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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;
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 ...
Goldsmith Maid: famous harness racing mare of the 19th century [3] Good Magic: winner of the 2017 Breeders Cup: Juvenile, the 2018 Blue Grass Stakes and the 2018 Haskell Stakes; Grass Wonder: Winner of the 1999 Takarazuka and Arima Kinen; sired Screen Hero and Earnestly; Greyhound: named Trotting Horse of the Century in the US
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]
Many breeds of horses have been successful show jumpers, and even some grade horses of uncertain breeding have been champions. Most show jumpers are tall horses, over 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm), usually of Warmblood or Thoroughbred breeding, though horses as small as 14.1 hands (57 inches, 145 cm) have been on the Olympic teams of various ...
The Irish Sport Horse or Irish Hunter has been successful in show jumping. Some have won medals or been placed at events including the Olympic Games, the Show Jumping World Championships, the European Show Jumping Championships, the Show Jumping World Cup and the Pan-American Games.
Harry E. deLeyer (September 21, 1927 – June 25, 2021) is most famous for rescuing an old plow horse from the slaughterhouse, and a few years later winning national shows with that same horse, which became the most famous horse in America in the 1950s. The horse, Snowman, was eventually inducted into United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame in ...
A memorial plaque listing Foxhunter's achievements marks the Blorenge site and a car park is situated nearby. When Sir Harry died in 1999 his ashes were scattered around the horse's memorial. [6] The Foxhunter Championship for novice horses at the annual Horse of the Year Show was named after Foxhunter, [1] and was first held in 1954. [7]