PHOTOS: ŁUKASZ KOWALSKI
Making
H ISTORY ANNABELLA PIDGLEY MADE BRITISH DRESSAGE HISTORY AS THE NATION’S FIRST EVER INDIVIDUAL MEDALLIST AT AN FEI JUNIOR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS. IN OLIVA NOVA, SPAIN, HER EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCES WON BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND FREESTYLE SILVER WHILST OUR JUNIOR AND
ABOVE: THE JUNIOR INDIVIDUAL MEDALLISTS: GERMANY’S
YOUNG RIDER TEAMS SHOWED MUCH PROMISE ON THE EUROPEAN STAGE.
LUCIE-ANOUK BAUMGÜRTEL FLANKED BY ANNABELLA PIDGLEY AND AUSTRIA’S PAUL JÖBSTL, A PODIUM THAT REMAINED UNCHANGED FOR THE FREESTYLE.
RIGHT: AN EXCEPTIONAL WINNING RIDE IN THE JUNIOR TEAM TEST FROM ANNABELLA PIDGLEY AND SULTAN DES PALUDS FRH EARNED
RIGHT: JESSICA
75.45%, GIVING AN INDICATION OF WHAT
MCCONKEY AND
WAS TO COME OVER THE NEXT THREE DAYS
LADY GAGA AT FULL
OF INDIVIDUAL COMPETITION. THEY
THROTTLE: A TEAM
TOOK INDIVIDUAL SILVER (75.38%)
TEST OF 68.53%,
AND FREESTYLE SILVER (80.11%),
HELPING THE BRITISH
ONLY BEATEN BY GERMANY’S
YOUNG RIDER QUARTET
TRIPLE PONY EUROPEAN
TO SEVENTH, WAS
CHAMPION, LUCIE-ANOUK
FOLLOWED BY AN
BAUMGÜRTEL AND
ENCOURAGING 25TH IN
ZINQ HUGO FH.
THE INDIVIDUAL TEST FOR THE NETHERLANDSBASED BRITISH YOUNG RIDER DUO.
LEFT: CHARLOTTE MCDOWALL AND ALIVIA ACHIEVED 66.76% IN THE YOUNG RIDER TEAM
RIGHT:
TEST BUT SOME
REPRESENTING
UNCHARACTERISTIC
HER COUNTRY
MISTAKES IN
AT HER FIRST FEI
THE INDIVIDUAL
CHAMPIONSHIPS,
KEPT THEIR
JUNIOR RIDER GEMMA
SCORE IN CHECK.
OWEN ACQUITTED HERSELF
NONETHELESS,
WELL, POSTING A SOLID
THEY SHOWED
67.81% WITH SIRIUS
HIGH QUALITY
BLACK, TO HELP HER
WORK FOR THE
TEAM TO SIXTH OUT
FUTURE.
OF 16.
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