Valeska (Krack C x Farrington) with Willy Arts at the Annual Meeting hosted by Steffen and Shannon Peters.
at age 18, he had earned nearly $1.5 million in prize money and continues his legacy through impressive offspring. Te lovely U.S.-bred dressage mare Valeska DG (Krack
C x Farrington) has made an international impression in the dressage ring. After earning a multitude of top keuring awards as a youngster, the elegant six-year-old chestnut was presented by rider Willy Arts at the 2008 Markel/USEF Young Horse Dressage Western Coast Selection Trials, where Valeska DG
received a score of 8.3 on her way to winning the division cham- pionship. Tis score qualified Valeska DG to represent the U.S. at the FEI/WBFSH World Championship for Young Dressage Horses in Verden, Germany, where she became one of an elite few U.S.-breds to earn the honor of competing in this prestigious inter- national showcase. While many KWPN horses are im- ported from Europe, North American breeders are turning the tide, producing high performance athletes sought by riders around the world. A recent example is the seven-year-old mare Blossom (Lupicor x Larino). Foaled in Red Deer, Alberta, Blossom became first star and then keur at her studbook inspection in 2010, as well as winning the prestigious ‘Gert van der Veen’ award. Te talented mare earned her sport predicate in jumping early in 2013 with rider Femke van den Bosch. Purchased by Brazilian show jumping-rider Alvaro de Miranda and wife Athina Onas- sis de Miranda, Blossom has been exported to Victory Eques- trian Sport BV in Holland to continue what is anticipated to be a spectacular career. Other notable exports include Ulysses (Ferro x Wanroij), the top 3-year-old gelding/stallion in North America at his studbook inspection, who went on to qualify for the very competitive Young Horse Jumping Champion- ships in Brazil, as well as Gauguin NSN (Sir Gregory x Ido- cus), sold and exported to Germany (both bred by Canada’s Martha Haley of NeverSayNever Farm).
Ulysses (Ferro x Never Say Never by Wanroij, bred by Martha Haley) exported to Brazil for jumping competition.
Dutch horses Harriet HF
(uphill x jazz/metall) #1 KWPN-NA
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Approved KWPN stallion Idocus (Equador x Eretha by Zonneglans, bred by Christine Weymiss) in 2010 with Young Rider Ashlyn De Groot, 2004 Olympic and Aachen partner to Marlies van Balen (NL), 2007 World Cup partner to Courtney King.
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are not only for those riders with Olympic aspira- tions; they can be found at horse shows around the world happily competing with their junior and amateur owners. “Regardless of the desired level of competition, with a KWPN horse the rider can be assured of having
an attractive and talented horse, bred for long-term soundness to do the job for which it was intended,” explains Haley. “I always tell my clients that it is so much easier to take a horse up the levels that was bred and has the traits to do the job at hand, than it is to struggle with a horse that would be far better off doing something else.”
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