Devonport was licensed at the Hanoverian Stallion Market in 2015. He has three consistently good gaits and is always keen to work. He has a great motion of the hindquarters and is already very well balanced and willing to learn. He finished his 14-days-test as the runner-up champion with these marks in 2016: Trot: 8.50 Canter: 8.50 Walk: 8.50 Rideability by the judges: 9.00 Free jumping: 6.50 Rideability by the foreign rider: 8.75 Interior: 9.00 Character + Temperament: 9.00 Willingness to perform: 9.00 Overall mark: 8.05 Dressage-stressed mark: 8.59 Jumping-stressed mark: 7.15 He also impressed the judges at his first shows, becoming "Hövener Reitpferdechampion" (champion of the riding class at Höven) with a score of 9.1. At a traditional show in Elmlohe, he won the riding class as well. In August, Devonport won the bronze medal at the Hanoverian Championships at Verden and was nominated for the "Bundeschampionat". Devonport won the sport test of the four-year-old dressage stallions in Verden 2017. He received a final score of 8.78, his walk being a "highlight" (9.0) and his canter and rideability were marked 8.8. Pedigree Devonport is a son of the famous Dancier who has sired many dressage horses. He is one of the best stallions when it comes to passing on rideability in Germany. Nearly 30 of his sons are licensed, many of his daughters were winners of their performance tests and a lot of sport horses descent from him, for example the licensed Harmony's Don Noblesse (Susan Pape) and Dark Dancer, both winning Grand Prix dressage competitions. Dam sire Ravallo was the winner of his stallion performance test (100 days) with an overall index of 155.43 points. He has sired, among others, the Grand Prix horses Riverdance (Kathleen Keller) and River Joy, winner of Grand Prix with Ellen Schulten Baumer. Devonport descends from the dam line of Flirtliese which many sport horses, dressage and show jumping, descend from. His aunt Rawina by Ravallo was successful in Medium dressage competitions herself. Some of the most successful horses of the dam line are Aldebaran by Aperitif (Prix St. Georg), three 1.40 m jumping horses by Löwen As: Lombardo, Navajo and Lester. C'mon Girl by Calvaro, Lagune by Lungau and La Lopez by Lord Pezi also compete successfully in 1.40 m show jumpings.