Harry Meade and Superstition Photo courtesy Leszek Wójcik
Harry Meade has won the headline CCI4*-L class at the Strzegom October Festival on board a horse he has only owned for 10 days
Harry and his long-time owner Mandy Gray recently purchased Superstition II from New Zealand’s Lucy Jackson who has had considerable success with the 10-year-old gelding, winning the Event Rider Masters at Millstreet and the Advanced Intermediate at Gatcombe early in the year
Harry took the lead in Strzegom after a clear round in the cross-country when the dressage leader Kylie Roddy (GBR) riding Carden Earl Grey added time penalties and, despite adding six penalties in the show jumping to finish on a score of 34 penalties, Harry and Superstition finished ahead of Australia’s Andrew Hoy riding Vassily De Lassos (38) while France’s Maxime Livio finished third (38.90) with Vegas des Boursons
Andrew Hoy also finished in ninth place on Bloom Des Hauts Crets, securing qualification for both horses for Tokyo 2020 – ‘job done’ says Andrew!
Andreas Dibowski and the 16-year-old FRH Butts Avedon won the CCI4*-S and the CCI3*-L podium was also dominated by Germany with first place going to Ann-Catrin Bierlein riding Fraulein Hummel
28 countries, including Mexico and Turkey, took part in the competition and it was a rider from India who took the win in the CCI3*-S class for the first time. Fouaad Mirza won this class with Dajara 4 beating the Swedish combinations Sandra Gustafsson riding Kaminskij and Aminda Ingulfson riding Hot Cup VH.
