Thursday, 02 February 2012 Competition 5: Young Horse Tour 6 years – 1.25 m

The dream team of the Youngster Tour: Robert Puck and Amarilles

Amazing, the way he took those curves, managed those narrow turns and flew over 1.25m-high obstacles at full speed, racing towards the finishing line and ultimate victory. It was the second victory in the Youngster Tour for Dutchman-by-choice Robert Puck and Amarilles, and what a victory it was: they were almost six seconds ahead of Slovenia's Lidija Grum and Fragile Van'T Meulenhof . Lidija took it in good grace and kept a smile on her face – rightly so, with yet another third place after yesterday's she had plenty to smile about.

As did Carinthia's Kathrin Kurat, who came in sixth with an amazing round on Cool Cookie, and Styrian Simon Johann Zuchi, who is always to be found in the placement line-up, and who rocketed six-year-old Oldenburg mare Larom von Pachern (descendant of Lordanus) up to twelfth place.

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