IT’s the stuff dreams are made of!” said 31-year-old Laura Collett after winning her first five-star event in Pau last weekend. Riding the 11-year-old German-bred gelding London 52, by Landos, on his five-star debut, Collett led from the start and didn’t put a foot wrong to finally land victory at the highest level on her 12th time of trying.

In the only five-star competition of 2020, it was a phenomenal weekend of sport and Collett not only produced a record-breaking score of 21.3 at Pau, data company EquiRatings reported the result is the best five-star score on record.