THE CCI3*-L for seven-year-olds at last week’s FEI WBFSH eventing world championships for young horses at Le Lion d’Angers proved a triumph for science, as Christopher and Lisa Stone’s Chilli Morning IV, a clone of their deceased Badminton winner and sire Chilli Morning, claimed the gold medal, while another clone, Chilli Morning II, finished sixth.

The winner, a gelding (there is frozen semen available), who finished fourth in the CCIYH3*-S at Charlbury last month, completed on his flatwork mark (26.2 penalties) under Britain’s Gemma Stevens, who is based at the Stones’ Tattleton Stud in West Sussex. The full horse Chilli Morning II, who was ridden for the Stones by Germany’s Julia Krajewski, was on the same second-placed score after dressage, but picked up a small number of time penalties in both jumping phases and had a fence down on Sunday for a completion score of 34.2.