Glamourdale back home and available
After a long but good journey Glamourdale is back home.
In preparation for the World Championships he stopped breeding 4 weeks ago. As of this moment he will be available again.
A dream come true
Herning 2022 will go down in the history books for Van Olst Horses with capital letters. After a thrilling finale in the freestyle to music, with goosebumps, nail biting and a lot of emotion, Charlotte Fry has become World Champion in the freestyle with Glamourdale!
The best 15 combinations from the Special started in the final of this World Championship. Lottie was 13th to start, followed by the Dutch Dinja van Liere and the Danish Catherine Laudrup-Dufour.
With a brand new Freestyle called “Best of Britain”, composed by Joost Peters, Lottie started her test. To the sounds of God save the Queen, she entered the ring at A. After a perfect halt, it continued to the sounds of Queen in an unparalleled passage. The public enjoyed the music and the combination in the ring and did not hide this during the test. The oh’s and ah’s regularly filled the stadium and people spontaneously started singing along to the well-known British melodies. Peak after climax followed one another, the climax rose towards the end of the test. The canter part was exceptional, the audience ‘flabbergasted’ from the extended canter and two tempi’s.
In the last A-C line, the whole stadium, filled with more than 10,000 people, started clapping to Another one bytes the dust by Queen. The closer the duo got to the C, the more enthusiastic the audience became. The last part of the test, again to the sounds of God save the Queen was the pirouette in piaffe. The crowd went on there feet, cheered and clapped and absolutely loved it!
What a test! That the jury enjoyed it was clear from the score: 96.914 for the artistic part and 84.392 for the technical part, the score came to a fantastic 90.654%.
And then the waiting began…. It was exciting until the end, but when Catherine Laudrup – Dufour’s score finally appeared on the scoreboard, Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale were truly World Champion in the Freestyle!
Watch the test here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohr_Vex4m4c
Photo: Jon Stroud
Kjento selected for the World Championships
While Glamourdale has just become World Champion in the Grand Prix Special in Herning, we were told that stable mate Kjento may defend his title this year during the World Championship for young dressage horses in Ermelo.
Tonight at 8.00 pm the Freestyle in Herning starts in which Lottie and Glamourdale will make their appearance at 22.30 pm. This can be viewed for free via Horses.nl and Clipmyhorse.tv
Glamourdale delivers the most expensive foal
During the World Championships in Herning, an auction was organized for foals. One of these foals is Glamourdale daughter Gravity and she is bred out of a dam by For Romance I. The day after Glamourdale won in an unparalleled way gold in the Special, the foals were auctioned. A customer who was present on site eventually gave the highest bid of € 71,000.
Another Glamourdale foal, Dina Guldbjerg bred out of a dam of Blue Hors Zatchmo, was sold for €24,000.
Photo: Gravity
The day after!
Superlatives are not enough for the very impressive Glamourdale (Lord Leatherdale out of Thuja pref by Negro) who again showed his best side tonight under Charlotte Fry. With a difference of about 1.2%, the gold went to the KWPN stallion, the final score was 82.508%.
The sky is the limit
She still can’t believe it, but 26-year-old Charlotte Fry has just become world champion. “I sat on him for the first time when he was six. I had never been on such a horse before, the sky really felt like the limit then and it still does. As a seven-year-old he won gold at the World Championships, which was already fantastic. Even then I knew he was a real show twink, he loves all the attention. Then we started working towards the Grand Prix and he just keeps getting better and stronger. He really is a horse in a million, and I am so looking forward to the future. This is only his first championship and there is still so much to improve on. When you think about it, it’s almost a little scary that a horse this fantastic has the potential for even more.”
Tuesday is a rest day, after which the closing Freestyle will be held on Wednesday. Lottie will ride her new Freestyle “Best of Britain” where the greatest hits in British history come together in an amazing choreography.
Below an overview of photos of this great moment and the winning test can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/W-Im49hWbSk
photos: Jon Stroud, Lilly Forado, EQWO.net, Digishots
Champion of the World!!!
The unbelievable just happened! Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale became World Champion in the Grand Prix Special during the World Championship in Herning!
What a test, what a horse, what a rider!
As the penultimate starter in the class, the pair was allowed to enter the track. While their performance in the Grand Prix yesterday was already amazing, now they went even further!
Tomorrow we will post a full message, now its time for champagne!
Glamourdale impresses with new PR, British KWPN team to team silver
With six 10s for the canter parts, Charlotte Fry rode the KWPN-approved Glamourdale (Lord Leatherdale out of Thuja pref by Negro, breeder: J.W. Rodenburg of Ouderkerk aan den IJssel) to a new PR score: 80.838%. The audience enjoyed the impressive stallion, and he in turn seemed to enjoy the enthusiastic audience. In the last line, there was exuberant clapping in the Stutteri Ask Stadium, where Glamourdale seemed to wonder if this was really for him, according to his proud rider.
“I want to prove how fantastic Glamourdale is”
“I am speechless, he was so good! As soon as we left the warm up arena and he heard the crowd, Glamourdale seemed really ready. The test felt fantastic,” says Fry affected after the test. She continues: “Hopefully tomorrow I can get the little things out of the pirouettes, otherwise he was just ‘on fire’.” Despite the high expectations for Glamourdale and Fry, he does not yet have a lot of international experience. “He’s never traveled this far and been away from home for so long, but he really behaves like he doesn’t act differently. He’s only eleven and a stallion, which is often more difficult, but not with Glamourdale.” The pressure is high, everyone is talking about your chances and possibilities. How does that feel? “It makes me want to do really, really well. I want to do Glamourdale justice because everyone thinks he’s fantastic, so it’s up to me to prove how fantastic he really is. So there’s a lot of pressure, but I have a great team around us and the partnership with Glamourdale is great. I hope he loves me as much as I love him.”
Source: KWPN
Photo: Jon Stroud
Team GB wins silver in Herning!
The World Equestrian Games started yesterday in Herning (Denmark) with the Grand Prix dressage. Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale, breeder Fam, Rodenburg from Ouderkerk a.d. Amstel, will start here. This Grand Prix test is the team test where the medals will be given to the best scoring coutnries. The best 30 combinations from this test will start in the Grand Prix Special on Monday where the first individual medals will be awarded.
On Saturday, Gareth Hughes and Richard Davison started on behalf of Team GB and were able to establish a good basis for the team. On Sunday it was Charlotte Dujardin’s turn with Imothep. What is special is that this Imhotep is a son of our stallion Everdale!
Lottie entered the ring with Glamourdale as the last starter for team GB. The burly black entered the ring imposingly, stood still like a statue and left like a king to begin his trial. Highlights in his test included the extended trot and passage. Tens were given for the changes every two strides, the extended canter but also for the last line in the test where the piaffe and passage were shown. In the end the score came to 80.838! Another new personal record for Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale and for the first time a score over the magical 80%!
And then the waiting for the other countries started. Denmark and Germany are the countries also competing for the medals. Denmark, who started this championship as the favorite, took 1st place, Great Britain got 2nd and Germany became 3rd.
In the final result Lottie became 2nd!!
Photo: Jon Strout
Westfalen: 85,000 euros for Glamourdale daughter
No fewer than 77 dressage foals were auctioned at the Westfalen foal auction. Glamourdale delivered the absolute auction topper. The filly Glamourös was eventually sold after 63 bids for 85,000 euros and will remain in Germany. Glamourös was bred by Gestut Schultenhof out of the San Amour x De Niro daughter Kallista S.
Source: Horses / Westfalen Pferde
Nacho (s. Negro) scores during PAVO preselection in Turnhout.
Den Hout – During the PAVO Cup pre-selection for 4-year-old dressage horses in Turnhout (July 23), the approved stallion Nacho (by Negro x Krack C x Fruhling breeder: S Makenschein – Chaam) presented him self very well.
Because his rider Charlotte Fry is unable to start the (semi) final competitions for the PAVO Cup due to participation in the World Championships to be held simultaneously in Herning, it was decided to ride Nacho during the pre-selection in Turnhout.
Nacho showed a particularly beautiful harmonious test and, in addition to the beautiful score of 83 points, received a good and positive comment from the jury.
Besides Nacho (by Negro), Lottie also qualified for the semi-finals (4 year olds) with: Nova-Liz (by Everdale x Johnson, breeder: v.d. Steen – Zeeland) and Nareina (by Everdale x Krack C, breeder: Mrs Oudijk-Arkel). In addition, our stable rider Phoebe Peters placed with Everest (by Especial x Negro, breeder: van Olst Horses – Den Hout) and Ninja d’Or (by Chippendale x Rousseau, breeder: B. v.d. Hoorn – Made).
Photo: Nacho
