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After encouragement from her trainer Debbie Thomas,[6] Dujardin took up dressage with a horse bought from her grandmother's inheritance.[7][8] In February 2007, after she sought employment with Carl Hester,[6] he gave her some coaching. Spotting her talent, he offered her a job as a groom at his yard in Newent, Gloucestershire, where she has since remained.[13][7][9][10] Dujardin's owned-horse is Fernandez.[6]

In 2011, Dujardin was asked by Hester and co-owner Roly Luard to develop the novice Dutch Warmblood gelding Valegro,[8][14] with the intention of that horse being ridden by Hester.[13][8] However, Dujardin competed on Valegro in their first dressage Grand Prix event in 2011,[10] the combination became part of the successful team which won gold in a European Dressage Championship event at Rotterdam. The pair then won the FEI World Cup Grand Prix at London Olympia in 2011, setting a new World Record for the Olympic Grand Prix special discipline by point-scoring at 88.022%, in April 2012.[11][15][16]

In December 2012 Dujardin, again riding Valegro, won the 2012 World Cup freestyle event held at Olympia, with a score of 87.875%.[17] On 19 April 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, Dujardin and Valegro won the FEI World Cup with a score of 94.169% on the final day of competition. This was their fourth consecutive World Title; they are the only competition pair to have ever held four consecutive world titles.[18][19]

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