Albert grew up in a farming family. His father Krijn was a market-gardener and his mother, Will, the daughter of a farmer.<\/p>\n
Albert\u2019s neighbours worked the land with fancy horses, and every minute of his spare time Albert was present. At the age of 8 Albert bought, from his own savings, a New Forest Pony foal, which he learned to ride with the help of his neighbour, when the pony had reached the proper age.<\/p>\n
It was with this pony that Albert rode his first competition, and later even participated internationally. Albert sold Marinette to the Vermeulen family in Breukelen and with this money he bought a 3 year-old horse.<\/p>\n
After his school years Albert went to work with horse-trader Tom Olsmeyer in Doorwerth, where he also met his wife, Irma.<\/p>\n
Since then Albert has had a distinguished career in the showjumping arena, winning his first Grand Prix in 1981 with Kalypso S. With Lando, he won the Dutch Championship, and then a silver medal at the 2000 Games in Sydney. In 2013, Albert was 3rd<\/sup> at the Dutch Championships with Tobalio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Albert grew up in a farming family. His father Krijn was a market-gardener and his mother, Will, the daughter of a farmer. Albert\u2019s neighbours worked the land with fancy horses, and every minute of his spare time Albert was present. At the age of 8 Albert bought, from his own savings, a New Forest Pony […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23440,"parent":14165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23438","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23442,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23438\/revisions\/23442"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}