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Carl Hester and his teammates are ready to fight for medals this weekend as the dressage competition reaches its conclusion.
Seven-time Olympian Hester, Becky Moody and Lottie Fry have secured qualification for both the team event tomorrow and the individual on Sunday.
It is in that team competition that Hester’s best chance of adding to his collection of a gold, silver and bronze from the previous three Games arguably lies.
The Grand Prix Special begins at 09:00.
The scores of all three team members counts towards the medal contest.
GB go into the competition having qualified with the third highest total, behind Germany and Denmark.
Moody will open up their campaign on Jagerbomb at 11:10, Hester riders Fame at 13:05 before Fry finishes things off on Glamourdale at 15:05.
The medal picture will be completed when Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl concludes the competition at 15:25.
To decide the competition, combinations perform a set test, with judges marking each of the movements out of 10.
The scores are then added up and combined with additional marks for the riders’ seat and aids, before being converted to an overall percentage score.
On Sunday the individual Grand Prix Freestyle begins at 9:00.
All three British riders qualified, with Hester recording the seventh highest total.
18 combinations will take part in all.
The Freestyle test sees them ride a floorplan set to music of their choice, based on a list of required movements, with additional marks given for artistic merit and degree of difficulty.
Hester won a team gold in London 2012, a silver in Rio for years later and bronze in Tokyo.
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