Horse & Hound

‘We're in Walter's world’

Edited by Pippa Roome

pippa.roome@futurenet.com

Team medals

Individuals medals

FEI European Eventing Championships, Haras du Pin, France

“IT'S Walter's world and we are privileged to be able to live with him in it,” summed up Ros Canter as she claimed the European Championships individual gold and led the Brits to team honours with the superb Lordships Graffalo, affectionately known as Walter.

Nothing seems to faze Michele Saul's son of Grafenstolz, who is still only 11 years old. Indeed, if six-star competitions existed, Walter would probably win those too.

At his first Badminton and five-star in 2022, he finished second. He then went on to claim an agonising fourth place at last year's World Championships in Pratoni – he was on the same score as Tim Price in bronze, but his faster cross-country time,

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