Daisy Dick - British Equestrian Federation

Dressage 10
Medals Available: Team and Individual
British Horses: 3
British Riders: 3
British Reserves: 1 horse and 1 rider
Total Competitors: circa 50 horses and riders, 1 reserve
horse and rider is allowed for each team.
Team Competition: Decided by a combination of all
3 scores in the team test.
The Dressage tests are performed in a 60m x 20m
all-weather arena, they are a predetermined set of
movements, except in the final (freestyle/kür) round where
the riders decide their own test and perform it to music.
Riders are striving for harmony, lightness and a free,
flowing and regular movement of their horse in all paces.
The horse and rider are marked by five judges from
different positions in the arena and each rider will receive a
final percentage score.
The Format
13th & 14th August: Team Grand Prix
All horses and riders in the competition perform the same
test. The combined score of all three riders in the Team
produces the team score. The highest percentage score
wins the team competition.
16th August: Grand Prix Special
The top 25 individuals from the team competition
perform the grand prix special, which is a different test to
the grand prix.
The 15 highest placed combinations go through to the
final.
19th August: Freestyle Test (The Kür)
Riders choreograph their own set of movements to
be set to a taped musical accompaniment; there are
certain movements that must be incorporated.
They are marked on their execution of the movements and
artistic performance of the tests.
The Grand Prix Special and the Freestyle scores are
combined to decide the individual winner of the
competition.
Dressage at the Games
Athens 2004. Richard Davison & Ballaseyr
Royale (top) and Carl Hester & Escapado
(bottom)
Laura Bechtolsheimer
MISTRAL HJORIS
Owners: Dr Wilfried Bechtolsheimer &
rider
Breeding: Danish Trakehner by
Michellino x Virginia
Chestnut gelding, 17hh, 13yrs
Major results: 5th f/s Rotterdam, 3rd
GP Special and 2nd GP4 Lingen, 6th
GP Sp & GP Hagen 2008
Laura is one of Britain’s brightest dressage stars, and scored
a record grand prix mark of 75.33% for a British rider, in the
World Cup qualifier at Olympia on Mistral Hjoris. Aged 20,
she was the youngest rider to win the British National
Championship. She represented Great Britain as a Young
Rider in 2004, winning European team bronze and finishing
5th individually on Douglas Dorsey. The pair were 21st and
members of the sixth-placed British team at the 2006 World
Games. Last year she made her team debut on Mistral
Hjoris, who came from Hasser Hoffman in Denmark; she
was best of the 5th-placed team at the European
Championships at Turin and finished 20th. Laura’s father,
Dr Wilfried Bechtolsheimer, represented GB at the 1995
Europeans, and he and her mother, Ursula, who have lived
in England for over 20 years, run a breeding and training
centre. Laura’s brother Felix’s band, Hey Negrita, have
produced the music for her kür. Laura has a degree in
philosophy and politics from Bristol University.
Age: 23
Lives: Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Coach: Klaus Balkenhol
Dressage 11