Vividus QRE & Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour winner of YH GP at Blue Hors
Young Horse Grand Prix successfully introduced in Denmark this weekend
The future of Danish Dressage was gathered at beautiful Blue Hors this weekend for the national young horse championships and the premier of young horse Grand Prix tour for 8-10 year old horses towards the big sport. (A new series like we know from Germany’s Louisdor Preis).
For both the top riders but also upcoming riders this is a great chance to bring either the young horse into Grand Prix level or both yourself and your horse into this level, it also gives a pretty nice picture of what´s coming next for the big sport from a young age.
A young age at Grand Prix level
The Danish team World Champions from 2022 in Herning were all four ready with young talented horses this weekend at Blue Hors.
From H2R point of view the most important part of this young horse Grand Prix is that the horses are presented as the young horses they actually are at this very demanding level. When watching from the long side you really get every single exercise how the horses are able to performe. The lightness in the contact, the clarity and quality of the paces, the control and suppleness and not least how sharp they are to the riders aides. All these elements are clearly reflected in the entire performance and also by the scoring.
From following these youngsters at a few previous nationals shows and even the development from Friday to Sunday how they all grow into the job, and as also Cathrine stated after her ride Sunday: “Today he reminded me about a true Grand Prix horse”.
Judge at C Sunday was Danish international 3* judge Christine Prip. “I think it is a really good initiative with young horses GP as part of a gentle transition for the young horses who comes out and work at GP level, where we as judges are also careful that they are young horses and the focus is on the good development and tendency in the work, and of courses with a little more tolerance for “beauty flaws” that obviously are rooted in a lack of routine. It was a great pleasure to see the well-trained young horses being guided around in the best possible way and the level was also very high. It was also really nice to see several of our Grand Prix riders (Cathrine, Nanna and Carina) in action in the young horse classes where really good and correct young horse riding was demonstrated - so the entire educational path was demonstrated in the best possible way over the weekend,” says Christine.
Enjoy the winner performance from 8 year old Vividus QRE & Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour here below⬇️
