Derano won and placed under Dorothee Schneider in the international small tours of Aachen, Perl-Borg, Wiesbaden and Hagen a.T.W. Previously he won tests for young dressage horses in series.

His sire De Niro won numerous Grand Prix dressage competitions, including the 2001 German Championships for Professional Riders as well as the 2003 Hamburg Dressage Derby. For six years he has been leading the ranking of the world's best rideability sires according to the World Breeders' Federation WBFSH.

His dam Wenita is also the dam of another Grand Prix dressage horse named Denaro (by De Niro) ridden by Katrin Bettenworth, and a medium (M) level dressage horse named Wohlsein (by Wolkenstein II).

Derano’s pedigree has a highly interesting inbreeding component over Akzent II, a stallion known for passing on rideability.

2015
3^rd place advanced level test (S*) international in Hagen a.T.W. /Dorothee Schneider
2^nd place advanced level test (S*) international in Hagen a.T.W. /Dorothee Schneider


2014
1^st place advanced level test (S*) in Wiesbaden / Dorothee Schneider
1^st place advanced level test (S*) in Wiesbaden / Dorothee Schneider
1^st place advanced level test international (S*) in Perl- Borg / Dorothee Schneider
1^st place advanced level test international (S*) in Perl- Borg / Dorothee Schneider
5^th place advanced level test international (S*) in Aachen / Dorothee Schneider
4^th place advanced level test international (S*) in Aachen / Dorothee Schneider
1^st place advanced level test (S*) in Langen / Dorothee Schneider
1^st place advanced level test (S*) in Langen / Dorothee Schneider


2013
1^st place St. Georges Ludwigsburg / Dorothee Schneider
1^st place advanced level test (S*) in Ludwigsburg / Dorothee Schneider
1^st place advanced level test (S*) in Ankum / Dorothee Schneider
2^st place advanced level test (S*) in Oldenburg / Dorothee Schneider
2x 2^st place advanced level test (S*) in Frankfurt / Dorothee Schneider


2010
3^rd place elementary (L) level test for young dressage horses in Iserlohn / Katrin Bettenworth
1^st place elementary (L) level test for young dressage horses in Münster / Katrin Bettenworth
1^st place elementary (L) level test for young dressage horses in Steinhagen-Brockhagen / Katrin Bettenworth
1^st place elementary (L) level test for young dressage horses in Riesenbeck / Katrin Bettenworth
3^rd place elementary (L) level test for young dressage horses in Jöllenbeck / Katrin Bettenworth


2009
3^rd place in a test for riding horses in Hambergen / Andreas Homuth
4^th place in a test for riding horses in Stuhr-Stelle / Andreas Homuth