Belgian WCYH Team Horse Quanto Curo van het Bloemenhof Sold to Dubai

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Quanto Curo van het Bloemenhof, a Belgian WCYH team horse under Tom Franckx, has been sold to the United Arab Emirates.

Quanto Curo is a 12-year old Westfalian registered stallion by Quotenkönig out of Belgian warmblood mare Congo Rezi (by Weltino x Don Primaire x Widor). He is bred and was owned by Isolde Tuypens in Belgium.

Tom Franckx

The stallion was licensed with the Belgian warmblood society in 2016 and produced for sport by Tom Franckx.

The pair made its national show debut in Diepenbeek in April 2017 in the 4-year old tests and went on to win bronze at the 2017 Belgian Young Horse Championships In 2018 they were named first reserve for the Belgian team for the World Young Horse Championships and placed fourth at the 2018 Belgian Young Horse Championships. In 2019 they clinched that coveted team spot and finished 10th in the 6-year old consolation finals at the World Young Horse Championships in Ermelo. They skipped the Belgian YH Championships that year.

At the 2016 Belgian warmblood stallion licensing

Franckx produced Quanto Curo to FEI level and rode his first Prix St Georges test at the CDN Grote Brogel in May 2021. Their international small tour debut was two years later at the CDI Lier, followed by the 2023 CDI Troisdorf, their last international as a pair. Nationally the pair continued at small tour level through 2024 and placed ninth at the 2024 Belgian Small Tour Championships.

The pair did one show in 2025 at the CDN Loenhout in March, but retired from their Intermediaire II test.

Dubai

The liver chestnut stallion has now been sold to Dubai, where he joins British born Jodi Bocye Elshafei and her husband, Egyptian born real estate developer Ahmed Elshafei.

"I'm just as grateful for where you are going! You will joining an amazing team, a place where you will be loved, appreciated, and given every chance to shine - exactly as you deserve," said breeder Tuypens.

Rider Tom Franckx confirmed that Quanto Curo was sold "because he had a good age. We were still a bit in doubt because he could do the full Grand Prix, but we wanted to stay realistic and it all has to work out at that level. He's a fantastic horse so saying goodbye wasn't easy. We've been together from the start."

The horse will initially be ridden in Dubai by a Dutch stable jockey before Ahmed takes over the ride.