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Image : Emmelie Scholtens and Bretton Woods On Tuesday 12th July the KNHS centre at Ermelo will be the scene for the final selection of Dutch horses for the WBFSH world championships dressage. This event being held in Verden from 3rd to 7th August. The horses through to this 6th and final selection day are …

Weltmeyer, the great Hanoverian producer, died this morning from colic aged 27. Weltmeyer woke up early in the morning with a strong colic. “Because of his age we decided not to undertake surgery. In the morning his condition became so severe we had to euthanise him” said Dr Axel Brockmann. This world famous stallion produced …

Brabant inspection season started yesterday in Oirschot with various groups of older mares and some three year olds. The best assessment was the prok-mare Butterfly (v.UB40, breeder / AJ van Schijndel registered in St. Oedenrode), who managed to get the ster title with 75 points for conformation and 80 for movement. “A mare with good …

Last night, the KWPN dressage renewal commission met for the re-inspection of the stallion Royal Dance (Wynton x Flemmingh x Cabochon). The stallion scored 75.5 points in his grading examination but also showed evidence of osteochondrosis at grade C level in the right stifle. The verdict of the dressage re-inspection committee (Jan Pen (chairman), Coen vanZanten and Cor Loeffen) was that the score did not mitigate this defect and …

WB stables in Warga was the scene of a very busy IBOP examination. During the very long days regional inspectors Bart Henstra and Petro Trommelen viewed 16 jumpers and 24 dressage horses. From these groups 8 jumping horses and 10 dressage horses passed the IBOP. The most striking was the 7 year old jumping horses …

Isabell Werth (l.), Matthias-Alexander Rath und Anabel Balkenholin the medal ceremony for the DM Grand Prix Special in Balve 2011 (Photo: H. Schupp). The third part of the German championships confirmed Matthias Roth and Totilas as the German national champions. In the freestyle section of the competition Totilas scored 85.560% with his new routine created …

After a very interesting and quite enlightening trip to Holland we finally made a decision and purchased Gullit (pronounced with an “H” not a “G” – so it is Hullit!) A spectacular one month old colt by Lord Leatherdale and everything I hoped it would be when I saw the mare back on our breeders …

The top dressage producer Rohdiamant was put down after an injury back in april. Everything was done to try to save him, but eventually the decision was taken to end his suffering. Rohdiamant was the producer of 50 approved sons and over 100 top competition horses. More to follow…..

The KWPN stallion Westenwind (Flemmingh out of Marybelle elite pref prest sport-dres by Contango, fokker G.H. de Vries-Teeuwen uit Brakel) took his big 6% advantage on the first day forward to another win on the second day – good enough to secure the ZZ-Zwaar title. Under the watchful eyes of the owner Adri and Liesbeth …

The Limburg foal auction in 2012 will be held by Stal Hendrix. Paul Hendrix will be taking over the management and hosting of the event. The plan is to include a sport horse auction and make the whole event 1 week long to include the elite foal sales. Foal auction president Wiel Bouten said” we will …