With the help of Doeke Hoekstra, the VanManen Brothers of Ede, the Netherlands will be leasing their stallion Hessel 480 Sport for the 2017 and 2018 breeding season to the Friesian Connection. This is the Stallion Station of the DeBoer family in Michigan, where now Janice and Amy, daughters of Bob and Arlene DeBoer, are the managers..
Hessel 480 is a son of Norbert, and comes from a Jelke mother.
Hessel has already earned notoriety; he has placed every year he has been in the HK (Stallion Show) into the championship round and in 2015 he was reserve champion of the youth and overall reserve champion.
Excellent scores for his offspring, in which nearly 1 in 4 foals gets a first premie, with multiple foal championships at different keurings.
Hessel 480 leaves immediately after the Stallion Show in January to the USA.
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