At the end of last year, SF Equestrian announced the sale of Kevin Jochems (NED)' former ride, Kriskras DV (Cooper vd Heffinck). New owner is the Saudi Arabia federation. Meanwhile the 13-year-old BWP-gelding has a new rider, Abdullah Al Sharbatley.
The Saudi-Arabia federation still is owner of the gelding, but now decided to appoint a new rider for the gelding. "I'm very delighted with this new horse. We already competed our first classes and they are promising for the future," Al Sharbatley says.
The gelding was bred in the stables of Pieter Devos, and enjoyed his training to become a future top jumper there, too. Until the age of nine, he competed in up to three-star competitions under the saddle of Caroline Poels. In 2019 he left his birth stable and was bought by the SF-Equestrian Team from the Netherlands. They assigned the ruin to Bart Bles.
In 2022 the gelding achieved successes up to five-star level under the Dutch Bles. But Jur Vrieling and Kevin Jochems also enjoyed the honor of having the powerful bay ruin under their saddle.
