Videos du Jour: Comparing 90%+ Freestyles
Perhaps Totilas comparisons are fundamentally unfair, but Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro recently broke the 90-percentage mark in the Grand Prix freestyle at Hartpury.
How do they stack up?
Here’s Dujardin and Valegro’s British record-breaking (90.65% ) recent test at Hartpury:
And here’s Edward Gal and Totilas’ 2010 World Equestrian Games-winning, 91.8 percent-scoring freestyle:
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I actually like Valegro better. His hind end is much more engaged, and Charlotte is just awesome!!
I agree 100%
Being relatively foreign to the world of music selection for dressage freestyle–is there an unwritten (or written) rule that there must be bells/chimes at all canter pirouettes?? I find it funny that the character of the music is remarkably similar–I guess there’s only so many ways to showcase the trot and canter with certain beats, but it seems to be an eerie coincidence between the two tests that there are many of the same exact things happening musically at the exact same moments.