THE Belgian Warmblood mare Tara Van Het Leliehof became a double world champion last weekend, when winning the FEI WBFSH eventing world breeding championship for seven-year-olds at Le Lion d’Angers where, last October, she claimed the six-year-old title. She is the fifth horse, and third mare, to achieve this feat.

Ridden as she was 12 months previously by Belgium’s Lara de Liedekerke-Meier, Tara Van Het Leliehof completed on her winning dressage score (28.6 penalties). Also finishing on his flat work mark under Britain’s Hector Payne was the second-placed Anglo European Studbook-registered gelding Bueno (29), while France’s Alexis Goury placed third on the Selle Francais stallion Jeroboam Wal, whose total of 29.4 included 0.8 of a cross-country time penalty.