Tokyo Olympic dressage team final: Lottie Fry keeps cool, Britain in silver

Britain's Lottie Fry rides Everdale in the grand prix at the Tokyo Olympic dressage — (Image credit: Peter Nixon)

Lottie Fry boosted British hopes of a Tokyo Olympic dressage team medal with a sympathetic test on a lively Everdale in the grand prix special at the Olympic Games.

Lottie scored 76.854% to finish fifth within a bunch of riders all scoring around 77% in group two.

The horse made an expensive mistake breaking into canter early on in the test with the marks dropping from eights to fours, but Lottie kept her cool to rebuild from a low of 73% back up to plus-76%. They created a powerful, dramatic picture overall, but after the early error, Lottie kept a lid on the stallion’s delightful extravagance until the second half of the test when she dared to ask for bit more.

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Lottie Fry keeps her cool to maintain Britain’s Olympic silver medal position

“Everdale has tried his heart out out there, and given me everything,” said Lottie.

Lottie finished strongly, scoring a nine for a canter pirouette – and sat tight as Everdale showed a bit of a spark after the final halt.

“He was pretty hot tonight, so we had to keep a lid on it, but we managed to keep it until the end, when he got a bit of a shock when the audience clapped,” Lottie added.

This means Britain are not letting Germany run away with the gold medal, and are just holding the US and Denmark at bay in the silver medal slot.

Lottie, 25, is making her Olympic debut and had already enjoyed a fantastic start on the Lord Leatherdale x Negro stallion. She topped her group on Saturday with 77.096% to qualify for tomorrow’s (Wednesday, 28 July) grand prix freestyle, the individual medal decider.

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