Tuesday Video: Every Millennial’s New Favorite Dressage Freestyle

Ok, if you’ve known me awhile, you know I have a penchant for fun songs used in dressage freestyles. There are so many possibilities — as neatly exemplified by Steffen Peters in Tokyo last year — and so every time I hear a familiar jingle as the music begins, I get a fresh tingle of excitement to see what the rider and their producer have put together.

This freestyle comes to us from the FEI Dressage World Cup stop in Vilhelmsborg, the National Equestrian Center of Denmark. Danish Olympic pair Carina Cassøe Krüth and the 11-year-old Danish mare Heiline’s Danciera took home the Grand Prix Freestyle crown with this performance, set to the tunes of millennial music legends such as New Kids On the Block, Backstreet Boys, and One Direction (ok, not sure how millennial One Direction is, but we’ll take it). Carina and Heiline’s Danciera earned a percentage mark of 85.925% to take the win by a healthy margin over second-placed Nanna Merrald Rasmussen and Blue Hors St. Schufro.

Spoiler alert: you definitely want to stick around for the “Bye-Bye-Bye Tempis”!

Now I’m curious: what would your freestyle song be? Leave your vote in the comments!

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