Laura Kraut, Kent Farrington and McLain Ward, all of whom rode on the Tokyo Olympic team three years ago, have been selected for the squad that will go to the Paris Games later this month.
Laura, the only rider to go clear in the Nations Cup at Aachen last week, will be riding Baloutinue, her Tokyo mount. Kent was named with the 10-year-old prodigy Greya, winner of the La Baule Grand Prix, and McLain was chosen with Ilex, a newer mount for him. He is riding that horse in Sunday’s Rolex Grand Prix of Aachen, where Laura is showing Baloutinue.
McLain characterizes ilex as “a very exciting horse and a big jumper.”
Kent Farrington and Greya.
The alternate is Karl Cook with Caracole de la Roque, winner of the Rolex Grand Prix of Rome in May. He was second in June at La Baule, France, where Kent scored his first international victory with the 10-year-old Greya over a course laid out by Olympic course designer Gregory Bodo.