Bred by Ingeborg & Klaus Block, Bad Bramstedt, Germany. Died 2006. Roelof Bril was also the rider who started Burggraaf in national and international competitions. The pair cleared the puissance wall at Indoor Brabant at a height of 2.10 metres. Here’s what Bril said about the stallion: “Burggraaf is a great horse to ride, and he knows what it is to work. The fine character he has in the sport, he passes on to his children, and that gives him the possibility to grow and become one of the important Dutch stallions.” Burggraaf combines two of the most successful Holstein jumping lines: Landgraf and Cor de la Bryère. On his maternal side he goes back to the famous Holstein lineage 7126, a family which has produced the approved stallions: Acord I & II, Acrobat I, II, III, Arico, Fra Diavolo, Chicago and Freeman. article: https://www.horsemagazine.com/thm/2010/08/burggraaf/