Niedermair Horses - your guarantee for success in all disciplines!
In sports horse breeding, the Niedermair name stands for elite warmbloods and success of the finest.
Martin Niedermair is a highly decorated Bavarian Warmblood breeder whose great passion is horses. The foundation was laid at birth: his father was already a highly successful breeder. Martin grew up at the farm of his parents in Weng, Upper Bavaria. Initially, he took to the saddle himself and was a successful rider on the show-jumping circuit to Grade L. Soon, he switched to breeding full-time and ran one of the first private stallion stations in Bavaria.
From the start of the 80ties, Martin Niedermair decided to concentrate on broodmares and, together with his wife Gertrud, he dedicated himself to building a collection of excellent and by now legendary dam lines that are considered to be among the best available in Germany. He started by concentrating on the famous Bavarian dressage sire Rasso and his son Raueck I (Rasso - Graphit). Graphit, Raueck I's maternal grandfather, is also the sire of the one of the best jumping sires of all time: the world-famous Grannus. With his dam-lines developed to the highest possible degree, success was not far behind for Martin Niedermair, cumulating in the world-famous Lord Sinclair - with 2.8 Million Euros, he was the most expensive sports auction horse ever at the time he was sold through Paul Schockemoehle's PSI auction in 1997 (see also: The Lord Sinclair Story).
Today, the Niedermair family is one of the most successful breeder dynasties in Germany, its name being carried all over the globe by their quality horses and their offspring.
Meanwhile, son Georg has also entered the family business: he looks after the youngsters, helps with breaking in tomorrow's sports stars, and looks after liaising with top riders like Uwe Schwanz who is so taken with the quality of the Niedermair horses that he often decides to show them at national and international level.
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Some of the most important milestones in the Niedermair breeding history:
1978: Fabel (Makuba xx – Fixum) wins at the ZLF in Munich
1979: 3 Niedermair-bred mares are awarded state premium certificate, the highest certificate of merit that can be granted to a broodmare in Germany: Blume (Rasso – Immi xx), Sennerin (Makuba xx – Sender) and Fabel
1980: Blume is best Bavarian Mare at the DLG in Hannover
1981: Blume wins at the ZLF in Munich
1984: Blume becomes ZLF top mare and wins the Rasso progeny show
1987: Fantasie (Zeus – Markgraf xx) wins Reserve at the ZLF
1989: Pegasus (Periander/More Magicxx) is sold to South America at Paul Schockemoehle’s PSI Auction - for the top price of 100 000 German Marks. Later, the horse is re-imported into Germany and in 1997 becomes Swiss National Champion with Markus Fuchs.
1992: Capri (Raueck I – Cor de la Bryere) gets highly placed at the German Federal Championships. She is also winning mare at the mare approval trials and becomes top winning state premium mare. In 1996, his first stallion is certified and approved: Ripley K (by Ritual).
1993: Capri wins the ZLF
1995: Caprice (Raueck I – Report II) wins the state premium mare trials.
Martin Niedermair
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Georg Niedermair
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In the Internet, the Niedermairs can read up about the successes of their home-bred horses all over the world
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Carefully selected dam lines are one of the landmarks of the Niedermair breeding success - in the picture, son Georg brings the broodmares in from pasture
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Success begins here: happy Niedermair broodmares and their offspring at the Spielberg estate
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Niedermair horses are often written about in the press
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Martin Niedermair has won many of the top breeder awards in Germany
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Photo: Werner Ernst
Celebrated breeder: Martin Niedermair (Third from left) surrounded by friends at a stallion show
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Niedermair horses - your road to success!
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