european dressage champs

Absolutely stunning test, Uthopia is incredible!

No rider in the Italian team wears a tailcoat, just realised this :D

Glad to see Susanna Bordone is fine after her freak accident / bite
 
Am in floods! Wow. Good for Carl, he rode for his life. And there were blips. Still more to come! Amazing stuff. I don't want to count chickens, but I have a feeling that GB is, bar something very unexpected, headed for gold here.
 
Realistically - are we going to get the team Gold....? Is Totilas a realistic threat at this time? Will Laura B pull off a good test? Fingers crossed!!!

That was so exciting watching Carl - with the sound off (at work!) - he looked so chuffed at the end, coming down the centre line with a massive grin - way to go!!!

C'mon GB!!!

JB xx
 
Being German...I think this takes the biscuit... GB winning Dressage Team Gold. Hilarious!!!
Don't want you guys thinking I am jealous...just the opposite... it is bloody fantastic!!
 
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I think it is facinating to see how dressage has developed. Totilas was a phenomenon, we'd never seen anything like him. But his extended trot was never a strong point, something that tended to get overlooked because of the quality of the rest of his work. Now we have Uthopia and Valegro, who combine the quality of a Totilas in the collected work with the ability to score 10s for the extended trot too. Uthopia's transitions are not quite up there with Totilas under Edward at his best, but I think they will get there. And of course there are still Alf and Parzival, very different type horses - Parzival with his clockwork straight tempis, Alf with his perfect piaffe. Interesting times!
 
Its really exciting, and I dont think dressage has been as exciting since the Bonfire v Gigolo days - we need some 'head to head' action.

I hope Laura and Alf come out and really show what they can do....I for one will be glued to the screen in my lunch hour,.

Its really amazing that two of our team horses have come from the same yard, Charlotte and Carl are just superb, and deffo contenders for 2012 medals.

Which begs the question, our eventers are pretty 'up there' in terms of results - the dressage team are stronger by the day - why are the SJ'ers not as good?!

JB xx
 
it's working again, thank you!!!!!
Does anyone know where I can watch a re-run of Carls test, can't belive I missed it!!!
 
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