Age B continued his dressage training with a new trainer, Samantha Bartlett.

Sam has an eventing background and has trained and ridden a few horse to Grand Prix level.

She is an excellent horse trainer and  rider. We are happy to have her working with Age B. Who made in a few months time huge progress. Competed at Novice level in Werribee in May  he became 5^th and 6^th against 26 well bred warm bloods. In May he did a competition at Tree haven (Somerville) and became 1^st  and 1^st out of 15 competitors all really well bred and trained warm bloods. He is getting better and stronger all the time.

The 7^th and the 8^th of august Age B and Sam will compete at Werribee again in Novice and then in September he will do an Elementary test. Very exciting for us at Wildcroft.

Equine Excellence issue 10 an intervieuw with Samantha Bartlett about training Ag B as a Friesian Stallion


 Age B wins with  high scores in preliminary dressage 
Together with rider and trainer Ben Terry, Age B became Champion in Werribee in August 2009 at preliminary dressage. Ben Terry started to work with Age B in April 2009 due to pregnancy of the previous rider.  To our enjoyment Age B did really well and scored a 76% at his first outing. On the following competitions he scored 73% and 72.4%.   At Werribee he became champion in his class and won a beautiful woolen rug. With his scores he was 3% above his competitors in his class, and qualified for The Dressage Festival in December 2009.  Age B became 4th at the competition day and ended up with a 9th place overall on the National Dressage list.
 Age B is sponsored by Equine ExcellenceMagazine.


Afke van de Hamelspoel awarded "Crown Status"  in Australia.
Afke got awarded with a Crown status at the keuring in Victoria 2009. This makes her together with Sanne C, owned by M&M van der Heiden SA, the only two crown mares ever in Australia. It is one of the most difficult ratings to achieve and it places them in the top  3 %  of the Friesian breed in the World.


Wildcroft wins Champion and Reserve Champion of Victoria 2009
Afke van de Hamelspoel and Ronja fan Bokkum Champion and Reserve Champion mare of Victoria 2009.
It is very unusual that one stud wins both of the state awardings, the judges were very impressed with our stock and  Age B. To us this was our best keuring ever, and it proved to us that all the efforts and hard work we've put in, were very rewarding after all.