Britain’s Charlotte Fry & Dark Legend Win European Under-25 Championships Freestyle Gold,
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EXLOO, Netherlands, Aug. 17, 2018–Charlotte Fry and Dark Legend won the European Championships Under-25 Freestyle gold Friday to add to the team bronze and individual silver for the first medals for Great Britain in three years of these championships.
Charlotte, 22, and the 10-year-old KWPN gelding scored 82.145 per cent for the victory with Germany’s Jill-Marielle Becks on Damon’s Satelite second on 79.265 per cent and Lisa-Maria Klössinger and FBW Daktari third on 78.010 per cent.
This month has been the most successful for Charlotte, based in the Netherlands with Van Olst Horses as recommended by Carl Hester, her coach when she was a teenager. In addition to her success here, she rode Glamourdale to victory in the seven-year-old division at the World Young Horse Championships two weeks ago.
“I trained with Carl when I was 14 to 17 years old, and then moved to Holland when I just turned 18,” she said. “Carl actually suggested I should come over to work with Anne Van Olst who is my trainer now, so he put this opportunity my way and I’m very grateful for that.”
She said that Dark Legend is a very nervous horse. “This is the first show he felt confident in the ring, so he peaked at a good time!” she said. “Today was a really good test, he couldn’t have been better, he really rose to the music and danced to it.”.
Her plans for the future are to compete at the Olympic Games some day, “but for now I just want to get my feet back on the ground and start training again.”
She led her team to the Under-25 bronze on Wednesday and followed up with silver in the individual competition Thursday
Results:
European Championships Under-25 Freestyle
- Judges-E: Francisco Guerra Diaz-ESP H: Peter Storr-GBR C: Francis Verbeek-van Rooy-NED M: Magnus Ringmark-SWE B: Susanne Baarup-DEN
Rank CNR HORSE – Breeding
sex\color\born\sire x siredam\Nat. € Judge E Judge H Judge C Judge M Judge B Total RIDER
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artistic1 119 DARK LEGEND – KWPN
G \ Bay \ 2008 \ ZUCCHERO x TANGOGBR700 77.25 78.75 79.25 81.25 77.75 82.145 Charlotte FRY
van Olst Horses & Charlotte Fry79.00 88.00 87.00 86.00 87.20 2 123 DAMON´S SATELITE – WESTF
G \ Chestnut \ 2008 \ DAMON HILL x RUBIN-ROYALGER550 77.25 75.50 78.00 75.50 76.00 79.265 Jil-Marielle BECKS
Becks, Melanie & Christian78.00 81.00 88.00 80.00 83.40 3 124 FBW DAKTARI – DSP
G \ Bay \ 2005 \ DONAUTANZ x CARPACCIOGER425 74.50 74.50 72.00 74.25 74.25 78.010 Lisa-Maria KLÖSSINGER
Klössinger, Lisa-Maria u.Florian81.00 81.00 81.00 81.00 86.60 4 129 BOSTON STH – KWPN
S \ Bay \ 2006 \ JOHNSON x QUATTRONED350 74.50 74.25 77.75 75.50 75.00 77.200 Denise NEKEMAN
L.F. NEKEMAN75.00 79.00 83.00 78.00 80.00 5 133 QUARTERMAIN – HANN
G \ Chestnut \ 2009 \ QUARTERBACK x WILAWANDER XXSWE225 74.75 75.00 76.00 76.75 73.50 76.600 Marina MATTSSON
Hannell Dressage Stable AB78.00 78.00 79.00 78.00 77.00 6 107 LUDWIG DER SONNENKOENIG 2 – OLDBG
S \ Chestnut \ 2006 \ LONDON SWING x LIBERATORDEN75.00 71.50 75.00 74.25 73.50 75.645 Victoria E. VALLENTIN
HELGSTRAND DRESSAGE A/S76.00 75.00 81.00 78.00 77.20 7 121 SIR DIAMOND – OLDBG
G \ Black \ 2005 \ SANDRO HIT x DE NIROGER72.75 70.75 72.75 73.00 73.50 75.635 Juliette PIOTROWSKI
Haller, Claudia75.00 76.00 81.00 80.00 81.60 8 127 TC ATHENE – KWPN
G \ Chestnut \ 2005 \ UNITED x JAZZNED75.00 69.75 73.00 73.75 70.75 75.125 Jeanine NIEUWENHUIS
T.J.M.Coomans & G.M.Maree77.00 75.00 79.00 79.00 79.00 9 108 DARIUS
G \ Black \ 2003 \ DONNERLOH x PIK SOLODEN73.75 71.00 70.50 69.25 71.50 74.360 Sille ENGERMANN
ENGERMANN FAMILY77.00 78.00 79.00 76.00 77.60 10 101 VALENTA´S DIEGO – HANN
G \ Black \ 2006 \ DESPERADOS x HOHENSTEINAUT72.50 69.75 70.00 71.50 69.25 72.700 Karoline VALENTA
Karoline Valenta74.00 73.60 76.00 76.00 74.40 11 128 BAILEY – KWPN
M \ Bay \ 2006 \ NEGRO x BALZFLUGNED67.75 71.25 71.25 71.50 70.50 72.225 Maxime VAN DER VLIST
R.P. van der Vlist & B. van der Vlist-Frank72.00 74.00 75.00 75.00 74.00 12 100 ATOMIC – KWPN
G \ Black \ 2005 \ FLORENCIO x FARRINGTONAUT70.75 68.50 70.25 69.00 68.50 72.100 Franziska FRIES
Franziska Fries75.00 73.00 77.00 74.00 75.00 13 103 DI SANDRO OLD – OLDBG
G \ Bay \ 2003 \ DE NIRO 6 x SANDROAUT71.75 69.25 69.50 69.75 68.25 71.950 Diana PORSCHE
Diana Porsche73.00 72.00 77.00 75.00 74.00 14 120 CHARLEX ESKEBJERG – DWB
G \ Other \ 2001 \ CARANO x MIDT-WEST IBI-LIGHTGBR68.50 68.50 66.50 70.00 68.25 70.795 Ryan TODD
Julie Todd72.00 72.00 74.00 75.00 73.20 15 118 HEADMORE DELEGATE – BHHS
G \ Chestnut \ 2003 \ DIMAGGIOGBR70.25 69.75 67.75 68.50 68.50 70.775 Rebecca Jane EDWARDS
Mrs S , Miss A Oppeneheimer73.00 74.00 73.00 71.00 72.00 16 110 SAADAN QUE – DWB
M \ Bay \ 2008 \ QUATERBACK x ROYAL DIAMONDDEN65.50 70.00 67.50 69.50 68.25 70.335 Nanna Skodborg MERRALD
NANNA S. MERRALD70.00 73.00 72.00 74.00 73.60 17 106 GIORGIO ARMANI – WESTF
M \ Chestnut \ 2003 \ GOETHE x DONNERHALLBEL66.75 66.50 67.25 67.25 67.00 68.135 Soraya BRISON
De Steenbeekhoeve BVBA68.00 68.00 71.00 70.00 69.60 18 115 DON DIAMOND 4 – HANN
G \ Bay \ 2007 \ DON FREDERICO x CARISMOFIN64.25 66.50 64.00 64.25 64.00 66.600 Piia SALMINEN
Equestrain Salminen Family GmbH68.00 69.00 68.00 70.00 68.00