Mixed fortunes across country for first team riders at Blenheim Europeans as Swiss rider excels: ‘He has 1000 legs to get me to the other side’

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The first riders for each team have had mixed fortunes over the Agria Blenheim European Championships cross-country course. From the top of the dressage leaderboard, Germany’s first rider Libussa Lübbeke (seventh individually overnight) is home with a jumping clear but significant time-faults. Nadja then had to sit tight when Toblerone left a leg and caught a flag at the corner in the GFS Saddles Water (fence 20abc). “He’s just the most honest cross-country horse. Our cross-country coach, Andrew Nicholson, says there’s only one way and it’s to go and try to be fast.