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Cruz III: meet the pony Charlotte Dujardin purchased who is destined for grand prix *H&H Plus*

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    • Ponies are a rare sight at grand prix, but Charlotte Dujardin’s diminutive protégé is well on his way

    12yo chestnut gelding, 14.1hh
    Stable name: Tom
    Owner/rider: Jayne Turney
    Breeder: Rachel Silk
    Best results: PSG national champion at 2020 winter dressage championships; inter I regional winter champion 2020; twice advanced medium reserve national champion in 2019; medium restricted national champion 2015; 2013 SPSS young dressage pony champion (ridden by Jayne Turney). Novice open national champion 2014 (with Phoebe Peters); numerous top-10 placings in international pony classes with Jessie Kirby and Charlotte McDowall.

    “I’VE bought a pony, he’s a bit wild, so I thought of you.” These were the words of double Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin to her friend Jayne Turney back in 2013. Charlotte had been keen to train a pony up to grand prix, but handed the reins of the rising four-year-old Cruz III (Tom) over to Jayne as a project.

    This feature is also available to read in Horse & Hound magazine, on sale Thursday 3 June 2021

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    Martha Terry
    Martha Terry

    H&H features editor
    Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.
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