The rider from Subotica won the 14th National Vágta on his horse named Pipacs

The competitor from Szatka, who won the title of the fastest rider of 2021, received the Wandering Award of the National Slaughterhouse, an 1848 hussar saber and

received a HUF five million reward at the award ceremony. A victory blanket was spread over Poppy's back.

Arnold Nagy, rider of Heves, who came in second in the final, received one million forints, Csaba Tamás, rider of Farkaslaka, who placed third, received a reward of half a million forints, the riders of the other two finalists, Heves and Abony, took home 300,000 forints each.

In the small hussar gallop, Fanni Hajdu, the rider of Orosháza, won the victory on his pony named Nárcisz, in the final he pushed the riders of Érsekhalma, Csörög, Kishegyes and Sarkad behind him.

In the afternoon, the final of the international race was also held, the winner of which was the rider of the Czech Republic, Lukas Vladyka. India's rider finished second, Austria's rider third. Competitors from Italy, Mongolia and Suriname finished fourth, fifth and sixth.

In addition to the finalists, riders from Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, Romania and the United Kingdom competed in the international race.

Hungary was represented by Gábor Paizs.

The riders did not start the competition with their own Shagya-Arab native Hungarian horses borrowed from the Bábolna National Stud Farm, selected by lottery.

In the charity star race, Krisztián Széchenyi, Gábor Krajnik-Balogh, Péter Bács, Imre Sipos and Ervin Nagy jumped into the saddle, and the winner was actor Péter Bács.

During the two-day competition series, 60 Hungarian and international horse-riders competed in the preliminary and intermediate races on the special track set up on Hősök Square.

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