Tietse " The King"
&
Me ![]()

October 2001
Out of San Francisco and onto The Netherlands, Ashley and I
braved the insecure world of travel after the 911 tragedy.
We went
to attend the World Friesian Mare show as guests of Arnold--shopping for mares,
but in the end found a Stallion --The KING he was to become known as...little did
we know that at the time.......
I didn't like Tietse at first, he just kept cantering
and cantering and cantering, never tiring. I was waiting for him to tire
within seconds and go into the normal Friesian trot like all other Friesians we
had previously viewed. I got tired of waiting, he did not.--this was my
first indication that Tietse just was NOT a normal Friesian. Ashley
liked him
, Arnold and I discussed his movements, couldn't quite define what it
was about him.
After that I didn't give him a second thought, until
after returning home. Ashley said mom look at him again on your video, after all,
you only saw him thru your camera lens
.
Well, I watched that video, frame by frame by frame and over and over again--
--this
picture & the next, did it, he was sleek, but every bit a Friesian
TIETSE was AWESOME!
My birthday was coming, I phone Arnold, " I have just wired you the money. I want Tietse -A Happy Birthday from ME to ME!"
Arnold said wait a minute, I have also been thinking about him. Shall we try an Adventure together? ........and so it began..............
Tietse's date with Destiny with partners at home & across the seas- Frens Wemmenhove, Arnold Wemmenhove, Netherlands, Susan Slaviero, USA,
& of course, TIETSE, who now also belongs to the WORLD.................

Clic for The Tietse Supertrot video