Farewell to British Olympic Dressage Horse - Giorgione

Giorgione - Dr Wilfried Bechtolsheimer’s former grand prix horse - has been put down just shy of his 31st birthday after a severe attack of colic.

The horse took 25-year-old Carl Hester to his first Olympics — where they ranked 16th individually and posted the highest British score.

Dr Bechtolsheimer, who discovered the horse at small tour in Germany as an eight-year-old, said: “We will miss this wonderful horse, friend and partner, to whom we owe so much. 

"He was the first horse I trained to grand prix and our first horse to compete at an Olympic Games." 

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