The summer fairy tale: Mollie Summerland wins
The British rider remained faultless within the allowed time and was able to finish the cross-country day with her dressage score of 29.0 points. In second and third place were Christoph Wahler (GER) with Carjatan S (32.1) and Emilie Chandler (GBR) with Gortfadda Diamond (36.0).
Mike Etherington-Smith's cross-country course caused some changes in the ranking. Four pairs managed to finish without any faults and within the allowed time. The leading rider Mollie Summerland was overjoyed after her brilliant cross-country round overjoyed and very touched: "Charly is an absolutely exceptional horse. I don't know what I have ever done to deserve this horse. deserve. I am still quite inexperienced and he gives everything for me." Christoph Wahler and Carjatan S also shined in their five-star cross-country debut (32.1), "Everything worked out as I had planned. As expected, the water complexes were challenging and I am very pleased that we were able to do such a great round here in Luhmühlen. He was totally fit, our intensive fitness training seems to have paid off." Britain's Emilie Chandler added just 3.6 time penalty points to her dressage score and was very happy about it, "I finished our last test early after two early run-outs, so I needed emotional strength to believe in us here, Cross-country is my favorite sub-discipline and he was just fantastic. He's a super horse, which still needs some confidence and I felt like he was up to the task in the cross-country today."
