Horse & Hound

'The pressure was immense'

GLOBAL CHAMPIONS PLAYOFFS

16-19 November

Global Champions Playoffs, 02 Arena, Prague, Czechia

AMID pyrotechnics, lights and big stadium atmosphere, the Global Champions Playoffs always produce high-intensity sport. The riders admitted to feeling the pressure, given the €11m (£9,640,660) prize money at stake, but some tremendous victors emerged.

Two technical rounds of jumping set by Uliano Vezzani for Saturday night's €1.26m Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) Super Grand Prix, which riders qualified for at each

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