He gives you that hug.
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“He’s really the horse of a lifetime”. His consistency throughout his career has been absolutely unbelievable. “I want people to remember him as the most unbelievable horse that he is”.
“She says he was trying to make sure she actually did it by going public”.
“I have ridden Valegro all his life here, he’s lovely”.
Valergro is co-owned by Dujardin’s Great Britain team-mate Carl Hester, Roly Luard and Ann Barrott, and it would be no surprise if he bowed out at Olympia’s London International Horse Show in December, the event where they set their freestyle world record of 94.300 per cent in 2014.
She later revealed she had already accepted a proposal to him in 2008 and said Golding was trying to get her to “finally” walk down the aisle.
Dujardin also paid tribute to Valegro, with whom she is unbeaten in 18 consecutive competitions.
“It’s his work ethic – and a 10-year partnership he has with Charlotte”.
However she pushed them to one side, with a routine of poise and elegance which scored 93.857% from the judges – enough for victory ahead of Germany’s Isabell Werth and Kristina Broring-Sprehe.
Charlotte Dujardan came to Rio for two reasons, to defend her golden title and add another monumental accomplishment to her legacy.
Remarkably, such is the chemistry between horse and rider, Dujardin has never been unseated in all the years of riding him.
She said: “He already knows it’s yes”, she tells 5 live’s Jonathan Agnew.
Dujardin visited Rio de Janeiro’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue the previous day and joked “I got on my hands and knees and prayed. and maybe that helped”.
She left Vandyke at 16 to take up horse riding full time.
The 31-year-old Manxman, 30 times a Tour de France stage victor, was third entering into the second day of racing for the last two disciplines of the event. “I didn’t want to let him go and we just needed time for everything to calm down”. “He asked me [to marry him] just before London and I said yes”.
Charlotte Dujardin (GBR) of Britain celebrates winning the gold medal.
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14 – the age of Dujardin’s horse Valegro. Dujardin is also the second rider to hold the World, European, and Olympic titles. Broring-Sprehe brings home her first individual Olympic title, Bronze.
