A champion with broken ribs, bronze for the youngest horse and the lure of the red collar: all the best stories from the dressage Euros

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Sophie Wells and LJT Egebjerggards Samoa in the para freestyle at the European Dressage Championships
Sophie Wells heads for a bronze medal in the grade V freestyle at the European Para Dressage Championships.
(Image credit: BENJAMIN CLARK)

The para riders took centre stage today (9 September) in Riesenbeck, the venue of the European Dressage Championships. All five grades of para freestyle played out, again under the baking sunshine that has presided over the entire European Para Dressage Championships week.

There were yet more medals, a silver and a bronze, for British riders on young horses, while a couple of para superstars continued to show their rivals the way.

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.