January 2010 we added a driving team of Friesian geldings, Marco & Nico, both by Tsjerk, and they will add much enjoyment.   
 

Ite O' Higgins-Young, Grand Prix Dressage Rider, who is pictured above, gave Dressage Clinic in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada on June 11-13th 2009 and is pictured above on Janka aka Anky, our Ster Friesian mare. Ite did two dressage demonstrations on Anky, to show high level movements to the attending riders and auditors.

*****NEWS FLASH*****
After a very long wait, Jildou finally presented us with a Doaitsen X Oege filly, March 23, 2009.  Her registered name is Fentje BRF.  She is full of curiosity, like her half-sister, Brecht.  Fentje has her own webpage under "Fentje 2009 Filly".

Xandra had a strong, healthy Tsjerk x Olaf colt, a full brother to her 2008 colt on February 23, 2009 2a.m. E.S.T.  We are very happy and since Bojka is such a nice colt, we are also happy it was a colt.  He walked around for at least an hour right after being born and had a great sucking reflex and nursed at 3:40a.m.  Xandra is doing well too.  His photos are on the 2009 Foal Page and his own page, under "Devonte 2009 Colt".  His registered name will be Devonte BRF (pronounced Day-von-tay).


NEWS IN HOLLAND

The latest biggest news in Holland is that in the 2009 Friesian Stallion Show, Doaitsen became Reserve World Champion.  He is also the sire of our filly born in March 2009. The dam is an Oege studbook ster daughter.

On July 2008 in Kootwijk, in Holland, our 2008 colt, Bojka van de Anne Hoeve became 1st Premie and Reserve Champion for the day, with a total of 39 points and 8.5 out of a possible 9 for Breed Type.  Approximately only 5% Friesian foals receive 1st Premie.  Bojka's sire, Tsjerk, just became a Preferent stallion.

Bojka's dam, Xandra, our Olaf studbook ster mare, was re-bred while in Holland, to Tsjerk.  Both Bojka and Xandra have their own pages.  Bojka's top pictures on his page, features him at the keuring in July 2008.



NEWS IN CANADA 

Other news for Black Reign Friesians, is that our 2008 colt, from our own breeding, from our full papered ster mare, went 1st Premie with 36 1/2 points (8 out of a possible 9 for trot, 8 out of 9, for overall development), at the Keuring in Paris Ontario, Canada, on September 19 2008, along with a 2nd Premie for our 2008 filly, with 35 points (all very even scores & 1 point from 1st Premie), where she particularly stood out in Racial score (breed type) with her deep rich black and exhibiting the traits of her dam & Grand-sire Oege, with the abundant hair already, and beyond the show ring, an absolute "Wow" personality.  

All of the foals are equally important, however since Andreas has lived with us since day one, he had more photo coverage.

  

Ite O'Higgins-Young, Ireland's World Champion Representative & Grand Prix Dressage rider, based out of Aiken, South Carolina, came to Canada to Collingwood in April 2009, to do a Clinic and the photo taken above is of Ite O'Higgins-Young, on left, with Shar on Gwendolyn and Lynn on right who rode Janka aka Anky (not shown)

 Our 3 yr old. Maaike, who was selected to compete at the highly coveted Eurobottle Cup Finals in Marienheem on December 15th 2007, which recognizes very talented young dressage horses, and placed 15th, all while being ridden by a 16 year old and up against seasoned FEI riders. There were 148 horses in Europe that qualified and competed at the Eurobottle Cup Finals. Maaike's sire is the World Grand Champion sire, Folkert.

We thank Ingrid Brak, for her excellent riding ability, with Maaike qualifying for the Eurobottle Cup and going on to compete at the Eurobottle Cup Finals and for Esther Van Putten capturing the moments, with photo credits.     http://www.concoursfotografie.nl

Ingrid Brak has competed at B, L, M dressage levels in the Netherlands. 

Also at the Eurobottle Cup Finals 2007, Beart411 offspring took 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, 23rd and 24th place. Beart411 is the sire of our stud colt born, March 9 2008, out of our ster mare, Janka, trained to 4th level.  Additionally, 3rd place was captured by a Jasper (Beart411 sire) offspring.  Of the 5 new approved stallions in 2007, one is a Beart son, Maeije440 (Beart 411 X Goffert 369) 
Scores: 83% saddle, 81.5% driving.