Shruti Vora First Indian to Win 3 Star GP in Dressage, Closes in on Paris Dream
Shruti Vora, astride Magnanimous, has become the first Indian rider to win a three-star Grand Prix event- a historic achievement for the Indian equestrian. Shruti scored 67.761 points in the CDI-3 event in Lipica, Slovenia from June 7-9. The Indian finished ahead of Moldova’s Tatiana Antonenco (Aachen), who scored 66.522. Austria’s Juliane Jerich (Quarter Girl) completed the top 3 with a score of 66.087.
Shruti Vora (born 6 January 1971 in Kolkata) is an Indian equestrienne. Vora’s mother rode horses and imparted her love of horses to Vora as well. Her brother Chandra Sekhar too was riding horses till his Class 12. Vora completed her primary and secondary schooling at Loreto House, received a Bachelor of Commerce from Shri Shikshayatan College in Kolkata and an Master of Business Administration from European University in Geneva, Switzerland. She married Mitul Vora in 1997 and has two sons, Varun and Aryan. Vora took a 14-year break from riding after marriage; in 2009, she returned to competitive sport again.
The rider-horse combo performs in an arena of 20m x 60m, bordered by a low rail which the horse must stay within. The arena has 12 lettered markers placed symmetrically indicating where the movements are to start and where the changes to pace are to occur and where the movements will end. There are seven stages- preliminary, elementary, medium, advanced medium, advanced, Prix St George and Intermediate -I. The scoring is done on scale of 1 to 10 where 1 indicates very bad and 10 excellent.
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