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Halla (1945–1979), German show jumper that carried an injured rider to Individual and Team Gold medals in the 1956 Summer Olympics; Hickstead, Canadian international show jumper and Olympic individual show jumping gold medal winner; Huaso, famous Chilean show jumper; holder of the high jump world record, one of the world's longest unbroken ...
Snowman (February 29, 1948 – September 24, 1974) [citation needed] was a former plow horse [1] of mixed breed ancestry, possibly a cross of a grade horse with a US Army Remount stallion. [citation needed] He was purchased for $80 on his way to a slaughterhouse and became a champion in show jumping in the United States
In 1984, the horse began competing in show jumping events, touching off what would become a long and successful career. Millar rode Big Ben to more than 40 Grand Prix titles including six Spruce Meadows Derbys, as well as taking the world cup show jumping championship two years in a row - the first World Cup Final coming at Gothenburg, Sweden in 1988, and then again the next year in Tampa ...
Real Quiet: winner of the 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes; lost the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, by a margin of four inches; Red Rum: only horse in the history of the Aintree Grand National to win the race three times (placed second on two other occasions) Regret: first filly to win the Kentucky Derby (1915)
In the jump-off, Touch of Class and Fargis competed against her former rider, Conrad Homfeld, who took home silver. She was the fourth horse in history to win two show-jumping gold medals, with the last being Hans Winkler's Halla in 1956. [3] Her performance allowed her to be named the first non-human USOC Female Equestrian Athlete of the Year. [2]
Another famous sire of Thoroughbred show jumpers that shows up in Gem Twist's pedigree is the French Thoroughbred stallion Prince Chevalier (b. 1943), of the Darley Arabian sire line. Gem Twist was also a descendant of the American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire Count Fleet (1940–1973), a descendant of Rock Sand (1900–1914) through one of ...
Considered the "ultimate jumping horse", [3] Shutterfly won medals at several World and European Championships, placing first in the World Cup final three times. [4] With lifetime winnings of €3,520,864, he was the most successful show jumper of the 2000s and one of the highest earning show jumpers of all time.