After we said goodbye to some promising horses in 2023 we can now look forward in 2024 with some new young talent. This talent was found at the KWPN select sale, a part of the KWPN stallion aprovals, and the auctionlot contains stallions who are at least through to the second round of the aprovals.

The first stallion that catched our eye was Romantico AD. This grey stallion is by Grandorado TN out of a Cornet Obolensky mare. Grandorado himself is actif at 160 level under Willem Greve. The mother of Romantico, Madame Cornet RM, is the half-sister of several 150 and 140 horses.

Next up was Raptor ADC that caught our attention. This very impressive dark stallion is by Luigi D’Eclipse, winner of the 155 GP of Maastricht 2023. The mother of Raptor is by world famous Emerald van 't Ruytershof and, same as Romantico, also Raptor’s damline consists several horses ranging from 140 till 155 level.

Both stallions were selected at the last viewing of the stallion selection and therefor qualify to participate at the performance test. Here the stallions will be evaluated on natural sport talent, temperament, rideability and character and this for 35 days in a row.

Both boys are now being prepared on their test by our loyal partners at Protea Stables and beginning of April we will bring them to Ermelo for the kick-off.