Gio and Charlotte Dujardin - photo credit: Petra Kerschbaum / EQWO.net
Huge start list for today’s international Grand Prix at Wellington, UK
Dujardin again with two strong performances and even though with a few glimpses she is still outstanding. Today with best performance and win together with Gio and MSJ Freestyle second. Into 2nd piaffe Freestyle moves her focus to outside the arena and she tries to spin around and also affected at the subsequent transition to canter. With Gio Dujardin showed a power test and at the end of the 1 times it was just about to “stay there” as Gio nearly lost the two final changes but Charlotte was just ahead of his intentions - nothing less than a world class rescue!
Carl Hester and En Vogue looked overall much more harmonious, for sure not the plan not just showing 13 one time temps.
Only British top rider not at start was Charlotte Fry based in The Netherlands. She already showed her horses with top placements at both Exloo and Hagen and will also participate at Compiegne.
H2R comments:
Gio / Charlotte Dujardin - super halt, power diagonal, crossing balanced power half passes, good halt with rein back, power diagonal, smooth in to passage, active bit forward 1st piaffe with nice transitions, relaxed extended walk with good over track, super collected walk active, good into passage, bit travelling forward 2nd piaffe, good into canter, good 2 times tiny swing hind, power diagonal extended canter, good zigzag, wow Charlotte kept them all final 1 times nearly blown away, nice pirouettes, good into trot, power diagonal, very nice final centerline with best piaffe at the spot. 79,130%
MSJ Freestyle / Charlotte Dujardin - super halt, power diagonal with super expression, supple half pass right, power left uphill expressive, superb halt with rein back, outstanding diagonal, smooth into passage, super regularity, super sit balance and rhythm for piaffe, easy transitions, super extended walk relaxed with huge over track, active collected walk, small tensions into 2nd piaffe, big eyes try to turn, tense into canter, super 2 times, good extended canter, super zigzag, small tension hind end of 1 times, active pirouettes could be smaller, super into trot, wow diagonal, strong final centerline, piaffe at the spot, nice halt. 77,935%
En Vogue / Carl Hester - super halt, well balanced expressive diagonal, supple half passes, lack tiny balance left, good halt bit dragging rein back, expressive diagonal, nice into passage, good passage, active piaffe bit unbalanced out, bit short extended walk, bit unbalanced collected walk, nice into passage, super nice 2nd piaffe, huge sit nice activity, good transitions, nice into canter, nice 2 times, power extended canter bit small change, nice zigzag, lost 2 final changes for 1 times, lovely sit and balance for both pirouettes, smooth into trot, power diagonal well balanced, super final centerline with nice halt. 77.500%
Here you find the entire results.
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