European Championships Team

HOT ON THE HEELS OF SUCCESS IN TOKYO, OUR SENIOR QUARTET DELIVERED ONCE AGAIN WITH A TEAM SILVER AND INDIVIDUAL BRONZE AT THE FEI EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HAGEN, GERMANY. THE U25 FOURSOME MADE A GREAT SHOWING AND WERE INSPIRED BY COMPETING ALONGSIDE THE SENIORS.

ABOVE: CELEBRATORY HIGH JINKS ON THE HIGH JINKS ON THE FREESTYLE PODIUM. FREESTYLE PODIUM.

LEFT: CHARLOTTE LEFT: AND GIO: THIRD IN AND GIO: THIRD IN THE GRAND PRIX THE GRAND PRIX AND FOURTH IN THE AND FOURTH IN THE SPECIAL BEFORE SPECIAL BEFORE

CLAIMING FREESTYLE

BRONZE ON 87.25% - THE PAIR’S FOURTH

CHAMPIONSHIP MEDAL,

AND CHARLOTTE’S AND CHARLOTTE’S 20TH! 20TH!

ABOVE: LOTTIE FRY AND EVERDALE CONTINUE TO CAPTIVATE. THREE MASTERFUL PB RIDES PUT THEM TOP-FIVE ON ALL THREE DAYS.

LEFT: CARL HESTER, CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN, LOTTIE FRY AND GARETH HUGHES ARE JOINED ON THE PODIUM BY PERFORMANCE MANAGER CAROLINE GRIFFITH. CAROLINE GRIFFITH.

ABOVE: THE PODIUM AFTER A SENSATIONAL FREESTYLE FINALE: GERMANY’S JESSICA VON BREDOW-WERNDL FLANKED BY CATHRINE DUFOUR FOR DENMARK AND CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN.

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ABOVE: JESSICA VON BREDOW-WERNDL AND TSF DALERA BB FOR GERMANY, ALREADY WITH TEAM AND GRAND PRIX SPECIAL GOLDS TO THEIR NAME, RODE A PHENOMENAL FREESTYLE TO PROPEL THEM TO GOLD ON 91.02%.

RIGHT: TRAVELLING RESERVES FOR TOKYO, GARETH HUGHES AND SINTANO VAN HOF OLYMPIA. THE 11-YEAR-OLD, WHO GARETH CO-OWNS WITH JUDY FIRMSTON-WILLIAMS, HAS LITTLE EXPERIENCE AT THIS LEVEL BUT APPLIED HIMSELF WELL TO FINISH HIGH UP THE RANKS IN BOTH THE GRAND PRIX AND SPECIAL. ABOVE: “I GOT THE TEST I WANTED TONIGHT” - CARL HESTER AND EN VOGUE, OWNED BY CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN, LADY EVANS AND SANDRA BIDDLECOMBE, SHOWED THEIR IMMENSE CLASS UNDER THE FLOODLIGHTS OF HOF KASSELMANN TO SCORE 77.31% IN THE SPECIAL.

LEFT: AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE TEAM: ALAN DAVIES WITH HIS CHARGE, GIO.

RIGHT: SOME UNCHARACTERISTIC TENSION WAS COSTLY IN BOTH THEIR INTER II AND GRAND PRIX; HOWEVER, SOME SUPER HIGHLIGHTS INDICATE A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR ELLEN MCCARTHY AND THE BEAUTIFUL GB LONDERO VON WORRENBERG.

BELOW: ALEX HARRISON AND 10-YEAR-OLD DIAMOND HILL SHOWED THEIR POTENTIAL, HELPING THE BRITS FINISH FIFTH IN THE CLOSE-FOUGHT TEAM COMPETITION WITH AN INTER II JUST SHY OF 68%.

RIGHT: RIDING TO MUSIC FROM THE DISNEY FILM TRON, LEWIS CARRIER AND DIEGO V CONCLUDED GREAT BRITAIN’S U25 CAMPAIGN IN HAGEN WITH A STRONG FREESTYLE TO FINISH 12TH. “COMPETING AT THIS VENUE ALONGSIDE THE SENIORS HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.”

RIGHT: GERMANY’S RAPHAEL NETZ ADDED INDIVIDUAL GOLD TO HIS TEAM TITLE ABOARD THE 12-YEAR-OLD STALLION ELASTICO (JOHNSON X CONCORDE) WITH A PB OF 76.30%. FREESTYLE GOLD ALSO WENT TO THE HOME NATION COURTESY OF SEMMIEKE ROTHENBERGER AND FLANELL. RIGHT: CHAMPIONSHIP FIRSTTIMER LUCY AMY DID A STERLING JOB WITH RICHARD AMY’S RUDY TO POST 66.91% IN THE INTER II AND 64.67% IN THE GRAND PRIX.