Today May 30th, we learned that our highly valued board member Willem Dekker passed away last night after a long period of illness.

Willem Dekker (67) was characterized by his great passion for horses and a positive attitude to life. Together with his wife Anja and his daughters Mariëlle and Yvette, Willem focused on breeding jumping and dressage horses from Benningbroek in North Holland. His breeding has produced the approved stallions Hernandez TN (s.Kannan), Fire King WD (s.Toulon) and Kaiden Leva WD (s.Kannan).

From 2008 Willem was part of the board of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag. In addition to being a great horse lover, he also turned out to be a real connector. Willem liked to go along with the selectors and knew many fellow breeders. He was a man who loved to tackle and had great perseverance. Until the very end, Willem remained involved and enthusiastic about the Foal Auction Prinsjesdag.

With his passing, we not only say goodbye to a valuable board member, but also to a dear friend.
The board, selectors and stakeholders of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag cherish the beautiful memories and wish his wife Anja and their two daughters a lot of strength with this great loss.

On behalf of the board of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag,

Arjan van der Waaij
Chair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Prinsjesdag Online will auction five exclusive embryos and a straw from Chacco Blue on Monday evening 16 March from 9 pm on www.prinsjesdagonline.eu. The collection consists of embryos from Scuderia 1918 Tobago Z, Aganix du Seigneur and Big Star, among others. In addition, Prinsjesdag Online is also auctioning a rare straw of frozen semen from the legendary Chacco Blue.

Monday, March 16, Prinsjesdag Online will auction the six auction items via a live online auction format. You can easily register via this link (https://prinsjesdag.weauction.nl/register) and you can bid online.

Scuderia 1918 Tobago Z combined with sister Emerald

The first embryo was bred directly from the mare Quattro Stagioni van 't Meulenhof, the full sister of the very talented stallion Nixon van 't Meulenhof and half sister of the world famous Emerald and the five-star Grand Prix show jumpers Diamanthina van 't Ruytershof and Ilusionata van 't Meulenhof. The sire of this first embryo is the world famous Scuderia 1918 Tobago Z; one of Daniel Deusser's top horses and winner of the Grand Prix of Oslo and Lyon and the World Cup Qualifiers of Madrid and Bordeaux.

Talent El Barone 111 Z 'meets' the Usha van 't Roosakker family

Prinsjesdag Online also offers an embryo of the extremely talented Emerald son El Barone 111 Z; one of the up-and-coming talents in Belgian show jumping and a very popular breeding stallion. This embryo was bred out of the promising mare Anusha Key SR Z – a daughter of Armitages Boy out of the very successful mare Grand Cru van 't Hagenhof. This Bentley van de Heffinck daughter has already produced several international show jumpers and is a daughter of the well-known Babbe van 't Roosakker – dam and grandmother of top show jumpers such as Erco van 't Roosakker, Dulhan de la Roque, Giorgio van 't Hagenhof, Geena, Jiva Imperio Egipcio, Kheros van 't Hoogeinde, Mystic van 't Hoogeinde and many more. Great-grandmother Usha van 't Roosakker is the foundation mother of the 'Van 't Roosakker' dynasty.

Aganix du Seigneur, Hickstead & the damline of Carthago

Embryo number 3 is a descendant of the up and coming top progenitor Aganix du Seigneur out of a mare of the legendary Olympic champion Hickstead. Via great-grandsire Numero Uno, the pedigree of this embryo goes back to the Grand Prix show jumping mare A-Cover Girl – herself successful with the Swede Thomas Nilsson and full sister of the two-time Olympic show jumper and foundation stallion Carthago. In combination with Aganix du Seigneur, dam Exceptional already produced the very talented approved stallion Asterix de Couleur.

Olympic champion Big Star & 1.60m winner Andrea join forces

The fourth embryo in the Prinsjesdag Online collection was bred out of the 1.60m winner Andrea – one of Gert Jan Bruggink's most successful show jumpers ever. This competitive daughter of Marome NW won no fewer than 30 international classes under the saddle of Bruggink and later Abdullah Al Sharbatly, including the Grand Prix of Eindhoven, Dortmund, Bremen, Beervelde and Oldenburg. Andrea also successfully competed in the 2014 World Cup Finals in Lyon. Sire of this embryo is the world famous Big Star – the stallion who under Nick Skelton won Olympic team gold in 2012, won the Aachen Grand Prix in 2013 and individual Olympic champion in 2016. was in Rio de Janeiro.

Chacco Blue x Cornet Obolensky

The last embryo of this collection combines the leading progenitors Chacco Blue and Cornet Obolensky. Chacco Blue has been the undisputed number one in the WBFSH Sire Ranking for years thanks to world famous offspring such as Explosion W, Calisto Blue, Chalou, Chacco Kid, Blue Movie and many others. Cornet Obolensky is one of the most influential stallions of his generation and is currently represented by top show jumpers such as Clooney, Balou du Reventon, Comme Il Faut and Cornado NRW. The dam of this embryo, Cornet-Terma, produced the top talent Lykke Li-Terma Z, ridden by the Egyptian Nayel Nassar. Granddam Soterma is the dam of the Grand Prix stallion Brainpower, who was successful in the past under Willem Greve and now under the American Charlie Jacobs.

Exclusive opportunity: 1 straw Chacco Blue

Finally, Prinsjesdag Online also offers an exclusive straw of frozen semen from the one and only Chacco Blue: the number one supplier of showjumping horses at the moment. Unfortunately Chacco Blue died at the age of fourteen in 2012 and there is hardly any frozen semen available. With this straw you have the chance to use Chacco Blue for breeding and maybe breed a horse like Explosion W or Calisto Blue.

These six auction items will be auctioned on Monday 16 March via Prince's Day Online ), so register now and stay informed about this exclusive auction. The auction starts at 9 pm and for more information please contact online@prinsjesdag.eu.

In addition to a number of internationally performing show jumpers, Foal Auction Prinsjesdag has also been strongly represented at the highest level in dressage in recent weeks. For example, First Apple (by Vivaldi) won several Grand Prix classes. Horses such as E'Special PS, Edinburgh, Baron and Thunder GZ provided great advertising in show jumping.

Nine-year-old Thunder GZ (Tyson x Dutch Capitol, breeder John Geerets) performed well on Spanish soil. In Oliva he jumped double clear with Mark McAuley to eighth prize in the 2* Grand Prix and last weekend the duo even finished second in the two-phase 1.45m at CSI3* Valencia. The KWPN-approved stallion Edinburgh (Vleut x Darco, breeders Evert Meijer and Gerard Lindeboom) has also found his niche with Maikel van der Vleuten. At the CSI5* in Doha this resulted in a second prize in the two-phase 1.45m, a fourth prize in the 1.45m against the clock and a seventh prize in the 1.50m. In February they had already made their mark by winning the 2* Grand Prix of Lier. At the CSI3* in Thermal, Karl Cook emerged as the winner in the classic 1.45m class with E'Special PS (Berlin x Caruso), bred by Peter Simons. In the 3* Grand Prix (1.50m) of Vilamoura, Roberto Turchetto jumped to third prize with the double clear jumping Baron (Colman x Numero Uno, breeder Stoeterij 't Heemskind). Another notable reference is Feeling Luckey (Bustique x Krunch de Brêve) who finished fourth in the 1.50m at CSI5*-W Sharjah with Karim Elzoghby and sixth in the 1.55m World Cup in Abu Dhabi.

Three times Grand Prix dressage
One of the most striking Prinsjesdag references at the highest level in dressage sport is the Vivaldi son First Apple (ds.TCN Partout). Sarah Lockman performs very remarkably with the chestnut bred by Nico van Maaswaal. In February they won the international Grand Prix Special at CDI3* Wellington as well as four (!) national Grand Prix classes at the same competition. They also performed strongly in the regular Grand Prix during the CDI3*, where they came in second. Boston STH (Johnson x Quattro B, breeder Jan Temmink) also did good business last month. Under Denise Nekeman the stallion took eighth prize twice with nice percentages. In the Freestyle, the Dutch duo even surpassed the 77%. At the national show in Wellington, the now 20-year-old (!) Akribori son MT.Athos (ds.Donnerschlag, breeder Ingrid Blonk) made the switch to Grand Prix dressage. Under Barbara Wendy Denton he finished sixth and eighth with percentages of around 60 percent.

On Monday 3 February, Foal Auction Prinsjesdag will auction six extremely exclusive embryos via the new online platform Prinsjesdag Online. The very best dam lines in the world are represented in the collection of this first online edition.

Prinsjesdag Online auctions an embryo from a daughter of Niels Bruynseels' five-star showjumper Ilusionata van 't Meulenhof, several embryos from daughters of Electra van 't Roosakker and Babbe van 't Roosakker, a grandson or daughter of 1.60m showjumper Ciske van Overis , another embryo from the family of the legendary Usha van 't Roosakker and an embryo from a daughter of Grand Prix jumping mare Egie of Colors.

These six carefully selected embryos descend from the world's best stallions; Prinsjesdag Online is auctioning embryos of the number one of the moment Chacco Blue, of the jumping phenomenon Scuderia 1918 Tobago Z, of the foundation stallion Emerald, of the wildly successful Scuderia 1918 Halifax, the highly breeding Conthargos and the world-famous Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve.

For the full collection, visit www.prinsjesdagonline.eu and keep an eye on our Facebook page for the latest news! The online auction will take place on Monday, February 3rd at 8:00 PM CET – we hope you take the opportunity to purchase a future topper!

Click here to view the embryos 

In addition to the traditional auction days, Foal Auction Prinsjesdag wants to make top material available to its loyal customer base all year round from 2020 onwards. That is why Foal Auction Prinsjesdag is launching the online auction platform Prinsjesdag Online. The first online auction will take place on Monday 3 February 2020 and will consist of genetically very high quality embryos with the best jumping genes in Europe.

With the introduction of Prinsjesdag Online, Embryoauction.com, previously successfully launched by Foal Auction Prinsjesdag, will be continued. For the first online auction, the focus of Prinsjesdag Online will be on jumping-bred embryos, but in the near future dressage-bred embryos, ICSI embryos and possibly broodmares will also be part of the online auction collections.

Live Auction

An innovative part of Prinsjesdag Online is that, in collaboration with WeAuction, the auction items will be auctioned live, accompanied by live commentary and additional background information. Prinsjesdag Online also works with a young, new team of Young Ambassadors: Wouter Bon will act as contact person for both breeders and buyers and will be the contact person for Prinsjesdag Online, while Peter van der Waaij will provide an important part of the promotion and breeding information of the auction items for will take into account. Prinsjesdag Online aims to organize an online auction every quarter from 2020.

February 3, 2020 first online auction

On Monday 3 February 2020, Prinsjesdag Online will organize the first online auction and the days prior to the auction, the Prinsjesdag Online team will be present at the KWPN Stallion Show 2020 for questions and additional information.

You can sign up!

Do you have interesting embryos for 2020 and would you like to offer them via Prinsjesdag Online to the loyal customer base of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag? Please feel free to contact us via online@prinsjesdag.euor +31648410943 (Wouter Bon) and ask for the conditions.