Dujardin ‘ExCels’

ABOVE AND RIGHT: CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN AND SARAH PIDGLEY’S GIO DELIVERED A SENSATIONAL PB PERFORMANCE OF 89.04% TO WIN THE FREESTYLE AT LONDON’S LEG OF THE 2021/22 FEI DRESSAGE WORLD CUP™ SERIES.

IT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE ICONIC VENUE EVERYONE LOVES, BUT EXCEL DELIVERED EVERYONE LOVES, BUT EXCEL DELIVERED WORLD CLASS FACILITIES AND AN EARLY WORLD CLASS FACILITIES AND AN EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR ALL AT LAST YEAR’S LONDON INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW,WHICH WAS BACK IN THE CALENDAR AFTER A COVID ENFORCED BREAK.

RIGHT: IRELAND’S DANE RAWLINS PUT IN A FESTIVE PERFORMANCE WITH ESPOIRE WHILE PROUDLY SPORTING A YELLOW RIBBON IN MEMORY OF 15 YEAR OLD TIGGY HANCOCK WHO WAS LOST IN JUNE - JUST DAYS BEFORE THE COMPETITION TIGGY’S TRUST, A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION IN HER NAME TO HELP YOUNG EQUESTRIANS, WAS LAUNCHED.

ABOVE: CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN HAS HAD THE HONOUR OF DISPLAYING THE BD INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS TROPHY ON HER MANTLEPIECE TWICE BEFORE - IT’S A THIRD TIME WITH GIO FOR THEIR OLYMPIC AND EURO PERFORMANCES.

RIGHT: OUR TEAMS FROM TOKYO RECEIVED A HERO’S WELCOME AS PART OF THE PARADE OF MEDALLISTS.

ABOVE: LOTTIE FRY RECEIVES THE RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD TROPHY FROM SIMON BROOKS-WARD ALONG WITH BROTHERS NICK AND JAMES. THE TROPHY IS GIVEN TO BROOKS-WARD ALONG WITH BROTHERS NICK AND JAMES. THE TROPHY IS GIVEN TO RIDERS UNDER 25 WHO SHOW GREAT POTENTIAL FOR THE FUTURE. RIDERS UNDER 25 WHO SHOW GREAT POTENTIAL FOR THE FUTURE.

ABOVE RIGHT: WELL, SOMEONE WAS PLEASED WITH THE DEBUT OF WELL, SOMEONE WAS PLEASED WITH THE DEBUT OF THEIR NEW MUSIC FLOORPLAN! LOUISE BELL AND INTO THE BLUE THEIR NEW MUSIC FLOORPLAN! LOUISE BELL AND INTO THE BLUE SCORE 73.21% AT THEIR FIRST ATTEMPT OF THEIR LATEST ROUTINE FROM TOM HUNT.

BELOW: GERMANY’S FREDERIC WANDRES AND DUKE OF BRITAIN FRH LOVE COMING TO LONDON AND EVEN BREXIT AND COVID RED TAPE COULDN’T KEEP THEM AWAY! SECOND SPOT IN THE GP WAS FOLLOWED WITH THIRD IN THE FREESTYLE WITH A MARK

OF 80.26%. LEFT: LOTTIE FRY AND DARK LEGEND, OWNED BY THE RIDER AND VAN OLST HORSES, CLIMB FROM FOURTH IN THE GP TO FINISH RUNNERS UP IN THE WORLD CUP QUALIFIER WITH A STUNNING 81.94%.

BELOW: HAYLEY WATSON-GREAVES AND BELOW:

RUBINS NITE, AKA SQUEAKS, WERE BACK RUBINS NITE, AKA SQUEAKS, WERE BACK

IN BUSINESS AFTER SOME TIME OUT WHILE IN BUSINESS AFTER SOME TIME OUT WHILE

HAYLEY AND PAUL WELCOMED BABY ELANA. HAYLEY AND PAUL WELCOMED BABY ELANA. A SCORE OF 75.87% LEFT THEM SIXTH. A SCORE OF 75.87% LEFT THEM SIXTH.

ABOVE: LARA BUTLER MAY BE A LONDON REGULAR BUT IT WAS A DEBUT IN THE CAPITAL FOR HER PARTNER, URSULA BECHTOLSHEIMER AND LAURA TOMLINSON’S HOMEBRED KRISTJAN. THEIR SCOTTISH FREESTYLE EARNED A SCORE OF 76.30% TO FINISH FIFTH OVERALL.

RIGHT: USA-BASED ART HISTORY STUDENT THEODORA LIVANOS FROM GREECE COMPETED DONO DI MAGGIO FOR LIVANOS FROM GREECE COMPETED DONO DI MAGGIO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS, TAKING BACK THE REINS THE FIRST TIME IN TWO YEARS, TAKING BACK THE REINS FROM TRAINER EMILE FAURIE, TO SCORE 64.02% IN THE FREESTYLE.

LEFT: CARL HESTER WAS PRESENTED WITH THE BRITISH EQUESTRIAN WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION’S ULTIMATE ACCOLADE, THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. HE DID GO ON TO ‘MISPLACE’ THE TROPHY... PERHAPS DUE TO A BIT MUCH CHRISTMAS CHEER, BUT THEY WERE EVENTUALLY REUNITED! ABOVE: THE KROLL FAMILY’S KK DOMINANT IMPRESSED UNDER GARETH HUGHES FOR HIS BIGGEST COMPETITION TO DATE AND IT WAS SEVENTH SPOT ON 75.84% FOR THEIR FREESTYLE SET TO A BEATLES MEDLEY.

BELOW: OLYMPIA REGULARS RICHARD DAVISON AND BUBBLINGH, OWNED BY GWENDOLYN MEYER AND RICHARD, HAVE COMPETED IN LONDON FOR THE LAST FOUR SHOWS BUT 2021 GAVE THEM THEIR BEST FINISH SO FAR, FOURTH IN THE WORLD CUP QUALIFIER WITH 76.91%.