Laura Collett and Outback jump clear for final second place in the 7-Year-Old Championship
Mares topped both divisions at this year’s FEI WBFSH Eventing World Breeding Championships for Young Horses 2021 at Lion d’Angers in France where Germany’s Anna Lena Schaaf steered the OS studbook’s Lagona 4 to victory in the 6-Year-Olds while Australia’s Kevin McNab and the Holsteiner, Cute Girl, topped the 7-Year-Old category.
The hugely popular event which is designed to help develop future stars attracted a massive 40,000 spectators along with many of the world’s best Eventing athletes and super-talented young horses once again.
What did the top three riders - Kevin McNab, Laura Collett and Selina Milnes - have to say after their successful final day in the Seven-Year-Old Championship at Le Mondial Du Lion?
Scroll down to watch these videos from the presentations on the final day at the FEI WBFHS Eventing World Breeding Championships at Le Lion and read our daily reports on the links below
6-Year-Old Show Jumping Report
7-Year-Old Show Jumping Report
6-Year-Old Cross Country Day Report
7-Year-Old Cross Country Day Report
In the 7-Year-Old division Australia’s Kevin McNab and Cute Girl (Coventry/Caligula/Clearway) also took the early lead and didn’t let go. Judges Emmanuelle Olier (FRA), Katarzyna Konarska (POL) and James Rooney (IRL) scored their test at 26.9, and they added nothing over the following two phases.
Also completing on their dressage score were second-placed Laura Collett and the Trakehener, Outback, whose dressage mark of 27.2 left them only fractionally ahead of British compatriot Hayden Hankey and Heads Up on 27.4, while yet another of the British contingent, Selina Milnes, was lying fourth with the Irish-bred Cooley Snapchat on 27.5 going into cross-country day - just 0.6 penalty points separating the leading four.
Laura was very pleased after her cross-country run. “I’m very, very happy, he was a bit scared of the crowds but he stayed very honest and kept answering the questions. It’s an awful lot for them to come here if they don’t have much experience and to see so many people and the fences"
"They are very beautiful and well-built but they are quite spooky for the horses so it was a very educational day and I’m delighted with him”, she said after galloping home comfortably within the time with Outback.
Britain's Selina Milnes added 0.8 time penalties to her tally but still held on for third ahead of compatriots Gemma Tattersall with Johan-Some in fourth and Hankey who climbed back up to fifth when adding only 0.4 for time.
British riders filled all the places from second to seventh, and the most prolific studbook in the top-seven was the ISH, taking third, fifth, sixth and seventh spots.
