British rider Becky Moody and the thrilling nine-year-old Jagerbomb inspired within the London Global Horse Display freestyle dressage effects this night time (14 December), completing a extremely creditable 3rd in what was once their debut on the display.
The gelding, who Becky bred and who she now co-owns with Jo Cooper, scored 83.675%, with Lottie Fry and Everdale 2nd on 85.04% and Charlotte Dujardin and Imhotep completing as winners on 89.456%.
“My horse is solely an absolute legend – he was once out of the ordinary and liked each second of it and I feel you’ll see that on his face,” mentioned Becky. “I got here right here for lots of, a few years staring at and clearly attending to using right here has taken somewhat a very long time, however I’ve were given right here.
“The larger the gang, the easier he’s – he simply prospers on it and in point of fact needs to do it. He got here down the centre line pronouncing ‘let’s pass’, which is astounding.”
Becky rode the son of Dante Weltino to a medley of Tom Jones track, together with Intercourse Bomb, which in point of fact suited this horse’s character.
“It was once my groom and in point of fact excellent good friend Kim, who a number of years in the past informed me that I will have to do my freestyles with Jagerbomb to Tom Jones track, however I believed it will be too tacky,” defined Becky. “Then I in spite of everything caved in! It was once put in combination via Tony Hobden of Equidance and used it in inter I freestyles to begin with after which Tony did a corker of a role upgrading it to grand prix degree, as a result of I liked using to it.”
Becky admitted that she most likely didn’t all the time envisage Jagerbomb attaining the best echelons of the game.
“As a tender horse, he wasn’t hugely… – inspiring, is the incorrect phrase – however as a four- or five-year-old, I didn’t know whether or not he had the most productive engine on the planet. He had excellent motion, however now not superb motion. However as a result of he’s were given such an out of this world mind and the guts to need to do it, it’s allowed me to in point of fact increase him. He’s simply getting higher and higher.”
Becky’s technicality ratings within the London Global freestyle dressage effects ranged from 74.5% to 78.25% with inventive impact ratings ranging between 86.6% and 94.8%. Jaegerbomb’s earlier private best possible in grand prix freestyle was once 79.99%, which he scored at Hartpury in July, previous this 12 months.
Becky scored a non-public best possible of 75.08% with Jagerbomb when completing 3rd within the FEI Global Cup qualifier, introduced via Bret Willson Dressage Global Ltd and supported via Horse & Hound, the day prior to this.
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