The overall Filly Championship, sponsored by Hilltop Farm, was awarded to Famira ZA & Hannah Heritage – the pair won this year’s Two-Year-Old Fillies (born 2021) class on their way to collecting the Filly Championship honors. The 2021 Westfalen filly by Faramund × Licotus, Famira ZA handled by Hannah Heritage scored a 84.125% in the Two-Year-Old Fillies, to capture the win in that class, which qualified them for the Filly Championship, which they also won, and lastly, to finish off a grand slam day, the pair’s Filly Championship then put them in contention for the Young Horse Prospect Championship – going three for three today, they captured that too.

Ultimate Trifecta

These days, it is not often that the owner, breeder, and handler are all one in the same person, in Hannah Heritage’s case with Famira ZA, the case of the ultimate trifecta is exactly that. Heritage is the owner, breeder, and handler of Famira ZA. The suffix ZA is representative of Zarazoga Acres, LLC in Jefferstonton, VA, where Famira ZA was bred, and where her sire Faramund, still stands at stud. A 2010 Hanoverian Stallion, Approved Westfalen NA, by Fidertanz x Donnerschlag, Faramund’s quality is highlighted by dual success in both the Dressage and Eventing worlds, offering a strong pedigree featuring some of the most sought-after Westphalian, Hanoverian, and Oldenburg bloodlines for sport.

Faramund’s sire, Fidertanz (Fidermark I – Ravallo) was proclaimed Champion of 2004 Westphalian licensing, won his 30-Day Stallion Test, and was Vice Bundeschampion of the Three-Year-Old Riding Stallions in 2005. Successful through Grand Prix Dressage, Fidertanz has gone on to even further acclaim as a sire: over 30 licensed stallion sons, Elite Mare Show champions, Bundeschampions, auction price highlights, and several offspring at the FEI levels of Dressage including the Grand Prix stallions Franziskus and Foundation. Fidertanz himself is a son of the Bundeschampion and Grand Prix stallion Fidermark I and is out of a daughter of Ravallo, a stallion noted as the producer of offspring successful both in Dressage and Jumping.

More Royal Bloodlines

Faramund’s damsire Donnerschlag, a direct son of the influential Donnerhall, was licensed in Oldenburg in 1989 and would become the foundation stallion at Gestüt St. Ludwig. Finishing within the top of his stallion testing, Donnerschlag enjoyed a career as both a successful sire and Dressage horse, competing through the Grand Prix level. Donnerschlag’s dam was a full sister to the noted stallions Pik Bube I and II and also produced the approved stallion Ragazzo. Faramund’s dam Donna Gloria also produced the States Premium mare Signorina (Sir Donnerhall I), herself the dam of Faithful Rose (Fidertanz), sold to Canada through the 2017 Klosterhof Medingen Fall Auction. Through his motherline, Faramund boasts a blood connection to influential Anglo-Arabian, Selle Francais, and Trakehner lines through the stallions Inschallah, Furioso II, and Schoener Abend. Faramund himself has also been a winner here at Dressage at Devon, capturing the Champion Stallion and Reserve Champion Mature Horse honors in 2014.

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