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Van Gelder Friesians

Stam 8

Mijke 3620 Model en Gera 3047 Ster

Pedigree 8 could be strongly expanded through the descendants of Mijke of the Plantinga family, rooted in Oostermeer and through Gera with the Bouma family of Hidaard.
The pedigree dates from 1903.

Mijke:
Born in 1952, Mijke was champion of the yearlings and two-year olds in Akkrum in 1954 and was declared model later.
In 1958, she was awarded a first prize for performance.
She is a daughter of Geert 184, a very breed-typical horse and her grandmother is a daughter of Ynte, who has transmitted a great deal of movement.
Characteristic for her progeny is the preferent line.
Tinne has six star daughters to her name; two were declared preferent for progeny.
Duodtsje supplied several star mares and two fine model mares, who are both preferent: Knilliske already has seven stars; Berbertsje became youth champion in the province of North Holland and also took the title at the breeding day in Bergum.
She is also the mother of the stallion Sierk and the mare Doaitske.
The latter won the championship at the breeding day in Bergum in 1996 and was awarded 1A at the Central Inspection.

Gera:
In 1933, A.J. Bouma, Oosterend, FPS board member from 1959-1972, bought the mare Aaf 1407.
Her mother was the famous Elisabeth, who had been declared model and who won many prizes as a show horse, including silver medals in Wijtgaard (1916) and Wolvega (1917). Aaf 2 2141 model won the first Jan Timmer trophy for outstanding performance in 1947.
By the great transmitter Nammele, she produced the mare Gera.
From this mare, the following two lines originate: Sipkjen and Foekjen.
Foekjen was a prime breeding mare, with three daughters declared model and one star.
At the breeding days in Blauwhuis, Foekjen and her descendants won the 1A prize at least five times. Her daughters carried away breeding day championship titles: Ynskjen (1973), Rykjen (1975); the latter won the best breeding group prize three times, in 1980, among other years.
Oebele is a son of Ynskjen, who performed well, for example in Kraayenbrink’s four-in-hand team at the World Championship in Apeldoorn (1982).
Extremely impressive was the performance of Frank (Freark X Oelkjen) as a show horse, winning almost 25.000 guilders for Thomas Vrieswijk.
Maike, star and preferent, a luxuriant horse, won five golden whips in ‘tilting-the-ring’ contests.
Her daughter Rjimkje was admitted to the premier show horse category and had great transmitting ability.
Her son Foppe is in the Z-dressage category, her daughter Harmkjen, five first prizes and two 1As, produced Fimmy (champion Kootwijk 1996).
Oelkjen became model and performed well in show driving, coming second, fourth and sixth in breeding mare championships; her daughter Frysia was awarded a first prize as a foal and as a yearling and two-year old was pronounced reserve youth champion.
Rjimkje produced, from a combination with Feitze, the premium category show horse Rinse, who has won prizes totalling Dfl 16.700.
A full sister of Rinse, Ynskjen was very imposing when as a three year old, she won the best performing show horse prize at the Central Inspection.
Deliaentsje left behind a few good star mares: Kristiene, once champion of France and Tietsje S, champion of the yearlings and two-year olds at the breeding day in 1992.
From the Sipkjen line come Joukje 964H and her son Ulbe fan Skuzum, both talented show horses.
Remarkable in this context is that four sons of the aforementioned A.J. Bouma bred with mares from this pedigree.

D.G. Wiersma (1997) (source merriestammen van het Friese paard deel 1 en 2 R. Geurts)