
Butterfly Dew Drop, one of France's most successful FEI dressage ponies and team members, has been retired from competition sport. She is 14 years old.
The grey Butterfly Dew Drop is by Florencio out of Silly Fuchsia (by Polaris Harold). She is bred by Olivier Debilde in Belgium and registered with the Belgian Sport Horse studbook (SBS).
She sold as a 4-year old to France and was first competed by Chloé Creoff and Gabrielle Bouchard.
In 2016 she sold to Veronique and Didier Pruede Seguret family and became the dressage pony for Alexandre Cheret. The duo made its international show debut at the CDI Nice in February 2017.
Cheret and Butterfly Dew Drop became one of France's most consistently scoring and reliable FEI dressage pony combinations and they represented France three times at the European Pony Championships. In 2017 they finished 41th in the individual test, in 2018 they were 33rd in the individual test and in 2019 they were 46th individually. The 2019 Europeans in Strzegom was the pony's last international competition.
The pony was passed on to Ana Tesson who competed her nationally until March 2020. Dressprod reported that the mare booked 45 victories since the beginning of her French sport career in 2011 at national level.
Pruede & Seguret announced the retirement of the pony mare two days ago.
"We announce a new life for Butter, who will join brood farm MT "Les Petits Prés" in collaboration with brood farm Le Courtal," said Veronique. "She has given us so much with her generosity, her personality, her results. Our stable is more adapted to sport than breeding and we have chosen a nice spot for her with very professional people. After her career as a broodmare she will join us and be part of the family again as she will always have a place at our Haras de Piquès."
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