Charlotte Dujardin has paid tribute to her three-time Olympic gold medal-winning horse Valegro, who has been put down.
The duo gained gold medals within the particular person and workforce dressage competitions on the London 2012 Olympics and added one other particular person gold at Rio in 2016.
Valegro was probably the most embellished dressage horse in British historical past below Dujardin.
The 40-year-old Briton was banned from the game for a 12 months in December 2024 following an investigation right into a video of her “excessively” whipping a horse.
The announcement of Valegro being put down, on the age of 23, was Dujardin’s first submit on Instagram since receiving the ban.
“I knew after all this present day would come, however I do not assume I may ever be prepared for it,” Dujardin wrote on Instagram.
“A partnership that everybody talks about, however you may’t actually know till you’ve got skilled it. And we danced Blueberry, did not we dance…”
Alongside their Olympic triumphs, the pair gained two gold medals on the World Equestrian Video games and 6 golds on the European Dressage Championships.
Valegro’s stable-mate Uthopia, who with Carl Hester was additionally a part of Britain’s gold medal-winning dressage workforce on the 2012 Olympics, has additionally been put down, aged 24.
Hester expained that the pair confronted well being issues of their outdated age.
“Valegro and Uthopia did greater than win medals and write historical past, they gave our sport a golden period,” Hester mentioned.
“They made a nation proud and impressed so many.
“Permitting them to go away this world collectively was the ultimate act of loyalty and dignity I felt I may give them.”
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