From the web sites of Isabell Werth:
“Our retirees herd has shrunk. Warum nicht FRH, who was affectionately called Hannes, is no longer alive. I can not believe it, even though it is now already a few days. But I simply did not have the distance to announce the sad event at once and I did not want everyboy to ask me about his dead at a show. Now I had the time to get a little used to the idea that our gentle and always cheerful giant is no longer with us. It all happened so incredibly fast. Hannes, who was ended after a hip fracture in the box his sports career and since then enjoyed his retired life here at our farm on the pasture, was in a super good condition – until he suddenly showed colic symptoms. We have tried everything, even a surgery. But already during the operation it was clear that he was beyond redemption. We then let him fall asleep peacefully in the anesthesia. I would have granted him so many years here, but it was not to be. Thanks Hannes for everything I experienced with you. I hope you now gallop on another pasture – perhaps together with a Gigolo and his friends. Farewell.”
Isabell Werth