Blue Horse Sports News: On December 11, Local time in Switzerland, Harry Charles, a 22-year-old young rider who represented the United Kingdom in the Tokyo Olympic Games, partnered with the 15-year-old Dutch warm-blooded horse Borsato in a five-star 1.60m time-play with a total prize money of $112,500 in Geneva, defeating the world's top players and successfully reaching the top.
Route designer Gérard Lachat set a distinctive route for the 34-pairs of people and horses that competed. The first round consists of only 6 obstacle courses, including 4 double combination obstacles of 2AB, 4AB, 5AB and 6AB and 1 quad combination of 3ABCD, and the riders and horses need to make a total of 13 jumps at the end of the race, with a total length of 305 meters and a specified time of 53 seconds. At the end of the round, the 10 pairs successfully completed the match with zero penalties and joined hands to break into the final showdown of the play-offs.
In the play-offs, with a steady, smooth and fast march, Charles beat the other nine competitors to top the table with zero penalties and 35.07 seconds. Brazilian rider Rodrigo Pessoa, winner of the Individual Olympics in Athens, finished second with zero penalties and 36.29 seconds on a Carlito's Way 6, while former world number one Dutch rider Harrie Smolders partner Monaco finished third with zero penalties and 36.75 seconds.
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