Lucinda Fredericks Heads List of Wiltshire Winners

Equestrian: Wiltshire riders scored an impressive total of six wins at the Tweseldown one day event in Hampshire, on the second weekend of the 2009 British Eventing season.

Leading the way was wonder horse Headley Britannia and Lucinda Fredericks, winner of an Olympic team silver medal for Australia in 2008 and back-to-back Burghley and Badminton three-day event titles.

The mare, who turns 16 this year and originally came to Fredericks as the horse no-one else wanted, opened her season with a fine win in the Open Intermediate section. She led from the start to see off top Devon international Lucy Wiegersma by just .2 of a mark.

“It was lovely having Brit feel like a spring chicken – I hadn’t planned to win but she is so well behaved and knows her job,” said Fredericks. “She was bubbly in both the show jumping and cross country – she jumped her socks off in the first of these phases, where a lot were having problems over a well-up-to-height course in gluey ground.”…

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Date: 3-19-2009
By: www.gazetteandherald.co.uk