Glamourdale coming to London, an unimaginable jump-off restoration, and extra issues the horse world is speaking about

1. Glamourdale coming to London

Lottie Fry will compete her world champion trip, Glamourdale, within the World Cup qualifier on the London Worldwide Horse Present subsequent week. This would be the 11-year-old stallion’s first time competing on British soil. Lottie, based mostly within the Netherlands, was initially entered along with her Tokyo Olympic and 2021 European championship medal-winning trip Everdale.

Discover out why Lottie has switched rides at this 12 months’s London Worldwide Horse Present

2. Farewell to a dressage legend

Anky Van Grunsven and Salinero

Double Olympic dressage champion Salinero has died on the age of 28. The accomplice of Dutch rider Anky van Grunsven, Salinero received particular person gold medals on the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. The pair set a freestyle world report at ’s-Hertogenbosch in 2006, scoring 87.925%, and adopted it up with particular person gold on the World Equestrian Video games in Aachen that 12 months. Over the course of his profession, Salinero received 5 particular person gold medals, plus 4 World Cup Remaining titles.

Learn Anky’s tribute to her “hero”

3. An unimaginable restoration

Italian showjumper Piergiorgio Bucci and his tremendous gelding Cochello made a outstanding restoration through the jump-off for the Longines FEI World Cup qualifier in Madrid (27 November). The pair had set off in sizzling pursuit of the 42.16sec goal set by speedy Frenchman Julien Epaillard with Caracole De La Roque in a massively aggressive 15-strong jump-off to resolve the Madrid leg of the winter sequence. The whole lot going to plan, till a heart-stopping second…

Watch the pair’s unimaginable restoration

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