‘He showed his potential and he’s a great horse’: Exciting prospect gets Herning freestyle underway

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Emmelie Scholtens riding Indian Rock
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The Netherlands’ Emmelie Scholtens got the freestyle underway this evening (10 August), posting a score of 74.59% in the Blue Hors World Dressage Championships results table. Emmelie was riding the nine-year-old Indian Rock and they performed a lovely test, but an early spook was costly.

“It’s always hard to go in first and I think the atmosphere was so noisy and because he was not scared at all the days before, but this evening he was like ‘What’s happening?’, and then also the music was a little bit too much for him, but I think he showed his potential and he’s a great horse,” said Emmelie after her test with the young stallion by Apache. “All you want is for your horse to have a good experience, but because of all the things you cannot control, that was that was a little bit hard for me, but he showed really good parts.”

Gemma Redrup
Gemma Redrup
Former web features editor, point-to-point editor and digital racing editor

Gemma is an experienced journalist, who was a member of H&H staff from 2014 to September 2025. She is passionate about all equestrian sports, including racing and point-to-pointing. She has enjoyed riding out for top trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took part in a charity Flat race at Epsom in August 2018. Gemma’s has reported from numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.