Interview with Gertjan van Olst for the Virtual AGM 2025

VAN OLST HORSES

Van Olst Horses is a professional equestrian business that operates internationally within all facets of the modern jumping / dressage sport and breeding. Stallions at stud, youngstock, sport, purchase and sale, complement each other seamlessly through a system developed over the years based on own experience and own philosophy. Our aim is: “To strive for the highest possible quality in everything”.

Van Olst Horses has been active in the International equestrian business since 1983. With approved Showjumping stallions such as Animo and Zalmeco the business quickly made a furore. Gertjan’s wife Anne Van Olst, a Danish-born rider, participated five times in the Olympic Games for the Danish team. Under the influence of Anne, the focus of the organization changed more towards the dressage sport and breeding. Gertjan and Anne form a true power couple in the sport of dressage.

Their dressage breeding and sports success together started with the stallion Negro (Ferro x Variant). With Negro and later Lord Leatherdale, Van Olst horses has built up a stable full of approved stallions and top sport horses. Performance in sport is key for Van Olst: each of his approved stallions are sporthorses also, on the way to or competing at the Grand Prix.

We highlight two of their most successful Lord Leatherdale x Negro KWPN approved stallions: Everdale and Glamourdale. Everdale keur is number 4 on the FEI Worldranking dressage, winner of Olympic bronze and European silver and has already sired an incredible number of top dressage offspring. Glamourdale, recently also declared keur, was FEI World Champion for 7-year-old dressage horses in 2018, Winner of the CHIO Aachen 2019, 3x KWPN Horse of the Year, 2x World Champion Herning 2022, 2x Bronze Olympic Games Paris in 2024. At Jumping Amsterdam beginning 2025, they won the Championstitle again.

But many more of Van Olst’s horses are successful! Take a look on their webpage to stay up to date on the latest news from this renowned Dutch dressage stable.
https://www.vanolsthorses.com

We video’d Gertjan van Olst for our Virtual AGM. The video is made by ​⁠Liz van Woerden​⁠​⁠‪@lizvanwoerden‬
Music by ​⁠​⁠‪@InShotApp‬ and ​⁠​⁠‪@tellyourstorymusicbyikson‬