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Belgium's Gudrun Patteet has announced the retirement of her now 16-year-old Zangersheide gelding Sea Coast Pebbles Z (Picasso Z x Flamenco de Semilly). 

Sea Coast Pebbles Z has had a long and successful career with Patteet in the saddle. In 2017, the pair won the CSI5* Grand Prix in Knokke, and the year after they topped the CSI5*-W World Cup in Helsinki, the CSI5* Grand Prix in La Coruna as well as the CSI3* Grand Prix in Lanaken. In 2019, the pair took yet another big win when going to the top in the CSI5* Grand Prix in Lausanne. 

"The five-star Grand Prix in Knokke is my most memorable moment with Pebbles,” Patteet tells World of Showjumping. "It was my first five-star Grand Prix win and to do it in front of my home crowd was amazing." 

"I have ridden Pebbles since he was 8-years-old," Patteet says. "He was a very difficult and hot horse, and he has taught me to stay very, very calm. He will retire at home in his field where his stable is; he has lived there all the time already though, seeing that he has so much blood - so it won’t be a big transition for him.”

At World of Showjumping, we wish Pebbles a happy retirement!