Charlotte Dujardin lands another title, plus youngsters impress – the Winter Dressage Championships winners from day four

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

Charlotte Dujardin continued her run of form, scoring her third national title of the week in the Charles Owen advanced medium gold final aboard Imhotep.

• Read more about why this horse looks to be an exciting prospect

Charlotte then explained why she has opted to ride Gio at the Tokyo Olympics instead of the predicted Mount St John Freestyle.

• Find out why Charlotte has picked Gio as her Olympic ride

Meanwhile Alice Oppenheimer landed an emotional victory in the Superflex inter I freestyle, riding her home-bred mare, Headmore Bella Ruby.

• Find out why this win made Alice so emotional

Alice also shared her thoughts on how she has enjoyed this week’s championships

• Find out why Alice thought one class was particularly exciting to watch

The super-talented 13-year-old Ruby Hughes continued a great day for her family,  following the announcement her father Gareth had been picked for the British Olympic dressage team. Ruby beat a class full of adults to land the Spillers medium freestyle title.

• Find out more about Ruby’s test and the horse she was riding

Area Festival finals

Both Kendal Blow and Emma Mcclelland continued what is turning out to be a super week for Scottish riders, when they took the Petplan Equine elementary under-21 and Petplan Equine preliminary under-21 titles respectively.

• Find out more about these talented young riders

Matthew Crompton, who is a farrier, had a busy day, shoeing horses in the morning and then hot-footing it to Hartpury to land a decisive win in the Petplan Equine preliminary silver championship

• Read about Matthew‘s victory and the exciting young horse he was riding

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.