FEI World Pony Driving Championship, Dorthealyst (DEN) - Pairs Final

The gold medal switched hands in the pair class after a highly exciting cone driving phase. Miranda Caldwell from the United States took gold for her ponies, while silver went for German Steffen Abicht and bronze for Danish Lars Dau.

The pair class was led by Lars Dau with a good margin before the cones. However, one ball and several penalty points on time resulted in 15.83 points, whereby the young Dane was outdone by Miranda Caldwell – the marathon winner - who could afford only one ball down. Caldwell finished on 129.42 points total, only 0.72 points ahead of the 2005-champion Steffen Abicht.

Miranda Caldwell was surprised to suddenly become the 2007 world champion. “I didn’t believe that it was possible to catch Lars Dau. So I left the area right after my cones and did not see him drive – and had no idea what had happened before I heard on the speakers. My first thought was ‘What?!’. But it’s fantastic,” the American driver said with a big smile.