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Dutch
Dressage News
Coby van Baalen Sues Ferro Owners Lamers and Van
der Goor
 Dutch
WEG and Olympic Dressage team member Coby van Baalen
is suing Jan Lamers and Andriaan van der Goor, the owners
of her competition mount Olympic Ferro. The reason why
Van Baalen is putting Lamers and Van der Goor on the
stand at court is to reclaim Ferro for competition.
According to Lamers and Van der Goor, the contract
for training and showing Ferro was ended during an oral
conversation after the Olympic Games in Sydney, while
Van Baalen had signed a contract that she was to ride
Ferro until February 2003, when the new breeding season
would start.
At court, Lamers and Van der Goor used an article of
the equestrian news paper Paardencourant as evidence
for the ending of the specific contract. They had no
other written proof of the annulment of the contract
and besides used veterinary reports to prove that competition
is too strenuous on the horse. Since the Olympic Games,
Ferro has already suffered four colic attacks because
of stress. Coby anticipated this accusation by saying
that Ferro was found 100% healthy after Jerez by her
own vet and that he is not well taken care of at the
stallion station De Dalhoeve, where he is put in a small
box next to another stallion who excites him. "He's
not being trained at all at the stallion station and
does not receive the care a top competition horse requires,"
Coby fulminated.
 Lamers
and Van der Goor also said that Ferro can not be shown
in the 2002/2003 World Cup Series because he injured
his hind leg. "It's because he's put in a small
stall and kicks against the walls. He needs daily training
because he has too much energy. That's why he hits the
walls," Coby explained.
Coby's goal is to continue to train and show the horse
in the World Cup Series and make it to the 2004 Olympic
Games in Athens, where she wants to end Ferro's sport
career. "They just do it for the money," Coby's
lawyer said on trial. Lamers and Van der Goor want to
concentrate the now 15-year old Ferro solely on his
breeding career. The verdict takes place October 21,
2002.
Source: KWPN - KNHS
Images copyrighted: Dirk
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