With a nice score of 81 points and a provisional eighth place in the intermediate standings, Genetic Black (Jazz x Gribaldi) auctioned at Foal Auction Prinsjesdag can return on Thursday for the final of the Pavo Cup in Ermelo. Under Justine Mudde, the five-year-old black gelding out of the full sister of Painted Black convinced the jury with his excellent movements.
Zoï Snels and the stallion Hernandez TN (Kannan x Numero Uno) who was auctioned at the Prinsjesdag Foal Auction today jumped to fourth place in the first round of the Isah Cup for four-year-olds in Ermelo. From judges Daan van Geel and Daan Nanning, the impressive KWPN-approved stallion received an 8.1 for jumping and an 8.5 for going between the obstacles. The final of the Isah Cup is next Thursday.
A wonderful performance by Olympic show jumping rider Marc Houtzager and the seven-year-old top talent Mr. Europe last weekend in Valkenswaard. The Mr. Blue son jumped to victory in the final of the young horse classes at the prestigious Jan Tops competition. Another wonderful achievement added to the already impressive palmares of this young talent. Foal Auction Prinsjesdag: the Power of Performance!
With no less than 92.00%, the spectacular Fürst William was declared champion of the four-year-old stallions at the World Championship for young dressage horses in Ermelo. Under the Spaniard Severo Jurado Lopez, the Fürst Wilhelm son scored a magical 10 for canter and 9.5 for harmony and talent. Foal Auction Prinsjesdag offers a colt by the top talent Fürst William on Wednesday 14 September.
The Limited Edition colt is a son of this movement artist Fürst William. Limited Edition is also bred out of the champion mare Vertu Héroique, a daughter of the foundation sire Gribaldi and Havidoff.
With convincing scores, the five-year-old stallions Governor, Grand Galaxy Win and Glamourdale qualified for the final of the World Championship for five-year-olds. Governor even finished fifth today under Adelinde Cornelissen with a score of 86,60%. Two daughters of Governor are included in the collection of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag, while the colt La Baule-STRH is a Millenium son out of Governor's half-sister. Grand Galaxy Win and Glamourdale both scored 84.00% and finished eighth. Grand Galaxy Win is represented by three descendants in the Prinsjesdag collection, while two sons of Glamourdale are included in the auction collection.
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The Belgian rider Frederik Cattebeke and Caesar, who sold at Foal Auction Prinsjesdag, won the Grand Prix of Hasselt last weekend. In this CSI2* 1.45m/1.50m class, the Lucky Boy son took the top prize of 6,250 euros.
In a time of 35.11 seconds, Frederik Cattebeke and Caesar, bred by B. Slot and Stal de Jonghe, were unbeatable. After a third place in the Grand Prix of Bonheiden and Vittel, there was finally a Grand Prix victory for the only nine-year-old Caesar. This Lucky Boy son out of a daughter of Corland is closely related to the Olympic show jumpers VDL Bubalu and VDL Groep Verdi TN NOP
After last season's very good performances, Janika Sprunger and Bonne Chance CW have been designated as reserve combination for Switzerland at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month. The ten-year-old Baloubet du Rouet mare Bonne Chance CW was auctioned in 2006 at Foal Auction Prinsjesdag.
For a long time it looked as though Bonne Chance CW and Janika Sprunger would be part of the Swiss base team, but Chef d'Equipe Andy Kistler has chosen Steve Guerdat, Martin Fuchs, Paul Estermann and Romain Duguet as his first four riders .
The Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro are approaching and the list of participants is starting to become more and more clear. And this also makes it increasingly clear that the collection of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag 2016 is exceptionally often related to the Olympic horses for Rio!
Last Sunday the Dutch dressage team for Rio de Janeiro was announced: Glock's Johnson NOP, Glock's Voice, Jerich Parzival NOP and Arlando NOP will represent the Netherlands at the Olympics.
It is striking that Foal Auction Prinsjesdag has selected no fewer than seven (!) foals from medal candidate Glock's Johnson for the auction in Ermelo on Wednesday 14 September. Five very interesting colts and two high-quality fillies by Johnson are in the collection, of which Johnson has been combined three times with a Rousseau mare. The dam line of Jerich Parzival NOP is again represented via La Baule-STRH. This Millenium x Zhivago colt has the famous mare Orleans – the full sister of Jerich Parzival – as grandmother.
However, the Prinsjesdag foals are not only related to the Dutch Olympic dressage horses. The German Olympiad horse Desperados FRH is represented both by two direct sons in the auction collection and by the filly Latinmusik KL – a Le Vivaldi out of Desperados' half-sister. The Swedish Olympiad horse in the making Dante Weltino also has two colts in the auction.
The genes of reigning Olympic champion Valegro can also be found in the Prinsjesdag auction collection via sire Negro. Two Negro colts and two fillies will be auctioned in September.
The Dutch showjumping team consists of SFN Zenith NOP, Emerald NOP, VDL Zirocco Blue NOP and VDL Groep Verdi TN NOP and the Prinsjesdag foals show plenty of kinship with these too. The impressive Zirocco Blue has a stallion and a filly in the collection and the topper Verdi also has a son in the auction. Perhaps the most striking Rio-related foal is Quartina DC – a filly by Comme Il Faut out of the half-sister of eye-catcher Emerald NOP
Also worth mentioning are the three descendants of Quickly de Kreisker, who will go to the Olympic Games for Morocco. Also unique is the colt of the Brazilian celebrity Quabri de l'Isle – the Kannan son of whom only a few foals are born each year. A filly by Hardrock Z, who will most likely go to Rio for Venezuela, is also included in the collection.
Cornet Obolensky and For Pleasure are the main suppliers for the Olympic Games in Rio next month and several foals of these foundation stallions have also been included in the Prinsjesdag collection. Cornet Obolensky has three sons and two daughters in the auction and For Pleasure is represented by three sons and one daughter in the collection.
Last weekend, the horses Arc de Triomphe, Gigolo III and Costa Date, auctioned at the Prinsjesdag Foal Auction, jumped to good international rankings. Arc de Triomphe (Triomphe de Muze x Calvados) under Frank Schuttert showed good things at the beautiful youth competition at the Tops International Arena in Valkenswaard, while Gigolo III (Cassini II x Chin Chin) under Rachel Sandoz and Costa Date (Vingino x Quidam de Revel) under Hannah Selleck started in Knokke.
Frank Schuttert and Arc de Triomphe concluded their excellent weekend in Valkenswaard with a nice fourth place in the U25 1,40m on Sunday afternoon. Swiss rider Rachel Sandoz also finished fourth last weekend with Gigolo III. At Knokke Hippique in the CS2* 1.45m class for Amazons only, Rachel Sandoz and Gigolo III finished in fourth place.
American rider Hannah Selleck secured a victory with Costa Date. Selleck recently took over the nine-year-old gray from Mexican Juan Pablo Gaspar Albañez and immediately jumped to first place in Knokke in a two-star 1.40m class.
The selected dressage foals from Foal Auction Prinsjesdag 2016 seem to have everything they need to start successfully in a few years' time at the Dutch Dressage Championships and the World Championship selections that will take place this week in Ermelo. The beautiful black colt La Baule-STRH has perhaps the most in common with some of the most striking horses in Ermelo this weekend. His dam Edelweiss-STR is the half-sister of the brand new Dutch champion Young Riders TC Athene ridden by Jeanine Nieuwenhuis and the KWPN-approved Governor who finished second under Adelinde Cornelissen in the five-year-old dressage horses.
The bred by Jan Streppel and Stephan Haarman La Baule STRH (Millenium x Zhivago) is not only bred out of the half-sister of TC Athene and Governor, but his grandmother Orléans is also the full sister of Jerich Parzival who started the Dutch Dressage Championships under Adelinde Cornellissen with 76.88% in the Grand Prix. This dam line is not only registered in the collection of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag via La Baule STRH, this successful line is also represented via three descendants of the very talented Governor (Totilas x Jazz).
One of the most strikingly bred descendants of Governor in the Prinsjesdag collection is Liquid Gold Utopia – a filly out of the Negro daughter Why o me Utopia. The full sister of Why o me Utopia is none other than Hexagon's Vinegra (Negro x De Niro), who competes at Grand Prix level under Thamar Zweistra. Grand Prix genes are fully represented at Foal Auction Prinsjesdag, for example: Louis 14 Sollenburg (For Romance x OO Seven) out of the Grand Prix mare Astrid Sollenburg, or the colt Luck Pleasure D (Dark Pleasure x Contango) whose dam Olympia W already produced the Grand Prix dressage horses Arthur of Ashley Holzer and Wilton of Anna Buffini and is also a descendant of the world famous Endy line. And don't forget the colt either Look at Me (Charmeur x Havidoff) – a half-brother of Imke Schellekens-Bartels' Grand Prix dressage horse Toots, who is currently ridden by the Japanese Akane Kuroki.
The dam lines of several prominent approved stallions are also strongly represented in the collection of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag. Take the filly for example Latin music KL (Le Vivaldi x Don Frederico), bred out of the half-sister of Kristina Sprehe's Grand Prix stallion Desperados FRH, who is also the sire of the colt Lightning Texel W (ds. Krack C) and the colt Demario W (ds. Painted Black). Also the filly Luresia WD (Charmeur x Krack C) bred out of the direct dam line of the KWPN-approved Dream Boy and the colt Last Minute (Dante Weltino x Jazz) bred out of the half-sister of the foundation sire Rousseau are certainly worth mentioning. In addition, the very interesting fillies Lirava (Capri Sonne Jr. x Scandic) bred out of the same dam as KWPN performance topper Giovanni and Lanzarote (Dream Boy x Jazz ) – the full sister of the sadly deceased reserve champion of the KWPN Stallion Selection 2016 Ireland – under the hammer on Wednesday 14 September at Foal Auction Prinsjesdag.
The foals mentioned above are just a few of the excellent dressage collection of Foal Auction Prinsjesdag 2016! All pedigrees of the selected foals can be found on www.prinsjesdag.eu and via the auction list on HorseTelex. If you cannot wait for the auction day on Wednesday 14 September in Ermelo, you are cordially invited to take a look at the photo/video day of the dressage foals on Friday 22 July at Equestrian Center Gert van den Hoorn at Asselseweg 35 in Kootwijk.
The eleven-year-old gray stallion Alicante made his debut last night in a Nations Cup in the Mercedes-Benz Nations Cup of CHIO Aachen. The Casall son jumped a flawless first lap under Jérôme Guery, only the penultimate oxer was lightly touched and fell directly to the grass.
In the second round Alicante was not ideal in the triple jump, but he jumped the remaining course brilliantly again, so that it remained with two jumping errors. We are going to hear a lot more about this breeding product from Ron Nowee of Stoeterij 't Maalwater, who has now officially made his breakthrough at the highest level! Foal Auction Prinsjesdag: the Power of Performance!
Date: September 16, 2025
Bidding: Live and Online
Location: KNHS Center, Ermelo
For auction: Foals
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Bidding: Live and Online
Location: Zilfia's Hoeve, Houten
For auction: Foals
