\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it. A good price is nice, because I\u2019m a professional breeder, but I also truly hope they end up in a good sport stable and that I hear back about them,\u201d says the Dutchman who runs Stal Eijkhof in Roggel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His connection with Flanders Foal Auction goes back at least eight years. \u201cMy first foal went to Canada. My most expensive one was sold by Flanders last year for \u20ac72,000, a Carrera x Aganix du Seigneur out of the half-sister to Million Dollar. And yes, today in Oliva I have two embryos here as well. I have around twenty pregnancies each year. During the winter I try to sell ten as embryos. In spring, ten foals are born. I often keep two and sell eight, usually through auctions such as Flanders Foal Auction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frank van Eijkelenburg has been active in breeding for thirty years and was one of the first to embrace ET and ICSI techniques. \u201cEighty percent of my foals are born through ET or ICSI. I don\u2019t cut corners on costs. We manage the mares ourselves and I work with Avantea and Koen Carrein of Equilife Reproduction Center. I want to have control over the recipient mares myself and I have strict requirements for them. They must have sufficient size and body length, a large uterus and be between 4 and 13 years old. The risk of losing an embryo increases as they get older.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Commercial success ultimately depends on the quality of the foals and their pedigrees, he explains. \u201cI learned a lot from Mark Kluskens and Luc Henry from who I also bought Inka van \u2019t Roosakker. Tonight, I have a Comme il Faut out of her in the auction. The other is a United Touch out of Goodnight du Cedre, Spain\u2019s six-year-old champion and a daughter of top mare Dubai du Cedre, who won the 5* Grand Prix of Doha last week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI only want to breed with mares that have already produced sport horses or are young and show exceptional jumping ability themselves. I also often consult with my rider, Bo op den Drink, who rides several mares for me and is co-owner of horses. We set the bar high, exactly what Flanders Foal Auction does as well. That\u2019s why we always like to contribute something. Flanders goes for quality. They invest heavily in promotion, seek out the best clients and provide excellent aftercare. It\u2019s also the only auction that sets conditions for recipient mares. They always ask you to send a photo of the recipient mare and want you to recheck the pregnancy before delivering the mare. That\u2019s how it should be. They do their best, so I have to do mine as well.\u201d ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frank van Eijkelenburg\u2019s breeding activities regularly take him to special places. Last month he attended the Flanders Embryo Auction in Abu Dhabi and this weekend he is following the showjumping at MET Oliva under the Spanish sun. Tonight, two more of his embryos will be auctioned. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95581,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95576\/revisions\/95581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}