Bernard Fonck: set your goals, be focused, win

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By Simona Diale • Graphics Chiara Milani • Photo Andrea Bonaga

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In 2018, Bernard Fonck rode his three-time NRHA Open World Champion What A Wave to the FEI World Equestrian Games™ [WEG] in Tryon individual gold and team silver medals; he conquered his eighth NRHA Open World Championship, this time aboard Missedouttinseltown; he dominated the stage in Cremona where he slid to the IRHA/IRHBA/NRHA L4 Open Futurity Championship with Spook Sunburst and surpassed the two million dollar mark in earnings becoming the very first European to join the NRHA Two Million Dollar Rider club.

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Bernard Fonck and Spook Sunburst

Europe’s only NRHA Two Million Dollar Rider,

who placed all three of his mounts in the finals, also took come the coveted Sleipnir World Champion’s Ring sponsored by MS Diamonds TX. “I’ve always wanted to gift my wife with an important jewel and, thanks to MS Diamonds TX’s sponsorship, that dream has also come true,” he said.

#Goal3: Crossing the two million in earnings was a goal but Fonck did not think it was actually attainable. “I actually gave myself more time to make it,” he said. “By winning Europe’s biggest event ever, I made a big jump and am super excited.”

#Goal4: Winning his eighth NRHA Open World Championship – the only rider in NRHA history to do so — was not in the plans. “Missedouttinseltown [Hollywoodstinseltown x Miss Sliding Peppy] is a really fun horse,” said Bernard about the 6-year-old. “I was not supposed to go for the World title with him. At the Italian

Ann Fonck, Oded Fein and Bernard Fonck

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