This is in relation to the Europeans last weekend. It’s the first European championships where we haven’t seen Charlotte compete, although she was there to support team gb.
My question is, do people think she can get back on top? Is she a one horse wonder?
NO
she has been excelling with many different up and coming horses- inform yourself.
Poor Charlotte. She doesn’t compete once and goes to support the team and is still criticized.
Of course there is no immediate replacement for a horse like valegro- they are rare as hens teeth and even then take many years to develop.
but she has been stacking up an impressive number of national wins on other young horses she has been bringing along
For example:
http://www.yourhorse.co.uk/news/arti…-championships
sign of a good trainer.
Are you trolling? Charlotte is competing a group of rather nice young horses and doing well with them.
She talks alot about Mount St John Freestyle being her next world class horse - but the mare isn’t quite at PSG yet, so give her a bit of time. She had Barolo at GP while she was still competing Valegro, but Carl seems to have taken over the ride on that horse. And she’s got the 7 year old Florentina as well. Give the poor girl a year or two to train her horses before you start calling her a one hit wonder!
Also find it slightly ironic, the amount of grief top riders can get at times on here for not bringing on their own young horses, then one of the best in the world has a gap between her top horse and her younger ones and suddenly people are wondering if she’s ever going to see a championship competition again 
She doesnt have a GP horse at the moment so of course she wasn’t part of the team this year. But anyone who’d taken 3 seconds to Google the stellar results she’s had all season with her string of up-and-comers wouldn’t ask such a silly question. The fact the OP (or this alter) just joined COTH today makes me think someone just posted this to try and stir the pot.
No - but you may be!
Check out harveywetdog on youtube; https://www.youtube.com/user/harveywetdog
I think their recent success has, at last, enabled them to keep a good number of quality horses to compete.
From her social media, she’s got:
En Vogue–PSG, scoring in the mid seventies
Hawtins Delicato–Small tour CDI, scores in the high 70s
MSJ Kom Fairytale–Inter 1
MSJ Freestyle–Young Horse PSG, scores up to 80%, also showing in regular PSG, high 70s
Florentina–showing in the 7 y/os with nearly 80%
Ekitof–advanced medium
6 y/os
MSJ VIP and Gio–both getting big scores in the 6 y/os
She’s also got another horse from Hawtins and 2 River Rise horses (4 and 5 year olds).
And those are only the ones I could find easily on FB, pretty sure she has others. I’d put money on at least 1 of those horses being a serious Tokyo horse.
Isn’t she only like 30, too? She probably still has time for a comeback.
if being able to ride like CD is the standard for One Hit Wonders, where do I sign up?! :winkgrin:
a one hit wonder with her timing and feel - and sense of humour!
the horrors.
yeah, I could live with that.
although, afterwards I would technically be a two-hit-wonder seeing as have only brought one horse through from Preliminary to Grand Prix - jumping the odd show jumping course with him just to keep us both from getting well n truly Rectangled.
but I want to be able to choose from carls stable!
am not just taking any old already won 5yo bundeschampionate slapper…
Char, is that you? is only riding 5hrs a day let the Boredom Goblin sneak into your jods? :winkgrin:
She’s the embodiment of greatness, definitely not a one hit wonder, but we may have to wait a bit for the second major hit. She did say Valegro was a, “Once in a generation horse” or something to that effect and she’s probably right, not too many of those about. He was to her what Boomerang was to Eddie Macken, the once in a lifetime horse who plucks you from obscurity and catapults you to the top overnight, then you have to rebuild your string but it turns out you are an amazing trainer and you’ll be fine.
LOL, do you know anything of the sport? If you did you would know that it takes years to develop and GP horse and even then you don’t always get a Valegro.
Realistically, Valegro was a once in a lifetime type of horse unless she has accrued wealthy sponsors willing to put all sorts of quality horses underneath her. Because, you never know which horse will be successful at GP until they are successful at GP.
Also realistically, one has to either be independently wealthy or have wealthy sponsors to compete routinely and successfully at the level she is competing at. I think she has the goods in terms of her skills, the rest will depend on her ability to attract and keep sponsors (I don’t think she is independently wealthy).
I don’t know why people are so critical of the OP for this question. History is replete with Olympic medalists whose futures more or less depended on who “fed” their pipeline and with what kind of horses.
Charlotte has a pretty impressive stable of horses coming up. She’ll be juuuust fine.
She’s not independently wealthy, but she’s far from starving. She has the ability/eye to pick up young horses for cheap and start them up, selling off the ones that don’t have the wow factor. She owns/co-owns a few of her horses but the rest are owned by wealthy sponsors. I think for 32, she’s got a pretty deep bench of potential star horses. Will there ever be another Valegro? Probably not, he’s pretty darn incredible.
I don’t know why people are so critical of the OP for this question. History is replete with Olympic medalists whose futures more or less depended on who “fed” their pipeline and with what kind of horses.
Let’s see. Not having the next gold olympic medalist does not make you a one horse wonder.
especially considering her accomplishments with several horses.
This is not someone out there buying or being given horses made to international gp by someone else.
what the…?
Seriously. She has so many up-and-coming horses that I lose track!! :lol:
She’s definitely aiming for the 2020 Olympics. Can’t remember who she’s looking at… En Vogue, Freestyle, Delicato? All of her horses are frankly spectacular. I love watching them progress, as she shares a good amount of video clips of their shows or even schooling sessions.
Not bad for a one-h
Dressage icon Charlotte Dujardin is in for a busy week as she has a total of ten horses entered for this year’s LeMieux National Dressage Championships, 14– 17 September. A decade on from claiming her first ‘Nationals’ title aboard her now legendary partner Valegro, Charlotte returns to Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire hoping to add a further eight Championship accolades to her impressive CV which also boasts three Olympic gold medals.
She’ll ride a minimum of 17 tests over the four days of competition with others in the pipeline should she qualify for finals. Three of her rides are mares under the ownership of Mount St John Stud while she rides two horses bred by the Hawtins Stud, proving her support for British breeders.
On Thursday she’ll kick off her campaign in the Fairfax Saddles Prix St Georges Gold Championship with three rides, Mount St John Kom Fairytale, Mount St John Freestyle and her own Jazz-sired En Vogue. It’s then the turn Hawtins Delicato, owned by Carl Hester, her trainer and mentor. Carl has this horse earmarked for himself for Tokyo so could this be the final time we’ll see Charlotte in the saddle?
Friday, her trio from the PSG move up a gear to contest the Saracen Horse Feeds Inter I Gold Championship. Charlotte has high hopes for both Freestyle, by Fiedermark, and En Vogue and feels both are contenders to get her back on the British team while the Fürst Heinrich x Weltmeyer Mount St John Kom Fairytale is still quite new to her. They’ve been to just three competitions, done six tests together, won five (one with 83.42%) and never scored sub 73%.
Her younger stars move into the limelight on Saturday in the Shearwater Insurance Young Horse Championships. In the five year old class, Hawtins San Floriana, who Charlotte co-owns with Carl, is her chance. The San Amour x Florestan mare won the four year old title last year with Hawtins Stud’s stable jockey Bryony Goodwin so hopes are high. Mount St John VIP (Vivaldi x Donnerhall) is her first ride in the six year old Championship and the duo won the five year olds last year so have to be among the favourites for the title. She also has Gio (Apache x Tango), who she bought earlier this year when the chestnut caught her eye when teaching a clinic in California.
VIP has a quick change before a second test in the TopSpec Medium Gold Championship where Charlotte also has two further rides. She’ll partner Sarah Tyler-Evans’ Negro-sired mare River Rise Nisa who’s had a rapid rise up the ranks with some fantastic summer form. Her final ride in the class will be her own Gio, or ‘Pumpkin’ as she calls him.
She’ll round off her trip to Stoneleigh with a mere four rides on Sunday. The day starts bright and early with the Equine Construction Advanced Medium Gold and Charlotte has two rides. First up will be her own eye-catching grey Florentina VI (Vivaldi x Rubel) who already has two Nationals titles to her name. Then it’s another Carl Hester horse, Ekitof, who’ll come in front of the judges. The Zucchero eight year old was started by Amy Woodhead and Charlotte has ridden him just once in competition, at Hartpury College Premier League where they won to secure direct qualification.
Unless Charlotte qualifies any of her rides for the Shearwater finale on Sunday, her final tests will be in the Childéric Saddles Elementary Gold where River Rise Nisa and Gio return to action.
Charlotte will of course be joined by a host of other top names competing at the Nationals for the 25 titles on offer alongside plenty of up-and-coming stars and talented amateurs – look out for our full preview next week.
If you haven’t secured your tickets to join the action, don’t worry as they’ll be available on the gate. Entry starts at just £18 for the day for adults and £11 for children while car parking is free. Visit the Championship website for the full lowdown on the four days including the timetable, full entries and details of the amazing shopping village and food outlets.
Omg, I am tired just READING that article! She is amazing!
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