We were graced with her beauty for a very short time but she touched our hearts in a way  words cannot describe, we will miss you Image.

Dark Image by Diamont.  Dark Image was bred by Glenwood Farms.  Her foals have become dressage stars and breed show champions.  One of her offspring was sold to South America as an Olympic Dressage Candidate.  Another, Pena Colada, was Breed Show Champion many times.  Her 2000 foal sold to Sundi Prechtl as a potential FEI level horse.  Dark Image is an exceptional Diamont daughter who produces offspring with extravagant movement.  We are honored to retain two of her daughters, Divine Image and Point Noir.

Diamont is the top Hannoverian producer of USDF dressage horses.  A proven dressage sire, Diamont ranked 1st in 1993 & 1994, second in 1995 by USDF among all Hanoverian stallions and 6th among stallions of all breeds for production of USDF Dressage Qualifiers. He has sired three approved breeding stallions, including Donnerkeil (Kentucky), Deutschmeister (Canada), and Daric (So. California), six Elite Hanoverian mares, 24 Premium foals (Oldenburg). He was ranked 4th among German Hanoverian stallions and 5th among all German stallions for foals of 1981. He has won the Osierlea Breeder's Futurity Perpetual Trophy for “Most Successful Sire of the Year” in '84, '85, '87, '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, '94 and '95. His offspring Double Delight, Dumont and Damietta won the yearling, two-year-old, and three-year-old Golden State (Cumulative Year-end Breed Show) Champion Awards in 1995. He sired California Dressage Society Futurity winner Damiano, who is now schooling Grand Prix in Germany, plus other CDS Futurity winners, Dempsey, and Damascus; AHS Regional Champions, Duvall, and Don Pascal; Canadian Dressage Champion Dior (Level III); Northern Calif. Alliance Dressage Champion Dionysius (4th Level); and Damascus (3rd Level). Diamont is a representative of the Hanoverian ”D” line through the recognized dressage sire, Duerkheim. He is approved Hannoverian, Oldenburg, and ISR.

Dark Image's last foas is by Glenwood Farms recently imported stallion, Domiro.  An exquisite stallion by the internationally renowned dressage sire, Donnerhall, Domiro brings to the United States the most sought after blood today for dressage breeders. Raised by one of the most highly respected breeding experts in Germany, Domiro was licensed by the German Hanoverian and German Oldenburg societies in Germany in 1998. The same year he passed his 100 day performance test at Adelheidsdorf with an overall score of 119.54, a dressage index of 122.93 and a jumping inex of 106.32, placing him 4th out of 43 stallions tested. Comments from the German Hanoverian studbook read, ''Extraordinary noble son of world famous dressage stallion Donnerhall, true to type. Excellent basic gaits, outstanding walk.'' Domiro has already won in Germany material classes, dressage suitability classes and Level 1 dressage classes. Like his sire, this dark chestnut stallion offers a bloodline proven to produce extraordinary riding horses with excellent character, rideability and temperaments. Represented in his pedigree is a ''dream'' combination many times proven between Donnerhall and the Pik Bube line. Stallions such as Dream of Glory, Duntroon, Davignon, Don Primero, Don Gregory and Donnerschlag with these bloodlines are all in the top lists for dressage breed values according to the German statistical records.

Donnerhall, Domiro's sire, is today's German ''team world champion'', was 1994 German champion, 1997 team European Champion and also individual bronze medal winner at the World Championship 1994 as well as the European championship in 1992. As of 1999 Donnerhall had 651 offspring with placings in competition. (341 in dressage with 44 (766 placings) at the FEI level and 40 in jumping (388 placings) with 2 sons (57 placings) at the grand prix level. Breed values based on the mare performance test have placed Donnerhall and his offspring at the top of the ''Top List of Dressage Stallions''. According to the official German Hanoverian breed magazine, ''the dressage list confirms the placements after competition. D from Donnerhall (181 index score) ahead of W from Weltmeyer. (180 index score) (as of December 1999). Appearing on the Top list Dressage based on results from the mare performance test are the stallions Don Primero (by Donnerhall), Donnerhall, Davignon (by Donnerhall) and Dream of Glory (by Donnerhall). The Top Dressage Stallion List based upon results from competition contains the stallions Dream of Glory (Donnerhall/Pik Bube), Duntroon (Donnerhall/Pik Bube), Davignon I (Donnerhall/Pik Bube), Dobrock (Donnerwetter/Pik Koenig), Don Gregory (Donnerhall/Graphit), Don Primero (Donnerhall/Pik Bube), Donnerhall (Donnerwetter/Markus) and Donnerschlag (Donnerhall/Pik Koenig). Donnerhall's sire, Donnerwetter successfully competed in international Grnd Prix dressage. His ability to perform and his inheritance are obviously stamped by his maternal line. Matador is dam-sire of Wenzel and Der Loewe xx, the most important thoroughbred sire in German riding horse breeding. (He sired the Olympic dressage horses Liostro, Loewenstern and Lucky Boy. Donnerhall's dam, Ninette is represented by the copetition horses Discovery and Wilhelm Tell. Her sire Markus (son of the sire of dressage horses Manolete xx) is represented by the advanced showjumper Mailach 2. Donnherhall became a shooting star in performance: reserve champ. of the performance test in 1984 with outstanding results for rideability (9.0 in training and 9.5 from outside riders), in 1986 he became DLG Champion, winner of more than 65 dressage competitions to International level and Grand Prix, winning as many as 14 times at Grand Prix Specials in 1992. He has himself produced incredibly successful competition horses.

Pik Ramiro, sire of Domiro's dam, was very successful in Grand Prix jumping. His sire, Pik Bube I, was schooled to FEI level dressage and achieved wins right from the start in advanced dressage competitions. Pik Bube I's sire, Pik Koenig was the most successful approved son of the famous sire of showjumpers Pik As xx. Pik Bube's granddam, Dohlenfuerstin is the former international showjumper Daniela 12 who was successfully competed under Hartwig Sttenken. After she retured, she produced the Grand Prix showjumper Prinz Charming. (by our own beloved Prinz Gaylord !) The competition horses sired by Pik Bube are successful dressage horses up to Grand Prix and successful show jumpers

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