A 14-year-old girl has died in a road accident while she was on her way to school in Kapellen The girl was crossing the Klinkaardstraat on her bicycle when she was hit by a bus The Klinkaardstraat that is part of the N111 the main road between Antwerp and Wuustwezel (Antwerp Province) has been closed to traffic to allow and accident investigation to take place Tom De Gent of the Noord Local Police Service told VRT News “That the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the accident is still ongoing While she was crossing the road she was hit by a bus Although the emergency services were at the scene quickly attempts to save her were in vain” "We are now above all focusing on the victim’s family The bus driver will also be offered help from victim support” The N111 was closed in both direction for a time between the Dreihoevenseweg and the Canadezenlaan By 10.30am the road had reopened for traffic heading south towards Antwerp Plymouth — Steve Kapellen has what some might consider a dream job: He tastes cheese for a living bends it and crumples it between his fingers Kapellen is a cheese grader specialist at Sargento the Plymouth-based cheese processing company that makes products for retail stores as well as for other food companies and food service businesses Kapellen and his team decide whether a block of cheese is worthy to be turned into a Sargento product But Kapellen says the snacking opportunity isn't what's kept him at Sargento for 41 years Sargento's culture of respect and flexibility is what won the family-owned business the top ranking among large employers in the Journal Sentinel's "Top 100 Workplaces" in southeastern Wisconsin "It's very humbling and it means a lot to us," said Lou Gentine chief executive officer of the company his father founded "Hire good people and treat them like family is really the base of the culture," Gentine said Lou and his family realized that they needed to put his ideas in writing to make sure they were carried on They created a brochure that is still used today to explain the company's values and culture Sargento puts the values into practice in many ways • Work/life balance: Sargento allows production workers a certain amount of time each year to tend to family matters such as school events • Social: The company sponsors a Christmas party and an annual recognition event to celebrate service milestones in five-year increments at places such as the American Club at Kohler and The Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake There's a big summer picnic for workers and their families workers also enjoy smaller events involving bowling and fishing the Gentine family is there with the employees enjoying the event," a worker wrote in an evaluation of the company • Financial: Sargento holds a meeting every year to explain the company's financial situation and to discuss political and economic events that affect its performance Employees get profit-sharing bonuses when the company does well "In years when the company has not performed to its financial targets the less bonus is paid," another employee wrote • Opportunities: Sargento pays for college tuition for its full-time employees who pursue bachelor's or master's degrees even if the degree is not directly linked to the job • Health: Sargento has a nurse practitioner and a physical therapist on the premises several days a week at its Plymouth headquarters and Kiel plants Workers and their families pay $10 per visit for routine care • Job security: Employees whose jobs are replaced by automation are not fired they are transferred to other jobs within the company "That really helps our employees engage in helping us to improve," Rhyan said • Community service: Sargento was the first southeastern Wisconsin company to "blitz build" two houses for Habitat for Humanity Each year a few dozen employees spend a week working for Habitat instead of doing their regular jobs Groups of workers also participate in the St Benedict the Moor meal program in Milwaukee A singing group performs for residents of nursing homes is one of 10 people who has worked at Sargento for 40 or more years and 20% of the company's 1,400 employees have been there for more than 20 years An employee who was hired in 1998 wrote anonymously of Sargento's effect on his life: "Prior to joining Sargento Being employed at Sargento has made my family stronger and appreciative for the finer things in life and I have the Gentine and Sargento family to thank for that." The name Sargento is a combination of Gentine and Sartori Leonard Gentine's business partner when he started the cheese business in 1953 Joseph Sartori eventually left the partnership to start his own cheese business Totilas returned to the competition arena Thursday for the first time in two years to be ridden by Matthias Alexander Rath to score 78.680 per cent in the Grand Prix at the Kapellen Belgium CDI3* with a high of 82.900 per cent and a low of 73.700 per cent The 14-year-old black stallion looked fit and muscled showing off piaffe/passage and extended trot that have made Totilas perhaps the most famous dressage horse in history but there were mistakes in the one-tempi changes and completing the second pirouette The video, from Hoefslag, can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzOwt7upnm0 Sweden’s Jennie Larssn on Zircoon Spring Flower was the only other combination to score 70 per cent Belgium’s Laurence Vanommeslaghe on Avec Plaisir was third on 69.420 per cent The highest scores for the German victors came from Irina McNamee of Russia at E awarding Totilas 82.900 per cent and Leif Törnblad of Denmark at C scoring it 82.200 per cent Dietrich Plewa of Germany at H gave the pair 79.500 per cent The two Belgian judges gave the lowest scores: Freddy Leyman at M on 75.100 per cent and Geert  Lemmens at B 73.700 The gap between the highest and lowest scores–at E and B that are in the center of the arena directly across from each other–was a whopping 9.200 per cent well outside the six percentage point spread that most top judges regard as reasonable differences as many in the dressage community believe should happen the final result would not have been much different–78.933 per cent Leif Törnblad and and Dietrich Plewa are rated FEI 5* while Freddy Leyman and Irina McNamee are 4* judges and Geert Lemmens 3* The result was shy of their best of 83.809 per cent in the pair’s last CDI Grand Prix to put the result into current perspective the score of 78.680 per cent has been surpassed by only three other combinations in the world in 2014–Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro Helen Langehanenberg of Germany and Damon Hill NRW and Edward Gal of the Netherlands and Glock’s Undercover Totilas (Gribaldi x Glendale) became perhaps the most famous dressage horse in history when ridden by Edward Gal of the Netherlands Their last appearance was almost exactly four years ago at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky where the pair won all three gold medals available–team and two individual Totilas  was then sold to Paul Schockemöhle and Ann-Katrin Linsenhof to be ridden by Matthias The horse’s schedule was marred by injuries and Matthias struggled to achieve the same level of success enjoyed by Edward three weeks before the start of the Normandy WEG coaching was switched from Matthias’s father to Sjef Janssen who was also coach of the Dutch team when Edward and Totilas were partnered Kapellen CDI3 GP German duo Matthias Alexander Rath and the 14-year old Dutch warmblood stallion Totilas made a long awaited smooth come back to the show ring at the 2014 CDI Kapellen on Thursday 21 May 2014 but as soon as the black stallion appeared on the show grounds the media buzzed with the news and a fairly large crowd gathered at the normally low-key CDI in Belgium Rath and Totilas topped the leader board with a 78.680% earning test The horse looked very relaxed in the show ring showing very positive developments as well as a few negative points that need working on more length in the neck and soft in the bridle even though the contact with the curb could be lighter The horse looked less jittery and electric in his movements and more supple and athletic overall while they did show improved overtrack (something which never happened under Gal!) the horse was visibly very irregular in front lifting the left front leg much higher than the right The pair scored an average 7.1 for the trot extensions which was overrated due to the unevenness in the steps the second piaffe was the best one of the three shown The transition out of the first piaffe was a bit wobbly Throughout the test the horse needed to be more up in the bridle in the piaffe and passage as he often became deep The extended walk had very good relaxation and nice overtrack In the canter tour the two tempi changes were big but the horse swung too much in the hindquarters losing the straightness on the diagonal There were two mistakes in the one tempi changes the right one was smaller but Totilas blocked behind right before the exit In the final passage on the centreline the stallion anticipated the halt and braked a bit early It was very interesting to see how the judges would assess this test as their score would set the tone for future results The fact that the panel of five disagreed and marked the ride between 73.700% (Lemmens) and 82.900% (Maknami) spoke words Their marks averaged a fairly generous 78.680% which immediately made them competitive for a spot on the German 2014 World Equestrian Games team German team trainer Monica Theodorescu drove to Kapellen last minute to see the pair with her own eyes Last time she had seen the duo train was at the Preis der Besten Qualifier at Schafhof in April Rath and Totilas have only been back in full training since February 2014 Rath will have to compete at the mandatory selection trials in Perl (26 - 29 June) and Aachen (17 - 21 July) "His neck is more nicely muscled and the trot is no longer so hectic," she told Reiter Revue The horse is in good condition and performed very happily You can see that the horse has the willingness and eagerness After winning the test Rath confessed he was very relieved "The nerves and emotions were very intense today," Rath stated "I can hardly describe in words the burden that has fallen off my shoulders (...) This show was not about placing well but that Toto can show in the ring what we have noticed in training: his fun at going to shows and the joy he has in his work which I feel and hopefully the audience can see too I couldn't have longed for more than what he gave me today." It was first organized last year at the same time as the World Young Horse Championships in Verden For 2014 the date was pushed forward to May and the event was able to attract a huge field of riders with action non-stop in the main show arena the main ring beautiful and serene with top footing There are two 20 x 60 m warm up rings with excellent footing The runner up in the Grand Prix was Swedish Jennie Larsson on the 10-year old Dutch bred Zircoon Spring Flower (by Painted Black x Armstrong) They posted a score of 70.760% and left French based Belgian Grand Prix rider Laurence Vanommeslaghe behind them Laurence is a newcomer on the Belgian A-team and has proven her A-status in Kapellen by scoring 69.420% on the chestnut Hanoverian Avec Plaisir The combination stood out with its very accurate riding and a lovely Finnish routinier Terhi Stegars and her 15-year old Trakehner stallion Axis (by Sixtus x Angard) were fourth with 68.380% She had newly engaged Belgian Grand Prix rider Julie de Deken right on her heels with 68.060% De Deken and her Hessian stallion Lucky Dance (by Lucky Lionell) showed massive improvement in the top line with a lighter contact and more supple stretch in the frame the piaffe still a bit forward and could have been more settled Text and Photos © Astrid Appels - NO REPRODUCTION ALLOWED Eurodressage's Astrid Appels was on the scene taking photos of ALL riders at the CDI Kapellen. 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In Antwerp an examining magistrate has arrested a suspect in connection with an attempted burglary at footballer Toby Alderweireld’s thieves tried to break into the footballer's villa in Kapellen (Antwerp Province) while he was due to play with FC Antwerp the two burglars fell into Alderweireld's swimming pool and during the subsequent police chase crashed their car The Antwerp public prosecutor's office is attempting to track down several suspects involved in the attempted break-in Several burglars were recorded on CCTV footage at the former Spurs player’s home The thieves wanted to break into Alderweireld's villa in Kapellen while the footballer was playing for Antwerp Alderweireld purchased a Dobermann guard dog named Darco Presumably its presence deterred the thieves two burglars fell into the footballer's swimming pool Police were also able to chase the burglars during their getaway until their car crashed He has now been formally arrested by an examining judge I photograph objects found in people's basements A surprising collection of prosthetic devices Through these kept items a portrait of an era emerges everyday objects as a capsule of time of society remnants of social aspiration and technological development and yet we all somehow share an emotional connection as we evolve further into our throwaway society '98 objects found in my mother-in-law's-basement' offers an almost forensic photographic record of an era By isolating the objects away from the basement and its clutter Claude Lévi-Strauss is validated: ’Objects are what matter Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings' The project originally started out in the basement of my mother-in-law and expanded from there (hence the title) Images of 450 objects from over 20 basements (at various locations in Belgium) are available The Belgian FEI Dresage team pony Don't Dream WE has been sold to a new rider Don't Dream is a 13-year old Weser Ems bred gelding by Don't Worry out of Daria (by Dressman) The bright bay Don't Dream WE was originally owned by Marc Idelmann He was approved for breeding at the 2010 ZvDP/Sachsen-Thuringen Stallion Licensing in Lentföhrden Don't Dream WE was only competed lightly in Germany In 2010 Wenke Kraus rode him at the Bundeschampionate in Warendorf but they finished last (20th) in the 3-year old stallion class with 6.75 In 2011 he showed only twice: once under Kirstin Klepin and three months later by Lara Idelmann Initially Louise Mourlon Beernaert took on the ride and she made her CDI debut on the stallion at the 2013 CDI Saumur The pair competed consistently at internationals in Moorsele and Kapellen but  the results were mixed as the pony was often a handful as a stallion In 2014 Louise and Don't Dream went to Nieuw en St Clara and Don't Dream at the 2017 European Pony Championships in Kaposvar (Photo © L.Kowalski)In 2015 younger sister Clara took over the ride  and the pair also needed time to grow together and their efforts finally started to pay off in 2017 after the pony was gelded Clara and Don't Dream WE found their groove and were selected on the Belgium team for the 2017 European Pony Championships in Kaposvar where they finished 12th in the Kur to Music finals They won the 2017 Belgian Pony Championships Diepenbeek and Leudelange and won bronze at the 2018 Belgian Pony Championships The Europeans was Don't Dream's last international start as Clara moved to junior level in 2019 The new owner and rider of Don't Dream is Belgian Emilie Herweyers. Don't Dream was listed for sale on Eurodressage's Equimarket and most recently stabled at Coby van Baalen's in Holland Emilie and her schoolmaster Don't Dream at Coby van Baalen's yardThe 13-year old Stekene based Herweyers is only at the beginning of her dressage career and has sought out training with Coby and Marlies van Baalen She also relies on Marrigje van Baalen for lessons at home Emilie also owns the Belgian bred KWPN mare Kalegra C-Two DVB (by Negro x Charmeur) as well as the 6-year old pony mare Die Goldmarie (by Danny Gold x Naron) "Dreamy is such a cool pony," Emilie told Eurodressage "I train with Coby or Marlies every week with my horse The plan is to ride Children with Kalegra next year As soon as the borders reopen due to the corona lockdown but the lessons at Coby's are excellent so I don't mind at all," said Emilie Photos © Astrid Appels - Lukasz Kowalski - Van Baalen the president of the FEI for the past five years from where he has to captain international equestrian sport through the turbulent waters of the corona pandemic Nine years ago FEI president Princess Haya asked Ingmar de Vos then secretary-general of the Belgian Equestrian Federation to become her wingman at the FEI in Lausanne Haya put De Vos forward as the new FEI president In 2014 the Belgian won the vote and he has been heading the international equestrian federation since then A former local politician for the Belgian liberal party (VLD) Ingmar knows the reeling and dealing as well as the lobbying that goes on in management of a corporate style  sports federation Ingmar has climbed up to the highest echelon of international sport and  had a front-row seat in the discussions for the postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games This seat was his office chair from his home in Kapellen where Ingmar has been stuck since the Belgian lockdown For his wife Sabine it is a welcome change he initially planned on commuting back and forth between Belgium and Switzerland but there have been plenty of periods that her husband was stuck in Lausanne for four to five weeks in a row Instead of spending his time on a Swiss apartment or in the FEI headquarters Ingmar is now back with his wife and managing the FEI from the comfort of his home "Force majeure indeed has led to me being home with my family for the past two weeks," said Ingmar Right before the strict measurements were instated in Belgium I was here my accident and decided not to return to Switzerland I rather do it from my house here than all by myself in my apartment in Lausanne." Princess Haya and Ingmar de Vos in 2013One of the biggest consequences of the corona pandemic is that the entire sports calendar of 2020 The decision to wait four weeks to announce the postponement of the Olympics was curtailed to one day due to the corona rampage "Especially when things got serious in the United States (with the corona infection) - one of the biggest sports countries in the world - the IOC decided at the start of last week to postpone the Olympics to 2021," said De Vos For horse sport the impact on its international show calendar has been enormous "To this date no less than 397 international horse shows have been cancelled Now there are a bunch of organizers who are asking for their show to take place on a different date later this year We can't allocate dates on the calendar when we don't even know yet with things will sort of turn back to normal It is possible that this might happen faster in Europe than anywhere else In certain parts of the world it has only just started The FEI has set up discipline-specific task forces to evaluate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the FEI Calendar and propose recommendations to the FEI Board and the relevant Technical Committees on multiple issues The rescheduling of events is an important part of the remit for the task forces president of the Belgian Equestrian Federation who launched De Vos' career in politics as well as with the KBRSF"For instance we are reinvestigating the Olympic minimum criteria for riders and horses," said Ingmar "What to do with riders who achieve the minimum Olympic age of 18 in 2012; or with show jumping horses the minimum age of 9 and for dressage and eventing that is 8 years old They couldn't participate at the Games of 2020 but next year they can." The FEI is now dealing with an avalanche of date change requests and is also facing a terrible scheduling conflict between the 2021 Olympics and European Championships In August 2021 the European Championships for dressage and show jumping are taking place in Budapest (23 - 30 August) and in Haras du Pin in France the European Eventing Championships are organized (11 - 15 August) This is of course way too early after the Olympics that end on 8 August Can the European Championships change their date Move to a date in spring would probably be too early because one also needs to achieve qualification marks for those championships After the Games riders will be resting their Olympic horses You can hardly expect to go full throttle at the Europeans two weeks after the Games In Budapest the Championships take place on a race track The Hungarian government is putting a lot of money on the table at the moment for big sport events in all disciplines The cancellation of the shows has a major financial impact on the FEI and global organizing committees "We are already missing 4 to 5 million euros of income due to the corona crisis and this will grow Show organizers have to pay the FEI for calendar rights and we decided not to claim those for competitions that have been cancelled due to corona And we'll certainly have to jump in for other matters." Ingmar de Vos at the 2000 Olympics in SydneySince the retirement of Belgian Jacques Rogge as president of the IOC Ingmar de Vos is the only Belgian on the frontline in the international sport world Hardly anyone knows that Ingmar is Belgian though It's not about Ingmar de Vos but about the sport and its athletes," Ingmar concluded "I won't attract any youth to the sport with my age (56) Pieter de Vos (Belgian show jumpers) and so many others: they are the stars They have to sell themselves and the sport I'm at the service of the sport and horse sport in particular with the hope that equestrian sport gains popularity Let's keep Ingmar simply as his humble self." Interview translated to English by Eurodressage   Photos © Dirk Caremans German Grand Prix rider Matthias Rath has announced that his 15-year old Dutch warmblood stallion Totilas will be making a show come back in May 2015 The stallion has been out with an injury since July after the 2014 CDIO Aachen In an interview with the highly popular German tabloid magazine BILD Rath revealed that he has planned on his return to the show ring with the crowd pleasing Totilas in May At the end of May I want to begin again,” he told Bild “The 2015 European Championships in Aachen are of course our goal Read the full story at Eurodressage.com and Hunter Jumpers in Alachua County Florida Suzan Oakley an innovative leader and educator in advanced equine rehabilitation provides a healing refuge for equine athletes on the mend Registered properties of HorsesDaily®Inc. A media and marketing company for the Equine Industry. All content under this copyright is the property of HorsesDaily® Inc. Unless otherwise noted. ©1997 - 2025 horsesdaily.com and dressagedaily.com Enter your email address and we will send you a link to change your password Christmas started the day after Thanksgiving but not with Black Friday or a rush to buy from all the stores It began at the Door County Brewery Music Hall right here in Baileys Harbor 2- and 1-year-old children and because of those little ones we found ourselves at the brewery taproom to see there were lots of folks enjoying food and drinks but we were all there for Santa The 3-year-old didn’t sit on Santa’s lap but he told Santa what he wanted for Christmas The 2-year-old was on Santa’s lap but he wanted nothing to do with that and the 1-year-old was sleeping and didn’t see him at all We found ourselves outside the taproom sitting around the fire pit along with some other folks who had visitors from Minnesota Tom Kapellen who lives on Red Cherry Road in Baileys Harbor was spending time with son Matt and grandkids Thomas and Lucy who live in Minnesota Thomas is a Packer fan as you can see in the picture It was so enjoyable having this time and sitting around the fire just happy to be together and enjoying the company of others around us Happiness abounds and that’s what was happening at the Door County Brewery that evening.  Congratulations to Brad and Alyssa Rasmusson on the birth of a son Frank and Jona Biddlestone and Trudy Erickson Marilyn Potts on Wednesday and Kendra Mueller Thursday See you next time on this side of the Door Contact the Beutlers at kenbeutler@hotmail.com Mathieu van der Poel was destined for a career in the saddle was a professional cyclist and a multiple Dutch national champion the renowned French cyclist Raymond Poulidor including winning the 1964 Vuelta a España and achieving runner-up and third-place finishes multiple times in the Tour de France Van der Poel initially started his sports career in football and was even on track to join the first-division Dutch club Willem II he decided to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue cyclo-cross instead The young Van der Poel made an early mark in the sport with a host of victories at the junior level signalling his impending dominance in the sport he signed his first professional contract with BKCP-Powerplus He didn't take long to make an impact becoming the youngest cyclo-cross world champion at the age of 20 in his debut season in 2015 The rising cycling star then suffered a blow which restricted his participation in the following season Van der Poel brushed the setback aside, making a promising return to the cyclo-cross scene in 2016, finishing fifth at the World Championship behind a triumphant Wout van Aert Another injury and a subsequent knee surgery kept him out for the 2016-2017 season The Flying Dutchman bounced back with aplomb during the 2017-2018 season winning the overall ranking of the Cyclo-cross World Cup He won 32 races and reached the podium 38 times during this season Van der Poel has achieved several significant victories in road cycling including winning the Amstel Gold Race in 2019 He is the first Dutch rider to become a champion in cyclo-cross Van der Poel and Van Aert had one of the most intense rivalries in cyclo-cross history Their battles took place at various locations from Tábor in the Czech Republic to the sandy shores of Ostend in Belgium The two rivals almost completely dominated the cyclo-cross world championships for nine consecutive years the Dutch ace won his first of five cyclo-cross world titles in the Czech Republic before Van Aert dominated the event winning the world title for three years on the trot claiming the world cyclo-cross crown in 2019 Tom Pidcock of Great Britain upset the duo to take the spoils before Van der Poel reclaimed his title in 2023 for his fifth gold in the event While he was a strong contender for the** Tokyo 2020 Olympics** in mountain biking a nightmarish crash forced him to withdraw from the competition MANITOWOC — The former McKinley school building 40,000-square-foot historic building has a price tag of $379,900 Listing agent Nikki Kapellen, a Realtor and broker with Pleasant View Realty said current owner Ortlieb Manitowoc LLC has decided to shift to other priorities and most furniture has been removed or moved to the basement of the former school Asbestos has been removed and some work on flooring has been done but Kapellen said the site could be used for a number of purposes The site is zoned an R4 residential district meaning it could be used for single- or two-family homes but developers could ask city leaders for conditional permission to create a larger housing issue Kapellen said she’s had a few initial showings of the building The school sits on about 2 acres in a residential area of Manitowoc junior and high schools for the Manitowoc Public School District over the decades District administrators repurposed the site as McKinley Alternative Academy in 2007 the district moved its alternative high school and other services into the former Stangel Elementary School building under a restructuring plan the district moved ninth graders to Lincoln High School and Stangel students and staff to the former Riverview Early Learning Center The district sold the building to Ortlieb two years ago Blighted mall site: City mulls developer’s letter of intent to buy Manitowoc’s blighted mall site minutes of the Manitowoc Common Council’s Plan Commission Patrick Ortlieb said he planned to remodel the site into a 60-bed community recovery/treatment center and lease the facility to Pathways for a Better Life A Wisconsin Historical Society 2017 document notes the “Neoclassical school was built in 1891 the building was designed by prominent local architect Christian H limestone block foundations and cream brick walls.” 2023's People of the Year: Here are Manitowoc County's 2023 People of the Year Additions in 1899 and 1910 expanded the main building to its current footprint a gym was built north of the school building as part of a New Deal Works Progress Administration project The interior features wooden arched laminate beams across the ceiling The building was remodeled to serve as administrative offices in 1982 and turned back into the alternative charter school in 2007 Interested in viewing the school? 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Contact reporter Patti Zarling at pzarling@gannett.com or call 920-606-2575 The former Dutch FEI Dresage team pony Charina du Bois has passed away at age 16 Under Jitske Prosman the Dutch Welsh mare Charina du Bois (by Danny Gold x Idzard) competed at international FEI pony level from 2014 till 2016 The pair was a member of the Dutch B-team in 2014 and of the A-team in 2016 They won team bronze at the 2016 European Pony Championships in Vilhelmsborg and bronze at the 2016 Dutch Indoor Pony Championships In December 2017 Charina du Bois became a schoolmaster for the then 11-year old Dutch pony rider Welmoed Smals Prosman moved to junior level aboard Rom Vermunt's KWPN bred Gio (by Bretton Woods) Charina du Bois was twice operated on for colic She developed complications and got pleurisy from the anaesthesia Unfortunately Charina succumbed to another bout of colic in the night to 12 February 2019 but despite the fact that she is incredibly string she didn't win the battle against colic," said Prosman "I'm so incredibly proud of her and very grateful for the six amazing years we spent together The KWPN licensed breeding stallion Zhivago has been sold to Canada Marie-Josee Proulx has acquired the 14-year old Zhivago to set up a breeding programme at her yard Canadream Farm in Ottawa Zhivago is a 2004 born KWPN stallion by Krack C out of Orendy (by Jazz) and was owned by Joop van Uytert in partnership with De Radstake Zhivago was the reserve champion of the 2007 KWPN Stallion Licensing the year that the international Grand Prix horse Blue Hors Zack was named Licensing Champion He also became the winner of the 2007 KWPN Autumn Stallion performance testing Edward Gal briefly rode Zhivago at the start but in the winter of 2009 Zhivago moved to Theo Hanzon who took over the ride and brought him to Intermediaire II level The pair won the 2010 and 2011 KWPN Stallion Competition and 2009 Pavo Cup Finals They represented the KWPN breed at the 2010 World Young Horse Championships in Verden John Tijssen rode the stallion briefly and then there was Dinja van Liere who competed him in his only international CDI at small tour level in Ermelo during the 2016 World Young Horse Championships Although Zhivago impressed and scored as a talented young dressage stallion he did not make a break through at FEI level Zhivago has now been sold and will continue his breeding career in Canada At the 2022 KWPN Stallion Licensing in Ermelo Dream Boy and Charmeur were proclaimed Keur stallion A licensed stallion can be proclaimed "Keur" when his first crop of offspring has reached the age of seven or older The Keur predicate is awarded to stallions that stand out in sport and pass on their confirmation to offspring This year three stallions were named Keur: Bretton Woods Dream Boy (by Vivaldi x Ferro) competed at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo under Hans Peter Minderhoud He is ranked 10th on the FEI World Ranking He has several offspring competing at Grand Prix level and small tour Bretton Woods (by Johnson x De Niro) stood out as a youngster under Emmelie Scholtens finishing second in the Pavo Cup and winning bronze at the World Young Horse Championships He sold to Ann-Kathrin Linsenhoff in Germany and was briefly competed by Matthias Rath at international small tour level His offspring at Grand Prix level include Great Lady TC and Golden Dancer de la Fazenda Canadian stallion keeper Proulx has more reason to celebrate as a second KWPN stallion of hers got decorated with the highest predicate Wynton at the 2013 CDIO RotterdamThe preferent title is awarded to stallion who improves his offspring in movement and conformation The offspring needs to be at least 11 years of age or older and have a sport index higher than 140 (with a reliability of 85%) For the preferent predicate it is important that a stallion especially improves the male offspring Wynton (by Jazz x Matador) won the 2008 Pavo Cup Finals and competed at the 2008 and 2009 World Young Horse Championships in Verden Madeleine Witte-Vrees took him to international Grand Prix level He was retired from sport due to an injury and sold to Canada in 2018 "Wynton was first awarded the Keur predicate in 2018 before I purchased him and 4 years later he receives the highest honor he could possibly get Wynton is the sixth dressage bred Preferent KWPN sire still alive today Anna Zibrandtsen's Under 25 Grand Prix horse Rentino has been sold to Sweden as a schoolmaster for sisters Matilda and Ellen Stymne Rentino is a 16-year old Hanoverian by Rosario out of Diva (by De Niro x Walt Disney x Akzent I) Purchased by the Bergstrom-Kallstrom family as a foal at the Hanoverian auction the black colt moved to Sweden and became co-owned by Kan Brink as a youngster He was first competed in 2008 as a 4-year old by Sara Henriette Bergstrom-Kallstrom That same year Rentino was licensed for the Swedish warmblood society and did his performance test He only bred one year in Sweden with 6 offspring registered born in 2009 In 2011 the pair finished 11th at the Swedish Championships for 7-year olds in Helsingborg Between 2012 and 2013 Brink moved the stallion up from small tour to Grand Prix with a few competition starts In 2014 Rentino sold to Zibrandtsen's yard Bregnerødgaard in Denmark who has been a long-time student of Jan Brink acquired him as her Under 25 mount to make the transition from Young Riders to Grand Prix The pair made its national show debut in Denmark in April 2014 and one month later did their first international at the CDI Kapellen in Belgium Anna competed the black just three seasons They represented Sweden at the inaugural European Under 25 Championships in Hagen in 2016 where they were 8th in the Kur to Music finals Their last show together was the 2016 CDI Falsterbo In 2017 Rentino was briefly ridden by Diederik van Silfhout who competed the stallion at the Dutch Dressage Championships Then the horse disappeared from the show scene for two years to return to the show ring in 2019 under Portuguese Frederico Mexia de Almeida The pair competed in five national shows in Denmark that season Rentino has now been sold as a schoolmaster for young rider Matilda and junior rider Ellen Stymne Ellen has previously competed at national FEI pony level with the 10-year old Westfalian pony Tanzbar T (by Timberland x Golden Dancer) Matilda has been riding the KWPN bred Grand Prix horse Crescendo (by Tolando x Cocktail) which her family bought from Katja Gevers in 2019 "It would be super fun to compete internationally but first we have to get to know each other and do some national shows," Matilda told Eurodressage about her brand new partnership with Rentino With the opening of the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale comes a look at the first ever contribution by the Holy See an exhibition that brings together architects to design chapels that can be relocated to sites around the globe Located in a wooded area on the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore, 10 chapels by architects including Norman Foster, Eduardo Souto de Moura, and Smiljan Radic are joined by the Asplund Chapel by MAP Architects This 11th structure serves as a prelude to the other chapels while reflecting on Gunnar Asplund's 1920 design for the Woodland Chapel Below, we present new photographs of the 11 completed structures comprising the first Holy See Pavilion. Carla Juaçaba. ImageJavier Corvalán, Paraguay Javier Corvalán. ImageSean Godsell, Australia Sean Godsell. ImageEva Prats & Ricardo Flores, Spain Flores&Prats. ImageEduardo Souto de Moura, Portugal Andrew Berman. ImageTeronobu Fujimori, Japan Teronobu Fujimori. ImageAsplund Chapel You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email MANITOWOC – Here's our weekly list of real estate transfers in Manitowoc County, courtesy of the Manitowoc County Register of Deeds Office To determine the purchase price of the real estate the top transfer fee listed here is for $2,769 Dividing that fee by 0.003 gives you the purchase price of $923,000 real estate sold at a price of $100,000 would have a transfer fee of $300 More real estate transfers: Click here to view more Manitowoc County real estate transfers Boyd (Arries/Wilson) to Blue Badger Holdings LLC College Glen Developers LLP to TLG Holdings LLC Northland Associates LLC to TLG Holdings LLC Manitowoc Real Estate LLC to Miles and Sydney Sonnenburg Growth Capital LLC to Coral Shores Investments LLC and Sunset Landings LLC Krueger and Jennifer Jansky to Jason and Melissa Wiesner Berger and Linda Anzaldua-Cooper to Chiamie Cha and Joseph Yang Riesterer Revocable Trust by trustee to Dustin R PDJ Land Capital I LLC and PDJ Land Capital II LLC to RE Management National LLC a surprise and last-minute entry with Germany’s Matthias Rath at this week’s Kapellen CDI*** in Belgium topped the Grand Prix on 78.68 percent after two years out of the show ring some losses of rhythm and a mistake in the one tempis Rath and Totilas’ score easily topped the class over Sweden’s Jennie Larsson on Zircoon Spring Flower (70.76%) The stallion displayed the extravagant extended trot and metronomic passage that initially made him famous with the Netherlands’ Edward Gal His extended walk showed great relaxation and reach.  Judge Geert Lemmens awarded the horse the lowest score of the panel, a 73.70 percent, while Irina McNamee scored him an 82.90 percent as the highest mark. Rath, 29, also topped today’s Prix St. Georges aboard Bretton Woods. See the full scores on the Kapellen website.  a 14-year-old Dutch Warmblood (Gribaldi—Lominka Glendale) owned by Ann-Katrin Linsenhof and Paul Schockemohle last contested a CDI during the 2012 Hagen CDI**** (Germany) winning the Grand Prix (83.09%) and Grand Prix freestyle (88.02%) They also competed at the 2012 German Dressage Championships in June that year.  A series of injuries has kept Totilas away from the spotlight for the last two years and Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro have since bested all three of the world record scores he earned when the Netherlands’ Edward Gal had the ride on the stallion.  who wore a helmet for today’s performance hasn’t yet commented on future competitions for the horse The pair will do the Grand Prix Special Saturday in Belgium.  Watch the video that Dutch publication Hoefslag took of Totilas’ Grand Prix: you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy You may also receive promotional emails from The Chronicle of the Horse 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service that had been widely used by drugs traffickers “More than 100 people were convicted today during a massive drug trafficking trial in Brussels,” said the Belgian federal police 119 people were sentenced to prison terms ranging between 14 months and 17 years The biggest sentence was handed out to an Algerian identified by the authorities as Abdelwahab Guerni An Albanian called Eridan Munoz-Guerrero was convicted to 14 years in prison “This marks a real turning point in the battle against organised crime and against criminality related to drugs,” said Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden The Sky ECC encrypted messaging service was cracked by the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation and Australian and European law enforcement agencies in 2021 Europol said at the time that the operation “provided invaluable insights into hundreds of millions of messages exchanged between criminals” two luxury villas in Belgium owned by Turkish drug lord Orhan Ungan The villas in Belgium’s northern Kapellen region crystal chandeliers and Versace-style decor The starting price for each villa is over $700,000 who orchestrated extensive narcotics trafficking operations across Europe was arrested and is currently in a Turkish prison awaiting trial Turkey has emerged as a major transit point for cocaine heading for Europe Authorities there have recorded a seven-fold increase in drug seizures since 2014 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Where to find tulip fields in Germany this springBookmarkBookmarkBy Olivia LoganMar 16, 2025Tulip fields in Germany can’t quite hold a candle to the likes of the world-famous Keukenhof or other similar spots in the Netherlands but they are still worth a visit if you’re looking to fill a spring day with colour Tulip bloom comes in three different stages in Germany depending on the flower species: the early tulip species which flower in March; the mid-spring species which flower in early May; and the late tulips The specific names of these tulips are so excellent they are worth mentioning individually followed by the camply-named Purple Prince and Baby Queen species orange and yellow Triumph and Darwin Hybrid tulips follow in May It is easy to locate flower picking fields across Germany by googling “Blumen selbst schneiden” ("cut flowers yourself") or “Blumen selbst pflücken” ("pick flowers yourself") but it can be harder to track down fields rowed with tulips specifically Here are some fields we can recommend for a stroll you will have to leave the plants in peace; in others you are welcome to pay to pick a bunch and take them home Image credit: imageBROKER.com / Shutterstock.com Around 40 minutes from Cologne and Düsseldorf lies one of Germany’s most popular tulip fields Visitors to Tulpenhof Francken can walk through the fields visitors have been limited to looking at the tulips from the field perimeter after guests repeatedly caused significant damage to the flowers Tulpenhof Francken says that photo shoots and other similar activities are expressly forbidden on the fields The nearest train station to Tulpenhof Francken is Kapellen-Wevelinghoven from which a 20-minute walk will take you to the field on Talstraße This field isn't commercial in the sense that there are no shops and staff on site but you can pick your own flowers and pay for them Flower farms like Berges tulip field operate on an honour system Visitors should be careful while walking among the plants and pay fairly for whatever they pick You will usually find an unstaffed payment point at the edge of the field where you can pay in cash Prices can vary between 50 cents and three euros per tulip Image credit: Jan von nebenan / Shutterstock.com this island sits in Germany’s largest lake Flower Island is home to a dahlia garden and tropical fern garden but its tulip garden along Frühlingsallee (Spring Alley) is the highlight and a previous winner of the World Tulip Award From the end of March to the beginning of April 450 tulip species turn the banks of Flühlingsallee into a kaleidoscope of colours A top tip: you don’t even have to venture beyond the boundaries of the largest German city to enjoy everything tulip season has to offer. Head to Britzer Garten in southeastern Berlin where over 100.000 tulips bloom every year True tulip enthusiasts can also take part in a tulip tour to learn about the flower’s history in the Middle East “tulip mania” of 1637 and the different species By mid-March, when the tulip bulbs spurt their green heads through the earth, you can check the Blütenbarometer (bloom barometer) on Britzer Garten’s website to see if the fields have bloomed ahead of your visit Tulip fields can be elusive. Have you spotted an excellent spot while driving through the countryside and think it's worth a mention in our list Thumb image credit: Kateryna Frost / Shutterstock.com