HPRC riders claim honours in dressage and show jumping

Hyderabad: In the dressage event, Siddharth Dutta secured the top two places in the Children I class, winning the title with 60.658% on Wilbur and finishing second with 59.632% on Burning Arrow, while Janampally Hitesh Reddy placed third on Centaur at the Telangana State Equestrian Championship at HPRC here on Saturday.

In the Junior class, HPRC’s Gautam Sanjay Sujanaani won the state title with 60.200% on Airstrike, ahead of Anet Castilino on Bella (59.100%) and Kumbham Sai Tanvi Reddy on Centaur.

The evening’s show jumping events produced the closest finish of the day. In the 100–105 cm Open class, Abdul Manan on Dilano emerged as the clear winner, while four combinations — Eeshaan Bharadwaj on Salerno, S Mahesh on Handsome Boy, and Sanjay Rama Raju on both Condero and Cornelius — shared second place.

In the Under-18 section of the same class, Sauryaram Indukuri on Happyness, who had recorded the only clear round in Thursday’s National Qualifier Children I show jumping event, won the state title ahead of Eeshaan Bharadwaj and Prabhnoor Singh.

The 40 cm classes, kept deliberately affordable to allow beginners riding club horses to compete for state medals, were won by Naag Hridhaan Mulugu on King in the Under-12 category, with HPRC’s Luv Manne on Duke finishing second, and Jagadeesh Archi on Power in the Open category.

The Under-12 Hacks class, for riders not competing in any other discipline, was won by Catherine on Prithvi. Rianshi Agarwal finished second, while two HPRC riders, Vir Reddy on Trustful and Akira Manne on Baretta, shared third place.

With Gautam Sujanaani’s Junior Dressage title, the host club finished the day with four riders on the podium.

Siraj Attari, Vice-President of the Telangana State Equestrian Association, and Raghu Panchakarla, Secretary of the association, along with Chaitania R Kumar, President, and Vijender Singh, Vice-President, of HPRC, presented the prizes.