🎶 When Dressage Meets Dance: Highlights from the Freestyle to Music Online Championships
The Freestyle to Music Online Championship Show was an absolute spectacle of creativity, precision, and partnership.
This unique event, where riders choreograph their own routines to carefully chosen music, is the ultimate test of harmony, and this year's entrants brought their A-game!
The online format, hosted by Dressage Anywhere, allowed these dazzling musical performances to be judged from yards around the world, proving that you don't need a huge arena to make magic happen.
Here are the champions and top scorers from every level, who truly showed us how to dance down the centre line.
Introductory & Preliminary: The Party Starts Here
The lower levels were intensely competitive, with numerous combinations scoring over 70% and showcasing exciting potential.
🏆 Introductory Champion
1st Vicky Lacey and Garthfach Endeavour 70.28%
2nd Claire Dawson and Popsters Picasso 68.89%
3rd Susan Griffiths and Kengarth Jeremy 68.06%
A fantastic result for Vicky and Garthfach Endeavour, who secured the Introductory title with a score above the 70% benchmark.
🏆 Preliminary Champion
1st Julie Jones and Lynx of Lincoln 72.50%
2nd Vicky Lacey and Garthfach Endeavour 70.28%
3rd Pauline Malins and Ardlea Sweet Beauty 67.78%
Julie Jones and Lynx of Lincoln stole the show at Preliminary, achieving the highest overall score of the Championship with an outstanding 72.50%. A massive congratulations to Vicky and Garthfach Endeavour for placing second, impressively securing a podium finish in their second class!
Novice and Elementary: Stepping Up the Challenge
Moving up the levels meant greater complexity in the required movements, which these champion riders mastered.
Novice
Stacy Miller and Mounthazel Lad 66.11%
Elementary
Louise Le Geyt and Do You Love Me 67.31%
In the Novice class, Stacy Miller and Mounthazel Lad danced their way to the championship title. Following that, Louise Le Geyt and Do You Love Me demonstrated beautiful harmony to claim the Elementary Championship.
The Medium Mastery: A Double Victory!
The Medium class saw the return of Elementary champion Louise Le Geyt and Do You Love Me, who capped off an incredible show by proving their dominance at the higher levels.
🏆 Medium Champion
Louise Le Geyt and Do You Love Me delivered a polished and expressive test, securing the championship with a brilliant score of 70.50%! Not only did they win the Elementary title, but they are also Double Champions for this show.
Congratulations also go to Ceri Phipps-Hewlett and Hurstpark Tikkaboo, who took the Reserve Champion title with a close and highly respectable 68.17%.
Final Notes of Thanks
A huge well done to every single competitor who took the time to create and perform these fantastic musical routines. The Freestyle to Music Championships are always a vibrant showcase, demonstrating the skill and dedication required to match movement to melody. Full results on the scoreboard here.