Britain’s Lottie Fry sets the early standard in Olympic dressage grand prix

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Britain's Lottie Fry rides Everdale in the grand prix at the Tokyo Olympic dressage
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BRITAIN’S Lottie Fry topped group one on the first morning of the Tokyo Olympics dressage grand prix with a personal best score of 77.096% with the Van Olsts’ stallion Everdale. The 25-year-old rider said she “enjoyed every second” of her first Olympic experience.

“Everdale definitely knew it was a big occasion, all day he knew it was coming,” said Lottie. “He’s so intelligent and as soon as went into the arena he was concentrating on me so hard.

Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.