Charlotte Dujardin and Secret Agent victorious at NAF Winter Dressage Championships in Addington
Secret Agent – Charlotte Dujardin: “One of the best horses I’ve ever ridden”
from Dominique Wehrmann 
Charlotte Dujardin. Photo: Archive Sportfotos-lafrentz.de The British national championships in various classes took place in Addington this weekend. Among them: Charlotte Dujardin with the seven-year-old Secret Agent, a Hanoverian Secret-De Niro son bred by ZG Nicole and Friedrich Sievers.
While her Grand Prix mare Alive and Kicking helped her new rider to their first victory together in northern Germany, Dujardin showed what a future horse she has up her sleeve with Secret Agent. The stallion belongs to Dujardin’s long-time supporter Peter Belshaw and came to her as a young horse. He went to his first competitions as a four-year-old. The one in Addington was the tenth show appearance of his life. Before that, he was victorious eight times and came second once. Today was victory number nine.
The pair took part in the Horselight Medium Gold Winter Championship. The task included shoulder-in and traversals, but no flying changes and was ridden in a snaffle. They scored 77.870 percent.
Dujardin told Horse & Hound that Secret Agent is one of the best horses she has ever ridden. “He’s incredible to ride, so much power, so much elasticity and he’s made for what he does.”
She was particularly happy with the way the black horse coped with the atmosphere. “Although he is still a little unsure with the people in the stands, he gives me the most incredible feeling. (…) For any inexperienced horse, a show like today can be a challenge. But he has stayed with me. He’s incredible in that respect. He never lets me down.” Which makes her particularly happy given the fact that it’s a stallion. “They’re not always on the ball. But he just does it.”
Secret Agent is not the only horse she is backing for the future, explained the three-time Olympic champion, who came under massive criticism in 2024 for a video of her hitting a horse with a whip and again recently for her warm-up in the run-up to the World Cup stage in Amsterdam. Dujardin told Horse & Hound: “I still have a lot of young horses coming up. Good horses that I hope to show soon.”
