It’s been a packed schedule of Olympic eventing dressage in Paris, with every single competitor crammed into nine hours of quick-fire tests, so here’s a round-up of all the top stories. The day may have been soggy and cold in France, but there were some fabulous, record-breaking highlights to brighten the gloom and warm the cockles before the sun returns tomorrow for cross-country day.
Laura Collett produced a scintillating test to smash the Olympic eventing dressage test record and take the lead.
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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.
