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Lancet went to the Olympics in Athens when a previous horse was injured on the team. Having only performed a Grand Prix test a few times with his new young rider Marlies van Balen and her first time at the Olympics and one Musical Freestyle not prepaired for the Olympics, they went on what he had and performed wonderfully.
- Lancet a Hannoverian stallion was approved as a 3
year old by the KWPN studbook. At the 100 day test he got: walk:
8 trot: 8 canter: 8.5 and suitability as a dressagehorse
: 8.5
- After his approval for the KWPN studbook he won
the dressagecompetition for KWPN stallions at L and at M level
in 2 consecutive years. Lancet is in full training at FEI Grand Prix
level with his new rider Imke Bartels. He has also had many wins with
scores over 70%
- The offspring of Lancet were very successful in
the last years. Six sons of Lancet were selected to go to the 2nd
ring in Den Bosch (Holland).They looked like very good
dressagehorses who also turned out to be very good jumpers.
- A son of Lancet : Patron ( Lancet x Dageraad x
Ubis) became the winner of the VSN (Vereniging Sportpaarden
Nederland)Johan Hamminga awarded Patron with a 9 under saddle. Those
very good results of Lancet are the result of excellent
bloodlines in his pedigree.
- The sire of Lancet is Wenzel I ( Wörmann x
Matador) and is on the top ranking of dressage bloodlines. Out of
this W- bloodline are the Grand –Prix dressage horses Welcome (
World Cup 1 x Grande) and Weyden (Western Star x Grande). On
the dam”s bloodline is Anika , the full sister to Argentan I and
Argentan II. Argentan I is wellknown as the father of the Oldenburger
stallion Argentinus.
- In 2002 a total of 10 offspring of the stallion
Lancet got to the semi-finals of the Pavo-cup (a dressagecompetition
for 4 and 5 year old horses) in Ermelo ( Netherlands).
- At the national stallion inspection of the KWPN studbook in Den Bosch (Netherlands) in 2003 a son of Lancet : Tango (Lancet x Micelangelo) was selected for the 2nd ring.