We are the champions
Lauren Shelley
“I love the team spirit”
Riding club: Crown
Horse: Cardinar Surprise
Champion: open 100+ at the 2019 British Riding Clubs (BRC) NAF Five Star National Horse Trials Championships
VICTORY in the open 100+ at the BRC NAF Five Star National Horse Trials Championships was extra special for Lauren Shelley and Cardinar Surprise as four months previously the mare had suffered from peritonitis and her life hung in the balance.
“I was so happy to have qualified and be competing at the championships that I didn’t mind how we did,” says the Crown RC member who led the three-day competition from start to finish aboard Surprise.
“The showjumping was in reverse order so we were last into the arena and I was so nervous. My overwhelming feeling when we jumped clear was one of relief that I hadn’t let her down. The fact that we’d won didn’t sink in until afterwards, but when it did it
