London Horse Present dressage freestyle – Lottie Fry tops 86%

Lottie Fry has taken the lead within the London Horse Present dressage freestyle to music, scoring 86.645% together 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 check completed with a piaffe pirouette on the ultimate centre line to God Save The King and a very good last halt. Lottie gave a fist pump, a giant smile and a wave to the group, clearly happy together with her trip within the FEI Dressage World Cup introduced by Bret Willson Dressage Worldwide Ltd and supported by Horse & Hound.

“The sensation I had tonight was unimaginable, he was on hearth,” stated Lottie, who is predicated within the Netherlands together with her homeowners and trainers the Van Olsts so doesn’t typically trip in entrance of a house crowd. “I’m so grateful to have the ability to try this in London in entrance of this crowd. I can’t thanks sufficient to your assist this yr, working as much as Paris and there. It makes me just a little emotional to have the ability to come again to England and have the ability to trip 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 entire life earlier than. He was simply on hearth 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 probably the greatest exams I’ve ever felt. However sadly, we had just a little misunderstanding, which was very pricey, 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 check was glorious – suspension and energy was on supply, nice positioning of the actions and the black stallion has so many gears and robust adjustability. However it wasn’t flawless because the pair had a muddle firstly of the two-time flying modifications and an error within the one-times, which Lottie repeated in the direction of the tip of their efficiency.

Nonetheless, it was a robust comeback after the pair had been surprisingly crushed yesterday by their Paris team-mates Becky Moody and her home-bred Jagerbomb. Becky will trip in only a few minutes to see if she will be able to overhaul Lottie as soon as once more, although she would wish to realize a private finest by 2% to take action. Isabel Freese of Norway and Whole Assist OLD additionally beat Lottie and Glamourdale yesterday with second place and would be the last pair within the ExCeL area this night, so the strain shall 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-Provider and Diego second better of the house facet in fifth on 76.31%.

Finish of sophistication replace: Lottie received the category, with Isabel second, Dinja third and Becky fourth. 

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