A brace of titles for an exciting talent – the Winter Dressage Championships winners from day five

Find out who the winners were on the final day of the 2021 NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships...

Thirteen-year-old Ruby Hughes added a second 2021 national title to her name in the PDS Saddles elementary freestyle silver championship (pictured).

• Read more about this exciting young rider and her performance today

Second to Ruby in the same class was Katie Roberts, but she was just happy to have even made it to Hartpury following a nightmare journey to the competition.

• Find out why Katie had to endure a less-than-ideal journey

Meanwhile Alice Oppenheimer landed victory in the Nupafeed advanced medium gold aboard Headmore Dionysus.

• Find out why Alice was relieved Headmore Dionysus was back to his usual self

Amy Woodhead scored a win in the BD medium gold final riding Ivan Carlos.

• Find out why this horse is slightly unusual, given his breeding

A superstar showing pony also had some success in-between the white boards, but it was nip-tuck as to whether his rider would be able to compete after she recently broke her leg

• Find out more about what happened to this pony’s rider and how she managed to get back in the saddle in time to compete

Area Festival finals

Sixteen-year-old Matthew Procter is enjoying some early success in dressage after his recent switch to the discipline from a showing career. He won the Petplan Equine novice under-21 area festival championship.

• Find out why Matthew decided to move away from showing

Another teenager to top the leaderboard today was Demi Howard-Cartwright. She was victorious in the Petplan Equine medium under-21 area festival championship aboard the pony stallion, WFS Top Red.

• Read about Demi’s victory and the pony she was riding

Find out how two winning riders in both the Petplan Equine advanced medium bronze area festival and the Petplan Equine preliminary bronze area festival championship manage to juggle full-time jobs with competing.

• Read about how these riders make things work

Don’t miss the 8 July issue of H&H for the full report from the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships and Petplan Equine Area Festival Championships.

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Gemma Redrup

H&H features, racing and point-to-point editor

Gemma is an experienced journalist, having been part of the H&H team since 2014, who 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 in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting talents have taken her to numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.