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<div style="font-size: 11px; color: #6b7280; letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 14px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 600;">4 FEI freestyles &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; 68.67% fei average &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; 70.035% fei freestyle best</div>
<p style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.72; color: #1a1a2e; margin: 0 0 14px 0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong style="color: #001c54; font-weight: bold;">Belatrix RH</strong> is the only horse in the class with an FEI Grand Prix Freestyle to her name... and she has four of them. The pair average 68.67% across them. Their best US Open Score (70.035%) came last month at Mid-Atlantic Dressage Festival, where they finished third in the CDI3* freestyle. It was their first FEI freestyle above 70%.</p>
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<div style="font-size: 11px; color: #6b7280; letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 14px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 600;">First FEI Grand Prix Freestyle&nbsp; &middot;&nbsp; 72.863% national freestyle best</div>
<p style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.72; color: #1a1a2e; margin: 0 0 14px 0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong style="color: #001c54; font-weight: bold;">Mondlicht</strong> owns the highest freestyle score in the field, a 72.863% posted at GMHA Dressage Days in 2025. The catch is the setting as that number came in a national competition. This is the pair's first FEI Grand Prix Freestyle.</p>
<p style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.72; color: #1a1a2e; margin: 0 0 14px 0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The freestyle experience is there for <strong>Christina Morin-Graham &amp; Mondlicht,</strong> who have already completed in eight national Freestyles. The question is how the score travels from a national competition to an FEI one. Get close to that 72.863% and the class is theirs.</p>
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