Gilles Thomas and Elfra van Beek Z. Photo © Dirk Caremans/Hippo Foto.
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The 11-year-old stallion Elfra van Beek Z (El Salvador x Vagabond de La Pomme) has been sold and will in the future be seen with Germany’s Tiara Bleicher.
Belgium’s Gilles Thomas took over the ride on Elfra van Beek Z from Bart Lips in the fall of 2021, and the two went on to be hugely successful all the way up to five-star level. In their last international appearance together at the beginning of May this year, Thomas and Elfra placed second in a CSI5* 1.50m class at the Longines Global Champions Tour of Shanghai, after placing seventh in the CSI5* 1.60m Longines Global Champions Tour Grand Prix in Mexico City in March.
Tiara Bleicher, 20, is part of the Global Champions League team Riesenbeck International alongside Christian Kukuk, Marco Kutscher, Emanuele Camilli, as well as Philipp and Maximilian Weishaupt.
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