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HORSE HERO<br />

Top<br />

Dollar VI<br />

The ‘XXL’ puissance winner with<br />

incredible self-belief<br />

WHILE only nine years old, Top<br />

Dollar VI is a horse whose raw<br />

talent earmarks him as a potential<br />

world class contender.<br />

Although the rangey chestnut’s<br />

rideability still needs honing,<br />

his early appearances on the<br />

international circuit have shown<br />

he has ability to burn. At Olympia<br />

in December, he stood outright<br />

winner in the puissance before<br />

producing an impressive fourfault<br />

round over a demanding<br />

World Cup track.<br />

“I’ve been lucky to have had<br />

some very good horses but when<br />

I jumped the World Cup at<br />

Olympia, it felt the easiest it’s<br />

ever felt, even if it wasn’t the most<br />

controlled round,” says his rider<br />

Laura Renwick.<br />

“The feeling ‘Dollar’ gives you<br />

over a fence is phenomenal, it just<br />

doesn’t take anything out of him.<br />

I don’t think there’d be a course in<br />

the world he couldn’t jump.”<br />

As well as his awesome scope,<br />

Dollar’s fearless temperament also<br />

stands in his favour.<br />

“Sometimes he can land<br />

himself in trouble but because he<br />

has the ability to prop himself,<br />

he can always get out of it. He<br />

has incredible self-belief — he<br />

doesn’t think there’s anything he<br />

can’t do,” says Laura.<br />

While the 17.2hh can be “a bit<br />

bolshy” in his stable, he thrives in<br />

his job.<br />

“After half an hour in the field,<br />

he wants to come in but when<br />

you’re riding him, that’s when he’s<br />

at his happiest,” Laura adds.<br />

Laura and her husband John<br />

had tried to buy Dollar’s dam,<br />

Elegant C, as a four-year-old<br />

and had continued to follow her<br />

career. They bumped into her<br />

owner Sue Clark at Scope, and<br />

discovered she had bred two colts<br />

from the mare — three-year-old<br />

Dollar and two-year-old Kankan,<br />

his half-brother by Kannan.<br />

“His dam was an out-andout<br />

winner,” says John. “We saw<br />

some video of the colts and liked<br />

Dollar — he had the same sire as<br />

Oz De Breve, who we’d sold, and<br />

we thought he’d be like him except<br />

that he turned out to be XXL.”<br />

A big but weak youngster,<br />

Dollar was kept as a stallion<br />

until he was four years old (the<br />

Renwicks have retained some<br />

semen) and has been produced<br />

slowly. He was competed as a<br />

young horse by Claire Gredley and<br />

Emily Mason, finishing 13th in the<br />

2016 Talent Seekers final at <strong>Horse</strong><br />

of the Year Show (HOYS).<br />

“He’s not our normal type but<br />

we’re happy with what we’ve got.<br />

He’s a big horse with lots of scope<br />

and a strong chance of being a<br />

team prospect,” John adds. H&H<br />

NEXT<br />

WEEK<br />

By SARAH RADFORD<br />

HOYS lead-rein pony<br />

hunter ch<strong>amp</strong>ion<br />

Cadlanvalley Super Ted<br />

FRAME<br />

“He’s come from a couple of<br />

big shows and you can see he’s<br />

competition fit. Ideally you’d like<br />

to see more weight and topline on<br />

him, and some better definition<br />

behind,” says showjumper Peter<br />

Charles. “That said, he’s jumping<br />

at a high level and he’s not<br />

struggling for scope or power.<br />

“The problem he has at the<br />

moment is in shortening down a<br />

distance. As well as his size, he<br />

does stand with his leg a little set<br />

back behind — ideally you’d like<br />

to see that set further under him.<br />

From his stance you can see he’s<br />

a big, rangey horse that’s built to<br />

have a very big stride.”<br />

9yo chestnut Anglo European Studbook gelding, 17.2hh<br />

Stable name: Dollar<br />

Breeder: Sue Clark<br />

Owners: John and Laura Renwick<br />

Rider: Laura Renwick<br />

Results: first puissance<br />

Rouen 2017; first Olympia<br />

puissance 2017; third Olympia<br />

Masters 2017; 15th Olympia<br />

World Cup 2017; third Liverpool<br />

rankings class 2017, first Olympia<br />

six-bar 2016.<br />

Picture by Peter Nixon<br />

Dollar Du<br />

Murier<br />

Elegant C<br />

Jalisco B<br />

Karielle<br />

(by Uriel)<br />

Darco<br />

Quandora Cru<br />

De Montagne<br />

(by Landetto)<br />

22 <strong>Horse</strong> & <strong>Hound</strong> 8 <strong>February</strong> <strong>2018</strong>

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