Charlotte Dujardin and Gio, LeMieux National Dressage Championships 2017.

Photo: Charlotte Dujardin Facebook page

By Equestrian Life   

British star Charlotte Dujardin has cleaned up at the LeMieux National Dressage Championships 2017, winning nine titles.

Although Charlotte didn’t have a ride in the Grand Prix classes, she claimed numerous other titles across the course of the weekend on a number of up-and-coming stars. Her wins and placings included:

Monarch Equestrian Intermediate II Gold Championship — 1st riding Hawtins Delicato.

Fairfax Saddles Prix St Georges Gold Championships — 1st riding Mount St John Freestyle and 2nd riding En Vogue.

Saracen Horse Feeds Inter I Championship — 1st riding Mount St John Freestyle, 2nd riding En Vogue and 3rd riding Mount St John Kom Fairytale.

Saracen Horse Feeds Inter I Supreme Champion and Saracen Horse Feeds Inter I Freestyle — 1st riding Mount St John Freestyle.

TopSpec Medium Gold Championship — 1sr riding Mount St John VIP, 2nd riding River Rise Nisa and 3rd riding Gio.

Childéric Saddles Elementary Gold Championship — 1st riding Gio and 2nd riding River Rise Nisa.

Equine Construction Advanced Medium Gold Championship — 1st riding Ekitof and 2nd riding Florentina VI.

Final of the Shearwater 5yo Young Horse — 1st riding Hawtins San Floriana.

Final of the Shearwater 6yo Young Horse — 1st riding Mount St John VIP.

On the final day of competition (Sunday), there was a dramatic twist. Lara Butler and the Bechtolsheimer’s 15-year-old Rubin Royal gelding, Rubin Al Asad, had won the LeMieux Grand Prix Gold Championship on the Saturday, while Carl Hester and Alcazar reigned supreme in the Horse Health Grand Prix Freestyle Gold Championship on the Sunday. Second in both classes were Hayley Watson-Greaves and WG Rubins Nite — and it was this combination that took out the overall National Championship title in a surprise result!

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