Yes, Sweden is “it” after winning team gold at the Tokyo Olympics..
People are interested in everything about the Swedish horses and riders. Who wasn’t intrigued by the fact that two team horses at the Baji Koen Equestrian Park were shoeless–Henrik von Eckermann’s King Edward, who did not drop a rail during the Games, and Peter Fredricson’s individual silver medal ride, All In (also the individual silver at Rio in 2016.) Only one other horse in history has achieved that two-in-a-row indivdiual show jumping medals feat at the Olympics.
It was Italy’s Trebecco, ridden by Tommaso Lequio Di Assaba in 1920 and 1924.
To learn the details of how shoeless success is achieved, click on this link from The Hoof Blog.
All In’s full brother, Kashman van de Berghoeve Z by Kashmir van Schuttershof X Andiamo. (Photo by Wendy Scholten)
Interested in replicating All In’s record? What better way than to buy his full brother, as someone from Germany did Saturday night in Belgium at the Flanders Foal Acution. The cute bay went for 130,000 Euro ($152,591 U.S.).
Breeder Paul van den Bosch understandably enjoyed the auction.
“It is a coincidence that this happens at the same time as the Olympics. It completed the whole picture. Really quite great. I am grateful to Xavier Marie from Haras de Hus that he let me buy the dam two years ago”, he said..