Sjaantje, World & National Champion Ster Driving Sport Frieisian Crown Mare

Sjaantje's FHANA & National Accolades

2023 FHANA Region 5 Driving Champion
2023 FHANA Region 5 Driven Dressage Champion
2023 Orleton Farm CT & Pleasure Show: 4 classes & 4 firsts
2023 BreyerFest FHANA & ADS Exhibition Drives
2022 Sjaantje's bronze statue became FHANA's Driving Perpetual Trophy
2022 FHANA Driving Horse of Distinction
2022 FHANA Driving Champion
2022 FHANA Driven Dressage Champion
2022 Driven Dressage 70%+ Advanced scores earned the ADS Gold medal
2022 IFSHA SH Open CDE Champion
2022 IFSHA SH Open Driving Champion
2022 Grand Oaks Classic Open SH Champion
2022 Black Pring FEI CT Champion
2022 Aiken Carriage Classic Open SH Champion
2022 Southern Pines FEI CT Champion
2022 Devon SH Champion
2022 Orleton Farm Pleasure Show FEI CT Champion
2021 FHANA Lifetime Achievement recipient
2021 FHANA Driving Horse of Distinction
2021 FHANA Driving Champion
2021 FHANA Driven Dressage Champion
2021 FHANA President's Award
2021 USEF National Horse of Honor Pegasus Award
2021 USEF National Intermediate Driven Dressage Champion
2021 IFSHA Friesian Driving Champion
2021 IFSHA SH Open Driving Champion
2021 IFSHA SH Open CDE Champion
2021 ADS Driven Dressage Virtual Show: 2 first places
2021 Orleton Farm FHANA High Point Ribbon Recipient
2021 Villa Louis Carriage Classic; Invitational Concours d'Elegance Champion
2021 IFSHA World Show Accolcades & Awards:
HP Driving, Turnout, & High Score Driven Dressage Perpetual Trophies
2021 Ocala International Horse Show: 5 classes & 5 firsts
2021 Grand Oaks Intermediate CT Champion
2020 Virtual Lexington Photo Carriage Championship: 3 first places
2020 FHANA Eastern Virtual Video Show: Driving Costume Champion
2020 Nashoba Carriage Virtual Photo Show: 3 first places
2019 USEF National Friesian Driving Champion
2019 IFSHA 8 World Championship Carriage Driving titles
2019 IFSHA World & Grand National Show:
high point purebred & high point driving horse awards
2019 IFSHA Region 2 Friesian Driving Champion (8 classes - 8 wins)
2019 FHANA Driving Horse of Distinction
2019 FHANA Driven Dressage Champion
2019 FHANA Region 5 Driving Champion
2019 IFSHA Friesian Driving Champion
2019 IFSHA Single Horse Open Driving Champion
2019 IFSHA Friesian Open CDE Champion
2019 Lorenzo Show Single Horse Champion & Reserve Grand Champion
2019 CT Morgan Open Horse Show Single Horse Obstacle Champion
2019 Driven Dressage 70%+ Intermediate scores earned the ADS Silver medal
2019 Orleton Farm Classic Picnic Champion
2018 USEF Intermediate Driven Dressage National Champion
2018 IFSHA 3 World Championship Carriage Driving Titles
2018 MLMDC Intermediate Test 4, Intermediate High Score, & Best Score of the Day Champion
2018 past driven dressage score earned ADS Blue and Bronze medals
2018 foaled April 15: colt Hamilton DCTF (Sape X Tsjerk)
2017 Inducted into the Equus Horse Star Hall of Fame
2017 IFSHA 2 World Championship Carriage Driving Titles
2017 CT Morgan Open Horse Show SH & Prelim CT Championships
2017 Carriage Association of America Park Wicker Champion
2017 Walnut Hill Driving Show Fancy Dress (costume) Champion
2016 FHANA President's Award
2016 FHANA Driving Champion
2016 KFPS/FHANA Keuring 1st Premium "1e"
2016 USEF National Horse of Honor & Carriage Driving Pegasus Awards
2016 USEF Grand Champion Carriage Driving Award
2016 USEF IFSHA Regions 2, 4, & 5 Carriage Driving Champion
2016 USEF IFSHA Regions 1 & 3 Carriage Driving Reserve Champion
2016 IFSHA 9 World Championship Carriage Driving Titles
2016 IFSHA World & Grand National Show:
high point horse, high point driving horse, & high point driven dressage horse
2016 won 15 of 16 Driven Dressage Training and Preliminary Level Classes
2016 Jubilee of Breeds Carriage Pleasure Driving Champion
2016 USEF CAA Carriage Classic: Park Wicker Championship
2016 Orelton Farm Show: won both CT & SD, & Pleasure Show Concours d'Elegance
2016 Walnut Hill Show: Fancy Dress, Old Guard wins; Reserve Champion Ladies Wicker
2015 foaled March 28: filly Wendee DCTF (Sape X Tsjerk)
2013 USEF National Friesian Driving Champion Horse of the Year
2013 IFSHA Friesian Driving Horse of the Year
2013 IFSHA Friesian Open Pleasure Driving Single Hitch Horse of the Year
2013 IFSHA Friesian Open Combined Driving Event Single Horse of the Year
2013 FHANA keuring 1st Premium and Crown Mare title
2013 FHANA Driving Champion
2013 FHANA Dream Gait Friesians Driving IBOP Cup [81.5 score]
2013 IFSHA Grand Nationals Champion Carriage Driving Costume & Obstacles Amateur & Open
2013 IFSHA Region 2 Champion Carriage Turnout Amateur & Open & Period Costume
2013 IFSHA Region 5 Champion Carriage Turnout, Period Costume, & Drive & Ride
2013 Devon Single Horse Champion
2012 FHANA Driving Champion
2012 KFPS/FHANA 1st Driving Sport Predicate Title Outside of the Netherlands
2012 USEF National Friesian Driving Reserve Champion Horse of the Year
2012 USEF Region 2 Friesian Driving Champion Horse of the Year
2011 FHANA Driving Champion
2011 USEF National Friesian Driving Champion Horse of the Year
2011 IFSHA Grand Nationals Champion Carriage Driving Working Single Amateur & Open
2011 FHANA keuring driving IBOP 74 score
2009 IFSHA World Jr mare, Baroque Jr mare, & Tandem Riding Championships
2009 IFSHA National Carriage Working Open & Jr Mare Championships
2009 FHANA Keuring 2e premie mare
2008 FHANA Keuring 2e premie ster 3
2006 FHANA Keuring 2e premie yearling fi

October 1, 2013 Sjaantje's 81.5 score won the Dream Gait Friesians IBOP Driving Cup with whip, Suzy Stafford	Click on the crystal bowl Sjaantje's 2011 IFSHA Anita Mellott High Point Driving Award	2012 USEF Region 2 Championship Ribbons
In 2012 our 7 YO Sjaantje earned all her FPS/FHANA driving predicate points, making her the first Friesian outside of the Netherlands to do so! Scores & points

Sjaantje was imported from the Netherlands with the help of Rick & Ellen of Pleasant View Friesians as the foal

part of my 3 in 1 package in 2005 when I retired from a teaching career. She is registered with both FHANA [the Friesian Horse Association of North America] and the Dutch FPS [Friesch Paarden-Stamboek (Friesian studbook)], which is the world-wide authority on the Friesian horse and recognized as the European Mother Studbook of the Friesian Horse.
    Sired by Tsjerk, her dam, "Wietske Janke V, is a "ster" Ritse Friesian mare. When Sjaantje arrived here at Dreams Come True Farm, she was still nursing. See her pedigree.
    In her yearling year, as she grew, we thought that her foal 3e did not do her justice, so we took her to the 2005 Coatesville Keuring where she earned a 2e and the admiration of the crowd. From then on Sjaantje only improved in beauty, conformation, and movement. In January of 2008, she went to Swiegart's Stable for a few months, where Brook started her driving, came home that summer, so I could get her started under saddle and hand walk her as keuring prep, and then went back to Sweigart's for 3 weeks of tune up for her 3 YO keur. I had been successfully using Parelli Natural Horsemanship techniques, and although I rode bareback as a child, now being 57 YO myself, I could not envision myself riding w/o a saddle, as the Parelli advocates do, but had been toying with the idea. My dear friend, Gloria, who also had a young Friesian mare that needed to be started, provided the example and the encouragement, so we spent the summer of 2008 successfully starting our young Friesian mares w/o saddles!
    In 2008 Sjaantje was keured at Leesburg, VA, and when she was awarded her 2nd Premium, the judges said she was the prettiest and best built mare there! In 2009, Sjaantje was professionally trained to drive, so went to several shows, earning her first World and National Titles at the IFSHA show in St Louis. In 2010 Thomas and I showed her in the east, trying out different shows with Friesian divisions. In 2011 Suzy Stafford trained Sjaantje for the driven IBOP test and gave me a weekly driving lesson, making 2011 the year of driving for Sjaantje. Attesting to her driving ability, Sjaantje won 3 national driving championships and 3 reserve national driving championships at the 2011 IFSHA World Championships Show in Lexington, VA, earning her the coveted Anita Mellott High Point Driving Horse Award for that show. Sjaantje had so many fabulous driving performances in 2011 that in January 13, 2012 Thomas and I attended the United States Equestrian Federation Banquet in Cincinatti, OH, to accept Sjaantje's 2011 USEF Friesian Driving Horse of the Year Award. In March we went to Lexington, KY for FHANA's AGM and to receive my FHANA 2011 Performance Driver Award.
    In 2012 Sjaantje was once again given the opportunity to use her talents to shine in the driving community: Suzy trained Sjaantje for the FEI # 9 driven dressage test, earned 10 points from satisfactory scores, and she became the first horse in North America to successfully obtain the KFPS/FHANA driving predicate title "Sport." Driven dressage was all new for me, so it was yet another excellent Friesian adventure!
   Sjaantje won the 2013 Devon County Fair & Horse Show Single Horse Championship under the auspices of her trainer, Suzy Stafford in May. In June she earned 3 IFSHA Region 5 championships and 2 reserve championships with our most memorable one being Drive & Ride with myself driving and Jodi Van Sprang riding. In July Sjaantje and I were the Novice Whip Champions at the Morven Park 1st Annual ADS Carriage Fest, winning Turnout, Working, and Reinsmanship. The end of July, we won our first CDE, after winning training level dressage and making marathon times at the Ohio CDE. In August we won 3 IFSHA Region 2 championships and 3 reserve championships. At the NY State Fair Show on Labor Day weekend we had a driving and a riding championship. Sjaantje was the high point single horse champion at the September My Ladys of the Manor Driving Club show. At the IFSHA Grand Nationals she had 4 national championships and 3 reserve championships. Our last show of the season, the Union Bridge carriage show, we won both Open Working and Reinsmanship and had seconds in the two cones classes, for the Open Horse Championship and the Show Championship.
Sjaantje's 2013 keuring was phenomenal: she had FHANA's highest driving IBOP score, her 2nd premium was replaced with a 1st premium, and she given a Crown mare title.
Bred in 2014 for a 2015 sape foal, she didn't show those years, but did we ever in 2016! We wintered and showed in Florida and came home and showed up north. Because her showing was so stellar, she was a 2016 USEF Horse of Honor and inducted into the Horse Hall of Fame in 2017.
Bred again in 2017, her 2018 Sape colt is a keeper., so we'll see in Hamilton can follow in his momma's hoof prints. Her brilliance in driven dressage earned me the ADS blue and bronze medals and in 2018 we earned 2 of the 4 scores for our silver.