Hendrik Snoek

Hendrik Snoek a former German show jumper who later became a businessman. Snoek was heir to a supermarket fortune.[1] He was kidnapped on 3 November 1976 and held for a DM 5,000,000 ransom. He was discovered tied up under a motorway bridge, by a lorry driver, after the ransom was paid by his father and considerable amount of the ransom was eventually recovered. He was a founder of the Westphalian Horse Museum in Münster.

Hendrik Snoek at 1972 CHIO Rotterdam

Show jumping

Snoek won the 1972 Hickstead Derby on Shirokko. He was a reserve at the 1976 Summer Olympics for West Germany. He won the R.D.S. Dublin Grand Prix in 1984 riding the chestnut mare Palma Nova.

gollark: ```c#include <stdio.h>typedef union { float apio; int apiobee; char apioform[22];} ApioData;int main() { ApioData data; data.apio = 3.0; printf("%d %s", data.apiobee, data.apioform);}```
gollark: What an apiological feature.
gollark: ```c#include <stdio.h>typedef union { float apio; int apiobee; char apioform[22];} ApioData;int main() { ApioData data; data.apio = 3.0; printf("%d", data.apiobee);}```
gollark: Wondrous. Such safety.
gollark: ```c#include <stdio.h>union ApioData { float apio; int apiobee; char apioform[22];} ;int main() { union ApioData data; data.apio = 3.0; printf("%d", data.apiobee);}```

References
  1. http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/beached


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