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Halla (16 May 1945 – 19 May 1979) was a horse ridden by Hans Günter Winkler.She is the only horse ever to win three Olympic Gold medals in the sport of show jumping.She stood 16.2 hands (66 inches, 168 cm).
Jappeloup was born on March 12, 1975, at equestrian farm of Henry Delage [] in Saint-Savin in Gironde and died on November 5, 1991. He was a show jumping champion Selle Français horse, born to a French Trotter father and a Thoroughbred mother.
Rugged Lark, famous quarter horse owned by Carol Harris, in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame; Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; a Shire; stood 21.25 hands (86.5 inches; 220 cm) high; Spanker was a 17th-century sire of many important horses. Thunder, Red Ryder's horse; Traveler, mascot of the University of Southern California
In 2013, Snowman was again introduced in the Breyer line on the Idocus mold. The 2013 model box reads "Snowman - Show Jumping Hall of Famer". [6] Snowman is the subject of the book, The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation, by Elizabeth Letts, published by Random House in 2011, a No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
Pages in category "Show jumping horses" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Babamist; Ben Faerie;
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 ...
Desert Gold: race mare who won 19 races successive races during World War I; often raced against Gloaming; Desert Orchid: won King George four times and Cheltenham Gold Cup; Dr. Fager: "the Doctor"; set the world record at 1 mile on any surface, 1:32 1/5, and held it for more than 20 years. The only horse in American history who in 1968 won ...
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]