For the first time, the FEI has a separate ranking for horses and riders. Where previously the combinations were put in order, now two rankings have been made. With the horses, the best 6 tests from the last 8 months are counted.

After the World Championship in Herning, Glamourdale is at a 3rd place in the horse rankings!
Everdale is in 19th place in this list and Dark Legend is in 23rd place.

Charlotte Fry is on the new list for riders, just like Glamourdale, in a 3rd place!

Photo: Arnd.nl

With a big lead, the great Kjento (Negro x Jazz) and rider Charlotte Fry became world champion for seven-year-old dressage horses during the Longines FEI/WBFSH Dressage World Breeding Championships for Young Horses. In a sun-drenched final, the expressive KWPN stallion, bred by A.J. van Os, stood out above the rest of the podium.

The jury only had superlatives for the trot of the black KWPN stallion. “What an exciting and well-moving horse,” commentating jury Maria Swenessen from Australia began. ‘A pleasure to judge, but with a trot with so much balance, upward urge and collection, the question arises: ‘How high can you go?.’ Only the very highest was enough, the only 10 in the final was awarded. Kjento’s upward canter with a lot of power and active walk were also highly appreciated, which was reflected in his score. The fact that the jury has a lot of confidence in the seven-year-old stallion was apparent from the 9.8 for perspective that was awarded, which meant that the world championship could no longer escape him.

Charlotte Fry couldn’t help but shine after the final. ”It was so exciting after my test, there were still four combinations to start. I’ve only been walking around nervous and waiting, but now I’m enjoying the win!’ The World Champion is a joy to work with according to the rider; ”Kjento is super chill to handle, in the stable it is almost a gelding. But as soon as I pick up the reins, he’s there and super sharp. He is the perfect horse.” During the test, the combination really enjoyed themselves despite the pressure to maintain its favorite position after last year’s win. “We went for more power this test and he delivered everything I asked for. Of course there is pressure to show that he is still as great as he was, but I really don’t have to worry about that with him,” Charlotte concludes.

Following the success of Glamourdale in Herning, his offspring are also starting to stand out more and more.

The champions of the Westfalen Wappen and Optimum were crowned on Thursday as part of the Turnier der Sieger in Münster. The championship of the three-year-old riding horses, the Westfalen Wappen, was won by Glamdale WP, a son of brand new world champion Glamourdale out of a full sister of the 700,000 euro premium stallion Maracaná. Glamdale was bred by Heike Pleines who is also the breeder of Lord Leatherdale.

Glamdale recently became reserve champion at the Westfalen Woche. Yesterday his rider Stefanie Ahlert rode the black stallion to victory with an 8.5.

Source: Horses.nl

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

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