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OUR GOLDEN PAIR, CHARLOTTE (LOTTIE) FRY AND VAN OLST HORSES’ GLAMOURDALE (LORD LEATHERDALE X NEGRO) SET THE STUTTERI ASK STADIUM ALIGHT WITH A STUNNING NEW ‘BEST OF BRITISH’ FREESTYLE TO MUSIC FROM QUEEN, ROBBIE WILLIAMS, GENESIS, THE BEATLES AND THE VERVE, TO SCORE 90.654% AND KEEP THE GRAND PRIX FREESTYLE WORLD TITLE IN BRITISH HANDS. LOTTIE SAID AFTERWARDS: “I JUST HAD THE BEST FEELING IN THERE THAT I’VE EVER HAD. WHAT GLAMOURDALE DID WAS JUST OUT OF THIS WORLD.” SALUTING THE CROWD. “GLAMOURDALE WENT IN THERE AND KNEW WHAT HE HAD TO DO,” ENTHUSED LOTTIE. “I KNOW EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE WITH GLAMOURDALE. IT’S HIS FIRST MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS, AND I THINK THE NEXT FEW YEARS WILL BE REALLY EXCITING FOR HIM.”

WORLD CLASS

WE HAVE A NEW WORLD CHAMPION IN CHARLOTTE FRY WHO SCOOPED DOUBLE GOLD IN

THE GRAND PRIX SPECIAL AND FREESTYLE AT THE ECCO FEI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN HERNING, WHILE GREAT BRITAIN ALSO TOOK A WELL-DESERVED SILVER IN A HARDFOUGHT TEAM COMPETITION. WE CELEBRATE THEIR THRILLING SUCCESSES.

THE EXTENDED CANTER DEMONSTRATED THE 11-YEAR-OLD STALLION’S STRATOSPHERIC POWER AND WAS REWARDED WITH A PERFECT 10 BY SIX OF THE SEVEN JUDGES.

PHOTOS: KEVIN SPARROW

THE FUN CONTINUED AFTER THE PODIUM PRESENTATIONS: DRINKING A TOAST WITH SILVER MEDALLIST CATHRINE LAUDRUP-DUFOUR AND GETTING SHOWERED WITH CHAMPAGNE BY BRONZE MEDALLIST DINJA VAN LIERE.

LOTTIE WITH HER NERVES OF STEEL AND GLAMOURDALE, THE STADIUM STAR, DELIVERED AN UNFORGETTABLE PERFORMANCE UNDER THE FLOODLIGHTS IN HERNING.

A PROUD MOMENT FOR LOTTIE’S FATHER SIMON FRY, PICTURED WITH JULIA HORNIG AND REBECCA HUGHES. RIDING TO AN EXQUISITE MADONNA COMPILATION BY TOM HUNT, GARETH HUGHES AND CLASSIC BRIOLINCA, OWNED BY GARETH, WIFE REBECCA, DAUGHTER RUBY AND JULIA HORNIG SCORED A PB OF 84.043% FOR A FANTASTIC FIFTH PLACE. DRAWN TO GO IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE HALFWAY BREAK, THEIR FREESTYLE WAS AN IMMACULATE DISPLAY OF PARTNERSHIP AND MUSICALITY.

SILVER MEDALLIST CATHRINE LAUDRUP-DUFOUR FROM THE HOME SIDE DENMARK PRESENTED A STUNNING FREESTYLE WITH HER OWN AND SARAH PIDGLEY’S VAMOS AMIGOS (BY VITALIS), DESPITE A MISTAKE IN AN EARLY EXTENDED TROT. AS HER ARTISTIC MARKS FOR THE AMBITIOUS FLOORPLAN TO MUSIC FROM LES MISERABLES MOUNTED UP AND UP, SHE CAME CLOSEST TO LOTTIE WITH 89.411%.

AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN HER FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS SAW THE NETHERLANDS’ DINJA VAN LIERE AND HERMÈS (EASY GAME X FLEMMINGH) SCOOP DOUBLE BRONZE, IN THE FREESTYLE AND THE SPECIAL.

CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN WAS THRILLED WITH IMHOTEP, OWNED BY CORAL INGHAM AND CARL HESTER, IN HIS FIRST EVER GRAND PRIX FREESTYLE. JUST NINE YEARS OLD, THE EVERDALE X VIVALDI GELDING SHOWED INCREDIBLE TALENT AND POTENTIAL. “HE’S GONE BEYOND WHAT I THOUGHT HE COULD HAVE DONE HERE - HE’S DEALT WITH THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE CROWD AMAZINGLY,” SAID CHARLOTTE. A SCORE OF 83.132% GAVE THE PAIR A TOP TEN FINISH.

CATHRINE LAUDRUPDUFOUR AND VAMOS AMIGOS PRODUCED A GRAND PRIX SPECIAL FULL OF ELEGANCE AND PANACHE FOR 81.322% AND THE SILVER MEDAL.

LOTTIE FRY AND GLAMOURDALE TOOK THE GRAND PRIX SPECIAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BY A MARGIN OF MORE THAN ONE PER CENT WITH A NEW PB SCORE OF 82.508%. NO FEWER THAN 16 TENS WERE AWARDED, WITH THE EXTENDED CANTER AND TWO-TEMPIS PARTICULAR HIGHLIGHTS.

THE PODIUM GAVE A HINT OF WHAT WAS TO COME IN THE FREESTYLE, WITH LOTTIE FLANKED BY CATHRINE LAUDRUP-DUFOUR AND BRONZE MEDALLIST DINJA VAN LIERE. IMHOTEP, KNOWN AS ‘PETE’, PRODUCED SOME IMPRESSIVE HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN. COMPETING AT ONLY HIS THIRD EVER INTERNATIONAL SHOW AND HIS THIRD GRAND PRIX SPECIAL, THIS EXCEPTIONAL TALENT SCORED 77.523% FOR SIXTH PLACE.

THEIR TIME TO SHINE…GARETH HUGHES AND CLASSIC BRIOLINCA EXECUTED THE CRUCIAL TRANSITIONS BETWEEN COLLECTION AND EXTENSION IN THE FIRST PART OF THE SPECIAL WITH BRILLIANCE. THE 16-YEAR-OLD MARE BY TRENTO B ALSO SCORED 10S FOR HER OUTSTANDING PIROUETTES.

GARETH HUGHES AND CLASSIC BRIOLINCA ENJOY THE LAP OF HONOUR.

RICHARD DAVISON AND BUBBLINGH (LINGH X PICANDT) KICKED OFF THE BRITISH CHALLENGE, 20 YEARS AFTER RICHARD RODE FOR THE TEAM AT THE WORLD EQUESTRIAN GAMES IN JEREZ ON BUBBLINGH’S DAM, BALLASEYR ROYALE. RICHARD PILOTED HIS POWERHOUSE GELDING WITH ADMIRABLE SKILL AND SENSITIVITY TO GET GREAT BRITAIN OFF THE MARK WITH 68.851%.

SUPPORTERS INCLUDING CARL HESTER, TRAINER TO GARETH HUGHES AND CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN, FEEL THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE ‘KISS AND CRY’.

LOTTIE FRY AND FORMER WORLD BREEDING CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR YOUNG HORSES CHAMPION GLAMOURDALE HAVE THEIR GAME FACES ON IN THE GRAND PRIX, SCORING 80.838% TO SECURE THE SILVER MEDAL, BEHIND THE VICTORIOUS HOST NATION DENMARK, AND WITH A COMFORTABLE MARGIN OVER BRONZE MEDALLISTS GERMANY.

THE SMILES SAY IT ALL…GREAT BRITAIN’S SILVER MEDAL WINNING SQUAD OF GARETH HUGHES, CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN, LOTTIE FRY, CHEF D’EQUIPE CAROLINE GRIFFITH AND RICHARD DAVISON.