Through www.embryoauction.com the National Foal Auction Prinsjesdag will be offering embryos from August 2015. These embryos have the very best genetic material available in the world. From stallions that excel in international sport or have proven to inherit an above-average sport aptitude. But even more importantly, from dam lines in which sports performances in direct line are very strongly anchored. Whoever wants to excel in sport depends on breeding.

Foal Auction Prinsjesdag has been auctioning embryos on the third Tuesday of September for years. With the rapid developments in breeding, Prinsjesdag offers a new platform for marketing embryos in the form of www.embryoauction.com. Because embryo transfer and ICSI are changing modern breeding, there is also a need for a different form of marketing. Where a few years ago a single embryo was sold through the foal auction, in recent years a wide range of embryos has arisen in which genes from proven stallions and mares have been crossed with each other.

Chairman Arjan van der Waaij is proud of the new Prinsjesdag auction site: 'The idea of embryoauction.com arose during the previous edition of the foal auction. We saw the number of embryos in the auction increase every year. The breeders offered better quality, but at the same time we had the feeling that it didn't fit on auction day: there was nothing in the track when you auction an embryo and that almost destroyed the atmosphere. But we did notice that the demand was high with corresponding prices. So what do you do then? We have looked at other initiatives in this area and believe that there are opportunities. That is why we have developed www.embryoauction.com in recent months. In view of the offer we encountered in the market, there is certainly a need for such a platform.'

Prinsjesdag has been applying very strict criteria for years when compiling the annual foal collection. 'The Power of Performance' is the motto and it monitors performance inheritance in the direct maternal line, proven or promising sires, development, a functional exterior and functional movement. With the embryos on www.embryoauction.com, the bar is raised even higher when it comes to performance inheritance. Only the very best European top material is good enough. There is worldwide interest in such strictly selected gene material. The aim of www.embryoauction.com is to connect the worldwide demand with the supply of top material from European breeders. Not just on the third Tuesday of September, but all year round.

Anyone interested can register on this website. For more information: info@embryoauction.com or call +31-(0)342440100.

Baloubet du Rouet and the Prinsjesdag have a lot in common: they both stand for performance and quality. In addition, many Baloubet foals were sold on the third Tuesday. Last Sunday, the five-star Grand Prix of Falsterbo was won by Bonne Chance CW (photo), daughter of Baloubet du Rouet, who was auctioned as a foal by Prinsjesdag.

The only nine-year-old superstar of Janike Sprunger thus earned 66,000 euros, after she also showed a top round in the Nations Cup. The breeding product of HJF van Loon from Hooge Mierde, who had Bonne Chance CW (ds. Cambridge) auctioned in 2006, also won the 1.50m Grand Prix of CSI3* Busto Arsizio and Vejer de la Frontera earlier this year.

No auction on Prinsjesdag passes without the offspring of Baloubet du Rouet being part of the collection. Also this year with four direct children and six grandchildren through his sons Balou du Rouet (3x) and Chaman (2x) and as mother's father (1x).

pearls
One of the many gems is the colt of Baloubet du Rouet x Opium, whose grandam is the 1.60m Grand Prix show jumper Sterrehof's Ushi (by Vigo d'Arsouilles) ridden by Julia Kayser. And what about a Baloubet du Rouet out of the well-known Krista (by Polydor), the dam of the winner of the World Cup final Taloubet K with Christian Ahlmann?

The popular progenitor Balou du Rouet is auctioning a daughter of BMC Octavia (by Jus de Pomme), former winner of the Grand Prix of CSI Twente with Jurgen Stenfert. An Edinburgh stallion from a daughter of Balou du Rouet is also being auctioned, the stallion that was also auctioned at Prinsjesdag at the time.

From the Baloubet son Chaman, very successful under Ludger Beerbaum, there is a daughter for sale out of the full sister of the Olympic show jumping stallion Tinka's Boy (by Zuidpool) ridden by Markus Fuchs. We see this mare line again more often in the collection, because a Levisto Z filly has been selected out of the 1.50m jumping mare Vantiels Esprit (by Baloubet du Rouet), a half-sister of Tinka's Boy and also mother of rising star Carrera VDL .

For Pleasure
Baloubet du Rouet took part in the Olympic Games twice with Rodrigo Pessoa and came home with an individual gold medal (2004) and team bronze (2000). A stallion who is not inferior to him in terms of sport and inheritance is For Pleasure, the winner of team gold at the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000. And Prinsjesdag has also selected two foals from him: a For Pleasure son comes out of Gracelottie B (s. Nabab de Reve), a niece of Olympic show jumper Vindicat W (by Guidam), who won team gold in 2004 with the British team.

Genetically also very interesting is the offspring of Glock's London (2x and dam's sire 1x) and Berlin (2x), two top stallions who won the necessary medals with Gerco Schröder. London's regular teammate VDL Groep Verdi TN is represented in the auction by a son of Kicky Queen (Voltaire), the dam of the 1.60m Grand Prix showjumping stallion Tyson ridden by Leon Thijssen and half sister of the Grand Prix showjumper Nirvana ridden by Annet Willems. One of the many mare lines that shines with performance!

Finally, the name of Rolf-Göran Bengtsson's Casall ASK should not be missing from the list of top performing sires. The stallion who performs at the highest international level is represented by a stallion and a filly, both from very interesting dam lines.