Annabella Pidgley Family: Charlotte Dujardin’s Olympic and European Championship medalist Gio will be transferred to Annabella Pidgley. What can we anticipate from this new collaboration? The 10-year-old Apache gelding has been sold to the Pidgley family by Charlotte Dujardin. Princess Annabella Pidgley of the United Kingdom is a 16-year-old dressage Competitor.
A co-founder and major backer of the Berkeley Group, Tony Pidgley was her father. Dressage rider and judge, Sarah’s mother, is Sarah’s best friend. Lottie Fry was born into the dressage world; her late mother, Laura Fry, participated in the 1992 Olympics and won a silver medal with the European team before going on to establish a successful dressage training yard in her hometown of Leeds, Yorkshire. During lessons and training, Lottie sat in the corner most of the time, and she was already riding a horse before she could walk!
Lottie claims that horses and dressage are the centers of her universe! She was quite fortunate in that she had daily lessons from her mother throughout her youth, on everything from little hairy ponies to Grand Prix horses. Lottie began training with Carl Hester in 2012, and he assisted her in securing a position at Van Olst Horses in Holland, where she would be working and training with five-time Danish Olympian Anne Van Olst. In fact, Lottie is still headquartered in the city.
Somerford Park Premier League Dressage
As in previous years, the Somerford Park Premier League Dressage has attracted a large number of entries, and the organizers are thrilled to announce that British Dressage favorites Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin will also be participating. Carl will be riding the magnificent Hawtins Delicato, and Charlotte will be riding her lovely grey horse Florentina, who will be making her debut. Keystone Drummer Boy — owned by Tracy Cooper and En Vogue – will be racing in the Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon.
In addition to Eilberg and Cowell, Jayden Brown, Emma Hindle, Becky Moody, and Sarah Higgins will be competing in the Somerford Park Premier League Dressage. Last year’s pony champion, Annabella Pidgley, will also be competing this year. The coveted trophy will be presented to the owner of the horse that finishes in first place in Sunday’s Grand Prix, which is sponsored by Firmdale Hotels. It will be handed to the winner by Kit Kemp from Firmdale Hotels, one of the Grand Prix’s sponsors, whose daughter Willow Kemp will be participating in the Premier League Dressage.
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Great Horses Throughout her Career
Lottie relocated to the Netherlands in 2014 (although she admits that she is still struggling to grasp the Dutch language) and hasn’t looked back since then. The most extraordinary possibilities have presented themselves to her, and she has ridden great horses throughout her career. She is passionate about her work! She rides around 10–12 horses every day, ranging from three-year-olds that have just been broken to Grand Prix horses.
BIOGRAPHY
Annabella Pidgley began riding at the age of three and has always wanted to pursue a career in Dressage. At the age of twelve, she became the first person to win a hat trick at her first international competition (Hickstead CDI). FEI European Championships, the first of which she competed at the age of 13, followed. In the final at Strezgom, she finished 11th in the FEI world rankings, her highest finish. The British Dressage Summer National Championships saw Annabella win the Medium Silver Medal in her division. After that, she was awarded Reserve Champion in the Winter Medium Silver category. She finished second in the Medium Gold Championships with a score of 72.5 percent the following summer.
Whenever Lottie has the opportunity, she enjoys returning to England to see relatives and friends there. This is normally around the time of the Christmas contests and stallion events when things are a bit calmer on the showgrounds. She consumes as much English cuisine as she can, and her journey is never complete without a hearty roast supper; she really feels that the Dutch are losing out on something wonderful!
Annabella’s personal best in international competition is 76.9 percent with her pony Cognac, with which she has 10 international wins and 33 top three international placings to her credit. Annabella has three horses in the UK that she intends to campaign for Juniors in 2021 and aims to achieve further international success at a higher level in the future. Five years ago, Annabella began training with Cathrine Dufour, an Olympic dressage rider, and the two have formed a strong bond. Cathrine, her family, and her team have all helped Annabella get to where she is today, she adds. As of right now, she’s in her GCSE year, and she plans to pursue a career in international business with the goal of representing her country at the Olympic Games in the future.
Pidgley Wins the Day
In the end, British Annabella Pidgley, riding an 11-year-old Hanoverian horse named Sultan des Paluds, delivered the most impressive test. Before being sold to the Pidgleys in March 2021, the chestnut mare was a silver medalist at the 2017 World Championships for Young Dressage Horses in Ermelo. There was an instant bond between Annabella and the gelding, and they were quickly nominated for the 2021 Euros squad for Great Britain after scoring three goals and their only CDI this year.
With no international riders to contend with, it’s much more difficult to do well in a CDI on the European continent where there are competitors from many other countries, but Pidgley proved herself worthy and rode a fantastic test on which there isn’t much to say. Traversal movements were fluid and graceful, and the trot was a joy to watch. Walking over an extended period of time was enjoyable, and the gathered beat was apparent and easy to understand.
The turn to the left on the hunches was a little tense. The flying transitions were smooth and stable, the transition from stretched canter to collected canter was wonderful, and the horse maintained a soft, steady contact throughout the ride. They also rode a wonderful, balanced, square stop three times. Bravo! They won 75.455 percent with a low score of 72.424 percent (Ebert) and a high score of 76.970 (Voser).
