LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Hickstead, the 2008 Olympic gold horse ridden by Canadian Eric Lamaze, died of heart failure following an aortic rupture, The FEI, the international equestrian federation, said Wednesday, based on a preliminary post-mortem. The horse collapsed and died in the arena in Verona, Italy, Sunday 6 November after competing with just 4 faults. [...]
Hickstead, one of alltime great jumping stallions, dies in arena
November 6, 2011 by
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Hickstead, a stallion who was “really a one in a million” and who had taken Canadian Eric Lamaze to individual gold at the 2008 Olympics, died in the arena Sunday 6 November just after completing a 13-fence jumping competition in Verona, Italy. The competition was stopped at the request of the riders, [...]
