The British made history at the FEI European Pony Championships 2015 in Malmo, Sweden when claiming all gold in Dressage along with both the Jumping and Eventing team titles. Only the individual Jumping and Eventing gold medals evaded their grasp, going to French rider Justine Maerte and Germany’s Calvin Bockmann respectively.

The British victory roll began in Thursday’s Dressage team competition in which Phoebe Peters’ fabulous performance with SL Lucci clinched it for her side. At 16 years of age, and in her last year at pony level, Peters looks set to make a big impression over the coming years, and her hat-trick of golden performances at the Swedish fixture were topped by a world record score when claiming the individual title on Saturday before she came out to break her own world record with another sensational result in yesterday’s Freestyle.

The 30th edition of the FEI European Pony Championships attracted Dressage teams from 13 countries – Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Germany has long dominated the team podium, but this time around they had to settle for silver ahead of Denmark in bronze. It was a close-fought affair, only 0.641 separating the top two countries and the Danes just another 0.872 adrift.

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