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The end of an 11-year wait for team gold, dressage megastars go head-to-head, and Carl Hester extols turnout: 10 unmissable stories from the dressage Euros
It’s the midway stage of the European Dressage Championships and European Para Dressage Championships in Riesenbeck, Germany. The team dressage tests are now over, while the paras are locked in a battle to decide the winning nation, with the grades IV and V due to complete tomorrow (8 September).
The dressage team contest crescendoed into a dramatic conclusion as the final rotations of riders featured a glut of personal bests from the world’s top combinations, but it was an action-packed day from the outset. Here are 10 stories to bring you up to date with everything that happened.
Watch a round-up of how the team medals unfolded in the video below
Britain’s third rider, Charlotte Dujardin, was also one of the favourites for individual glory, riding Imhotep.
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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.
