Find out how the Winter Dressage Championships inter I freestyle champion designed her routine and what she changed after the day before
Alice Oppenheimer landed the sought-after Superflex inter I freestyle at the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships , riding Headmore Bella Ruby.
The pair produced a brilliant, faultless routine to an emotive Les Misérables soundtrack to score 74.17% and add the inter I freestyle title to their Magic prix st georges music title from earlier in the week .
This was the fourth day in a row that the nine-year-old Belissimo M x Rubinstein mare, who was home-bred at the Oppenheimers’ Headmore Stud has performed at Hartpury, and Alice adjusted her warm-up accordingly.
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