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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>