Mount St John Freestyle makes winning international debut with new rider

Denmark’s Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour and Mount St John Freestyle have made a winning international debut together.

Cathrine and Freestyle enjoyed a glowing start to their new partnership when they topped the Kronenberg CDI3* grand prix with a score of 81.20% on 1 December, and the following day won the grand prix special on 81.40%.

“MSJ Freestyle you’re one in a billion, I’m speechless,” said Cathrine.

The competition is the 14-year-old world bronze medal-winning mare’s first international since the Wellington CDI3* in May 2021, where she competed under Charlotte Dujardin to win the grand prix freestyle. Freestyle was not fit to compete at the Tokyo Olympics that year, and returned to Emma Blundell’s Mount St John Stud in 2022 to rejoin the stud’s breeding programme.

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Article written by Becky Murray