Hilltop Farm has added Don Principe (Donnerhall—SPS Papagena, Prince Thatch XX) to its Guest Stallion Program for 2012.
Don Principe is an actively competing dressage stallion who currently shows at Grand Prix with Jennifer Baumert. Jim Koford rode and competed him until 2009, when Courtney King Dye briefly took the reins.
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He was also reserve champion in the U.S. Equestrian Federation Sire Rankings in 2010 and 2011.
While much of Don Principe’s career has been focused on the show ring, the 13-year-old Hanoverian owned by Maryanna Haymon has already achieved success as a sire. In 2010, he sired 3 U.S. Dressage Federation Breeders Championship Champions, all of which had a median score over 80 percent. That same year, three Don Principe daughters were presented to the American Hanoverian Society for inspection and all three earned their Elite Eligible or Elite Mare Candidate status.