After her triumph in the Grand Prix, Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale broke the 80 percent mark in the Grand Prix Spéciale CDI4*Tour, the Prize of Soers at Aachen CHIO 2024. This keeps the seasoned pair primed for Paris 2024. After scoring 80.107 percent, the two-time World Champion of Herning in 2022 left Isabell Werth with Quantaz (75.0) and Frederic Wandres with Duke of Britain (73.128) trailing behind her in second and third place.

Charlotte Fry and Glamourdale during their ride to victory in the Prize of Soers. (Photo: CHIO Aachen/Arnd Bronkhorst).

And the score would have been admittedly higher were it not for some expensive mistakes.

The Crowd Knows All at Aachen

The performance of Fry and Glamourdale (KWPN Stallion by Lord Leatherdale) was full of wow effects. The packed stadium buzzed with murmurs from the spectators until they released compassionate groans and gasps. Glamourdale did a flying change on the center line, then lost his balance in the pirouette. But, the twenty-eight-year-old seasoned veteran Fry had everything under control again.

Theater’s Superstitions Ring True at Aachen

It’s good luck in theater when the dress rehearsal does not go perfectly before the opening performance. “To be honest, that was one of the best feelings he has ever given me in a test,” beamed Charlotte “Lottie” Fry. She had a plausible explanation for the error: “I was so pleased with my pirouette to the left that I somehow forgot to ride the rest of the center line. So, it was my own fault. But in the remaining parts of the test, he was so focused on me, had so much go and so much fun in there. “That was the best feeling I could have wished for before Paris.” Paris – here, Fry was referring to the Olympic Games. Fry and Glamourdale have already been nominated for the British team.

Glamourdale has the rest of the week off, but Charlotte Fry competes in the Grand Prix Spéciale, the MEGGLE-Prize, with her second horse, Especial, on July 6.