12 December, 2020 16:24 Lauren Nicholson (née Kieffer) riding Veronica at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Credit: Friso Gentsch/DPA/PA Images
Lauren Nicholson (née Kieffer) is one of the US’s leading event riders, with an Olympic appearance and a runner-up placing at five-star to her name. We find out a bit more about her…
1. Lauren’s first horse was called Snooze Alarm. She started riding the Anglo Arab when she was 13 and took him all the way up to five-star level.
2. One of her current top horses, Vermiculus, is Snooze Alarm’s full-brother. Snooze Alarm’s stable name is “Maggot”, so she chose Vermiculus’s name because it’s Latin for maggot. His stable name is Bug.