Cooley Rosalent strolled to victory in the Holme Dodsworth Metals CCI4*-S at Burgham – Oliver’s seventh win in Burgham’s feature class in the past decade.
Oliver added four faults for one showjump down to his leading dressage score of 19.8 on Paul and Diana Ridgeon’s 10-year-old grey mare, but still topped the 104-strong class going into cross-country. The pair, who won the Kentucky CCI5* in May, made light work of David Evans’s cross-country course and galloped home clear and inside the time allowed to win by 3.1 penalties.
In fact Oliver bagged a clean sweep of wins, Crazy du Loir winning an open intermediate and Hermes Image an intermediate. Shirsheen Donna was a novice runner up, and there were five other top 10 placings. A good weekend!
Oliver & Cooley Rosalent © 1st Class Images