German Olympic Team Gold Medallist and Individual Silver Medallist Ulla Salzgeber will travel to Australia late January 2005 to conduct squad rider clinics in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
Two months too early, Anky van Grunsven has given birth to a baby boy at the Maxima Medical Centre in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. Doctors at the hospital decided to start the delivery today
Every year at the international dressage show in Stuttgart, the Otto Lörkepreis is awarded by Klaus Rheinberger of the Liselott Schindling-Rheinberger Foundation to the best upcoming Grand Prix horse in Germany that is 10-years old or younger.
2003 European Junior Riders Champion Angela van den Berg has been proclaimed Rabobank Talent of the Year at an Equestrian Gala Evening in August, 2004.
Uptown, the KWPN Stallion Licensing Champion of 2004, will be trained by Hans Peter Minderhoud. Uptown's owners Toine Hoefs, Kathy Connelly and Al Guden have decided to give the ride of Uptown
Willem Jan Schotte's black FEI horse Goubergh's Ray of Light has been sold to a young rider in the U.S.A. The Oldenburg gelding by Rohdiamant x Akzent II was competed at Intermediaire II level and trained at Grand Prix level.