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FEI World Breeding Jumping Championships for Young Horses, Lanaken (BEL), 27-30 September

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30 September 2007 Author: webmaster
Sunday Final - Six year old show jumpers: all Dutch podium 
 

The riders all come from Holland, their medal winning horses are registered with three different studbooks. The best 6 year old show jumper of the world in 2007 is Zekina Z (Zandor Z x Carthago Z), bred with Studbook Zangersheide by the owners Louis and Jos Morsink from Holland. Today amateur rider Gerben Morsink, son of Jos, rode Zekina Z to victory in the FEI World Breeding Jumping Championship for Young Horses. The Morsink family received a 5000 Euro cheque from Judy-Ann Melchior, president of Studbook Zangersheide.

A lot of similarity between the gold and the silver winning horses. Also second placed Uranus W is bred in Holland and is still owned by his breeder Philip Wagelaar, who received a 3000 Euro check from mrs. Melchior. But the son of Hornet Rose out of a dam by Mr Blue has a KWPN paper and was ridden by professional rider Hester Klompmaker, a top specialist in young horses.

Third placed horse Ukato (Stakkato x Literat) was first to go in the jump off. Marco Brinkman didn’t take all the risk with the Hanoverian bred, KWPN approved stallion, bred by Gestüt Lewitz (Paul Schockemöhle). “After the double combination, I hesitated for a moment”, said Marco, son of stallion owner Willy Brinkman. “After that I didn’t expect to be in the medals anymore.”

This jump off of 17 combinations was made for fast horses. The fastest took the medals. “Last year we had a small mistake in the jump off of the final for 5 year olds”, said winner Gerben Morsink, a student in technical physics. “Zekina learned from that”, Morsink joked. “I think I won the title racing towards the last fence. It was on a bended line, we needed a bit of luck there, finding the right distance, but we did. I couldn’t have gone any faster.”

The Morsink family (brothers Jos and Louis, their wives and children) bred Zekina Z out of Calina Z (Carthago Z x Dakina by Amor), the mare that brought Gerben team gold and individual silver at the European Championships for junior riders in 2005.

Second placed Uranus W and Hester Klompmaker also had the ambition to improve last year’s result. “We had a rail down, but won the consolation round last year”, said Hester. “Uranus is the kind of horse that gains power and scope over the years. Last year he won the Dutch national title, everybody said he lacked the scope, but he has grown stronger, especially behind, and jumps these big courses here in Lanaken with ease.”

Eugene Mathy built big but very fair courses for the qualifying rounds. The final was not extremely big, but very technical with a short five stride distance after the triple combination to a vertical, a distance between five and six strides to a vertical and a difficult bended line after the water to an oxer, away from the entrance. Thanks to course building the competitive, careful and agile horses won the medals.

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