Sunday, 26 May 2024 Dutch Championships, Ermelo (NED)

Team GLOCK rocks the Dutch Championships

The Dutch Championships in Ermelo are traditionally a fixed part of the tournament calendar every year. The two GLOCK Riders Edward Gal and Hans Peter Minderhoud arrived with a total of three horses: GLOCK’s Total US, GLOCK’s Toto Jr. and GLOCK’s Massimo for the small tour.

With a super performance, Hans Peter and seven-year-old GLOCK’s Massimo (GLOCK’s Toto Jr. x Bretton Woods) won the very first test, the Prix St. Georges of the small tour, with 74.265%: “I’m super happy. Massimo is not very experienced and on Thursday he was still very unsettled by the arena, but he gave everything for me!”
Edward had to show all his skills in the Grand Prix Special in the saddle on his twelve-year-old Hanoverian stallion GLOCK’s Total US (Totilas x Sir Donnerhall I): “Total US. was very agitated and felt the energy of the many fans. Now he has to slowly get used to it again.” With 74.489%, the pair finished in a fantastic fourth place.

Hans Peter Minderhoud presented 13-year-old GLOCK’s Toto Jr. (Totilas x Desperados) and took sixth place with 73.191%: “I didn’t have the same feeling in the arena as I did when riding off, but no mistakes. It was the first time for us in such a large arena and he behaved really well.”

The highlight of the weekend was the Grand Prix Freestyle: even though Eddie and GLOCK’s Total US made a few mistakes due to the Totilas son’s strong forwardness, the pair still scored just under 80% for their musical freestyle with 79.415%, and placed fifth in the Dutch Championships: “Total was very agitated again and the mistake in the last transition was unfortunately very costly. He is exceptionally talented regarding his whole movement and elasticity and the fine-tuning is getting better and better.”

There were goosebumps for Hans Peter and GLOCK’s Toto Jr. With 81.110%, this son of Totilas danced to third place in the musical freestyle and fourth place in the battle for the Dutch Championship title: “Toto Jr. was super-focused today and I was completely satisfied, the feeling today was really very good!”