Faultless Charles
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Your support makes all the difference.PETER CHARLES collected the plum prize of pounds 13,000 at the Royal Windsor Horse Show yesterday when he rode Traxdata Nustria to victory in the Asprey & Garrard Grand Prix with the only unpenalised round of the jump-off, writes Genevieve Murphy.
The Irish rider did not believe that he had done enough to win - and nor did Geoff Billington, who looked all set to defeat him on Virtual Village It's Otto, until missing one of the jump-off fences for elimination. Michael Whitaker, though 1.29sec faster on the increasingly impressive Ashley, rolled a pole off the fence into the double to finish second ahead of Robert Bevis on True Hero.
Remarkably, this was the first victory for nine-year-old Nustria, who was competing in his first outdoor grand prix, having been sidelined for the whole of last summer through injury. The success marked a change of fortune for Charles after the loss of Nustria's seven-year-old half- sister, Dolores, who had won a B&C contest here on Friday only to die yesterday after a colic attack.
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