Find out just what makes the Winter Dressage Champinships 2020 novice gold freestyle champion so special
Jezz Palmer partnered the “perfect” five-year-old King IV to a narrow victory in the Baileys Horse Feeds novice gold freestyle at the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships 2020.
Jezz finished on the same score – a chunky 76.85% – as second-placed Lucy Amy and Jaliva, but claimed the win on collective marks.
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