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GHPC hit the mark: Edward Gal and Hans Peter Minderhoud to ride for entrepreneur Gaston Glock
Treffen (Austria), 2 February 2012 – Having announced that its motto for 2012 is to be Horses & Stars, the Glock Horse Performance Center certainly lived up to at the first international threestar show jumping competition to be held there: World and European dressage champion Edward Gal has decided to change stables. And he is not alone. Together with the World and European Champion Hans Peter Minderhoud and trainer Nicole Werner, the multiple World and European Championship medal winner will now be riding for the GHPC. What is more, it will be for ten years. Gaston and Kathrin Glock are the new partners to this successful trio from the Netherlands.
Dressage is perfection
The new partnership is inspiring. The Dutch trio is famous for their perfection, a passion they share with the Glocks. “We intend to set up a second centre of excellence in the Netherlands where riding is also popular. With sports managers Edward Gal, Hans Peter Minderhoud and Nicole Werner on board, we are confident it will be a success,” says GHPC managing director Kathrin Glock. The Glock Horse Performance Center in the Netherlands, the location of which is to be revealed at a later date, is scheduled for completion by the end of 2012.
An international star for Austria
Edward Gal, Hans Peter Minderhoud and Nicole Werner will be at the GHPC in Treffen for just under four months of the year. Their work here will focus on coaching and know how transfer. Clinics with the dressage experts from the Netherlands will not only be held for GHPC riders but also for guests. Equestrianism in Austria will therefore also benefit from this top-class partnership. The three will spend the rest of the time in the Netherlands to concentrate on competitions, training and sales.
Ambitious goals for the GHPC
Gaston Glock currently owns some 50 jumpers and dressage horses. His medium-term goal is for Edward Gal and Hans Peter Minderhoud only to ride Glock horses and present them successfully at European Championships, World Championships and the Olympics. He is also planning to invest in new top dressage horses and has made the necessary funds available. “In 2011 – while training at the GHPC – I had the opportunity to meet Gaston and Kathrin Glock as well as the GHPC staff. Our negotiations started afterwards and I am very interested to see how they will progress. It is a great honour for me to ride for someone as remarkable as Mr Gaston Glock,” adds Edward Gal looking forward to his new responsibilities in Austria.
ABOUT the GLOCK HORSE PERFORMANCE CENTER (GHPC) in TREFFEN
It is the most modern training and competition facility in the south of Austria. The generously built, state-of-the art centre is owned by businessman Gaston Glock who has thus given local equestrian sport a great boost in recent years. In addition to luxurious stables, the GHPC has three airconditioned, heatable indoor and extensive outdoor arenas that are used both for training the horses
on a daily basis and for competitions. There is also a wide range of amenities for our four-legged friends – from solarium, wash down area to special horse walkers and much more. The staff of currently about 30 under managing director Kathrin Glock do their best to look after the riders and their valuable horses.
Marcel Schoenmakers has been successful as the GHPC’s sports manager in Austria for several years, bringing many trophies back to Treffen. Thanks to his good connections in international dressage, he has not only excelled himself by purchasing top horses – latterly Grandioso and Federleicht – but it was also he who brought Edward Gal and the Glock family together.
Excellence in equestrian sport Perfection down to the very last detail and above all planning with great care is our credo that also applies to the horses at the GHPC. Mr Gaston Glock, founder and owner of the GHPC, wishes to provide special facilities and ideal conditions for both riders and horses, thus promoting the sport as a whole. This is reflected in the atmosphere at the Glock Horse Performance Center. Exciting events, breathtaking design, culinary delights, social highlights and charitable donations for people and animals in need at every competition – make for a truly unique combination here at the GHPC.
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