Clarissa Lyra will enter the competition ring in Italy this week confident that time is on her side in her quest to join the equestrian elite, after she witnessed two veteran riders shine at The Longines Hong Kong International Horse Show last weekend.<\/p>\n
The 60-year-old Roger-Yves Bost claimed the flagship Longines Grand Prix title on Sunday at AsiaWorld-Expo, where the lusty cheers for the winner were matched by those for 70-year-old rival John Whitaker, an Olympic silver medallist in 1984.<\/p>\n
There was more encouragement for Lyra, 29, in that she felt \u201cmore relaxed and confident in my ability to take on the course\u201d than in her two previous five-star competitions.<\/p>\n
Lyra also noted the enormous difference in mindset from her first major home competition, The Longines Masters of Hong Kong in 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was such a big ask because I was so inexperienced \u2026 although I still am at this level compared to the other riders,\u201d she said. \u201cI take everything as an amazing opportunity to learn. I spent time last weekend studying the others: how they warmed up, the decisions they made while walking and executing the course.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not at that level but I aspire to be, so I take in as much as possible and try to get a bit better every year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clarissa Lyra will enter the competition ring in Italy this week confident that time is on her side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86429,141731,15311,141737,141732,141738,3448,85,46,2971,1437,141734,54488,123191,141733,141736,105,141735],"class_list":["post-273148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asian-games","tag-asiaworld-expo","tag-belgium","tag-carrie-wang-ka-lee","tag-clarissa-lyra","tag-fei-asian-championships","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-japan","tag-longines-grand-prix","tag-national-games","tag-olympic","tag-rimini","tag-roger-yves-bost","tag-sports","tag-the-longines-masters-of-hong-kong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}