Wonderful Girl, a bronze medal winning Dutch team pony, has been sold to Dressage Stable van Baalen and will become a broodmare.
Wonderful Girl is a 13-year old German Riding pony mare, bred by Sonke Rothenberger. She is by Wimbledon out of Deitina (by Dancer Boy).
Under Coby van Baalen's student Daphne van Peperstraten Wonderful Girl made her claim to fame in 2016, winning the 2016 Dutch Indoor and Outdoor Pony Championships and the National FEI Pony Cup finals. At the 2016 European Pony Championships they won team bronze and finished sixth in the Kur to Music finals.
In October 2016 the mare sold as future top pony for Coby's student Shanna Baars, but Baars could not make her competition debut on the chestnut mare as the pony suffered a severe tendon injury soon after the sale. Only two years later Wonderful Girl returned to fitness and Baars competed her for the first time in Holland on 6 January 2019.
In 2020 Wonderful Girl moved to Dutch pony rider Micky Schelstraete to compete and be sold. The pair made its international debut at the CDI Lier in February 2020 right before the corona lock down.
This week it was announced that Wonderful Girl returned to Dressage Stable van Baalen and has been sold to Coby. The pony will become a broodmare
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