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October 2014 • VOLUME XIV NUMBER 9
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EVENTING
The British Silver medal winning team, left to right: William Fox-PItt, Tina Cook, Zara Phillips and Harry Meade
William Fox-Pitt and Chilli Morning led going into the final phase, but a costly pole in the show jumping saw them slip into Bronze behind Sandra Auffarth and Michael Jung. William was philosophical saying, at least it was only one pole.
Sussex-based Tina Cook and her wonderful young horse, De Novo News
Zara Phillips and High Kingdom jumped a clear round to finish in eleventh place. Zara was clearly delighted and got the crowd cheering as she left the arena.
Harry Meade and Wild Lone made the cross country look easy as they cruised round in their normal beautiful style, but just moments after they finished celebrating such a fantastic round, Wild Lone collapsed and died. It was emotional watching Harry supporting his fellow team members throughout the show jumping, which was held in the impressive D’Ornano Stadium. Speaking afterwards Harry said: “The team have all been very supportive and I couldn’t have been with such good friends at this sad time. There isn’t a more fitting way to remember such a wonderful horse than winning a medal in his memory.”
Wilf bowmanripley from essex, Georgina Hunt from Newdigate in Surrey and Dick Lane from cranleigh in surrey formed the british Driving team at WeG.
Georgia Hunt Georgina inherited her love of carriage-driving from her father, who was a founder member of the Brockham Harness Club and acted as his back-stepper and groom when she was younger. Georgina trains with Boyd Excel.
Dick Lane Dick has been competing since the early 1990s. Dick’s current team of horses for the dressage phase are all Lipizzaners originating from the Lipica Stud in Hungary, he substitutes one of them for a Hungarian Trotter to give extra speed and agility in the cross-country phase.
Driving pictures courtesy of Tim Spurgeon, all others Localrider Magazine
DRIVING
PARA-EQUEST RIAN DRES S A G E Para-equestrian Dressage is truly inspirational and after the Paralympics of London 2012 it was wonderful to meet and watch so many of the riders again.
Sophie Wells and Valerius, Grade IV
Natasha Baker and Cabral, Grade II
Sophie Christiansen and Janeiro 6, Grade 1a Lee Pearson dazzled the judges with Zion’s wonderful paces to take the gold in the Grade1b Freestyle
Surrey based Lee Rawley and Rhapsody represent the Virgin Islands in the Grade IV
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DRESSAGE team silver and two individual gold medals for charlotte and Valegro. the dressage competition at WeG was sizzling hot and it was great to see british riders turning up the heat.
Charlotte and Valegro performing a wonderfully accurate pirouette
World Champions
– Charlotte Dujardin & Valegro The crowd love Charlotte and Valegro
The British team won silver, from left to right: Chef d’Equipe, Richard Waygood, Carl Hester, Michael Eilberg, Charlotte Dujardin and Gareth Hughes.
Michael Eilberg and Half Moon Delphi just keep getting better and better
Gareth Hughes and DVStenkjers Nadonna
Charlotte was a frequent visitor to the press room Carl Hester contained Nip Tuck’s nerves to produce some fabulous tests
The look says it all, Richard Waygood and Carl Hester captured after Charlotte’s first test, knowing the team have qualified for Rio
Locally based South African rider, Denise Hallion and Wervelwind German combination Helen Langehanenberg and Damon Hill NRW are another combination that keep getting better and better.
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