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STABLES
She co-founded First-Step Horses with her late husband in 2007. Its main mission is the promotion, the breeding and the enhancement of high-level dressage horses, from foals to Grand Prix horses.
FAMILY TRAGEDY
Her husband Gregoire Naslin passed away in May 2020 at age 39 following a cardiac arrest. She has continued to run First-Step Horses, the business they founded together in 2007 in Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium. "I take all my energy from my daughters and my horses. It's the best therapy, day after day, step by step. I want to try to be strong for Greg, for my family. I want to make my husband proud of me." She drew a red heart on the palm of her glove and the letters GREG on the fingers when she competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "It's a message for my husband. I just want to have a nice word for him because I keep him in my mind and my heart and I miss him so much. I just lived the most difficult year of my life." (horseandhound.co.uk, 25 Jul 2021; Facebook page, 13 Jul 2021; eurodressage.com, 25 Jan 2021)
FLAMBEAU
Her late husband Gregoire Naslin persuaded her to persevere with her horse Flambeau, with whom she competed at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "Flambeau is a horse that we recovered and he was not really advanced in work despite being nine years old at the time. He was complicated and had been reoriented as a jumping horse. He arrived at my place a bit by chance after a friend told me he was for sale as a show jumping horse. I took him on trial for 15 days and to be honest it was more my husband who wanted to buy him because I didn't believe in him at all. Finally, after a year and a half, he started to slack off. He has learned everything very quickly and his talent has no limits. I have a lot of hopes for him. He is much better than I imagined." (dressprod.com, 28 Feb 2021; data.fei.org, 24 Jul 2021) |
FEI Database
Larissa Pauluis 
Larissa Pauluis 
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Larissa Pauluis 
