Chablis pass away
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Chablis, the chestnut gelding with the one Valentina Truppa reached the top level in the 2010s, has died.
Breed in Denmark by the renowned Morten Thomsen, this DWB by Castro and Leonardo, from the same dam as Zap Zap, brought Valentina Truppa to win the Final of the Young Riders World Cup organized in Frankfurt and to be European Young Riders Champion in Stadl Paura in 2006 and Nussloch in 2007.
From 2008, they competed on Grand Prix level and in particular on the Sunshine Tour in Spain, in Wellington and Palm Beach in Florida, Aix la Chapelle, in Treffen on the CDIs at the time organized by the Glock family. They won several times on the Italian internationals in Arezzo where they even reached 72.872% on the Grand Prix, Turin, Caselle di Sommacampagna but also in Vidauban, Lipica, Fritzens.
The sport career of the small chestnut gelding ended at the Rio Olympics, where they finished 52nd after a Grand Prix score of 65.971%. Chablis was 29 years old.
alentina Truppa still competes in Grand Prix CDI: she participated in the 2021 European Championships in Hagen with Ranieri and this past weekend took 5th place in the Grand Prix of San Giovanni in Marigano with Smile di Fonteabeti, scoring 65.326%.
