Steffen Peters & Ravel (Shannon Brinkman) Greenwich, UK – The equestrian competition at the 2012 Olympic Games ended today and the U.S. medal drought continued. Steffen Peters and Ravel carried the weight of a nation into main arena for the Freestyle, which would determine the Individual medals, and the most consistently clutch combination in U.S

FEI Secretary General Ingmar De Vos has spoken publicly for the first time about the Canadian team Jumping horse Victor, which was disqualified under the FEI’s hypersensitivity protocol shortly before the Olympic team competition in London on 5 August. “Disqualification of an athlete will always spark speculation, but in the case of Tiffany Foster’s horse Victor the protocol established very clearly that this was an obvious case of hypersensitivity”, Ingmar De Vos said today. “This was a unanimous decision, supported by four highly qualified veterinarians who specialise in testing for hypersensitivity using a system that has been monitoring FEI competitions since 2005.” “These have been really great Games, and all the equestrian disciplines at Greenwich have been very special

August 7, 2012 By Kim MacMillan – Photo Captions by Allen MacMillan All Photos by Kim & Allen MacMillan/MacMillan Photography/Copyright 2012 Today was another BIG day for British fans. Their dressage team was not to be denied gold, despite the best efforts of the German (silver) and Dutch (bronze) teams

I am sure you have all seen the fabulous jumps that the competitors have been negotiating.   However, since most of the photos are cropped to highlight the action, you  may have missed the full scale of these obstacles. They are no surprisingly a tribute to the history and culture of the area