Valegro and Charlotte Dujardin. Photos: Ridehesten.com.
The world’s leading breeders gathered in the city of Geneva Saturday night to be honoured for their extraordinary breeding products. The winners of the World Breeding Federation for Sport Horses Rolex Breeder Rankings in dressage, show jumping and eventing received their WBFSH diplomas presented by Jan Pedersen, president of the WBFSH, and an exquisite Rolex watch presented by Laurent Delanney of Rolex.
Dutch breeders Martje and Joop Hanse won the dressage prize for the third consecutive year whilst Belgian breeder Willy Taets won the show jumping prize for the second year in a row.
Please visit the WBFSH website to read the individual portraits of the winning breeders.
The award winners are:
Martje and Joop Hanse, the Netherlands for breeding the No. 1 dressage horse Valegro by Negro/Gerswin
Willy Taets, Belgium for breeding the No. 1 show jumping horse Hello Sanctos by Quasimodo vd Molendreef/Nabab de Reve
Rolf Lück, Germany for breeding the No. 1 eventing horse Horseware Hale Bob by Ituango xx/Carismo
For further information, please contact:
Xavier Libbrecht
Tel: +33 (6) 80 14 41 83
Email: xavierlibbrecht1@gmail.com
Thomas Bach Jensen
Tel: +45 2033 8683
Email: tbj@wbfsh.org