Home-bred steals the show
DUTCHMAN Maikel van der Vleuten denied a British victory in the closing throes of the CSI5* schedule when he clung on to a 0.44sec headway with home-bred Elwikke in the 1.55m Champagne Piaff trophy.
It was 20-year-old Lily Attwood – one of two Brits, the other being Harry Charles (Borsato), to make the second phase – who took the runner-up spot, after delivering a great clear with Cor-Leon VD Vlierbeek Z that fell just short of target.
Only five combinations had jumped clear round Uliano Vezzani’s first-round
