THE DUTCH MASTERS

Mid March · The Brabanthallen, ’s-Hertogenbosch · Four Days · Since 1967

No longer among the Court’s 250, from MMXXVII.

A bay clearing the last fence before the Rolex boards at The Dutch Masters, the Indoor Brabant Horse Show in ’s-Hertogenbosch — I · The Final Fence

Dates: 11 to 14 March 2027
WhereThe Brabanthallen, ’s-Hertogenbosch
DressLounge suit
AdmissionOpen to the public
The weatherIn March Eindhoven, near 's-Hertogenbosch, reaches about 11°C by day and 2°C at night, and rain falls on about one day in three.

The Dutch Masters is four days of indoor jumping and dressage in the middle of March, and the first of the four Majors that make up the Rolex Grand Slam. The season opens here.

Some sixty thousand people come to a hall in a medieval Dutch town that most of them could not place on a map.

The course set out in the Brabanthallen arena under green light before the Rolex Grand Prix at The Dutch Masters, ’s-Hertogenbosch — II · The Arena

The Slam

The Grand Slam of Show Jumping was created in 2013 and consists of four events: two outdoors at Aachen and Spruce Meadows, two indoors at Geneva and here. The Dutch Masters completed the quartet in 2018.

The prize goes to any rider who wins the Grand Prix at three of them consecutively.

One man has done it. Scott Brash won at Geneva, then at Aachen, then at Spruce Meadows, and completed the treble in 2015. Nobody has managed it since.

That is what the Grand Slam is for. It is not a points table. It is a standing challenge that has been answered once.

A showjumper over an oxer banked with orange tulips at The Dutch Masters, Indoor Brabant, ’s-Hertogenbosch — III · The Tulips

The Town

’s-Hertogenbosch is a walled town in North Brabant, and it gave its name to a painter. Hieronymus van Aken signed his work Bosch, after the place, and the Garden of Earthly Delights was made a few streets from where the horses now jump.

The show began in 1967 as Indoor Brabant and was renamed as it joined the Grand Slam, when it needed a name the rest of the world could pronounce.

Dressage was added in 1983, and the town holds an unusual claim from it. The first World Cup Final for dressage riders ever held was held here, in 1986, and won by a Dane. The final has returned many times since. In 2012 the Brabanthallen staged the World Cup Finals for jumping and dressage in the same week.

A horse and rider over a Rolex fence in front of the hospitality boxes at The Dutch Masters, ’s-Hertogenbosch, the March indoor show — IV · The Boxes

What to Know

Indoor is a different sport. The arena is smaller than an outdoor ring, the turns come faster, and a horse that jumps well in a field at Aachen in June may be out of its element in a hall in March. Riders win here on adjustability rather than on scope.

Sunday holds the Rolex Grand Prix. Saturday holds the dressage freestyle, which is the better ticket if a choice has to be made and the one most people overlook.

The hall is warm and the seats are close. This is the one Major where a spectator sits within a few metres of a fence, and the sound a horse makes landing carries in a way it never does outdoors.

Den Bosch is an hour from Amsterdam and forty minutes from Eindhoven, and the town is small enough to walk.

Questions

When is The Dutch Masters in 2027?

The Dutch Masters is held from 11 to 14 March 2027 in the Brabanthallen at ‘s-Hertogenbosch, with show jumping and dressage at the highest level.

When is the Rolex Grand Prix at The Dutch Masters?

The Rolex Grand Prix, the show’s Major of the Rolex Grand Slam of Show Jumping, is on Sunday 14 March 2027. The FEI Dressage World Cup Freestyle is on Saturday 13 March. The halls open at 4.30 pm on Thursday, 8.30 am on Friday and Saturday, and 8 am on Sunday.

How do you buy tickets for The Dutch Masters?

Tickets are ordered through the show’s own site, which sells them, with parking tickets, through Eventim. As of October 2026, ordering for the 2027 edition is open.

What can you not bring to The Dutch Masters?

The show prohibits bags larger than 40 by 30 by 30 cm, hard-sided items, camera lenses over 150 mm, selfie sticks, large flags and banners, and anything that could serve as a weapon. Prohibited items may be left in the left-luggage facilities outside the grounds.

A groom walking a rugged horse through the lorry park at The Dutch Masters, Indoor Brabant Horse Show, ’s-Hertogenbosch — V · The Lorry Park