Pony European Championships dressage
Britain’s European pony dressage team are on track for a bronze medal if they keep up the form shown in yesterday’s preliminary tests at Freudenberg, Germany.
Britain lay third in the warm-up competition, behind Germany (who filled the top four places) and The Netherlands. But the Danish team are perilously close, with two of their riders going ahead of all four Brits yesterday.
Emily Harris, 16, was best of the British riding the 11-year-old stallion by Dressman, Don Joshi. The pair scored 68.15% for 11th place. Teammates Alexandria Barr (De Vito), Olivia Kuropatwa (Kastanienhof’s Vitus) and Alice Thompson (Donnerblitz) filled 13th to 15th places respectively.
Today the riders have a rest before the team competition on Friday (20 July), followed by the individual and freestyle on Saturday (21 July) and Sunday (22 July).
See Horse&Hound magazine 2 August for a full report and pictures from the pony European Championships in dressage, eventing and show jumping
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Sarah has worked at an equestrian journalist and editor since 2004 and has held the position of Horse & Hound Editor-in-Chief since 2014. She has reported for Horse & Hound from major championships including Europeans and World Equestrian Games. She has co-written books on horses and horse sport including The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies. She has owned and ridden horses since 1993, and worked for and trained with Olympic gold medallist event rider Leslie Law prior to going to university. While studying for a BSc at London School of Economics Sarah also worked for top British dressage rider Louise Spate.