World Showjumping Championships results: Scott Brash in individual final

World Showjumping Championships results: Scott Brash and Hello Jefferson have four faults in individual final — (Image credit: Peter Nixon)

Britain’s Scott Brash and Hello Jefferson have picked up four faults in the first round of the Agria FEI World Showjumping Championships individual final (14 August).

The 13-year-old gelding, owned by Lady Pauline Harris and Lady Pauline Kirkham, looked eager to get the job done and appeared a little hot, notably pulling Scott into fence five, a big oxer.

Scott and Hello Jefferson have had a mixed week; the pair posted superb clears on Wednesday and Thursday to put them into provisional individual silver. However, a difficult round in the team final where they had an uncharacteristic eight faults, meant they dropped down to 11th place coming into the final today. Scott was understandably disappointed and said Hello Jefferson had become tense in the warm-up ahead of his round. Despite this, the Brits scooped team bronze with Harry Charles posting a sterling clear on Romeo 88, Ben Maher and Faltic HB adding four faults to the score, and Joe Stockdale having four faults with Equine America Cacharel.

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Since joining H&H in 2018, Becky has covered a broad range of equestrian news including welfare matters, veterinary studies, FEI Tribunal hearings and road safety campaigns. She has also interviewed top riders including Scott Brash, John Whitaker and Ian Stark, to name just a few. Becky’s reporting has taken her to Canada for Spruce Meadows and France for Pau five-star, as well as the Royal Highland and Blair Castle International Horse Trials closer to home. She was also a key part of the remote reporting team for the Tokyo Olympics and the Europeans.

‘You learn from your mistakes’: Scott Brash reflects on World Showjumping Championships round

Reflecting on his round, Scott said Jefferson was “a bit tense” today.

“In the last line he was getting strong and keen with me, and there was a bit of atmosphere – it’s the way it goes,” he said.

“One down is not bad, I think we were unlucky to have the fence but I just felt he was a bit more tense than I’d like him, to have the best result.”

“You learn from your mistakes,” said Scott. “I still believe he’s [Hello Jefferson] a championship horse and he still has more championships in him, that’s for sure. We’ve learnt a lot this week. I think he can still go well in future championships.”

In the World Showjumping Championships results going into the final round, Henrik von Eckermann leads on score of 0.58 with King Edward, Sweden’s Jens Fredricson is in silver on 2.71 with Markan Cosmopolit and Belgium’s Jerome Guery is in bronze on a score of 3.35 with Quel Homme De Hus.

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