Note: Sales can only be held with a deposit and a contract, otherwise all sales are on a first come, first serve basis. 
A rare opportunity to acquire one of the last daughters of Glorioso Noir. Glimmer combines incredible size, powerful movement, and an exceptionally eager-to-please brain.

Registered Name: Glimmer
Registered: Hanoverian
Date of Birth: April 27, 2020
Sire: Glorioso Noir (Glorieux/Grundstein I/Landsknecht I)
Dam: Rea (Regazzoni/Davignon I/Amani)
Breeders: Star Gazer Farm & Rassicot Farm
Colour: Chestnut with star & stripes, & 3 socks.
Sex: Mare
Height: Currently 17hh 
DNA: FFS non-carrier, Red factor ee, Agouti aa
Suitability: Dressage, Hunter, & Broodmare
Level of Training: Training Level dressage, started over small fences, & some hacking.
Price: $30,000 Canadian (approx. $21,500 USD) ​
Glimmer is a large-framed mare with impressive bone, a powerful hip, and long lines. Inheriting the unflappable and intelligent nature of both her sire and dam, she is curious, playful, and deeply affectionate with her humans. Her gaits are powerful and expressive, yet comfortable to sit.

Because of her large frame, she was given time to mature and gently started as a four-year-old. She thrives in a consistent routine, bonds strongly with her person, and is an eager, quick learner under saddle. She can sometimes get distracted on the ground so she responds best to a confident, consistent handler.

Training & Show Experience: Professionally started and developed by Nathalie Green (Swell Equestrian - 2024) and by Sara Parsons (Finch and Filly Farm - 2025 to present). Currently working comfortably at Training Level dressage and being ridden by a student under Sara Parson's supervision. Started over small fences with a willingness to learn, and has done light hacking in company.  Attended her first training dressage show this year with a fantastic, calm attitude (won both her classes). 

Bloodline & Breeding Highlights: For Hanoverian breeders, Glimmer offers outstanding classic genetics that complement modern dressage and hunter sires:
  • Sire Line: One of the last daughters of Glorioso Noir, bringing prized G-line blood up close. Her pedigree traces back to Goldfisch II eight times.
  • Key Ancestors: Includes notable influencers such as Grundstein I, Gotthard, Grande, Graphit, Regazzoni, Rubinstein I, Davignon I, Donnerhall, Pik Bube I, Werther, and Argentan I.

​Health & Soundness
  • Sound, healthy, and currently barefoot.
  • Has a small, purely cosmetic blemish on the front of her left hock from a minor pasture cut in autumn 2023. It does not affect her soundness or movement in any way. Hock X-rays are available upon request.
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HERITAGE

SIRE: Glorioso Noir had suspended gaits and excellent conformation that made him equally talented for dressage and jumping. He completed his 100-day stallion testing in Germany and finished in 11th place out of 40 stallions, placing equally well in both dressage and jumping. Among the highlights of his scores were an 8.0 on character, temperament and willingness to work, and constitution. He received an 8.0 on jumping ability and an 8.0 on his trot. Glorioso competed in the young horse dressage classes as well as in the hunters and jumpers with a junior rider. He was the 2007 AHS Regular Working Hunter Champion. Shown in the FEI 5-Year-Old Young Horse Dressage classes. Awarded top ribbons in the rated hunter and jumper divisions at AA shows.

GRANDSIRE: Glorieux was 1st in his performance testing 1989 at Adelheidsdorf, scoring 139.03 in dressage and 114.98 in jumping. Glorieux has produced many elite auction horses and show winners. At the stallion performance test Glorieux caused quite a stir because of his outstanding results in nearly every aspect, scoring 9 or better 8 times. His show career was also successful winning the Oldenburg Championship in Rastede in 1988, the german riding horse Championship in 1988 and went to stud unbeaten in conformation classes in 1989.

DAM: Rea's pedigree is an impressive mix of top dressage sires with a splash of influential jump sires to add some versatility. Perhaps most noteworthy is Rea's dam's production record. EM Dulcinee produced 11 offspring with at least two competing  to the the FEI level of dressage, two champion foals, and several elite mares, including Rea who scored a 7,22 in her MPT. 

DAMSIRE: Regazzoni is by Rubinstein I out of the great Werther mare Wakonda.  His legendary sire has strongly influenced this era of sport horse breeding and passes on rideability, trainability and elegance.  Regazzoni's damsire, Werther, is equally influential. At his 100-day-test in 1994, Regazzoni scored an outstanding 152.16 points including perfect 10's for temperament and rideability, traits which he readily passes on to his offspring. His dressage index alone was 140.53 confirming him as the highest scoring stallion out of the 52 other stallions at the Munster-Handorf site. In 1995, Regazzoni was federal vice-champion German riding horse in Warendorf and in 1996, he won the finals of the German five-year old dressage championships. He has 13 licensed sons and an integrated dressage index by the German FEI of 133 points. In Germany he consistently produced long legged elegant offspring that have been very successful at breed inspections and in the dressage arena. 

DAM DAMSIRE: Davignon I is considered to be one of Donnerhall’s best sons, having earned Class I scores at his licensing in 1991 before going on to win the Bundeschampionat in 1992. Exceptional presence and lofty movement put Davignon into the limelight of Germany’s producers from the very start of his career. Davignon developed into a highly successful Grand Prix dressage stallion. However, it is Davignon's offspring that give him true international status. Davignon was one of Europe's most sought-after stallions. Nine offspring of Davignon represented him in the 1998 Bundeschampionat in Warendorf; it is prestigious for a stallion to be represented by even a single offspring in this annual event! In 1997, Duvalier (Davignon-Bolero-Wendekreis) proudly claimed the championship title for his father in both the German and European Championships for five-year old dressage prospects. 

THE G-LINE: From the Hanoverian Verband website:

​"No other stallion line is that much associated with performance than the one of the Goldammer II/Flugfeuer II-son Goldfisch II. Through his progeny Grande and Gotthard, he has added properties such as work ethic, power, toughness and expression to this stallion line. Wherever our horses have to perform at the highest level, wherever it is getting tough, this bloodline can be found in the pedigree. G-blood is a necessity. 

​The blood stands for properties such as energy, willingness to perform and – above all – for the physical capacity and stability to accomplish extraordinary performances. It would be desirable to start re-establishing these properties even more in our breed by using G-bloodlines. This was the intention of the Hannoveraner Verband when it launched its G-initiative in 2007, targeting on increasing breeder’s attention on performance properties and thus boosting breeding rates of stallions from this bloodline...

The Hanoverian sport horse breed is inseparably linked with the G-bloodline. And this will not change in the future."  ​