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A golden day for Britain, fierce battle for medals and a string of personal bests: seven highlights from the second day of team competition at the Tokyo Paralympics

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    • Britain remains unbeaten in Paralympics dressage team competition after securing gold in a nail-biting conclusion to today’s competition at the Tokyo Paralympics. Find out what happened on the fourth day of action at Baji Koen Equestrian Park…

    It went down to the wire in the team competition, with the Brits securing gold by just 0.6% over the Netherlands. The Grade IV champion, Dutch rider Sanne Voets, produced an outstanding test under pressure, but the three Brits had done enough to take the gold.

    The British trio admitted that the never in a “million years” thought they would be going home with team gold medals around their necks

    Sophie Wells conjured a personal best from the inexperienced Don Cara M to strengthen British hopes.

    Sophie described her relief at surviving the test, particularly given all scores now count

    The US team managed to hold on to bronze, keeping a valiant Danish team at bay by just 0.028%.

    Belgium’s elegant side-saddle rider Barbara Minneci chatted to H&H about what it was like to ride in Tokyo’s “wonderful” arena

    And meet H&H’s rider of the day, Australian Sharon Jarvis, who announced her retirement from the sport after the team test today

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    Martha Terry
    Martha Terry

    H&H features editor
    Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.
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