Danish Team Pony Golden Spring GH Sold to Belgium

Dressage

Belgium

Golden Spring GH, a Danish team bronze medal winner at the 2022 European Pony Championships, has been sold to Belgium.

He is a 9-year old Westfalian bred German Riding Pony gelding by Golden State out of Gwendoline (by Gentleman x Nantano). He is bred by Bergita Inglis.

German Start

The chestnut was first competed in Germany as a 3-year old by Rebekka Rösler in 2017. The next year Maria Siegle took over the ride and presented the pony in the A-level dressage classes through August 2019.

Golden Spring GH then sold to the Sand family in Denmark.

Danish Team Pony

Andrea Hamann Sand premiered the gelding in Denmark in November 2019 and first competed him nationally to gain experience. They finished 11th at the 2021 Danish Pony Championships.

Three years into their partnership, Sand and Golden Spring GH made their international show debut at the 2022 CDI Sint-Truiden, where he finished fifth in the team and individual test and second in the freestyle. That year they continued to compete at CDI's in Aalborg, Hagen, and Flyinge. At the 2022 Nordic Baltic Championships they won team gold and individual bronze.They attracted the attention of the Danish team selector and were selected for the team for the 2022 European Pony Championships in Strzegom, where they won team bronze and finished 15th in the individual test with 71.865%. They were fifth at the 2022 Danish Pony Championships.

This year the pair showed in Exloo, Le Mans and Aalborg, but did not get selected on the team for the 2023 Europeans. They finished sixth at the 2023 Danish Pony Championships.

Belgium

Golden Spring GH was advertised for sale on Eurodressage and found a new owner and rider in Belgium.

The pony has been sold to the Van Ierschot family for daughter Emilia to ride. She trains with Noa Moermans at Stal 't Gravenhof, which annually hosts the CDI Sint-Truiden.

"In 2022 Golden Spring competed at our CDI and Emilia was then already dreaming of riding at international level on day," Moermans told Eurodressage. "In the prize giving ceremony, she was standing close to him (when Golden Spring finished second in the freestyle in 2022). Also Andrea told is that our CDI was one of her nicest memories. It's a small world."