Glock Perfection at Foal Auction Prinsjesdag
The National Foal Auction Prinsjesdag and Glock have similarities in several respects. They strive for perfection, work with great love on their projects and aim for top performance. The Glock stallions have (again) convinced the selection committee with their offspring, so that the Prinsjesdag auction on Tuesday 15 September will auction various foals by Glock's Johnson, Glock's Toto Jr., Glock's Romanov and Glock's London.
Glock's Johnson is one of the big stars of Glock's stable. After the team bronze at the World Championships last year, the son of Jazz x Flemmingh won shiny team gold and individual bronze at the European Championships in Aachen two weeks ago. An unforgettable success for Hans-Peter Minderhoud, who got to ride it from an early age by co-owner and discoverer Team Nijhof.
Two sons and a granddaughter of Johnson have been selected: Son Koh-I-Noor (ds. Gribaldi) comes out of Vertu Héroique, the champion of dressage mares at the CK van Overijssel in 2005 and half sister of the NRPS stallion Suarez (s. sandreo). The other Johnson son Kiss & Ride (ds. Negro) is closely related to the Grand Prix dressage horse Lester ridden by the Finnish Pia Verjonen and the Intermediate I horse Doreen. Granddaughter Kiss of Rose (De Niro x Johnson) comes from the same line as Exquis Nadine, Hans-Peter Minderhoud's former Olympic dressage horse.
Glock's Toto Jr. (Totilas x Desperado), who was purchased by Gaston Glock for Edward Gal in 2013 and who became a KWPN performance top performer with 86 points a year later, is presenting his first foals this year. Two of these will be up for auction: Katosion (ds. Blickpunkt), bred out of a half-sister of two Small Tour dressage horses and a ZZ-Licht horse, and Kha Diva Corieta Texel (ds. Jazz), who also comes from a high-performance family. Kha Diva Corieta Texel is also related to Wonderlady Texel (by Ferro), who came second at the NMK and was auctioned in 2006 for 155,000 euros.
Rohdiamant son Glock's Romanov, who achieved very good results in the Grand Prix with Minderhoud, is the sire of the auction foal Kavanta (ds. Jazz). Dam Tovanta ran Z2 dressage herself and is a half sister of the Small Tour dressage horse Ventoux and a ZZ-Zwaar and ZZ-Licht dressage horse.
Two foals have been selected from Glock's London (by Nabab de Reve), the Olympic medal horse of Gerco Schröder. The mare London Cover Z (ds. Caretano) was bred out of Cover Girl Z, a half-sister of the Grand Prix stallion Hardrock Z, who finished sixth individually at the Pan American Games this year. London son Lisbon (ds. Clinton) has the Grand Prix mare Retina V as grandmother.
Looking back at the European Championships in recent weeks, the foals of 'golden' Zirocco Blue VDL and VDL Groep Verdi TN are also worth mentioning. Zirocco Blue is represented in the auction by Kentucky Again (ds. Carambole), who is related to the 1.60m jumping horses Ocorde and Toscane and the 1.50m jumping Ratosca. Verdi's son Kensington (ds. Voltaire) will be auctioned, none other than the half-brother of Leon Thijssen's Grand Prix show jumping stallion Tyson.
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