IBOP Berlicum: NMK Reserve Champion Sarai Verdoni scores 88 points

The IBOP in Berlicum featured several top performers. For instance, NMK Reserve Champion Sarai Verdoni (by Kjento) scored 88 points. Of the 16 dressage horses, 14 passed.

The assessment of the dressage horses was in the hands of inspectors Luuk Smetsers and Floor Dröge.

The Kjento daughter Sarai Verdoni (out of Maia B star IBOP-dress PROK by Glock’s Toto Jr, breeder N.M.H. van Dommelen from Borculo), owned by Verdoni Stables and J&J Invest, excelled in the IBOP with 9s for walk, canter, posture & balance, rideability & trainability, and aptitude as a dressage horse. She achieved a total of 88 points and was immediately promoted to elite status. “A real powerhouse, standing out with a very strong engine in motion. She has decisive hind leg usage and good body use in the walk, is as pure and rhythmic as clockwork in the trot, and displays remarkably good carriage. In the trot, she can already extend well and has very good posture and balance. In the canter, she is very light-footed, has exceptional balance, and brings her hind leg very well underneath. Truly a very striking horse, with a lot of power and impulsion, very good transition ability, and she was also presented very correctly,” says Luuk Smetsers enthusiastically.