It was not only in Harich that the Frisian horses showed their best side last weekend, several “Frisian” combinations also successfully appeared at the start of the Subtop Multi-Day event in Tolbert.

Giant Sports Elite

Although the multi-day dressage event had started on Thursday, the first Frisian horses hit the track on Friday morning, January 14, during the Prix St. Georges.
Peter Spahn and Demro Stables Ster’s Anders 451 Gigantisch stallion achieved more than the final point advantage required for the Sport-Elite predicate by riding 64.265%. As a rider from Niebert explains: ‘Deserved! Stallions have a good attitude, learning ability, endurance and are very sweet.
Rider Margriet Koopmans and her Ide KW (Maurits 437) also competed in this morning’s class where they earned a good score of 65%.

Mid-tier 1 debuts for Tizian and TalenTino

Both Tizian fans Ass Ster Sport-Elite (Epke 474) with Bennie van Es and TalenTino JC (Tsjalke 397) with Joey van de Grijp made their debut in the Intermediaaire 1 class on Friday afternoon finishing ninth among the KWPN class. TalenTino and Joey rose to 63.603% and took fifteenth place, indicating that the combination belongs to this higher class.

Jeroen Poll was 67.8% in the Grand Prix

On Saturday, January 15, it was the turn of racers Debby de Graaf and Marsja Dijkman to appear at the Grand Prix. Marsja rode the Beart 411 mare MGPNGP Geke fan ‘e Beijemastate Ster Sport-Elite to 63.034% and Debby rode the Uldrik 457 gelding Kai Galloper to 61.196%. On Sunday, Debby and Kai competed again in the Grand Prix, this test scored 61.884%. Peter Spahn and Jeroen Poll (Anders 451) also performed very well in this Grand Prix class with a very strong 67.826%.