Lottie Fry won the London Horse Show dressage grand prix, supported by Horse & Hound, today (18 December), ending the class more than 4% above her peers in a confident victory.
“I don’t think there was a low light today,” said Lottie. “Everything just felt absolutely incredible. The trot transition after the canter pirouette could have been a little more precise, but he was amazing.”
“Since then we’ve just been really working on the self-carriage, the lightness, because he’s always been very light, but we have to make sure we’re showing it in the arena as well,” she said. “We’ve just done a lot of basic work, not too intense. And it seems to have really paid off, so I’m very happy.”
She explained: “The music was a lot louder than we initially thought it was going to be and it was just too much. Even for me, I was sat there thinking ‘Ow.’ So it was a real shame. But we move on and I’m really excited to ride it tomorrow. Hopefully we’ll have a nice, confident round.”
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Norway’s Isabel Freese and the Totilas son Total Hope OLD, who were second in both classes here last year, were fourth today, with two British London debutantes – Germany-based Susan Pape (Harmony’s Guililanta) and Sadie Smith (Swanmore Dantina) – in fifth and sixth.
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