Next March the World Cup Finals in Gothenburg, Sweden will have to do - fort he first time in 2 years - without World number one, Valegro. Charlotte Dujardin's 14-years-old champion is getting the winter off. Co-owner Carl Hester made the decision as the intensely competitive World Cup Western European League kicks off the 2015/16 season at Odense, Denmark this week. The last two years Charlotte and Valegro won the World Cup Dressage Finals. In 2014 they became the first British pair to win the World Cup in 40 years. Last season they also claimed gold in Las Vegas. Tentative plans are for Charlotte to seek to qualify on Barolo, the nine-year-old Hanoverian gelding on which the rider won her first British Grand Prix title last month, or Uthopia, the 14-year-old KWPN stallion that Carl rode on Great Britain’s gold medal teams at the 2012 Olympics and 2011 European Championships and bronze at the 2013 Europeans and was competed by Charlotte in both England on the Continent in 2013 and 2014.
Next March the World Cup Finals in Gothenburg, Sweden will have to do - fort he first time in 2 years - without World number one, Valegro. Charlotte Dujardin's 14-years-old champion is getting the winter off. Co-owner Carl Hester made the decision as the intensely competitive World Cup Western European League kicks off the 2015/16 season at Odense, Denmark this week. The last two years Charlotte and Valegro won the World Cup Dressage Finals. In 2014 they became the first British pair to win the World Cup in 40 years. Last season they also claimed gold in Las Vegas. Tentative plans are for Charlotte to seek to qualify on Barolo, the nine-year-old Hanoverian gelding on which the rider won her first British Grand Prix title last month, or Uthopia, the 14-year-old KWPN stallion that Carl rode on Great Britain’s gold medal teams at the 2012 Olympics and 2011 European Championships and bronze at the 2013 Europeans and was competed by Charlotte in both England on the Continent in 2013 and 2014.