Horse & Hound

Riley battles the elements

The National Saddle Centre, Offchurch Bury, Warwickshire

LORNA RILEY and her own Vienna Ask battled the elements to score a pillar-to-post victory in the first of two CCI*-intro sections.

A weekend of lashing rain came as a shock to the system after a spell of settled weather, but the livery yard owner from Essex and her seven-year-old mare added just a smattering of timepenalties in both jumping phases to their leading dressage score of 30 to finish on 34.4.

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