Daisy Dick - British Equestrian Federation

Eventing
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This will be a fifth Olympics for Mary, the senior rider on the
team and one of the best-known and most popular names in
British eventing. She earned her first senior Union flag in 1991
and was a member of the last British team to win the world
championships, in 1994 in The Hague on King William. She
has won Badminton twice, in 1992 (King William) and 2000
(Star Appeal) and in 1996 she won Burghley on Star Appeal.
She has won four European team gold medals (1991, 1995,
1997, 2007) and individual bronze (1995) and silver (2007) plus
Olympic team silver in 2004 (King Solomon) and world team
silver in 2006 (Call Again Cavalier). She has won the national
senior title five times, plus numerous three-day events. Mary
has successfully bred her own event horses and was 2nd at
Bramham this year on her home-bred mare, Kings Fancy. Mary
is married to David King, a farmer, after whom many of her
horses are named, and has two children, Emily and Freddie.
Age: 47
Lives: Sidmouth, Devon
Mary King
CALL AGAIN CAVALIER
Owners: Mr & Mrs Eddie Davies and
Miss Janette Chinn
Breeding: Irish, by Cavalier Royal Vll x
My Woodlands Lady Vll
Bay gelding, 16.2hh, 16yrs
Major results: 4th Burghley 2005;
world team silver, 2006; 1st
Chatsworth CIC-W, 1st Gatcombe
CIC***, European team gold and
individual silver, 2007
Eventing Officials
YOGI BREISNER (Team Manager)
Yogi Breisner was appointed World Class Performance
Manager and chef d’equipe to the British eventing team in
2000. He had just eight months to get to know the squad
before the Sydney Olympics, at which they won silver,
Britain’s first Olympic medal for 12 years.
Yogi is Swedish-born and first trained under his fellow Swede
Lars Sederholm at Waterstock, where he was based for 13
years from 1978-91. A member of the Swedish eventing
team from 1976-87, Yogi won European team gold in 1983
and competed at the Los Angeles Olympics on Ultimus. He
finished in the top 10 at Badminton four times. Aside from his
duties as British Eventing’s National Coach, Yogi is much in
demand in National Hunt racing, training both jockeys and
horses to jump. Yogi is 52 and is married to Hilary; they live
in Thame, Oxfordshire, and have two sons.
JENNY HALL (Veterinarian)
Jenny qualified as a veterinarian at Liverpool University in
1985 and immediately took up an internship in large
animal medicine and surgery at New Bolton Centre in the
USA. She spent time as an equine surgery resident at Ohio
State University before taking up a post in surgical research
on implantable devices in Arizona. Jenny returned to the
UK in 1991 to work in private equine practice, mainly in
racing. She travelled extensively to three-day events as a
private vet, including the Atlanta Olympics, and was
appointed vet to the British team in 1999. Jenny lives in
Lambourn, where she has had her own specialist equine
practice since 1996. She is married to the trainer Kevin
McAuliffe and has daughter, Aoife.
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