Dressage squad
Fiona Bigwood
- Age: 50
- Based in: Haywards Heath, West Sussex
- World Ranking: 24
Fiona started riding at the age of seven at her local riding school, before graduating to her cousin’s naughty Welsh pony not long afterwards. Her love of dressage began when she began riding former Grand Prix horse Salute, who gave her a taste of the higher-level movements in the arena at home.
At the age of 19, she moved to Denmark to train for three years at Hasse Hoffman, followed by a spell in Germany with Jan Bemelmans and Dieter Laugks.
Between 1993 and 1996, she represented Great Britain at Junior and Young Rider championships.
In 1996, at the age of 21, Fiona made her Senior Championship debut – the youngest British dressage rider to do so – at the European Championships in Verden. She made a further five championship appearances over the next 10 years, in addition to giving birth to her three children.
In 2010, she competed at her first FEI World Equestrian Games, held in Lexington, Kentucky, with Wie-Atlantico De Ymas, where the team finished second.
A freak accident at a local show in 2014 saw Fiona sustain a major concussion and spend four days in hospital. Nerve damage in her right eye gave her double vision, and she would ride with an eye patch for a number of years as a result.
After a few years away from the British team, Fiona returned in 2015 to make her championship debut with Atterupgaards Othilia – perhaps her best-known equestrian partner. They were part of the silver medal-winning team at the FEI European Championship at Aachen, Germany
Fiona made her Olympic debut at Rio 2016, where she piloted Atterupgaards Orthilia to team silver alongside Charlotte Dujardin, Carl Hester and Spencer Wilton.
Fiona is a double gold medallist in the FEI WBFSH World Young Horse Breeding Championship, having taken back-to-back wins in the six- and seven-year old classes with Quinn G in 2024 and 2025.
This year’s FEI World Championship marks a full circle moment for Fiona, as she brings forward Atterupgaards Orthilia’s homebred daughter, Donna Bella, at Aachen for her first senior championship – the same venue where ‘Tillie’ made her team debut on her first year at Grand Prix and won team silver. Could her daughter match or even exceed this result?
Previous senior championship appearances
- Rio 2016 Olympic Games (team silver)
- FEI European Championship (team silver)
- FEI World Equestrian Games 2010 (team silver)
- FEI European Championship 2007
- FEI European Championship 2005
- FEI European Championship 1999
- FEI European Championship 1997
Donna Bella
- Known as: Bella
- Colour: Chestnut
- Sex: Mare
- Age 10yrs
- Height: 16.3hh
- Breeding: Don Juan de Hus x I. P. S. Gribaldi
- Breeder: Fiona Bigwood GBR
- Groom Sally Williams
- World ranking: 24
Donna Bella was bred by Fiona, born by embryo transfer out of her Olympic team silver medallist Atterupgaards Orthilia.
Donna Bella’s early competition experience came at the hands of Matt Frost, who briefly took on the ride as part of her development. The pair contested two five-year-old classes at Wellington in June 2021, and won a Medium class at Felbridge the following March. Fiona took back the reins and, since then, the pair have regularly been on the podium as they progressed up the levels.
The step up to Grand Prix came last May at Addington, where they finished third in the Premier League show. This was followed by a win at Wellington Premier League the following month.
Donna Bella and Fiona made their first international appearance at Hartpury in July last year, where they finished second in the Grand Prix Freestyle. Their first – and only – trip overseas came in April 2026, when they were part of the British squad that contested the Nations Cup at Fontainbleau – the team finished second behind a very strong German squad, with Fiona and Donna Bella going on to finish third in dividually in the Grand Prix Special.
Their selection campaign was sealed at Wellington in June, when they finished second in the Grand Prix and winning the Grand Prix Special.
In addition to her achievements between the white boards, Donna Bella has produced several foals by embryo transfer, including a now-three-year-old by teammate Glamourdale.
international Personal bests
| Grand Prix | Grand Prix Special | Grand Prix Freestyle |
|---|---|---|
| 74.609% | 73.447% | N/A |
| Wellington CDI3* (2026) | Wellington CDI3* (2026) | N/A |
Charlotte Fry
- Age: 30
- Based in: Den Hout, Netherlands (originally from Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
- World Ranking: 3
Lottie was born into dressage – her late mother, Laura Fry, had competed at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics and was a European team silver medallist before going on to run a successful dressage training yard at home in Yorkshire. Lottie was sat in the corner during lessons and training most days and was riding a horse before she could walk. From 2012, Lottie trained with Carl Hester, who rode on the Barcelona Olympic team with her mum, and he helped her to secure a place at Van Olst Horses in Holland, working and training with five-time Danish Olympian Anne Van Olst. Lottie continues to be based there.
Having secured a trio of medals at the FEI U25 European Championships with Dark Legend, Lottie's first senior team call up came when she was just 23, when she rode Dark Legend as part of the fourth-placed team at the FEI Dressage European Championship in Rotterdam. Her next team appearance was at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with the young, expressive stallion Everdale – they made a lasting impression, helping Britain to team bronze as well as finishing 13th in the Freestyle. At the FEI Dressage European Championship in Hagen just a few weeks later, Lottie and Everdale put their Olympic experience to use and achieved three personal bests, which saw them finish fifth in all three tests, play a key role in the team's silver medal and score 84%+ in the Freestyle.
For the FEI Dressage World Championship, Lottie brought forward another exciting stallion from Van Olst Horses in the form of Glamourdale,with whom she had previously taken the FEI Dressage Young Horse World Championship in 2018. The pair set the Herning stadium alight, helping Britain to a team silver medal, before going on to take individual gold in the Grand Prix Special and Grand Prix Freestyle – Great Britain had a new dressage world champion! The pair's next big outing was the London International Horse Show in December, where they won the FEI Dressage World Cup qualifier.
Lottie and Glamourdale returned to the British team for the FEI European Championship in Riesenbeck in 2023, where they took team gold and Grand Prix Freestyle silver.
Lottie received the call-up for her second Olympic Games in 2024, when she and Glamourdale headed to Paris as part of Team GB. Together with Carl Hester and Becky Moody, they took team bronze. This was followed by a second bronze in the individual competition.
In the build-up to their third consecutive championship, Lottie and Glamourdale didn’t miss a beat, winning three qualifying legs of the FEI World Cup series before taking the title at the final in Basel, Switzerland. This saw them safely qualified for the Europeans in Crozet, France, where they helped the British team take silver and debuted a new flying-themed Grand Prix Freestyle floorplan.
Their campaign for the FEI World Championships and the opportunity to retain their title began at the London International Horse Show in December, where they won the qualifying leg of the FEI World Cup series for the third time. Since then, they have won in Amsterdam and finished second in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Fontainbleau – in both cases being pipped by Belgium’s Justin Verboomen and Zonik Plus, who won the FEI European Championship in 2025.
Previous senior championship appearances
- FEI Dressage European Championship (team silver)
- Paris 2024 Olympic Games (team and individual bronze)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2023 (team gold, freestyle silver)
- FEI World Championships 2022 (team silver, individual gold and freestyle gold)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2021 (team silver)
- Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (team bronze)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2019
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Glamourdale
- Known as: Glammy
- Owners: Van Olst Horses
- Colour: Black
- Sex: Stallion
- Age: 15
- Height: 16.3hh
- Bloodline: Lord Leatherdale x Negro
- Breeder: J. Rodenburg (NED)
- Groom: Richard Hauwaerts
- World ranking: 1
Related to the great Valegro through his damsire line, Glamourdale is a breeding stallion based at Van Olst Horses with a number of very talented foals on the ground. He and Lottie won the FEI Young Horse World Championship in 2018 when he was seven years old, receiving a perfect 10 for their canter work. They made their Grand Prix debut in 2021 and in that time have never finished lower than seventh in all their international outings.
Glammy's first time representing Great Britain was at the Nations Cup in Compiègne in May 2022, where he and Lottie topped the leaderboard in both tests and gained a personal best in the Grand Prix. Selection for the FEI Dressage World Championship in Herning later that year offered Glammy the chance to step out of the shadow of his half-brother, Lottie's Olympic and European Championship ride Everdale, and show what he can do on the senior world stage.
Show everyone he did – the impressive black stallion captured hearts in Herning with his elegance, expression and, of course, that enormous extended canter. After helping Great Britain to a team silver medal, he and Lottie went on to take the individual gold medal in the Grand Prix Special and earned themselves the title of world champions. All eyes were upon them for the Grand Prix Freestyle and they didn’t disappoint – performing to a ‘Best of British’ pop medley, they broke the coveted +90% barrier with a personal best of 90.654%!
Glammy joined Lottie for her homecoming event at the London International Horse Show in December 2022, where they competed in the British leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup series. To rapturous applause, they earned themselves the win with a huge 90.995%
They were unbeaten in the early part of 2023, before a call-up came for the FEI European Championship in Riesenbeck. There, they helped the British squad take a historic team gold, followed by a new personal best in the Grand Prix Freestyle to take silver.
Glammy made his Olympic debut at the Paris 2024 Games, where he and Lottie picked up team and individual bronze. They finished their year with their usual Christmas trip to London International, winning the British leg of the FEI Dressage World Cup series.
In 2025, Glammy had five competitive outings in the build-up for the FEI European Championship and was unbeaten – this includes two further legs of the World Cup Series in Amsterdam and 's-Hertogenbosch, before he and Lottie went on to win the World Cup Final in Basel in April. They also represented Great Britain in the Rotterdam leg of the FEI Dressage Nations Cup series, finishing top of the individual rankings and securing silver for the team. Their outdoor season culminated in a team silver at the FEI European Championship in Crozet.
Since then, Glamourdale has had four international outings with Lottie, resulting in wins at the FEI World Cup qualifying legs in London and Amsterdam, and second place at ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Fontainebleau.
International personal bests
| Grand Prix | Grand Prix Special | Grand Prix Freestyle |
|---|---|---|
| 81.258% | 82.508% | 92.379% |
| Riesenbeck (2023) | Herning (2022) | Riesenbeck (2023) |
Carl Hester
- Age: 59
- Based in: Newent, Gloucestershire
- World ranking: 6
Carl learnt to ride at an early age in Sark before moving to Dorset to work at the Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy. Two years after taking up dressage, he was crowned the 1985 Young Rider National Champion.
After representing Great Britain at the 1990 World Games on his employer Dr Bechtolsheimer’s Giorgione, he went on to win his first medal for Great Britain at the 2009 European Championships.
Carl claimed European team gold and two individual silver medals with Uthopia in 2011 – his first ever individual honours. The combination went on to represent Great Britain at the London Olympics in 2012, where they secured team gold, before adding a team bronze to their tally in 2013. Carl was awarded an MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours List.
The British-bred Hawtins Delicato, or Del, was produced by Carl's protégé, Charlotte Dujardin, up to Grand Prix before Carl took over the ride in May 2018. After contesting three CDIs, where they finished on the podium every time with scores over 75%, they were selected to be part of the team that won bronze at the World Equestrian Games in 2018.
In 2019, Carl took on the ride of En Vogue, owned by Charlotte Dujardin. She'd produced the talented but quirky gelding to Grand Prix, but Carl gelled with him better. Their scores impressed each time out and lead to selection for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics where Carl produced one of the best tests of his life to secure the team bronze medal. Weeks later, they were in action at the European Championships in Germany where he played a vital role in claiming team silver in a battle with Denmark.
An unfortunate injury to En Vogue meant a quiet 2022 for Carl, although he still attended the FEI Dressage World Championship in Herning in the dual roles of coach and owner of Charlotte Dujardin's Imhotep. He kept a number of Charlotte's rides ticking over at home while she was on maternity leave, before returning to competition in January with new partner Fame.
Just months into their partnership, Fame put Carl back on the British team, this time for the FEI European Championship in Reisenbeck, where they helped the team to a fantastic gold medal.
Carl completed his seventh – and, he claims, final – Olympic Games at Paris 2024, where he and Fame helped the British team to secure bronze. Full competitive retirement wasn’t on the cards, though, with Carl and Fame back on the British team for the FEI European Championship in Crozet the following year – the team won silver.
As is his usual fashion, Carl has had just three competitive outings with Fame in the build-up to the FEI World Championship – Carl’s fourth, coming an incredible 36 years after his first. Their year started with a trip to Doha for the Al Shaqab CDI5* show, which they won in convincing style. This was followed with a Nations Cup call-up for Fontainebleau, where they finished fifth in the Grand Prix and second in the Grand Prix Special. Their final outing was to Wellington CDI3*, where they topped both the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle.
Previous senior championship appearances
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2025 (team silver)
- Paris 2024 Olympic Games (team bronze)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2023 (team gold)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2021 (team silver)
- Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (team bronze)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2019
- FEI World Equestrian Games 2018 (team bronze)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2017
- Rio 2016 Olympic Games (team silver)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2015 (team silver)
- FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 (team silver)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2013 (team bronze)
- London 2012 Olympic Games (team gold)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2011 (team gold)
- FEI World Equestrian Games 2010 (team silver)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2009 (team silver)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2005
- Athens 2004 Olympic Games
- Sydney 2000 Olympic Games
- FEI Dressage European Championship 1999
- FEI Dressage European Championship 1997
- Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games
- FEI Dressage European Championship 1991
- FEI World Equestrian Games 1990
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Fame
- Known as: Fame
- Owners: Fiona Bigwood, Mette Dahl and Carl Hester
- Colour: Bay
- Sex: Stallion
- Age: 16
- Height: 16.2hh
- Breeding: Bordeaux 28 x Rhodium
- Breeder: V.O.F Gerritsen (NED)
- Groom: Lucy Scudamore
- World ranking: 5
Fame's competitive career started at the hands of Anders Dahl in 2020. They did two outings at Inter II together, before the ride passed to Anders' wife Fiona Bigwood to begin Fame's Grand Prix career.
Family commitments and a focus on her other top horse, Daytona Platinum, meant that Fiona decided to pass the ride on Fame to her friend, teammate and coach, Carl Hester at the end of 2022. Their first competitive outing, after just eight weeks together, was the Grand Prix at Hartpury in January, which they proceeded to win.
Fame and Carl made their championship debut together at the FEI Dressage European Championship in Reisenbeck in 2023, where they helped the British team win gold. They also finished fifth in both the Grand Prix Special and Grand Prix Freestyle – despite the latter being their first test of this kind as a partnership.
In 2024, Fame joined Carl in Paris for the Olympic Games, where they helped the British team to a bronze medal. This was followed by team silver and top-seven placings in all three tests at the FEI European Championship in 2025.
international Personal Bests
| Grand Prix | Grand Prix Special | Grand Prix Freestyle |
|---|---|---|
| 78.540% | 80.106% | 85.461% |
| Riesenbeck (2023) | Riesenbeck (2023) | Riesenbeck (2023) |
Becky moody
- Age: 46
- Based in: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- World ranking: 5
Becky was born in Scotland, with a horsey mother and two older sisters who were already riding. She got her first pony – a 10.2hh strawberry roan four-year-old called Kelly – when she was four, and they grew up together, doing lots of hacking, beach rides and lots of different Pony Club activities.
When Becky was six, her family moved to Yorkshire. She continued to do all-things-horses, including producing ponies with the help of her older sister, Hannah. It was one of these ponies who first got her into dressage because he had a flare for it. By the time she was in her early teens, she already knew that she wante to ride and train horses for a living, so left school after her GCSEs and did an Equine NVQ apprenticeship.
Becky made her championship debut at the FEI Dressage Young Rider European Championship at Hartpury in 2000, where she picked up a team bronze medal riding Kwadraat. They were selected again the following year, where the team this time finished fourth.
Her international Grand Prix debut came in 2017 in the CDI3* at Keysoe Equestrian Centre, but it was when home-bred Jagerbomb reached the top level that she was able to achieve the things she'd dreamed of as a young rider. First, the pair were selected as the travelling reserves for the British team at the FEI European Championship at Riesenbeck in 2023, which gave Becky a real taste for the world stage.
In 2024, she and Jagerbomb made their senior British team debut at the FEI Dressage Nations Cup at Compiègne, where they finished second in the Grand Prix Special. The following month, they were back on the team at the FEI Nations Cups at Rotterdam and back on the podium with a third in the Grand Prix Special.
Originally selected as the travelling reserves for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Becky and Jagerbomb received a last-minute call-up when Charlotte Dujardin had to step down. Where others might have crumbled under the pressure, they rose to the occasion and helped the team to a bronze medal, before finishing eighth in the Grand Prix Freestyle individual competition.
They spent the winter of 2024/2025 contesting the FEI Dressage World Cup series, finishing second Lottie Fry and Glamourdale at the legs in London, Amsterdam and 's-Hertogenbosch. They won the CDI5* in Fontainebleau in April 2025, before heading to Aachen in July for three top-four finishes. In Crozet, they were the best-performing British combination across the FEI European Championship, helping the British team take silver and finish just off the podium in fourth for the Grand Prix Freestyle.
Qualification for the FEI World Cup Final was Becky’s next goal, with the pair achieving podium placings in Lyon, London and Amsterdam to secure their ticket to Fort Worth, Texas. At the Final, they produced a huge personal best score of 88.330% to comfortably take the title, with some judges awarded them over 90%.
Becky runs Moody Dressage with her sister Hannah, where she produces horses and coaches clients.
Previous senior championship Appearances
- FEI Dressage European Championship (team silver)
- Paris 2024 Olympic Games (team bronze)
- FEI Dressage European Championship 2024 (travelling reserve)
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Jagerbomb
- Known as: Bomb
- Owners: Jo Cooper and Becky Moody
- Colour: Bay
- Sex: Gelding
- Age: 12
- Height: 17.1hh
- Breeding: Dante Wetino x Jazz
- Breeder: Becky Moody (GBR)
- Groom: Kim Masson
- World ranking: 3
Bomb has been with Becky his entire life – she bought his mother as a seven-year-old with very high hopes for her, but a field injury prevented her from reaching her potential. Becky bred three foals from her, the last of which was Bomb. She describes him as a yard favourite and being 'just the loveliest person, so good to deal with and great have around on the yard'. However, she wasn't convinced he had the talent to go to the top level and intended to sell him as a four-year-old, but her sister Hannah convinced her to stick with him. Luckily, she did, because Bomb's trainability and heart of gold meant he progressed through the levels and, as he got stronger, he began to show just what he was capable of doing.
Bomb won the Grand Prix Freestyle on his first international outing at Hickstead in May 2023. Two more international Grand Prix competitions later (Wellington and Hartpury CDI3*s), and he and Becky found themselves as travelling reserves for the FEI European Championship. This was followed by two third-place finishes at the London International Horse Show, behind Charlotte Dujardin and Lottie Fry – appropriately, their Grand Prix Freestyle was to a Tom Jones medley, including the song 'Sex Bomb'.
As part of their selection campaign for Paris 2024, Becky and Bomb featured on two FEI Nations Cup teams, in Compiegne and Rotterdam, where they finished in the top three in both Grand Prix Specials. At the Games, alongside a team bronze medal, they won an army of dedicated fans, who fell in love with their harmonious partnership and clear enjoyment of the sport.
Their trip to Fort Worth, Texas, for the FEI World Cup Final in the spring marked the first time that Bomb has been on plane – a valuable experience ahead of the LA 2028 Olympic Games – with the gelding taking every moment in his giant stride.
International Personal bests
| Grand Prix | Grand Prix Special | Grand Prix Freestyle |
|---|---|---|
| 77.239% | 78.404% | 88.330% |
| Amsterdam CDI-W (2026) | CHIO Aachen (2025) | Fort Worth CDI-W (2026) |