YOUR HORSE MAGAZINE meets Lottie Fry
LOTTIE FRY’S FIRST memories involve being in an arena, as do her most recent recollections, and countless others in between. Despite spending a large proportion of her life in rectangles measuring 20x60m or less, commencing when she was a baby when her mother, Laura, would park her pram in an arena corner, Lottie has managed to branch out beyond the boards and become something of a global success.
Elfin and elegant, Lottie popped up frequently on sand surfaces at key dressage contests last year, at various points on the planet — not least the Tokyo Olympics and European Championships in Hagen, Germany. Wherever she went, the size disparity between the 25-year-old and her imposing black stallion Everdale was as noteworthy as the impressive scores they netted. There was the 76.854% which, when added to the marks of Carl Hester (En Vogue) and Charlotte Dujardin (Gio), was sufficient to earn the Great Britain trio Olympic team bronze.
Three personal bests for Everdale followed in Hagen, where a 78.146% saw the 12-year-old stallion finish
