Aachen, 03. July 2008

Third victory for Roger-Yves Bost
The French rider wins the "Preis des Handwerks"

All good things come in threes - although it is extremely doubtful whether it is going to stop there: Roger-Yves Bost obviously packed a lucky pair of jodhpurs for his trip to Aachen. The French rider won the "Preis des Handwerks" today, bringing - in addition to two further second places - his current total of victories up to three at the World Equestrian Festival, CHIO Aachen (June 27th - July 6th) or should we say the "CHIO Roger-Yves Bost 2008."

This time the 42-year-old rider, who together with his fellow countryman, Michael Robert, is competing in Aachen as an individual rider, had saddled Kire Royal Star, a 10-year-old French mare. In a time of 63.04 seconds, the fast Frenchmen, who won gold with the French team at the World Equestrian Games in Stockholm in 1990, left the Irish rider Cameron Hanley on the 10-year-old Oldenburg stallion S.I.E.C. Royal Star (64.30) and the US-American McLain Ward with the 16-year-old Holstein mare Goldika (65.27) trailing behind.

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