People will remember the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games in Normandy, France, for all kinds of reasons, but one thing that won’t show up in the records is that it was the first major international games to feature serious helmet use in the dressage.
What do you get when you put a five-time Olympic gold medalist riding what she thinks might be the best horse of her career, a Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage Final winner and an Olympian capable of scoring 80 percent on the same team? You get an Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games gold medal—and you get it with a healthy margin.