‘Zonik Plus is not for sale’: why top dressage rider Justin Verboomen will never let him go

Justin Verboomen with Zonik Plus: “He’s really part of my family. I don't see my life without him.”There was nothing inevitable about Justin Verboomen and Zonik Plus – known on the yard as Zozo. The partnership that delivered Belgium’s first-ever dressage medals at last summer’s European Championships – double gold for the quietly spoken 38-year-old from Wauthier-Braine – could easily have been broken up before it ever truly began. After his first […]