The Flanders Foal Auction team has set up shop at the embryo auction on Saturday evening, February 21, at the MET Oliva and has already discovered six horses that were once auctioned off by \u201eFlanders\u201d as foals. Nibali (Casallo Z x Balou du Rouet), for example, is one of the best eight-year-old show jumping horses on the European tournament scene. He has already jumped flawlessly in his first 1.45 m ranking trials and yesterday placed fourth in the 1.45 m opening trial with Mariano Mart\u00ednez Bastida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Immediately after the jump, Flanders team member Mark Oude Griep took the opportunity to saddle his self-bred horse. \u201eNibali is the very first foal I have sold through the Flanders Foal Auction,\u201d says Mark, who has been involved in the selection of foals and embryos for eight years. \u201eI follow his development closely. His results are incredibly good. In 60 international starts, he has already won 11 races and in almost 60 % of them he was among the prize-winners.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Family<\/strong> Mariano Mart\u00ednez Bastida, who has a stable in Oliva that is rented out permanently, is immediately enthusiastic when he talks about Nibali, even though he almost didn\u2019t buy him last year. \u201eThey told me he was eight years old, but it turned out he was seven. That made me wonder, because I thought he was too young,\u201c explains the global tour rider. \u201eBut something told me that he could be special. The feeling he gave me was so good, completely different from other horses.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n A horse for top-level sports<\/strong> More foals from Flanders<\/strong> Last year, his partner Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez de la Vara bought the foal Eleonore van Overis Z (Ermitage Kalone) at the Flanders Foal Auction. \u201eWhen I walked through the stables, I immediately fell in love with the photo that was hanging there. The foal itself hadn\u2019t even arrived yet. It will be a long time before we know how good the foals will be, but we are very satisfied with these purchases,\u201c she says.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Das Team Flanders Foal Auction hat sich f\u00fcr die Embryo-Auktion am Samstagabend, dem 21. Februar, im MET Oliva niedergelassen und bereits sechs Springpferde entdeckt, die einst von \u201eFlanders\u201d als Fohlen versteigert wurden. Nibali (Casallo Z x Balou du Rouet) beispielsweise ist eines der besten achtj\u00e4hrigen Springpferde auf der europ\u00e4ischen Turnierszene. … Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95542,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95539\/revisions\/95542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spring-reiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95539"}],"curies":[{"name":"well played","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mark Oude Griep bred Nibali from the KWPN elite performance mare Balou Lady (Balou du Rouet x Acord II). \u201eShe is now deceased, but I still have a few frozen embryos from her, as well as a yearling, a six-year-old and a seven-year-old from Colman, who starts at 1.30 m.\u201c In addition, she produced five international horses at 1.35\u20131.45 m level and is a half-sister to the 1.60 m Grand Prix horses Sterrehof\u2019s Voltaire and Balou Z.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201eAt the beginning, Nibali was a bit shy, but he has so much quality. Over the course of the winter, his confidence has grown enormously. I now have the feeling that he is a horse for top-level sport. Do I consider selling him? No way, I\u2019ve already received very interesting offers, but I don\u2019t have a price for him,\u201c the Spaniard laughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since then, he has bought further foals from the Flanders Foal Auction. \u201eI went to Sentower Park and didn\u2019t plan to buy anything, but I saw everyone around me joining in, and in the end I bought four myself,\u201c he laughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n