Welcome to Top Hat Friesians

The timeless beauty of the Friesian horse is noble and majestic. They'll capture your heart as they did ours.  We invite you to take a look around our website. Just as the Friesian stole our hearts, the Barock Pinto impressed us with the qualities of a Friesian while being inked with striking black and white contrasts of color. Thus the name Friesian Ink. We have expanded our breeding program to include not just purebred Friesians, but to produce Barockpintos recognized by ECHA, (The European Coloured Horse Association who is the owner of the Barock pinto studbook in Europe and who issues the only true registration papers for the breed) and we are also breeding KWPN Dutch Warmblood Pintos (with no paint or stock blood) which will excel in equestrian performance sports. 

 

Important announcement Regarding Scammers

We have recently been informed that scammers have stolen pictures of our horses and are using them in bogus emails. Do NOT fall into these traps. We have notified the proper authorities and are doing as much as possible to fix this situation but in the meantime, we've watermarked all of our pictures. We NEVER send out emails trying to get someone to purchase a horse from us. Here is the email that was forwarded to us with pictures of Truida attached.  We have removed all of the pictures they used from our website, have watermarked them and included them below this email that was sent out. The pictures below were previously stolen from our site or from one of the other sale sites we have her listed on. Here's the email complete with the people's names so that you'll know who they are and what they're doing. Don't fall for this - it's NOT real - they're only trying to take your money and not deliver a horse - which is IMPOSSIBLE because the horse pictured is registered to us and living in our pasture. If you have any additional information we could use,  please let us know by sending an email. 

Sandra's husband is named "Kelman" and he's also sending out these emails. These are probably fake names as well so be aware!

From: Sandra Holfman <macainsie@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:33 PM
Subject: BLACK FRIESIAN MARE HORSES FOR ADOPTION
To: (removed to protect the person who sent this to me)

Hello,
I will thank for your mail and I very much appreciate your interest in my Friesian Mare horse(Tsjeetske), I still have her available. You see we love and work very, very hard for our her. She is extremely special to us! We feel the home our girl goes to determines what the rest of her life will be like and we take this as a serious responsibility. you may like to know about her.

Tsjeetske was born May 2006, she is 15.3 hands tall. Tsjeetske (pronounced ‘Cheets-ka’) is an extremely upright, animated, jet black 3 year old mare out of the Dutch Champion Stallion, She is out of the Oege line which is known for producing the most hair within the Friesian breed. As a 4 year old, you can see that she’s no exception. Every movement of this girl is eye catching. As gorgeous and flashly as this mare is. she is equally soft natured and intelligent.  with a great ability to listen and learn. Tsjeetske has been in training with a National and World reknown Saddlebred trainer. In his words… “this mare NEVER puts her head down… she just wants to please you the whole time you’re working with her”. Tsjeetske is trained with this trainer (2+) months. She's being ridden and possesing formiddable running and jumping skills. Tsjeetske has the most finely chiseled head, ears, and one of the most swan-like necks that I’ve ever seen in the Friesian breed. Her conformation is correct with beautifully   smooth lines.

 -Tsjeetske’s dam, Eefke, is a 2001 2nd premie STAR mare who was imported from Holland with Tsjeetske in utero. Eefke is very ‘stallion like’ in her movements and flare,   but with a gentle and inquisitive nature.
 
Tsjeetske’s sire, Folkert 353, doesn’t need much of an introduction. He is the 2004 Stallion Show Champion and is ranked 4th for quality of trot out of all approved Friesian stallions (awarded 108 points; top stallion had 109 points). Folkert is known for his intelligence and for his ability to pass his high charisma and jet black color to his foals. Tsjeetske exemplifies all of this. This mare is a show stopper. You will get noticed with her. She will make a loving addition to your family.

You may also love to know about Me and location. We just move here to Akron, OHIO for our missionary activities. Well we departed and arrive here in our new apartment . We have been having some problems keeping this Mare as animals are not allowed here by the landlord so we decided to get a new and a caring home for her. Tsjeetske is going for a free adoption, all you need to do is to take care of her shipment cost from here to your home. We inquired at a local animal delivery service and was told that it will be costing you $950 for the mare to be delivered to your address. You have almost all you may need to know about her so if you are okay with everything and she is suited to their preferences and you are ready to make her a part of your family,  there are a few issues which we will like to make you understand before we proceed;
 
1st. We will NOT place our Mare in a home where she will just be breeding and making money without love and care given to her like what we do or even more.
2nd. We will NOT place our Mare with anyone who has any history of child or animal abuse!!
3rd. Her new owner(s) must take time to educate themselves on how to properly care for their unique new friend.

As long as you can make us understand that you will share the love in your home with Tsjeetske, we will consider placing the Mare to your home.
Best regards
Sandra.   

The following pictures of our horse were attached to the above email. We have watermarked them but wanted to put them here just in case you get this email and don't recognize Truida from her new pictures: