Biography

It will be a first Badminton for Belgian international team rider Senne Vervaecke (27) who is based near Lennik just 10k from the outskirts of Brussels. Last September with Badminton entry Google Van Alsingen Senne completed Pau 5*. The pair represented Belgium at the 2022 World Championships in Pratoni and was member of the Belgian team – his first senior appearance – at the 2023 European championships in France.

Senne’s family is steeped in eventing. His father Kris Vervaecke represented Belgium in eventing at the 1998 World Equestrian Games in Rome and more recently in several European Championships – he is still competing up to and including 4*. While his sister Silke competed in the 2016 European Junior championships in Montelibretti. The family also breed their own competition horses – Google comes from the family mare line.

For six consecutive years Senne represented Belgium at Junior and Young Rider European Championships and has also competed in the World young horse championships at Le Lions completing with Google in 2018.

Senne is interested in coding and software that could improve the horse sport and to relax likes all kinds of games – board, card and video.

Google van Alsingen is a 14-year-old KWPN registered chestnut mare. She was bred by her father Kris Vervaecke and Tine Magnus and is by the Indoctro son Watch Me out of the Belgain warmblood mare Pinot Brun van het Pannehof by the KWPN sire Forever (by Voltaire). Kris Vervaecke loaned his brood mare Pinot to national champion Tine Magnus. The result was Google who proved to be a challenging four-year-old but as Kris believed in the famliy line Google was bought back into the Vervaecke family. Senne’s Junior team horse Feebe van Alsingen (now retired) was also homebred out of the same dam as Google.