Jorinde Verwimp's Charmer Sold to Asia

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Belgium

Jorinde Verwimp's international Grand Prix horse Charmer has been sold to Asia as a schoolmaster.

Charmer is a 14-year old Oldenburg gelding by Charmeur out of Queen Jasmin (by Quattro B x Landcapitol).

Inne Peytier

Charmer is bred by Hans Peytier in Belgium and was meant as a future horse for his pony riding daughter, Inne Peytier. She competed for Belgium at the 2015 European Pony Championships on Icarus van de Bulksehoeve and showed the pony through the spring of 2016 after which he sold.

Inne returned to the arena with Charmer in the spring of 2018 and rode him at three regional shows in Belgium, after which she gave up competing (and riding) entirely.

Jorinde Verwimp

Charmer was sent in training with Belgian Olympian Jorinde Verwimp and she debuted him at M-level at the CDN Sint-Truiden in July 2019.

In 2020 they moved to small tour level, in 2021 they did their first medium tour tests but also debuted at international small tour level at the 2021 CDIO Compiegne, followed by Medium tour at the CDI's in Le Mans, Deauville, and Zandhoven.

Their international Grand Prix debut followed at the CDI Le Mans in February 2022. They pair had a very busy year attending CDI's in Lier, Opglabbeek, Hagen, Exloo, Hagen, Deauville, Waregem, Stuttgart, Madrid, and Mechelen.

In the winter of 2022-2023 they focused on the World Cup qualifiers also campaigned in Basel, flew to Doha, then Den Bosch and made it to the 2023 World Cup Finals in Omaha, where they were 13th in the Kur to Music.

The pair competed all over Europe and at the Belgian Championships they were fifth in 2022, ninth in 2023, and ninth in 2024. The CDI-W Amsterdam last weekend was their final start as a pair. The duo competed in 88 international classes in five years time.

Schoolmaster

Charmer will now continue his sport career in Asia as a schoolmaster.

"Seven years ago he came into my life and from that moment on, we built everything step by step," Verwimp looked back on her time with Charmer. "From a young horse to the highest level, shaped at home, tested around the world. World Cup starts, and even a World Cup final, memories that will stay forever. Now it’s time for him to pass on everything he has learned to his new rider."

Charmer will have an easy-going life, no longer competing internationally, in Korea as a schoolmaster.