Team GBR

British Vaulter, Joanne Eccles has taken her ninth consecutive win at every international competition she has attended over the past 2 seasons. With her horse W.H Bentley and father and lunger John Eccles this is the 2nd time that Joey has retained the top spot at Ermelo achieving a score of 8.3. Joanne beat the 2006 World champion Megan Benjamin into second place with fellow American Mary McCormack coming third. Sister Hannah Eccles, who is now also competing in the senior class, came 6th with a score of 7.7  and achieved the second highest score for her freestyle on the second day. Wee Counties team member Brogan Moffat came 6th in the 14-18 class in her very first international competition, scoring 6.6  on John Eccles new horse Tyke. Brogan is working towards selection for the Junior Championships to be held in Austria in August of this year and of course the Eccles sisters have made a strong start to their campaign for achieving podium places at the FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games in Kentucky,USA.