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Lottie Fry and Glamourdale top 86% in London freestyle, with Paris team-mate Becky Moody still to go

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    • Lottie Fry has taken the lead in the London Horse Show dressage freestyle to music, scoring 86.645% with her own and Van Olst Horses’ Glamourdale.

    Britain’s world champions and double Paris bronze medallists started with Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust, with a punchy cry of “Let’s go” out of their first halt. Their test finished with a piaffe pirouette on the final centre line to God Save The King and an excellent final halt. Lottie gave a fist pump, a big smile and a wave to the crowd, clearly pleased with her ride in the FEI Dressage World Cup presented by Bret Willson Dressage International Ltd and supported by Horse & Hound.

    Much of Lottie Fry and Glamourdale’s London Horse Show dressage freestyle test was excellent – suspension and power was on offer, great positioning of the movements and the black stallion has so many gears and strong adjustability. But it wasn’t flawless as the pair had a muddle at the start of the two-time flying changes and an error in the one-times, which Lottie repeated towards the end of their performance.

    Nonetheless, it was a strong comeback after the pair were surprisingly beaten yesterday by their Paris team-mates Becky Moody and her home-bred Jagerbomb. Becky will ride in just a few minutes to see if she can overhaul Lottie once again, though she would need to achieve a personal best by 2% to do so. Isabel Freese of Norway and Total Help OLD also beat Lottie and Glamourdale yesterday with second place and will be the final pair in the ExCeL arena this evening, so the tension will be high right until the end of the class.

    The halfway leader, Dinja van Liere with Hartsuijker sits second now on 80.225% with British national champions Lewis Robertson-Carrier and Diego second best of the home side in fifth on 76.31%.

    End of class update: Lottie won the class, with Isabel second, Dinja third and Becky fourth. 

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    Pippa Roome
    Pippa Roome

    H&H magazine editor and eventing editor
    Pippa is a true eventing geek and has been H&H’s eventing editor since 2005. She has first-hand experience of competing up to British Eventing intermediate and international CCI2*-L level, and has worked in the industry on a top event yard. Pippa enjoys nothing more than immersing herself in the sport at the highest level, reporting from the five-stars and international championships, including the Olympics.
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