New Brunswick native Denielle Gallagher has been a fixture on the dressage scene for more than 25 years as a successful junior and young rider, as a groom for former Canadian Olympian Ashley Holzer, and now as a coach, trainer, international competitor and the owner/operator of Brilliance Stables in Wellington, Florida. She has achieved success in the international ring on a number of talented horses, but learning to dance with her new grand prix partner Wilson Pickett might be her most exciting project yet.

Denielle fills us in on how she’s living the dream with this intense but lovable gelding.

The Basics:

Year of birth: 2005
Height: 17.0 h.
Sex: Gelding
Breeding: Hanoverian (by Wolkentanz out of Ronja, by Ravallo)
Breeder: Hinrich and Imke Saathoff (Germany)
Owners: Denielle Gallagher & PJ Rizvi
Show name: Wilson Pickett
Barn name: Wilson
Nicknames: Silly Willy, Willy Nelson, William

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