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    Champagne Super Nova II

    Mar 19, 2020 5 minutes
    By ELEANOR JONES

    Keysoe CDI3*, Beds

    IT has been a superb start to 2020 for Spencer Wilton and Super Nova II, who took victory here in both the grand prix and the grand prix special.

    Until the Lier CDI last month, the pair had not competed since the 2018 World Equestrian Games, where they were on the bronze medal-winning British team, but they have made it four wins out of four so far this year. Jen Goodman and Spencer’s British Hanoverian gelding, known as Neville, is 17 now, but his presence in the ring is as commanding as ever, and Spencer was delighted with both his performances, scoring 75.65% in the grand prix and 75.87% in the special.

    “It was probably the most pleased I’ve been with him in terms of rideability [in the special],” he said. “He was so rideable; more relaxed than normal, and he

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