‘He has all the attributes to win’: Scott Brash races to top World Championships placing to bolster British medal bid

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World Showjumping Championships results
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Scott Brash produced a stunning round at the Agria FEI World Showjumping Championships to go into second place in the opening speed leg. Britain now have two riders in the top 10 thanks to Ben Maher’s earlier clear round, and sit in fourth place at the end of this day-one qualifier.

Scott was riding Hello Jefferson, a Cooper Van De Heffinck x Irco Mena gelding, and set off in a bold rhythm. He kept really tight lines throughout, always on a forward stride, to stop the clock on 79.54sec.

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.