Sonnenberg Farm, LLC

06/05/2026

It’s been wonderful having Mackenzie here at Sonnenberg. She is a super rider, correct and compassionate.

At our first two shows together, Mackenzie and Sonnenberg bred horses have won “High Score - Open Division” 5 out of the 6 days she’s competed. In her last show, she scored 71.9%, 3rd level, Test 1, on our 6 yr. old, Sonnenberg’s Prim Rosa, ❤️ (Secret x Ampere), and a 77%+ First level, Test 3, on our 5 year old, Sonnenberg’s Refine Time, ❤️ (Jovian x Fürstenball). Fun to watch her talent shine through with all the horses.

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American young professional dressage rider Mackenzie Peer has returned to the U.S.A. after two years in Denmark to head the in-house riders' team at Sonnenberg Farm in Oregon.

04/25/2026

Yesterday, Mackenzie Peer and Sonnenberg’s Refine Time, ❤️😇(Jovian x Fürstenball x Sandro Hit), 5 year old mare, won show high point 🏆 and scored 80% in First Level - Test 3, at Devonwood in the Spring. Today, this pair hit it out of the park again, with a 75% (different judge) in Second Level - Test 1 and was show high point again! 🏆 So excited for the future for this pair! 🚀😇❤️

Can’t thank our premier sponsor, Triple Crown Feed enough for helping us raise our horses so healthy - all the way to competition.

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03/23/2026

📣 Just announced at the KWPN-NA Annual meeting this weekend: O Romeo S 💙 (Charmeur x UB40) was named the North American 🇺🇸KWPN Performance Horse of the Year!

We knew this c**t was special at just a few days old - and are fortunate that he was purchased by the Richard family, carefully developed by his rider, Hope Cooper, and expertly coached by Christoph Koschel. It is so rewarding for a breeder to see a talented one be exactly where he needs to be with exactly the right people to develop his talent. Congratulations to his team - you all deserve this! 👏🙌🍾

O Romeo S represented the USA 🇺🇸 in 2025 in Verden at the FEI WBFSH Dressage 🌎 World Breeding Championships for Young Horses and was a finalist in the 6-year old division.

This was the third Sonnenberg-bred horse nominated for North American KWPN Performance Horse of the Year through the years and the first horse that won. Many/most years, KWPN horses bred in Holland win this award, so it’s special to see American bred horses (whether ours or other American breeders) receiving these honors. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Thank you KWPN-NA 🇺🇸 and all of its members who voted for this special horse. 🙏🙏🙏

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Hope Cooper
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Christine Traurig

01/17/2026

✨ Job Opportunity ✨

We are looking for a working student/assistant rider/groom to join our team at Sonnenberg Farm in Sherwood, Oregon (20 min south of Portland Oregon).

Looking for someone with dressage riding and competition experience with capabilities of working with and handling young horses.

The job would include helping to start the 3-year-old horses under saddle and set them up for a future in top dressage sport. Grooming and care duties as well as exercising any horses that may be left at home when our rider is traveling to competitions. Management of the dressage horses and overall barn will also be part of this job, however, no stall cleaning and minimal feeding requirements. *Competitive compensation*

Looking for a self starter and motivated individual. Positive personality is a must as we are a fun team and want to enjoy our time with the horses.

Please send us a PM and we can find a time to connect to see if this position might be right for you.

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…Born to Perform

01/17/2026

Vai Bruntink & Sonnenberg’s Rayabel ❤️ (Glock’s Taminiau x Ebony x Westpoint) at the semi-finals of the Subli-cup in Holland a few weeks ago. Only the top five make the finals, (they placed seventh), but what a future ahead for this amazing team. 🤩 Proud of this homebred and great job developing this special mare Vai! Can’t wait for her first foal this season from McLaren (Morricone I x Sir Donnerhall).

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12/22/2025

Sabine Schut-Kery and 💙Sonnenberg’s Jersey, (Vivaldi x Ferro, approved KWPN Stallion) competed in their first BIG tour competition this weekend and scored 71.4% and 71.9% in the Intermediare II. So proud of them for their first show at this level. What an exciting future ahead for this pair! 🤩⭐️🇺🇸

Great job Sabine, for developing him so correctly and compassionately and great job and thank you to her coach, Christine Traurig, we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you also to the Dressage Foundation for your incredible support of this team.

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Christine Traurig
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10/23/2025

We are so excited to welcome Ben Albright and Ben Winger to Sonnenberg Farm to ride, train and develop our horses. We’ve known them for years as riders and we have always been impressed with their correctness, effectiveness and compassion they show in their training. They bring great experience from developing young horses but also and importantly, they are established Grand Prix riders, developing many horses to compete in Grand Prix.

We couldn’t be more excited to have them here from Florida and hope you all can help us congratulate them on their big move to the Sonnenberg Farm, help us welcome them to the Pacific Northwest!

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…Born to Perform

10/19/2025

After 13+ amazing years with our dear friend and wonderful rider Michele, she has moved to Northern California to ride and train there. We certainly accomplished so much together in the last 13+ years and we think the world of Michele. We will miss her a ton, (we are a bit jealous of the additional sunshine she will be getting this winter), but we wish her the absolute best in her next chapter. This opens up our next chapter which has already started, (stay tuned in the next day or two), but we want to keep this all about Michele. Please use this to comment and wish her the absolute best - we will all miss her in the Pacific Northwest! ❤️❤️❤️

“Change is the heartbeat of growth” -Scottie Somers

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…Born to Perform

09/22/2025

For your consideration: Sonnenberg’s Sophia d’Rosa ❤️ is a beautiful 3-year-old KWPN by Franklin from our outstanding sport producing “Rosa” mare-line bred by Sonnenberg Farm. She has an exceptional dressage career ahead of her as she has three outstanding gaits that are supple, uphill and powerful and an excellent temperament. After only a couple months under saddle, we took her to a schooling show just to get her off the property and she handled it like a total pro and perfect citizen. In fact, she was never in a trailer before, loaded up like she had done it many times. Her temperament is truly extraordinary.

This 3-year-old currently stands at just over 16 hands, but this mare-line grows slowly, and she will likely mature to between 16.1-16.2. Her full sibling was 16.1 in the fall of her 3-year-old year and finished at 16.3+ to give us some perspective of her potential to grow within this mare-line.

Sophia has been lightly and correctly started and is improving daily. She is a very big mover, so we must be careful to develop her - those who know us, know that we start our young horses very carefully, not pushing the gaits, but letting them come into their own through developing rhythm, relaxation and connection, while keeping them moving in front of the leg.

Sophia has clean legs, even hooves, correct conformation, uphill build, and is sound with good x-rays available including neck and back. She has never been injured or lame and she has no bad habits or vices.

She is offered to an ambitious rider that wants a true superstar with both gaits and rideabilty. She will be sold via private treaty, but don’t let that sway you, she is competitively priced. She is the quality of the high quality young horses in Holland and Germany, however, you don’t have to pay to import her/tariffs (and everything else) as she is here in Oregon, just 30 minutes from Portland International Airport.

Please contact us for video and price and please share or forward this post to potential matches for this truly special young mare.

Full Pedigree: (Franklin x Uphill x Farrington x Jazz)

Bred for Mind and Movement…
…Born to Perform

08/24/2025

Huge Congrats to American Breeder 🇺🇸 (& great friend) Jen Vanover and her super rider, August Garcia for winning not 1, but 2 🏆🏆 National Championships at Lamplight! Jen has worked for many years 💪 to breed top horses right here in America, and Charell did a fantastic job training and competing. So proud of Team MW! 💪🇺🇸❤️😘

Victory for an 🇺🇸 breeder like Jen is win for all of us. Our hope: competitive riders - BUY AMERICAN 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 BRED DRESSAGE HORSES! We have some amazing horses being bred right in the USA! Look here first. Call top breeders first - you know who they are…

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…Born to Perform

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