Judy Reynolds smashed another of her own Irish records on her way to a fifth-place finish in Saturday's Grand Prix Freestyle To Music at the European Championships.
Riding the Joe and Kathleen Reynolds owned gelding Vancouver K, Kildare native Reynolds achieved a score of 85.589% when last to go in the competition. That score was almost three percentage points better than her previous Irish Freestyle record of 82.750%, which was set at Neumünster World Cup show in Germany in February of this year.
During the course of this week in Rotterdam, Reynolds has broken all three of her own Irish international Dressage records in Grand Prix, Grand Prix Special and Grand Prix Freestyle To Music and helped the Irish Dressage team to qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time in history.
The Freestyle gold medal went to the unstoppable Isabel Werth (GER) and Bella Rose with an incredible score of 90.875%. It was an all-German podium with Dorothee Schneider and Showtime FRH taking silver (90.561%) while Jessica Von Bredow-Werndl collected the bronze (89.107%).
