won second for the 2005 AHS All Breed Award for training level through fourth level with a median score of 74.091, and was seventh for the 2005 USDF Dressage Horse of the Year with a median score of 74.091.

Rapture R is by Rotspon (Rubinstein I), out of the Elite Hanoverian mare, EM Damaris (Donnerhall-Weltmeyer), and he is a Hanoverian and Oldenburg ISR provisionally licensed stallion.

For more information about Rapture R, visit www.RaptureR.com.

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