Sadly, not the kind of record that one wins applause or prizes for. Someone needs to tell this girl that not every heiress is cut out to be a top equestrian, especially when they do not train every day. You cannot go traipsing around the world to attend parties and then come back and just hop onto your horse and expect good results. So far she has been lucky to avoid a serious fall or injury but eventually luck runs out.
The sad thing is that she's been riding quite frequently these past weeks. Appart from the short trip to Madrid she's been riding non-stop since Vienna, so we can't say that the problem now is lack of comitment or work.
Watching from far away as we are, I kind of think that her problems lay in other areas:
1.
she doesn't ride at the right level. you souldn't ride a higher level untill you master the lower one, but charlotte moved to 1.30 while still having bad results at 1.20, and now she is moving to 1.40 while still having awful results at 1.30
2.
she doesn't ride the right horses. since she can pay for them, she owns several bright classy horses, still relatively young. Horses who need talented and sensitive riders to shine. A rider with Charlotte habilities should ride what jumpers sometimes call an "authomatic" horse, meaning an older horse, with plenty of experience, not very sensitive or classy, but calm and sure of himself.
A horse that's riden 1.40 courses in his prime, and now, being older, could still manage a 1.20 course with his eyes closed.
3.
she doesn't have the right trainer. Every rider who wishes to become an international 5* rider one day, knows that it is very important to travel and train with different people, people who are used to help young riders and take them to 5* level. Only a top rider can help you become a top rider, and Thierry is not that. You don't stick with the teacher who gave you pony lessons when you were 13!
It is quite telling that the guy doesn't apparently have horses of his own, or horses of other private owners that he rides. He isn't a real 5* rider and if you make a quick search in the ffe and fei web sites, you can see that he only rides Charlotte's horses (tintero, usually).
He doesn't have any other clients! He goes around the world, dressed with Gucci clothes and riding Charlotte horses. If it weren't for her he wouldn't even be riding the international circuit!
In any case, it is obvious that he is a bad counsellor since he makes charlotte buy all those horses that don't suit her and ride those competitions she is not prepared to ride.
4.
well, she is not very talented... the proof is that everytime she disappears and other people from the Rozier stables prepare and ride her horses, the day she appears on a show she usually gets acceptable results.
BUT, when she has been working hard and riding on a regular basis, like this autumn her horses do always bad. She undoes the work the riders of the Rozier stables do with them.
Well, the 1.40 is over and Charlotte came in last of 56 riders with 24 points, 10 more points than the second to last rider!
The Result of Prix SHF at EQUITA' LYON
Tomorrow there is a 1.45 table A and a 1.35 accumulator. If she is wise enough she should ride the 1.35 with both horses and forget the 1.45.
Also, accumulators usually work better for horses and riders with trust issues, so she has a chance to have better results than she usually has in it.
natural beauty. poor girl looked uncomfortable in video though like she wanted to get out of there! i dont know what says in end being good sport lol.
