"After fruitless searches for a show jumping horse capable to jump 1.40 m in North America, my trainer suggested we consider looking for a horse in Germany. (…) My mother checked out possible sources, found and contacted the German Horse Center on-line. She was immediately impressed with their professionalism and ease to view all their listed horses. For me, the best part were the videos, as we all could watch each horse in action which helped us select a number of horses to put on our 'to check out' list.

Stefan Kreutz of the German Horse Center responded quickly and was most helpful. He provided us with an itinerary to visit our selected horses for our planned August 2010 trip.

When we arrived in Germany, we visited 5 stables in two just days. When we were at Sportpferde Jens Baackmann, Jens introduced us to Argentina AS, a beautiful 10 year old mare Westfalian, who wasn’t even on our list. Jens commented - 'I have the perfect horse for you, Katie'…Argentina is calm, very well mannered, superbly trained and has competed in her upper show jumping class, the 1.45 m course. My trainer rode her and whole heartedly agreed! After I rode her, I immediately loved her. I had found my perfect horse…!

The whole experience was simply wonderful, we had a great family European holiday, saw and rode many very good show jumpers, but the best part was that I found my perfect Argentina…!

Thank you very much Stefan, Jens and the German Horse Center."

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