Dutch horses and the Olympic trials

Oct. 2005: Unity (Orame x Pamina keur) was top mare at her keuring and is #1 in the Nation for jumping! Both she and Veda (Indoctro x Jille Fortuna) reveived their "ster" ratings and Veda was #7 in Nation for Jumping! With Veda's "ster" rating Jille Fortuna is now a "Preferent" mare (produced 3 ster rated offspring).

Great News! The fantastic Flemmingh son Lingh will be available to the USA through VDL distributors in 2006! Lingh wins the first World Cup Qualifier in Vegas!

Sept. 2004: We are very pleased to announce the success of Zaccai (Orame x Pamina keur) at this years keuring. She was the winner of the foal class at DG Bar as well as "Best Young Horse" at that keuring. Her mother Pamina (#1 I.B.O.P in 2002 multiple top ten mare award winner) has now fulfilled her requirements and is officially "keur"!

GREAT NEWS! We just got word from Holland that Jumara's first daughter "Ojumara" received her "keur" rating

VPS Poesie (Rhodiamant x Donnerhall/Pik Bube) is in foal to Rhodium - Born 1/4/05

Jille Fortuna ster (Nimmerdor x Naturel) is in foal to Indoctro - Born 3/6/05

Congratulations to the Chavez family on the purchase of Tiburon. We wish them a bright a happy future together! Watch for Tibbs and his new best friend who have already won their first lead line class together and have their sites set on dressage shows in the future!

Congratulations to Jay and Peggy Hosking on the purchase of Poesie's lovely daughter Phoebe. We wish them the best in their future show and breeding career together!

We are pleased to announce that we have entered into a partnership with Anna Beal of Orange California with now 3 yr old colt Uriel (Olympic Ferro pref. x Okika keur). We have very high hopes for this combo in the coming years and look forward to seeing them begin their competition as early as later this year.

Congratulations to Heidi Harvey of Aliso Viejo, CA on the purchase of Olulani. We wish her and new trainer Cassie Cherry the best of luck in upcoming competitions!

I had the opportunity to watch the selection trials for show jumping and shoot some photo's recently here in Southern California and it was fantastic to see how many horses competing in these trials were Dutch Warmbloods. Out of the 34 starters 11 of the horses were Dutch and what a great accomplishment to even make it to this level of competition! The number breakdown on major breeds in the starters was: Dutch 11, Holstein 5, Oldenburg 1, Hannoverian 5, Westfalen 1, Belgian 2, Irish Sport horse 3, Selle francais 1 Swedish 3, Trek 1 and TB 1. It will be interesting to see how the other teams develop.

Authentic (Guidam) with Beezie Madden

Winner of USEF selection trials and the Cargill international Grand Prix

Clear rounds in trials #1, #2 #5, and #6

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Royal Kaliber (Ramiro) with Chris Kappler

Named to short list prior to Olympic selection trials based on performances leading into the trials. The pair represented the United States on the 2003 show jumping team which won the team gold medal at the Pan American Games and an individual silver medal. They also made history in 2003 when, on consecutive weekends, he and Royal Kaliber won the $200,000 Budweiser American Invitational and the AGA Show Jumping Championship. The list goes on....

Fabius 45 (Goodtimes) with Ashlee Bond

DeSilvio (Silvio) with Beezie Madden

Lutopia (Gentleman) with Molly Ashe

Millenium (Burrgraaf) with John French

Lady D (Ramiro) with Jeff Campf

Ilian (Zuidhorn) with Schuyler Riley

Judgement (Consul) with Beezie Madden

Mogarebi's Jente (Damiro) with Joie Gatlin

Cosequin's CEO (V.I.P.) with Debbie Stephens

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Glasgow (Emilion) with Norman Dello-Joio

Clear rounds in #1 and #2 - withdrawn following round 2 due to injury and finished 30th. What a shame for this exceptional former USA team member combo!