Lapis was the famed cavalry mount to German Officer Schmidt-Salzmann. Prior to serving as a cavalry mount, this Arabian stood at the Hungarian National Stud. More about his legend can be read in the box below. When Schmidt-Salzmann brought him home to Germany, he sired Burnus.

Burnus spent four years at the eventing barn of the German Olympic Committee where he was ridden by Dr. Reiner Klimke. After winning the National Championship, his eventing career was abruptly ended by injury. The Trakehner Verband thought so highly of this horse that they accepted him into the stud book as a premium stallion, although his bloodlines were primarily Arabian. He produced three approved sons, 46 broodmares, and for five consecutive years was documented as the number one producer of show horses in Germany. Included among his offspring are Bariton ridden by Olympic gold medalist dressage rider Harry Bolt, Kim, a member of the German Olympic three-day event team, and Schwalberich, famed German show jumper. Burnus was honored with the Medal of the German Agricultural Society and the gold medal of the German Equestrian Federation. Burnus was the sire of Habicht.

Habicht was a 16.3 h black stallion with incredible movement and talent. Habicht passed his inspection and was entered into the stud book as a Premium Stallion. He won the stallion performance test a year later. After standing as chief sire at the Rantzau stud, he was offered at age 7 to the German Olympic Committee. Dr. Klimke wanted him as a dressage horse, Lutz Goessig requested him as a show jumper, but the event team won him and Martin Plewa took him for three-day eventing. Six years in competition, Habicht was one of the most successful three-day eventers on the national circuit. He was top qualifier for the 1976 Olympics and the 1World Championships in 1978, but could not attend either due to rider injuries (not sustained on the famed Habicht!) He did win a 1977 international three day event near Munich and and the event at Burghley, England in 1978. Returned to breeding in the 1980. s, he won the Southern German Warmblood Horse Grand Champion title and was named Premium Stallion at the Federal Stallion show.

Habicht sired 13 approved sons; Mauritius, Effekt, Parforce, Kolumbus, Empire, Markant, Balzflug, Coktail, Emeer, Seeadler, Sixtus, Windfall and Vivus.

• Windfall is an accomplished event horse, winning the 1999 Wiesbaden CIC** in addition to being the first event team horse to qualify for the finals of the German National Dressage Horse Championship.
• Sixtus has sired five approved sons, and was one of the youngest stallions to be named a German Elite Stallion. He had numerous wins up to Grand Prix as a show jumper, and was a member of the German show jumping team.
• Seeadler sired Bellevue, the leading Trakehner show jumper in Germany in the 1980. s, and is grandsire to Renaissance Fleur who is being competed in FEI level dressage by Monica Theodorescu.
• Coktail is grandsire to Olympic dressage mount Peron. Coktail has sired two approved sons, Domhardt, a winning FEI level dressage horse, and Martini, who is documented as the leading sire in the USDF Horse of the Year tallies. Though an accident terminated his Grand Prix dressage career, Martini has sired two approved sons, 22 ATA stud book mares, and numerous performance horses.
• Balzflug was approved not only by the Trakehner Verband, but was accepted by the Belgian Warmblood Paard and the KWPN. Three of his sons are approved by the KWPN in the Netherlands, where he is considered a top dressage producer. Two of his sons are approved by the Trakehner Verband. Balzflug was Reserve Champion of his performance test, and won a Gold medal at the Belgian National Championships. Other Habicht offspring who are full siblings to Balzflug have also made their mark; one won her mare performance test, another placed third in the German combined training championships, and another won Champion Mare at the Dutch Trakehner Championships.
• Parforce successfully competed as a Grand Prix Jumper. His son Phantom was the number one jumper in Germany for three years running as of 1998.
• Mauritius placed in the 1999 CDI World Cup at Intermediare and Grand Prix.
• Other famed Habicht offspring include Livius, winner of the 1981 World Cup, who was later ridden by Anne Kursinski to win the Calgary Grand Prix in 1982 and the Gold Medal at the Pan Am Games. In the highest levels of jumping, Habicht get include Dakapo, Roko, Pandur, Kyra and Korofino. At FEI dressage are Risiko, Halifax and Aaron. Eventing at the top levels are Konrad, Avalon and Foray.

The gray mare Elfe is the matriarch of her Trakehner line. She was one of the incredible horses who survived the W.W.II "Trek" from East Prussia to West Germany. Her daughter Elfengluck was bred to Magnet to produce Elfenquelle, Emeer. s dam, and full brother Elfenglanz, an approved Trakehner stallion who competed in FEI dressage before being returned to stud in 1982. The Elfe family is known for graceful movement, gracious disposition and uncomplicated character.

The gray stallion Magnet stood 16.2 h with outstanding movement and jumping ability. Born in 1964, he sired eight approved sons prior to his untimely death in 1974. He is noted for consistently passing on a quiet temperament , good bone and ground covering movement.

More information on the incredible horses in Emeer's lineage can be found in the book, "Trakehner Horses Then and Now" by Fritz Shilke, translated from the German by Helen K. Gibble and available through the American Trakehner Association

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