Reigning Paralympic and European champion Natasha Baker won the grade II team test at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games yesterday in Normandy.
The 24-year-old from Uxbridge rode her 13-year-old Polish Warmblood Cabral to clinch victory with a score of 73.647 per cent.
Baker had the luxury of being the last to go and was delighted with the performance.
After the event she told British dressage: "He (Cabral) warmed up really well but I probably did too much so I knew I’d really have to work in there.
"He just found energy from nowhere as he usually does!
“It’s our fourth championships together so I know just what to do when he’s like that. He was totally with me and listening; just a good boy.“
Baker chose to canter around the arena before the bell rang to settle Cabral.
She added: “I can keep his attention a little bit more and its easier for me to get him listening in the arena that way."
Baker has transverse myelitis, an inflammation of a section across the spine, which she contracted when she was 14 months old.
The nerve damage is permanent, leaving her with a severe weakness and the inability to feel her legs.
