Ilse van der Plaat: ‘Dabernon Sugababe was granted to me’

At the keuring in Tolbert, Ilse van der Plaat's Dabernon Suga Babe (by Dabernon Take That) became keur and adult section C champion. Her foal Altingshof Suga's Mr. Red (by Glebedale Razamataz) was foal champion.

Ilse van de Plaat says: “I bought Dabernon Sugababe three years ago, in 2018. The mare came from an elderly lady. She had bought the pony as a four-year-old from the breeder. She wanted to downsize and in the Royal Welsh catalog I saw she was for sale.”

“On the steps at the Welsh Pony and Cob Society we met the person who had prepared her. We then immediately went to see the pony and I was immediately sold. The owner was absolutely crazy about Glebedale Razamataz. And when I said she would be covered with this in the future, she also awarded her to me.”

“Sugababe was seven years old at the time. She went to the Horse of the Year show as a six-year-old, under saddle. In 2019, I showed her and she became star and reserve adult champion at the CMK. At the WPCV show she became C champion. Under saddle we have been reserve performance champion before.”

Text: Anneke Dijkstra

The full interview is in Welsh Pony & Cob Magazine number 3-2021 which drops in subscribers' mailboxes this week. In this edition there is special attention for the Inspection in Putten and the inspections in Sevenum, Heteren and Tolbert.