Why
go Dutch?
Over the past few years on average
one-fifth of the horses starting in any European Championships (senior and
young riders) or other international dressage and show jumping
competitions at Grand Prix level have KWPN papers and for several years
the KWPN
has claimed a place in the top-3 of the WBFSH Breeding Rankings,
both in dressage and jumping.
Examples of top KWPN dressage
competitors include Krack C with Anky van Grunsven,
Lingh with Edward Gal, the approved stallion Idocus ridden by Marlies van
Baalen competed at the Olympic Games, Leslie Reid’s Mark, Ashley
Holzer’s Imperioso, Per Sandgaards Zancor and Tinne Vilhelmson’s Just
Mickey, Olympic Ferro with
Coby van Baalen, Broere Jazz with Tineke Bartels and Cocktail with Anky
van Grunsven.
KWPN ambassadors in the show jumping
ring are Tinka’s Boy with Markus Fuchs and Olympic Champion V&L de
Sjiem with Jeroen Dubbeldam. American rider Beezie Madden does good
business with Judgement and Authentic. And what about Gert Jan
Bruggink’s Joel, Marius Claudius ridden by Robert Smith, Audi’s Jikke
with Erik van der Vleuten.
At the 2004
Olympic games in Athens
no less then 13 KWPN horses placed for the individual jumping finals
including Royal Kaliber with Chris Kappler taking the gold and Marco
Kutscher’s Montender finishing in fourth place.
