Bart Henstra joins the jumping stallion inspection committee. Henstra started as a KWPN jury member 20 years ago and became inspector of Friesland in 2007. From 2007 to 2021 he was a freelance inspector at the KWPN. Henstra was also chairman of the jumping re-inspection committee. He has been head judge of the American branch of the KWPN (KWPN-NA) for many years, where he was even honored as Member of the Year last year as a thank you for his years of effort. With his partner Pytrick Adema he runs a sports stable and breeding farm in Drogeham.

Wim Versteeg has been appointed chairman of the Harness horse stallion inspection committee. Versteeg worked as a senior inspector at the KWPN since 2004 and mainly focused on sales promotion, he was coordinator of the EPTM and inspector Gelders horse. In 2022, the regional inspectorship of the Friesland and Groningen regions was added. As far as the harness horses are concerned, Versteeg was ‘internal supervisor of Harness Horse’ from 2019 onwards. He took active retirement last summer but is still active as a freelance KWPN jury member and for the upcoming stallion selection he will be added to the task of chairman of the stallion selection committee Harness horses, which also includes Bauke de Boer and Thomas van der Weiden. Versteeg succeeds Lammert Tel, whose last term ends this year.

Source: KWPN/ horses.nl