Van Olst's Licensed Stallions Diëgo and Glenn Sold to Portugal

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Dutch stallion owner Gert-Jan van Olst has sold his 12-year old KWPN licensed stallion Diëgo to Portugal. "Wequador Stables" acquired the Grand Prix level trained horse alongside the 3-year old NRPS licensed stallion Glenn.

Wequador stables is run by the Dutch Edit van Wanrooij. The ride on Diego has been allocated to Briana Vintila, who is trained by Luis Miguel Santos. They are based at Coudelaria Mascarenhas Cardoso

Diego is a 2008 born KWPN stallion by Negro out of Ballerina II (by Don Gregory x Rubinstein). He is bred by M. van Berkmortel.

The black stallion was licensed with the KWPN society in 2011 and did the 2011 KWPN spring stallion performance test, finishing on a score of 79.5 points.

Under Severo Jurado Lopez the black stallion became the reserve champion in the 2012 Pavo Cup Finals, behind Desperado. At the 2013 Pavo Cup Finals the pair stranded in 12th place In 2014 Diederik van Silfhout briefly got the ride on the stallion.

Briana Vintila on Diego with coach Luis Santos

With Anne van Olst, Diëgo made his Intermediaire II show debut at the Dutch national show in Nispen in May 2018, and then moved him up to Grand Prix level. A year later, stable rider Franka Loos competed Diëgo in the 2019 Dutch Under 25 Championships and placed sixth. Diego has not yet competed internationally. His most successful offspring is Don Joe, who recently won the international small tour classes with Charlotte Fry at the 2020 CDI Hagen.

Vintila's second acquisition at Van Olst Horses in is the 3-year old KWPN bred stallion Glenn (by George Clooney x Everdale x Don Gregory), bred by J. Verboon. In the spring of 2020 Glenn was NRPS licensed.

Briana tried out her new horses over two months ago, and the stallions arrived in Portugal yesterday.