Ballerina sold!
Nelantinus daughter Ballerina van de Amstelhof has been sold. This mare was second in her category at the last premium examination with a foal premium. Ballerina is a breeding product of the Nelantinus van de Groote Woerd and Elegant dochter O-Liberate of Shetlane combination. This mare was big size champion of the examination in Bergharen in 2007! Further on, the stallion foal Bonheur has gone for breeding to mr. Kleijer.
NSPS approval for our Olivier van de Amstelhof!
October 29th, 2008
As breeder and owner we are very happy and proud of our breeding stallion Olivier van de Amstelhof with an appearance index of 15.94 has gotten it's final approval voor the NSPS. Breeding a stallion like Olivier and using it with a modest fertilization count of 92 in 6 years, this confirmation of our efforts is great experience.
We hope to have Olivier for many years in our breeding herd!
Also we would like to congratulate the family Waanders fromHaaksbergen with the fact that Oriënt van de Amstelhof, who was bred by us, also reached a great milestone by receiving it's approval. We are proud to have bred such a high quality stallion which showed to have remarkable breeding qualities. We wish the family Waanders much more great successes with Oriënt!
Zingara van Isala!
Since recently, we have Youth Champion of Varsseveld 2008, Zingara van Isala !
We think Zingara is a beautiful mare which in our opinion belongs to the best 5 youth mares in The Netherlands and we expect a lot from her in the coming years. Also she has an interesting bloodline which can help us adjust our breeding directions to improve.
When breeder mister Leijzer told us to be ready to sell we didn't hesitate for a moment. It's not often that you get such a chance.
News from october 8, 2008
Our beautiful mare Showgirl has been sold to mister Arts from Horst.
News from october 9, 2008:
Mares Adelinde van de Amstelhof and X-Girl van de Amstelhof have been returned to their stable of birth.
Both mares have not been brought in to examination this year but since their pedigree and high quality we expect them both to have gotten their first prime anyway and both are a promise for the future!
Prime examination Wormerveer 2008
Busy, busy, busy!
The yearly prime examination was already there again and so we had to buy in for this event. After buying the shampoo, ropes, elastic bands en brushes we finally could get started with washing. On wednesday we washed the fat merries together with the old ones and on thursday we did the youth. On friday we did the mares with the young foals. After doing these 'dirty jobs' we still had to do some shopping. After making the sandwiches and packing up the cleaning stuff we feeded the ponies for the last time.
Finally we could get some sleep and those few hours that were left were needed, since we would take 32 ponies to Wormerveer that saturday.
At 04.30 in the morning Yvette and I were getting out! Yvette would take care of the catering and I went outside to feed the ponies. All the ponies just fit in the transportation combination that we lended from the family Schuijt. And Klaas thought that there would be some space left! So coming year will be different when we have 16 foals coming...
Reaching Wormerveer it seemed that I forgot something as usual. Lucky for me I could return with the driver to Kwadijk and get some whips. You don't want to miss those when you have some thirty ponies to guide. Once I returned we mounted the halters and prepared the yearlings. At 9 o'clock the examination would start so we quickly started to get dressed up in white!
First, Bonheur (Olivier x Ivette) had to go. He was on the second row with a premium but had some comment that he was a little 'woolly' and probably be better as the number 1. Later on, it appeared to be the 'spare' foal champion and also a son of Olivier! Unfortunately, Benneton (Olivier x Showgirl) didn't get a premium. We did not bring in Brad Pitt (Olivier x Ulivia) because he was very ill at birth and got behind on things.
Bella Donna (Olivier x Prima Donna) was ahead in her category with foal premium. Ballerina (Nelantinus x O-Liberate) got third with a premium. In the second category mare foals we had a daughter of Olivier on top. Behind that was Burberry (Olivier x Iris) with a premium. The foal Blaze (of Unique) was only out for a week and so we didn't bring her in also. And then, Balou was up for examination. This daughter of Nelantinus from Utopia was a surprise for us all, this day. In her category she won with a premium. Behind that was Bellefleur (Olivier x Nina) with premium. In the end there just was no premium for Brown Girl (Olivier x Kimberley). Too bad!
After the foals it was time for the youth. Little Adelheid had to go first in the category medium youngsters.She won easily and got a youth premium. In the bigger category Ayesha was ahead and secondly was Boss' daughter Arabella. With the two year olds medium there was a first place for Zuante (and title Youth Champion Medium Size) and a third place for Xtra Donna with premium. We thought Xtra was in an excellent position so we were surprised that she didn't end higer than she did. Number one in the two year big size category was Xanadu, and second here was Xaviera.
Around twelve the foals- and youth championships began. We could bring two foals back into the ring and in the end, Nelantinus' daughter Balou became foals champion! We had to put Bellefleur in the ring fast, bu too late since the choice for Olivier's son Boris van La Mere Anne was already made. Then, for the youth titles we could bring Adelheid, Ayesha, Zuante and Xanadu. The youth championship brought chamionship to our European Youth Champion Xanadu. Surprisingly, Xaviera got Second Place Champion.
That afternoon it was time for the three year olds and the older mares. Whise Girl and Wait and See had to come up. Whise was the better one in the Register challenge but that turned around in the opinion of the jury. Both got the first premium and ended up on second and first place. Later, Whise Girl got te best three year mare nomination breeded in the province of North Holland. She got the 'Jacob Jan Bakker Trofee' for that!
Then it was the turn for Victoria, Utopia en Unique. Eventually Utopia won in the four year mares big size category with a first premium. On second and third place were Unique en Victoria and both of them got a first premium. In the category of six years mares big size Showgirl was set back to second place after a few rounds, but she did get a first premium ofcourse. na een paar rondjes teruggezet naar een tweede plaats met natuurlijk wel de eerste premie. Prima Donna was obviously on number 1 with a first premium in the Crown mares category.
Now Ulivia, Prime Rose, Nina and Ivette were 'on' in the category Old Champions. All four of them got their first premium with glory. And although Ivette is a little too old for a first premium, we thought she was still worth it.
At the end of the day they always have the champions rounds. In the catgory Big Size we were invited back with Wait and See, Utopia and Prima Donna. Ofcourse Marco (Dibbits, one of the riders) already knew who would be champion! So, not completely unexpected the number one was Utopia of Shetlane. Little Utopia with only 1.06 height, got the General Day Championship prize. And then it even got more exciting because which one would got the Champion Honor? We brought in Ulivia, Prime Rose and Nina together with Utopia. I walked with Nina, but it soon appeared that the winners would be from Limburg. It mainly became a 'battle' between Ulivia en Prime Rose with Ulivia as winner. This daughter of No Fear now has the title Champion Honer 2008 of Wormerveer.
And with this great title, the premium examination came to an end. After cleaning everything up we could go back home. And then, when you open the lorry doors, it becomes the greatest moment of the day. When the ponies run into the grassland and are running so excited and so happy!
We'd like to thank the runners (Marco en Harman), our ‘stable boy’ Rinske and our regular photographer Heidi for all their help and enthusiasm!