Lottie Fry has taken the lead within the London Horse Present dressage freestyle to music, scoring 86.645% along with her personal and Van Olst Horses’ Glamourdale.
Britain’s world champions and double Paris bronze medallists began with Queen’s One other One Bites The Mud, with a punchy cry of “Let’s go” out of their first halt. Their take a look at completed with a piaffe pirouette on the ultimate centre line to God Save The King and a very good ultimate halt. Lottie gave a fist pump, a giant smile and a wave to the gang, clearly happy along with her experience within the FEI Dressage World Cup offered by Bret Willson Dressage Worldwide Ltd and supported by Horse & Hound.
“The sensation I had tonight was unimaginable, he was on fireplace,” stated Lottie, who relies within the Netherlands along with her homeowners and trainers the Van Olsts so doesn’t usually experience in entrance of a house crowd. “I’m so grateful to have the ability to do this in London in entrance of this crowd. I can’t thanks sufficient to your assist this yr, operating as much as Paris and there. It makes me a bit emotional to have the ability to come again to England and be capable of experience in entrance of you.
“This was actually the proper finish to the yr for me. ‘Glammy’ was completely unimaginable in that it was actually a sense I’ve by no means skilled in my complete life earlier than. He was simply on fireplace and to do it in entrance of the house crowd in London is simply very, very particular.
“Yesterday Glammy actually confirmed me how a lot he has improved since Paris and it was additionally top-of-the-line exams I’ve ever felt. However sadly, we had a bit misunderstanding, which was very expensive, and tonight he was simply on it – there have been a couple of small thrilling moments, however I feel that simply made it much more thrilling for all of us.”
A lot of Lottie Fry and Glamourdale’s London Horse Present dressage freestyle take a look at was wonderful – suspension and energy was on supply, nice positioning of the actions and the black stallion has so many gears and robust adjustability. But it surely wasn’t flawless because the pair had a muddle initially of the two-time flying adjustments and an error within the one-times, which Lottie repeated in direction of the tip of their efficiency.
Nonetheless, it was a powerful comeback after the pair had been surprisingly crushed yesterday by their Paris team-mates Becky Moody and her home-bred Jagerbomb. Becky will experience in only a few minutes to see if she will be able to overhaul Lottie as soon as once more, although she would want to realize a private greatest by 2% to take action. Isabel Freese of Norway and Complete Assist OLD additionally beat Lottie and Glamourdale yesterday with second place and would be the ultimate pair within the ExCeL area this night, so the strain will likely be excessive proper till the tip of the category.
The midway chief, Dinja van Liere with Hartsuijker sits second now on 80.225% with British nationwide champions Lewis Robertson-Service and Diego second better of the house aspect in fifth on 76.31%.
Finish of sophistication replace: Lottie gained the category, with Isabel second, Dinja third and Becky fourth.
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