Tjeerd en Fenna Elzinga are taking care of Waterland Quarterhorses. Fenna is responsible for training the horses and showing them on reining shows. She also takes care of all the horses and is responsible for the young horses and broodmares. Tjeerd makes sure the ranch looks perfect!
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| Fenna Elzinga | Tjeerd Elzinga |
Tjeerd is a organic farmer and had for many years a organic compost company. He is still a expert for organic compost and leads different projects around the world for the Dutch Government.
Fenna is right now very succesfull with her stud 'Smokin Kills'. In 2010 they were a member of the dutch team at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky. In 2009 and 2011 they became NRHA European Champion Intermediate Non Pro. 'Billie' his life time earnings are now $14.000. Click here to see his whole showrecord.
With the mare 'Holidoc Hickups' she was also succesful at international Reining shows. They were World Open Reserve Champion Senior Reining Non Pro, European Reserve Champion Limited Non Pro. They were also third on the European Championships 2006 in the Non Pro (score 218,5) and there are multiple NRHA Trophy Winner. 'Hickups' got $5000 Life Time Earnings. Click here to see her whole show record.
Fenna started riding when she was 8 years old. When she was 12 she started riding western and showed her mare 'Miss Little Bit Blue' succesfully during her youth. Together they were 13 times Dutch Champion in Pleasure/Trail/Horsemanship/Showmanship. Also they have won many different international allround titles. Fenna was a teammember of the Dutch Youth Team for 4 years. With that team she showed at The Youth World Cup in 2000 in Italy and 2002 in Amarillo, Texas. At the Youth World Cup in 2000 Fenna won two golden Medals in Pleasure and Trail and was Youth World Cup Champion Pleasure. At the 2002 Youth World Cup in Amarillo, Texas she became a Reserve Youth World Cup Champion Western Riding.Every summer, since she was 14 years old, Fenna went to Nedpoint Quarterhorses, (Ruben van Dorp) Oklahoma, USA. In the meantime she trained with Peter Simons, Mireille van Soldt and Karin van Bekkum. From July 2005 till April 2006 Fenna was in training with Rudi Kronsteiner in Germany and he coached her succesfully at international reiningshows.
From August 2006 till August 2007 Fenna was assistent trainer at Michael Saupe Performance Horses. The Apprentice Program from the NRHA gave her the possibility to be a professional co-trainer for a year. In October 2007 she decided to go back to the Non Pro. Because of the Apprentice Program, she didn't had to wait for 3 till 5 years. In 2007 she decided the go to the University in Amsterdam and in August 2009 she graduated and got her Masters Degree in Science.
Our team
You never reach your goals alone. We work together with to following people.
Osteopath: Martin van den Dungen Martin treats all the sporthorses of Waterland. |  |
Farrier: Kees van Bijnen Kees is our farrier for our sporthorses and young / older horses. |  |
Vet: Waling Haytema Waling Haytema is the vet of 'Smokin Kills' and the other sporthorses.
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Vet: Bas Steltenpool Bas is our vet since 1996. |  |
Homeopathist: Liesbeth Ellinger Liesbeth treated some horses for Waterland and the results are great! Show also treated Billie 'Smokin Kills' for his skin problems. |  |
Heidi Westland Heidi starts all our colts and also the colts of our customers. |  |
Rianne Top Rianne takes care of everything when we are both not at home. She is responsible for everything on the ranch. Rianne has also her own business 'Top Horsetraining'. |  |