{"id":11163,"date":"2025-03-31T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/redp\/?p=11163"},"modified":"2025-03-31T16:51:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:51:43","slug":"redpost-rider-harry-meade-success-from-montelibretti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/redp\/redpost-rider-harry-meade-success-from-montelibretti\/","title":{"rendered":"Redpost Rider Harry Meade: Success from Montelibretti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The international eventing season is underway, and for Harry Meade<\/strong> and Grafennacht<\/strong>, it began with a long journey to Italy in pursuit of a crucial five-star qualification<\/strong>. With limited options available, Montelibretti provided the perfect opportunity\u2014though the three-day trip was no small undertaking. Thankfully, the effort paid off, with Grafennacht securing an impressive CCI4<\/em>-L victory<\/em>*, finishing more than 24 penalties ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our international season started with a long-distance fact-finding trip to Italy with Grafennacht. Formerly ridden by William Fox-Pitt, her owner, Amanda Gould, and William sent her to me last Autumn following William\u2019s retirement from top level competition. However, in order for us to do a five-star together, we first had to run at a four-star long event, the options for which were few and far between \u2013 if we are to go to a spring five-star our only chance was to go to Portugal or Italy, both of which would take three days to get there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully the trip was fruitful \u2013 she won the CCI4*-L at Montelibretti, finishing more than 24 penalties ahead of the rest of the field. It was a long way to go to get a qualification, but it was a useful week in terms of building our partnership and for me to learn a bit more about her. She did a lovely dressage test, then I set out across country just thinking about getting a qualifying result, but ended up letting her stride on as the going was near perfect. Her show jumping has been her achilles heel, and although I had a hypothesis beforehand about how I wanted to approach, it was our first real chance to try out this new approach in competition. She jumped as well as I could have hoped, and she managed to extend her lead even further. Montelibretti was a wonderful event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisers were very hospitable and I enjoyed seeing a lot of European faces, catching up with old friends and meeting some new ones. Eric Winter designed the cross-country course, and it was a good test for us. The strangest moment of my week happened while I was riding in an arena alone, when something unexpected trotted through it. I had to do a double take before realising that it really was a huge male wolf! I hadn\u2019t thought further than Montelibretti, but now that we have our five-star qualification under our belts it has given us options. In the meantime she\u2019ll have a quiet week in the field.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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