Charlotte Fry Rides Glamourdale to Personal Best 90.995% to Win London World Cup Freestyle

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Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale. File photo. © 2022 Ken Braddck/DRESSAGE-NEWS.com

LONDON, Dec. 16, 2022–Charlotte Fry rode Glamourdale to a personal best score of 90.995% Friday to win the World Cup Freestyle. World Championship team mate Gareth Hughes on Classic Briolinca was reserve.

Britain’s world championships double gold medal winning partnership , dominated the World Cup short Grand Prix Thursday with team mate Gareth Hughes on Classic Briolinca runner-up.

Competing the 11-year-old KWPN stallion Glamourdale in Charlotte’s homeland for the first time and four months since the world championships, the pair received scores above 90% from all five judges. The score beat the result of 90.654% in the world championships four months ago that earned one of two gold medals and a team silver.

The duo were awarded 22 marks of the maximum of 10, all five judges awarding the score for extended canter and also for music and interpretation.

The 26-year-old Charlotte, based in the Netherlands, is one of only 10 rider and horse combinations in the history of dressage to score above 90%. The world record of 94.300% set by Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin on Valegro eight years ago almost to the day and the top score of 92.300% by Edward Gal on Totilas on Dec. 15, 2009 were also in London, at the Olympia stadium.

The winning couple led Britain to team silver and won both individual and freestyle gold medals at the world championships in Denmark four months ago.

“After last night I could feel he was in great form,” Charlotte said of her Grand Prix victory, “he has really strengthened up since Herning and tonight he was so keen that he tried to go into the ring before he was supposed to because he was so excited.

“The support from the crowd tonight was incredible, and to end this amazing year here is wonderful! It is almost impossible to sum up 2022–it has been incredible and coming to London and performing in front of my home crowd is the best feeling and the best way to end the year.

“I had such an easy, fun ride. He is better than he was in Herning and we keep improving so I can’t wait for the years to come. Paris (Olympic Games 2024) is for sure the goal, and we will see how it goes until then.”

Gareth Hughes and Classic Briolinca, the 16-year-old KWPN mare that he rode on the championship team with Charlotte and Glamourdale, scored a personal best 84.590% in the freestyle to place second as they did in the Grand Prix.

The scores for the two Britons were their first in this season’s World Cup circuit leading to the Final in Omaha in April.

Ingrid Klimke and Franziskus of Germany placed third on 83.170% to earn enough points to move to the top of the Western European standings on 55 points, five points ahead of German team mate Benjamin Werndl who is not competing here. The eventing star and the 14-year-old Hanoverian stallion that were on Germany’s bronze medal team at the world championships, already have two World Cup qualifier wins.

This was the sixth of 12 qualifiers in Western Europe for riders to earn one of nine starting places at the Omaha Final. The next is scheduled for Mechelen, Belgium Dec. 26-30.

Charlotte said she plans to ride Everdale, her Tokyo Olympic and 2021 European Championship mount, at Mechelen.

Results:

CDI-W World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle

Judges: E: S.Baarup-DEN H: J.van Daele-BEL C: S.Clarke-GBR M: P.Storr-GBR B: M.Ringmark-SWE

Place Horse/Rider Nation E H C M B Total
1. Glamourdale Charlotte Fry gbr  Tech.:  87.250 84.000 88.250 85.250 85.000 90.995 %
(DETAILS)
black / 11y. / S / KWPN / Lord Leatherdale / Negro / 105HH76 / Van Olst Horses  Art.:  95.400 96.200 94.400 98.000 96.200
 Total  91.325
(1)
90.100
(1)
91.325
(1)
91.625
(1)
90.600
(1)
2. Classic Briolinca Gareth Hughes gbr  Tech.:  78.500 78.750 79.500 80.000 78.750 84.590 %
(DETAILS)
bay / 16y. / M / KWPN / Trento B / Royal Dance / 104HK07 / Gareth Hughes, Julia Hornig, Rebecca Hughes, Ruby Hughes  Art.:  89.200 89.400 89.600 91.400 90.800
 Total  83.850
(2)
84.075
(2)
84.550
(2)
85.700
(2)
84.775
(2)
3. Franziskus FRH Ingrid Klimke ger  Tech.:  76.500 77.750 79.750 77.250 78.250 83.170 %
(DETAILS)
bay / 14y. / S / HANN / Fidertanz 2 / Alabaster / 104FC44 / Wilhelm Holkenbrink  Art.:  88.800 88.000 89.000 86.600 89.800
 Total  82.650
(3)
82.875
(3)
84.375
(3)
81.925
(3)
84.025
(4)
4. Annabelle Helen Langehanenberg ger  Tech.:  75.500 77.750 77.500 75.750 78.250 82.135 %
(DETAILS)
bay / 14y. / M / HOLST / Conteur / Linaro / 105ED34 / Günther Fielmann  Art.:  88.200 84.400 86.400 87.400 90.200
 Total  81.850
(4)
81.075
(4)
81.950
(4)
81.575
(4)
84.225
(3)
5. Glock’s Dream Boy Hans Peter Minderhoud ned  Tech.:  73.750 77.500 76.250 74.250 76.500 79.305 %
(DETAILS)
black / 14y. / S / KWPN / Vivaldi / Olympic Ferro / 104BI66 / GLOCK HPC NL B.V., Palmar BV – J.T.M. Maree, Stal Brinkman V.O.F., TC Dutch Sport Horses – T.J.M. Coomans  Art.:  84.000 84.200 82.800 79.800 84.000
 Total  78.875
(5)
80.850
(5)
79.525
(6)
77.025
(6)
80.250
(5)
6. Indigro Andrew Gould gbr  Tech.:  74.500 73.500 77.250 73.500 72.500 78.065 %
(DETAILS)
black / 9y. / S / KWPN / Negro / Jazz / 107YM74 / Tatiana Skillman  Art.:  81.600 83.000 82.200 81.000 81.600
 Total  78.050
(6)
78.250
(6)
79.725
(5)
77.250
(5)
77.050
(6)
7. Fiderdance Simone Pearce aus  Tech.:  71.000 72.750 72.250 71.500 71.500 76.320 %
(DETAILS)
dches / 13y. / S / OLDBG / Fidertanz 2 / Blue Hors Don Schufro / 106JF48 / Gestüt Bonhomme GmbH & Co.KG  Art.:  80.600 81.400 80.600 80.800 80.800
 Total  75.800
(7)
77.075
(8)
76.425
(8)
76.150
(8)
76.150
(8)
8. Bellevue Emile Faurie gbr  Tech.:  71.750 70.750 73.750 73.250 70.000 76.130 %
(DETAILS)
bay / 11y. / M / OLDBG / Bordeaux 28 / Brentano II / 108AP41 / Diana V. Rose, Emile Faurie  Art.:  78.800 83.000 80.800 80.800 78.400
 Total  75.275
(8)
76.875
(9)
77.275
(7)
77.025
(6)
74.200
(11)
9. Bubblingh Richard Davison gbr  Tech.:  69.750 73.750 73.000 72.500 68.750 75.575 %
(DETAILS)
bay / 16y. / G / KWPN / Lingh / Picandt / 104QJ85 / Gwendolyn Sontheim, Richard Davison, Tom Davison  Art.:  77.800 81.400 79.400 79.800 79.600
 Total  73.775
(12)
77.575
(7)
76.200
(9)
76.150
(8)
74.175
(12)
10. Giraldo Abigail Lyle irl  Tech.:  70.250 70.250 71.000 70.000 72.000 75.250 %
(DETAILS)
bay / 11y. / G / KWPN / Harmony’s Rousseau / Flemmingh / 105OY04 / Abigail Lyle  Art.:  78.600 81.000 79.000 78.400 82.000
 Total  74.425
(10)
75.625
(11)
75.000
(11)
74.200
(12)
77.000
(7)
11. Tribiani Caroline Chew sgp  Tech.:  70.250 67.750 70.750 70.250 69.750 74.775 %
(DETAILS)
chest / 18y. / G / Solos Landtinus / Landadel / 104TL84 / Melanie Chew, Tony Chew  Art.:  79.400 78.000 80.600 78.800 82.200
 Total  74.825
(9)
72.875
(14)
75.675
(10)
74.525
(11)
75.975
(9)
12. Bolero Morgan Barbancon fra  Tech.:  69.750 72.000 70.500 68.750 68.500 74.010 %
(DETAILS)
bay / 16y. / KWPN / Johnson TN / Vincent / 104QU45 / Morgan Barbancon  Art.:  78.400 81.600 76.600 76.200 77.800
 Total  74.075
(11)
76.800
(10)
73.550
(13)
72.475
(14)
73.150
(14)
13. Elias Marc Peter Spahn bel  Tech.:  69.500 71.000 71.500 72.750 67.000 73.315 %
(DETAILS)
black / 13y. / S / Jorn 430 / Maiko 373 / 106GY22 / Kristofer Johansson, Linda Annell  Art.:  73.200 77.400 78.400 76.400 76.000
 Total  71.350
(14)
74.200
(12)
74.950
(12)
74.575
(10)
71.500
(15)
14. Statesman Naima Moreira Laliberte can  Tech.:  68.250 69.000 69.250 69.500 71.250 73.225 %
(DETAILS)
bay / 15y. / HANN / Sandro Hit / Brentano II / 103XJ43 / KML Inc  Art.:  75.600 78.200 77.000 76.400 77.800
 Total  71.925
(13)
73.600
(13)
73.125
(14)
72.950
(13)
74.525
(10)
15. Focus Alejandro Asencio Mendez esp  Tech.:  68.000 67.500 68.750 66.500 68.500 71.805 %
(DETAILS)
bay / 12y. / HANN / Fiorano / Weltissimo 3 / 105HW76 / Equifoal, S. L.  Art.:  74.200 76.000 75.600 74.200 78.800
 Total  71.100
(15)
71.750
(15)
72.175
(15)
70.350
(15)
73.650
(13)