Carol Lavell, the US Olympic team dressage rider and eight-time national champion died on 27 March, aged 79. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Mrs Lavell became best known for her remarkable relationship with the 17.3hh Hanoverian gelding whom she named Gifted. She bought the Garibaldi II son as a four-year-old from Germany, and the pair […]
The rider of a 19.3hh warmblood who reached two hands bigger than she had expected believes he could still have some growing to do. Oldenburg Dante Weltino gelding Dhisney (Walt) was about 17hh when Paige Ervin bought him as a three-year-old, and does not seem to have stopped growing since. “We though he might max […]