Gestion Stock Brokers have announced to end their sponsorship of Anky van Grunsven and the Gestion Dressage Team. Gestion CEO Ad Strating has decided not to renew the contract after the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
The crisis for Dutch Dressage has still not come to an end. After the resignation of Jan Peeters, Sjef Janssen, Johan Hinnemann and Ton de Ridder, Dutch pony chef d'equipe Adriaan Hamoen is joining the pink-slip-club.
Brand new chef d'equipe Bert Rutten announced the A and B Dutch dressage team for 2004. Five riders are submitted to the A-team. Rutten based himself on the Dutch Dressage team
Dutch dressage rider Anke Ter Beek has been assigned as head dressage rider at the York Stutteri in Denmark. York Stutteri is a stallion station with German and Danish licensed breeding stallions
The German Equestrian Federation and selection committee chairman Ferdi-Jörgen Wassermeyer announced today its new A and B dressage teams. Very sensational is the news that Nadine Capellmann is no longer in the A-team