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Belgian
Dressage News
Delphine
Meiresonne Presents New Artillery: Don Renoir and Habibi
 1998
European Dressage Pony Champion, Delphine Meiresonne,
has two new top dressage horses at her disposal. Since
her move to the junior and young riders' division, this
incredibly talented young rider did not find the right
click with two of the horses she owned. Ferrari, nor
Ferragamo were the right choices for her and in 2001,
Delphine held a sabbatical to find that new star.
2002
seems to be a promising year for Delphine, as she finally
found two horses with which she really feels connected.
For the young riders' division, Delphine has received
the Dutch young rider team gold medal winning Habibi
at her disposal. Habibi, formerly trained and competed
by Dutch Marlies van Baalen, took a year off in 2001
due to a severe injury, but is now fit and back in shape
for the competition year. As Marlies van Baalen's schedule
is currently full with the training of many German stallions
at Johan Hinnemann's, Habibi was looking for a new rider.
Trainer Coby van Baalen offered the ride of the bay
gelding by Ulft to her student. "Delphine is planning
on competing Young Riders in Belgium with Habibi. He's
currently moving along very well, but we have to be
careful because he just recovered from his injury. Habibi
has proven to be an excellent show horse and we have
high hopes in him," mother Christine Meiresonne
told Junior Riders.
 Delphine
has even more luck because Belgian stallion station
Stoeterij van de Helle has offered their young Oldenburg
mount Don Renoir to Delphine. Don Renoir is a pitch
black gorgeous Donnerhall x Renoir offspring who stands
up for stud at De Helle. He's licensed for the BWP studbook
and at the time of his approval he was owned by Wilfried
Cerpentier and Georges de Roeck. Delphine accepted the
training of Don Renoir on condition that the stallion
would move to the training stable of Coby van Baalen
in Brakel. In 2000, Delphine briefly trained with Rien
van der Schaft, due to Coby's busy Olympic schedule,
but she is now back at Van Baalen's place for the completion
of her training career.
Images
copyrighted: Dirk
Caremans
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