BELGIAN YOUNGSTERS AUCTION, A STIMULUS FOR THE NEXT EDITION
Mar 17, 2024 · Wendy Scholten · Wendy Scholten
The fourth edition of the Belgian Youngsters Auction generated sales world-wide. The auction theme ‘loose jumping and auction’ was followed with great interest online, but also at De Kriekelaar in Meerdonk, Belgium, sales contracts were signed. The most expensive young jumping horses on Saturday 16 March were Okidoki Sitte (El Barone 111 Z) and Charma Z (Check In) for 26,000 euro.
“One can not compare an auction with young jumping horses with a foal auction, but tonight has given us a stimulus to do it again”, says Luk Van Puymbroeck. “We sold eleven of the seventeen horses and we are convinced that this auction will only grow. It has the potency. We believe that the buyers are content, as well, for we offered extremely good youngsters, of which a lot is known already. Not only do they come from good families, they also display above a good to very good jumping technique and they have passed full veterinary examination.”
Luk Van Puymbroeck organizes the Belgian Youngsters Auction together with Valentijn De Bock and Daniel and Nicolas Boudrenghien. His stables produced Charma Z (Check In x Diabeau van de Heffinck), sold for 26,000 euro, who displays excellent reflexes, technique and use of her body at every jump. The mare, out of a half-sister to the 1.60m Grand Prix stallions Action-Breaker and Quasimodo van de Molendreef, will move to France.
Bred by Boudrenghien, the 4-yr-old Okidoki Sitte (El Barone 111 Z x Parco) also showed a lot of quality, a powerful take-off and bascule over the fence. He went for 26,000 euro to an online German buyer. He got himself an interesting jumper. This youngster comes out of the 1.50m level showjumping mare Riviera Sitte, who is also dam of the 1.60m Grand Prix horses Ustina Sitte and Button Sitte.
Two horses go to the same stables in the USA for 18,000 euro: Dario Z (Darco x Cornet Obolensky) out of a 1.60m Grand Prix mare and Quebeck d’Elsendam Z (Quabri de l'Isle x By Ceira d'Ick) out of the line of Quaprice Bois Margot. There were further sales to Egypt, Spai), Belgium and the Netherlands.