The Dutch Masters, formerly known as Indoor Brabant is an international horse show held in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. The show is held every year in March and one of the biggest international equestrian indoor events in The Netherlands, besides Jumping Amsterdam. Indoor Brabant-The Dutch Masters takes place in the Brabanthallen.^[1]

The event

The event is host of the FEI World Cup qualifier dressage and the prestigious Grand Slam of Show Jumping combination with shows and entertainment. The show-jumping includes the 5* CSI Grand Prix. Besides the World Cup dressage, several CDI competitions are part of the event. The program also includes national dressage classes and a class for para-equestrian riders.^[2]

History

The first edition of Indoor Brabant was in 1966, founded by a group of local people from Tilburg to honor show-jumper Toon Ebben. The founders Ton Jansen, Harrie van Dijk and Henk Brands wanted to organize the new international horse show in Tilburg but there was no space available so the three men found a location in The Brabanthallen in 's-Hertogenbosch. Because the men were from Tilburg, the mayor of 's-Hertogenbosch wanted to have someone from the city itself to be president of the show. Daddy Stibbe, father of Eddy Stibbe became the president of Indoor Brabant and was able to create a successful event from the beginning. In 1979 Indoor Brabant became part of the World Cup Jumping circuit.^[3] In 1983 dressage was added to the event's program and became part of the World Cup Dressage circuit in 1986, hosting the first World Cup Final for dressage riders in history. The final was won by Danish Anne Grethe Jensen. The dressage World Cup Final took place for eleven times at Indoor Brabant, while the organization hosted the World Cup final for show-jumping two times in 1994 and 2012. Since 2014 In 2017 the organization decided to change the name 'Indoor Brabant' to 'The Dutch Masters' to attract a bigger international audience since the show became part of the Grand Slam.^[4]

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic the event was cancelled in 2020. In 2020 the organization had to cancel last minute, even though the show was about to start. On the first day of the event, the Dutch prime-minister Mark Rutte gave a press conference and decided to cancel all current events.^[5] Also in 2001 the show was cancelled because of a swine fever. In 2021 the event took place without spectators and had only show-jumping on the program.

Winners

The list of winners includes the winner of the Grand Prix in show-jumping, which is not the World Cup. From 1979 until 1985 there was no Grand Prix and was replaced by the World Cup. The World Cup jumping has been part of the program since 1979 until 2013, including two World Cup Finals won by Dutch Jos Lansink in 1994 and American Rich Fellers in 2012. The Grand Prix of 's-Hertogenbosch was replaced by the Grand Slam from 2014 onwards.The dressage winners includes also the winners of the World Cup Finals, which replaced the World Cup Grand Prix qualifier.^[6]

Year	Show-Jumping	Dressage
1967	Seamus Hayes on Doneraile	No Dressage
1968	Harvey Smith on O’Malley	No Dressage
1969	Lucia Faria on Rush du Camp	No Dressage
1970	Alwin Schockemöhle on Donald Rex	No Dressage
1971	Ann Backhouse-Townsend on Cardinal	No Dressage
1972	Harvey Smith on Evan Jones	No Dressage
1973	Fritz Ligges on Genius	No Dressage
1974	Hendrik Snoek on Rasputin	No Dressage
1975	Hugo Simon on Lavendel	No Dressage
1976	David Broome on Jägermeister	No Dressage
1977	Johan Heins on Seven Valleys Z	No Dressage
1978	Fritz Ligges on Goya	No Dressage
1979	David Broome on Philco	No Dressage
1980	Hugo Simon on Gladstone	No Dressage
1981	Gilles Bertrand de Balanda on Galoubet A	No Dressage
1982	Rob Ehrens on Oscar Drum	No Dressage
1983	Edgar Henri Cuepper on Cyrano	No Dressage
1984	Thomas Fuchs on Willow	No Dressage
1985	Harvey Smith on Sanyo Technology	No Dressage
1986	Peter Charles on Merrimandias	Anne Grethe Jensen on Marzog (Final)
1987	Nick Skelton on Raffles Airborne	Herbert Krug on Muscadeur
1988	Ludger Beerbaum on Landlord	Christine Stückelberger on Gaugin de Lully (Final)
1989	Nick Skelton on Grand Slam	Jennie Loriston-Clarke on Dutch Gold
1990	Nick Skelton on Top Gun	Sven Rothenberger on Andiamo (Final)
1991	Jos Lansink on Libero H	Sven Rothenberger on Andiamo
1992	Eric Navet on Rosire HN	Monica Theodorescu on Grunox
1993	Jos Lansink on Henzo	Monica Theodorescu on Ganimedes (Final)
1994	Eddie Macken on Sky View	No Dressage
1995	Ludger Beerbaum on Ratina Z	Anky van Grunsven on Bonfire
1996	Jos Lansink on Lianos	Anky van Grunsven on Bonfire
1997	Franke Sloothaak on Joly	Anky van Grunsven on Bonfire (Final)
1998	Ralf Schneider on Chopin	Anky van Grunsven on Bonfire
1999	Ludo Philippaerts on Droite d’ Nirel	Anky van Grunsven on Bonfire
2000	Jerry Smit on Cassandro	Anky van Grunsven on Bonfire (Final)
2001	Cancelled due to swine fever
2002	Leslie Howard on Priobert de Kalvarie	Ulla Salzgeber on Rusty
2003	Robert Smith on Marius Claudius	Heike Kemmer on Bonaparte
2004	Gert-Jan Bruggink on Joël	Anky van Grunsven on Salinero
2005	Marcus Ehning on Gitania	Anky van Grunsven on Salinero
2006	Albert Zoer on Okidoki	Anky van Grunsven on Salinero
2007	Daniel Deusser on Air Jordan Z	Isabell Werth on Warum Nicht FRH
2008	Daniel Etter on Peu a Peu	Anky van Grunsven on Salinero (Final)
2009	Albert Zoer on Sam	Isabell Werth on Satchmo
2010	Kevin Staut on Silvana HDC	Edward Gal on Totilas (Final)
2011	Albert Zoer on Sam	Adelinde Cornelissen on Parzival
2012	Marc Houtzager on Opium	Adelinde Cornelissen on Parzival (Final)
2013	Maikel van der Vleuten on Kisby	Adelinde Cornelissen on Parzival
2014	Kevin Staut on Silvana HDC	Edward Gal on Undercover
2015	Daniel Deusser on Cornet d’Amour	Edward Gal on Undercover
2016	Marcus Ehning on Cornado NRW	Hans-Peter Minderhoud on Flirt
2017	Leopold van Asten on Zidane N.O.P.	Hans-Peter Minderhoud on Flirt
2018	Niels Bruynseels on Gancia de Muze	Isabell Werth on Emilio 107
2019	Henrik von Eckermann on Toveks Mary Lou	Daniel Bachmann Andersen on Zack
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Max Kühner on Elektric Blue P	No Dressage
2022	Daniel Deusser on Scuderia 1918 Tobago Z	Jessica von Bredow-Werndl on TSF Dalera BB
2023	McLain Ward on HH Azur	Charlotte Fry on Glamourdale
2024

References

External links

• The Dutch Masters website