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The Olympics Run In Emma Hindle's Blood
An individual medal isn't within her reach, but she's the top scorer on an improved squad, writes Nicole Lever.


For the first time, all four British riders are capable of scoring 70 percent at Grand Prix, and they could threaten the medal contenders. But it's Emma Hindle who stands the greatest chance to rise above her teammates and earn a place in the individual freestyle final in Athens.

The very influential Hanoverian stallion Voltaire died suddenly on Aug. 13.

Voltaire, 25, suffered a heart attack while covering a mare at the stud farm De Watermolen, in the Netherlands. Voltaire had been very healthy, breeding three or four mare per week.

Voltaire (Furioso II

Show jumper Ludger Beerbaum has been chosen by the German National Olympic committee to carry the flag for Germany at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, on Aug. 13. Athens will be Beerbaum

The Dutch Olympic dressage team has suffered a severe blow

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Amy Tryon will ride Poggio II, her 2002 World Equestrian Games and 1999 Pan Am Games partner, in the Olympics, replacing her mount My Beau. Tryon
Following a team training camp at Oak Crest Farm in Toronto, Canadian selectors decided to replace Stuart Black and Blackout with Garry Roque and Waikura on Aug. 4. Selectors Rob Stevenson, Lorraine Laframboise, Juliet Graham, Grit High and Dr.
For Pleasure, the 18-year-old stallion who was on the German gold-medal show jumping teams at the 1996 Olympics with Lars Nieberg and the 2000 Olympics with Marcus Ehning, has been withdrawn for veterinary reasons from the German team for this month
Sheila Burke made the Dublin CSI her own this weekend (Aug. 6-8), winning the Samsung International Grand Prix of Ireland and posting double-clear rounds in the Samsung Super League Nations Cup during the U.S. team
The U.S. Olympic eventers and alternates dominated the dressage at the Gatcombe Championship of British Eventing, Aug. 6-8 in Gloucestershire. While the British team horses were already en route to Athens, the U.S. horses contested the dressage and show jumping phases at Gatcombe, taking the top eight places in the first division of advanced, headed by Kim Severson and Winsome Adante. The Olympic eventing begins on Sunday, Aug. 15. The U.S. horses didn

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