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Category for horses that take part in show jumping events. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. A.
Caroline Frances Bradley MBE (4 April 1946 – 1 June 1983) was an international British show-jumper, becoming the first female winner of the Puissance at the Horse of the Year Show in 1974, an era when the sport was still largely dominated by male riders. [1]
Llewellyn bought Foxhunter, a golden-bay gelding, in 1947 following a search that began by studying the records of every registered showjumper on file with the British Show Jumping Association. [2] The horse, who stood 16.3 hands (67 inches, 170 cm) high, was sired by the Thoroughbred stallion Erehwemos out of the half-bred mare Catcall. [3]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
Team show jumping Marius Silver Jubilee , better known as Milton , (16 February 1977 – 4 July 1999) was a successful showjumping horse ridden by John Whitaker . He was a grey gelding and stood 16.2 hands (66 inches, 168 cm) high at the withers.