Affiliated dressage: Frensham Manor, Exeter and Hand EC
Frensham Manor
Georgina Stuart and Welt Panama won the elementary qualifier at Frensham, Surrey, on 15 December, reports Celia Cadwallader. The seven-year-old 17.2hh gelding by Weltmeyer out of a Prince Thatch mare, has had 50 outings this year. Annabel Swain won the novice qualifier with 69.66% on her nine-year-old 17hh Weydmann Frej.
Exeter
Louise Hutchinson celebrated a double win at Exeter Equestrian Centre (13-14 December), taking the advanced medium 86 on Unforgettable Uland and the medium 64 with Uniek, reports Annabel Kendal.
Rosemary Holdsworth headed two medium restricted sections on her 13-year-old former eventer Macquarie Spring. Siena Knight-Bruce, 17, won the novice open 27 with her 11-year-old, Undulette.
Hand EC
Chris Derryman won the elementary 53 with Diane Porter’s Streamways Diamond Festival at The Hand, North Somerset (11-13 December), reports Andrea Oakes. An elementary 48 victory was also hers with the aptly-named Hooligan, while Sally Crane took the novice 22 with Contessa.
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