Charlotte Dujardin on new venue
This morning’s London Horse Present dressage grand prix winner Charlotte Dujardin reported the new venue for the show at ExCel is “lovely”, despite the fact that “there’s almost nothing like that grand hall” at the event’s previous residence at Olympia.
“I’m not heading to lie – it’s not the very same since I think there is very little like that grand hall, the roof and almost everything staying so close,” mentioned Charlotte. “For me Olympia was 1 of the most amazing arenas, but this is substantially greater, there is so a great deal much more room all through.”
The new location, which will house the present for this year and possibly longer, has significantly more room, particularly in the heat-up and other backstage locations. Other riders echoed Charlotte’s optimistic suggestions on this. She also praised the way the show has been established up to feel as substantially as possible like Olympia in some elements.
“They’ve completed a superb career of environment it up and when you journey down the chute, you nearly consider you are there [at Olympia],” she said. “They’ve performed it really very similar and attempted to retain it all the similar, so it’s truly lovely.”
Charlotte also praised the new small grand prix check used here and said it suited her experience, Gio.
“That test suits him extremely very well for the reason that it is really twisty and turny. Everything comes up extremely brief and speedy. For him people traces truly worked actually nicely because he is smaller,” she reported.
“It rides quite effectively, although anything will come pretty brief. You are so utilised to carrying out two or a few additional piaffes and traveling improvements and a lot more every little thing, but it all transpires really rapidly.”
Charlotte also described the fact the take a look at starts with turning on to the ideal rein following the to start with centreline, whilst the common grand prix test begins on the still left.
She explained: “It’s a bit weird as properly performing every thing off the proper rein, not off the still left. We’re so made use of to doing it off the still left, then all of a sudden you’re undertaking it off the right. But I really appreciated it.”
The London Horse Demonstrate dressage continues tomorrow night with the freestyle.
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