The world’s top riders and their mounts are all at the Domaine de Sers in Pau, Southwest France until this Sunday to battle it out in the 5* (the highest level eventing competition in equestrian sports). The first event in the competition, dressage, ended with the victory of British rider Laura Collett on her mount London 52.
Australian Christopher Burton (22pts) was in the lead of the provisional ranking yesterday evening, but in the end it was the 2015 young horses World Champion, Laura Collett, who won the competition this morning. With an brilliant score of 78.70% she finishes the event with 21.3 penalty points. Laura Collett is currently forty-ninth in the world ranking, but she also took tenth place in the event with 26.2pts on Mr Bass. Close behind, Christopher Burton (22pts) and Piggy March (22.2pts) remain in second and third place, respectively. Although six of the ten top scores were taken by British riders, Tim Price (NZL), who ranks 2nd in the world, took fourth place with a dressage score of 77.04%, earning him 23 penalty points with Wesko.
German rider Christopher Wahler (25.6 pts) also made it to the top 10 with Carjatan S.
The last French rider to take off this morning, Maxime Livio scored 67.65%, finishing thirty-first, with 32.4 penalty points.