Dressage

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In advance of the Dressage kicking off tomorrow, here are the tests:

Grand Prix

Grand Prix Special

Freestyle

Looking forward to it, and fingers crossed for medals

Brilliant score for Charlotte Dujardin - and lovely to see her competing in a crash hat too

I am so sick of this 'elite' tag..

if money bought success, katie price would be riding at the Olympics on her £250k horses.

Lol! Think she might need some surgery first...poor horse carrying all that silicon

I am not a horsey person, but I loved watching this.

bloody hell at that article

"The Germans excel at dressage. This is no great surprise since one of the main elements appears to be persuading a horse to goosestep across the arena."

what a tosser!

amazing dressage result today though :)

Bumping ready for tomorrow's Grand Prix Special. Team medals will be decided.

Marking place, can't wait. Are the showing it on the BBC does anyone know.

Be such a boost to equestrianism if we can take home two golds and a silver - Come On Charlotte!!!!

It will definitely be on the BBC website and they may show the British riders on the main channels, but I expect the whole session will be on Sky/Virgin only tv wise.

Anyone watching?

I'm at work so can only have it streaming with the sound off, but I wondered what kind of reaction Patrick Kittel got at the end of his round.

The audience seemed appreciative.
But you should have heard the collective gasp for Carl Hester and Uthopia's first extended trot. It got a 10 - and so it ought. Breathtaking. And the roar when his score of over 80% was posted.

All looking good - just Charlotte to go

Well done !!!!

Very well ridden! Woo hoo!

What a good test from Adelinde Cornelissen and Parzival!

Blimey - we have come such a long way since Chris Bartle and Wily Trout...

It was all shown on the red button and the website. A great 20th medal for team GB

Oh wow, gold!!!

Two golds and a silver in the equestrian team events...fantastic!

Why did only the 3 dressage riders get a medal? Wasn't it a team event with 3 top scores to count?

in eventing the throwaway scores got a medal, in showjumping they were allowed a throwaway in the 1st round?

No throwaway score in dressage. All 3 have to count.

Richard Davison was riding as an individual.

Are there any more horse competitions to come? I'm unclear how the individual ones work.

Individual Dressage is on Thursday (the freestyle to music, known as the GP Kur). It is the last round for the individuals.

Individual showjumping is tomorrow.

I don't think any previous scores carry over in the individual competitions. The rounds so far have been used to narrow the field down.

The 25 top riders from yesterday's showjumping get to ride for the individual medals tomorrow and the top 18 riders from today's dressage get to ride again in the Freestyle on Thursday.

So are the people in the eventing team (Zara et al) in the individual competitions as well, and if not, why not?

They already had the individual eventing. It ran alongside the team competition as the discipline is too strenuous to ask the horses to do it twice.

A dressage test only lasts about 8 minutes and a showjumping round less than 2 minutes, so the horses are able to go through several rounds of competition.

dh was at the dressage today, and says it was fantastic. I am very , as I couldn't go - dd2 went in my place and I stayed home with 2 week old ds

I watched it all on the red button, and pretendedd I was there