Striking young event horse with a big future

• Dutch Warmblood
• Bay
• Gelding
• 7 years
• 16.2 hands

• Top 10 every time out
• Double clear machine
• Kind, willing attitude

16.2hh, rising 7 yo dutch bred gelding. Top 10 every time out. Double clear machine with potential to go all the way.

Joey (Nanders RS) has been slowly produced on a private family yard and his record speaks for himself. He finished his first season eventing (BE 90 and BE 100) having never been out of the Top 10. He improved every time out, culminating with 2nd in his first BE 100.

He’s yet to have a jumping penalty and consistently achieves 20s or low 30s for dressage. Joey is not strong or silly. He does everything in the same bit (inc.hunting) and is ridden by an amateur female.

Over the winter he was regularly attending winter training clinics, unaffiliated Showjumping, and hunting. On Christmas Eve he went hedge hopping with the Cotswold at their Foxcote meet and can be clearly see in many of their videos.

He is straightforward and easy at home and away. Joey’s a keen learner who loves his job. Video below shows him competing so you can see how calm and willing he is.

He’s affectionate, good with children and animals and a lovely boy all round. We live on a farm next to a busy A road so he's ridden in heavy traffic every day and not fussed by tractors, lorries etc.

Significant rider injury (not caused by Joey!) forces his sale. With us, he’ll miss the entire 25/26 season which is criminal at his age and stage. We hoped to at least catch the tail end of the season but Doctors have vetoed any competitions this year.

His sale is all the sorer because we’re primarily a hunting yard but we’d made an exception for him because he’s so exciting. This change of circumstances has made him impossible to justify.

Undoubtedly he is a competition horse with a big future ahead of him. Would suit an ambitious amateur or a professional.