Euro Dressage champs

[oldie48]

I thought we had silver and bronze in the bag with only 1 to go, but great results for all the team. It makes me very excited for next year's olympics!

 

[splashgirl45]

The last horse was fabulous and deserved his score although I must admit I was hoping he would make a couple of mistakes so Charlotte could get silver and Lottie bronze. It’s not all over till the freestyle on Sunday and we know both Charlottes excell in that .. it’s sure to be a good competition.. I’m really looking forward to watching

 

[onemoretime]

And one had him in 10 th, and that judge has marked some others much better than the other judges. the Trouble is that so many horses now have such a spectacular movement they get away with not being so correct in their way of going whereas Briolinca does a very correct test without being behind the vertical and shows a harmonious test which just doesn’t have the oomph of the flashy ones. Personally I prefer her way of going

I agree with you. There is too much emphasis put on flashy movement rather than being supple over the back and not being behind the vertical.

 

[Cortez]

I agree with you. There is too much emphasis put on flashy movement rather than being supple over the back and not being behind the vertical.

Welcome to modern competitive dressage....

 

[FinnishLapphund]

No coverage on The Guardian, either.

Is there anywhere to watch tests for free. I saw Carl's because a friend shared a link on FB.

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I know it's not much, but it's free. The FEI channel on YouTube sometimes post a few good things, and from the dressage they've posted Charlotte Dujardin, and Carl Hester (ETA: From the team competition /ETA). I know you've already seen Carl, but I'll post both, in case someone else want to see him, too

However since @splashgirl45 also mentioned that team GB did well in the Para dressage, if anyone are interested in watching that, go to the FEI YouTube channel's LIVE page. Scroll down a little bit, to the videos which says RE-LIVE, and there's 7 videos from the individual Para dressage Grade I, and Grade II.
I tried copying and pasting links also to those videos, but HHO wouldn't let me.

 

[tda]

This is the reply I received when I complained that they didn’t mention us winning the European Eventing recently:

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Bla bla bla ...apart from football obvs

 

[TheOldTrout]

The BBC at least had it on their website:

Dujardin leads Britain to European dressage gold

Three-time Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin leads Britain to a first team gold since London 2012 at the European Dressage Championships in Germany.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Goldenstar]

I know it's not much, but it's free. The FEI channel on YouTube sometimes post a few good things, and from the dressage they've posted Charlotte Dujardin, and Carl Hester (ETA: From the team competition /ETA). I know you've already seen Carl, but I'll post both, in case someone else want to see him, too

However since @splashgirl45 also mentioned that team GB did well in the Para dressage, if anyone are interested in watching that, go to the FEI YouTube channel's LIVE page. Scroll down a little bit, to the videos which says RE-LIVE, and there's 7 videos from the individual Para dressage Grade I, and Grade II.
I tried copying and pasting links also to those videos, but HHO wouldn't let me.

Thank you for posting .
Out of this world riding from CH his hands are fantastic .

 

[Caol Ila]

Anyone have a link to Dalera’s rides?

 

[daffy44]

Anyone have a link to Dalera’s rides?

I dont have a link for their GP, but this should work for their winning test today in the GPS

 

[oldie48]

Is there a way to watch tomorrow's freestyle, please?

 

[Parrotperson]

Is there a way to watch tomorrow's freestyle, please?

I believe only if you subscribe to Clip my horse.

They may post some after the event but then again they may not.

 

[oldie48]

Thanks I've taken their 30 day free trial.

 

[splashgirl45]

Thanks I've taken their 30 day free trial.

Make sure you cancel in plenty of time. I got bought a subscription a couple of years ago and didn’t cancel it till the day before it ended and they charged me for the next year which I really couldn’t afford so I e mailed them and told the truth that I was on a pension and couldn’t now afford to buy any coal for the winter and luckily they refunded it. My coal was £200 and I had already paid for it so their payment had made me overdrawn at the bank, I suppose it was a little lie as I had already paid for the coal but if I hadn’t got it back eating may have been difficult

 

[ycbm]

Very odd scoring fit him. Two judges had him 5 and 6 the others 1st.

What’s that all about!!!!

They view from different angles, deliberately.

From a different angle a 9 can easily become a 6.

 

[oldie48]

So pleased I got a free trial and could watch the freestyle. I thoroughly enjoyed it, lots of lovely horses being ridden well. Yes, the occasional rider who I thought was a bit heavy handed at times with perhaps a little bit too much curb, but generally I found the competition comfortable to watch. It really was a toss up between Jessica and Lottie with less than 0.5% between them, CDJ 1% behind and a lot more to come from Imhotep. Carl rode sympathetically to bring Fame in 6th. Only one test score bothered me, a very difficult test which was fault free, on the music and exciting to watch but IMO achieved through very strong riding at times. I leave you to work out which. Anyone else watch?

 

[splashgirl45]

I saw from the end of Isabel werths test and loved Daleras music and test , I’m glad she won and also really chuffed that Lottie and Charlotte got silver and bronze. Could the riders name begin with P ?