Jonelle Price and Cloud Dancer II
In 2014 Jonelle Price won the prestigious CIC3* 8/9 Year Old class at Blenheim International Horse Trials riding the feisty little mare Faerie Dianimo that has gone on to have a fantastic season with a CCI4* fourth place at Pau and second at Luhmuhlen, seventh place in the CIC3*at Tattersalls and sixth in the CICO3* at Aachen.
This year she has done it again riding The Marley and Me Syndicate’s Cloud Dancer II, leading from the start with an impressive dressage score of 33.2, jumping a beautiful clear round and then adding 8.8 time penalties to win on a score of 42 ahead of France’s Astier Nicolas riding Spes Addit’Or (44.4) and Ireland’s Jonty Evans riding Cooley Rorke’s Drift (45.8)
Jonelle won’t have much time to celebrate this win as they load up the lorry with eight young horses to head to Pontispool at 3:30am on Monday morning but there can be no doubt that this is what makes champions. We talked to her about her win here at Blenheim straight after her cross country ride
