In every week when such a lot of have felt suffering from the tragic information of Georgie Campbell’s passing at Bicton Global Horse Trials, we convey you some uplifting tales from around the equine international.
1. Retired Olympic superstar turns 33 years previous
Rascher Hopes, Emile Faurie’s crew bronze-medal profitable experience on the 2003 Eu Dressage Championships and the highest-scoring British horse on the 2000 Sydney Olympics, lately celebrated his thirty third birthday and is prospering in retirement. Rascher Hopes – or Streaky as he’s recognized at house – has been based totally with Hilary Macdonald in Gloucestershire since his retirement in 2006. “He nonetheless is going out for the bizarre little potter as soon as every week or so which he turns out to truly experience. He’s bogged down so much now however he’s simply been probably the most abnormal horse, and he’s nonetheless an actual personality and the backyard favorite,” Hilary advised H&H.
2. “The little lioness that might” retires
Sameh El Dahan using Suma’s Zorro in Paris, in 2018.
Suma’s Zorro, the phenomenal mare partnered by means of Britain’s Sameh El Dahan, has retired from showjumping “wholesome, sound and recent” elderly 20. The little chestnut mare landed the game’s richest prize in profitable the 2018 $1million CP Global offered by means of Rolex at Spruce Meadows. The pair additionally competed on the International Equestrian Video games in 2014 and 2018, and in general, the mare jumped just about 400 categories in a global profession that spanned greater than 11 years. Sameh stated: “I’m for ever thankful that I’ve met you. Nowadays used to be your big day, a bit of tribute to how superb you might be, you might be my residing legend and I’m over the moon that you just glance the best way you seemed these days at two decades younger.”
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3. 4-star winner switches to a brand new game
Elizabeth and Dargun at Cornbury in September 2023.
Dargun, the previous best experience of Emily King, and later Piggy March, who maximum lately has been ridden by means of teenage eventer Elizabeth Barratt, is retiring from eventing. The 16-year-old gelding is switching sports activities to compete in dressage with junior rider Megan Fields. Earlier than becoming a member of Elizabeth, Dargun received crew gold on the younger rider Europeans with Emily King in 2015, they usually had been Bramham u25 champions in 2018. After Emily’s proprietor Jane Del Missier moved clear of the game in 2019, Dargun joined Piggy March’s string. Piggy and Dargun had been 2nd on the Little Downham CCI4*-S in October 2020, and received the Burnham Marketplace CCI4*-S in April 2021. The gelding’s very best consequence with Elizabeth got here in September 2023 once they received the Cornbury younger rider CCI3*-S.
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