TEAM CHAMPION SECURE BRITISH WIN IN LINZ

 

 

Team Champion finished in Podium position today with a win at the CSIO4* Nations Cup in Linz, Austria. 

 

Drawn first to go of the fourteen teams, it was Gemma Paternoster with the impressive Osiris who had the unfortunate position of being the pathfinder – a difficult task for anyone in a team but made worse by being the first team to jump plus the task of being forced to jump in  rain which hadn’t ceased for 24hours.   Returning home with an extremely unlucky four faults she was able to give much valued feedback to the rest of the team as to how the course was riding.

 

With Philip Spivey and the established Romanov, Anna Edwards with the scopey Unique IX making their Nations Cup debut and Tina Fletcher with the consistent Hello Sailor all going on to jump clear rounds, Great Britain took an early lead.
 

The second round really took it’s toll on all the teams with there only being two double clears of the entire competition. Having finished the first round with a score of zero and a  jump in hand, it was this gap of four faults that remained through to the finish with Australia completing on sixteen faults whilst we finished on a total of twelve having accrued four faults with each of our three riders put forward.
 

Chef d’equipe Di Lampard commented “We had a super team and they were absolutely brilliant. They were totally focused, did everything we asked of them and we should all be incredibly proud of everyone here as they represented us so well in every shape and form. We’re now hoping for equal success on Sunday in the Grand Prix!”.