When Niels Van Rossem enters the arena, the world seems to fall silent for a moment. His gaze is focused, his posture calm. At sixteen, he radiates the maturity of someone who knows exactly what he’s doing. The vice world title in Lanaken didn’t come out of nowhere — it’s the result of years of dedication within a family that doesn’t just train horses, but understands them. “Achieving something like that with a homebred horse is always something special,” he tells Equnews. We visited him and captured his final ride.

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