If you want to sell foals as a Belgian auction in Germany, you have to bring your A-game. Flanders Foal Auction has gathered a remarkable group of jumping foals for the auction on Saturday, July 27. “The best collection so far in Germany,” say Luk Van Puymbroeck and Gerald Lenaerts, who will be auctioning for the third time at Holger Hetzel Stables in Goch.
The past two editions during the ‘Tiemeyer x Hetzel Young Horse Masters’ were already successful, even with a professional and critical audience with extensive knowledge. “You have to come up with something special, as the standard at Holger Hetzel’s auctions is always very high. We dare to say that we have succeeded well.”
Catering to the German audience, the Roosakker family is well represented, but the collection also includes a very good filly by the 13-year-old 1.60m Grand Prix stallion Casallco, Germany’s rising star in breeding. Ercolando VDH (Ermitage Kalone) has a link with Holger Hetzel’s auction. This colt is bred out of the half-sister of Crazy in Love (Cornet Obolensky), who was auctioned for one million euros last year. There are four foals by Ermitage Kalone in total. Chacco Blue remains the leader with five foals.
There is plenty of diversity, as the 29 auction foals descend from 18 different stallions. Seven foals come from dams that have gave sport horses competing at 1.45m to 1.60m level. No less than 26 foals have a granddam that gave a 1.50m, 1.55m or 1.60m Grand Prix horse.
Alongside the well-known damlines, there are also families that have not been auctioned much before. Quamano vd Nachtegaal (Quaprice Bois Margot) comes from the half-sister of world champion and Spruce Meadows GP winner Cumano. A beautiful granddaughter of Utopia van de Donkhoeve, one of Pieter Devos’s first top horses, Belle-Rose van ‘t Volpenhof (Tangelo van de Zuuthoeve) is also coming to Goch.
Also noteworthy is the modern and superb galloping Carasco de Nyze Z (Carthago x Heartbreaker), half-brother of three 1.60m Grand Prix horses, including the recently sold Calvino II de Nyze to ‘Iron Dames’. He was ridden by Thibeau Spits and now under the saddle of Janne-Friederike Meyer-Zimmermann.
All foals can be viewed at www.flandersfoalauction.be. During the auction, it is again possible to bid online.