Charlotte
Dujardin and Valegro rode a stunning grand prix test to rocket into the lead
with 83.663%,
smashing the British and Olympic record and in the process coming tantalizingly
close to the world record of 84.08%.
Charlotte commented afterwards; "Blueberry
[Valegro] is just unbelievable, to think he’s only 10 and we only started grand
prix last year. He knows what he has to do when he gets in there he’s just
brilliant and never lets me down. I just enjoyed it from start to finish and
when you stop and have that crowd around you, it’s just magic.
"The
marks haven’t been that high so I was hoping for an 80; my best before this was
81 so to come to the Olympics and smash that is a little bit crazy. I had such
fun. It’s such a buzz I can’t tell you! I’ve been here since Sunday and
I’ve just wanted to get in and do my piece. It was so exciting; when you ride
in with all those people around you, it’s just amazing. I’m wearing my lucky
breeches, the ones I broke the world record in at Hagen so maybe they helped!
"It’s
an amazing opportunity to get here and ride a horse like Valegro and I wanted
to enjoy it, you work a lifetime to get to something like this and I would have
hated to go in there and put too much pressure on myself and then made
mistakes. I just wanted to go in there and do what I would normally do at home
or at any other show and that’s what we did. I never had any doubts that he
would do it."
Fantastic!
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