Ready Teddy (horse)
| Ready teddy | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Brilliant Invader |
| Mother: | Double buzzer |
| Mother, father: | Kwanza |
| Gender: | gelding |
| Year of birth: | 1987 |
| Year of death: | 2011 |
| Country: | New Zealand |
| Colour: | Fox |
| Owner: | Blyth Tait |
| Equestrian: | Blyth Tait |
| Ready Teddy (horse) medal table |
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 New Zealand
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| Olympic games | ||
| gold | Atlanta 1996 | Single (with Blyth Tait) |
| World Equestrian Games | ||
| gold | Rome 1998 | Single (with Blyth Tait) |
| gold | Rome 1998 | Crew (with Blyth Tait) |
Ready Teddy (1987 - April 23, 2011) was an internationally successful eventing horse that was ridden by the New Zealander Blyth Tait . The couple took part in three Summer Olympics and won gold in individual competitions in 1996 . At the 1998 World Equestrian Games, they won two gold medals. Ready Teddy was the first eventing horse to win gold in individual competitions at both the Olympic Games and the World Equestrian Games. Ready Teddy died of colic in 2011 .
Breeding and racetrack
Ready Teddy was born in 1987. He was a chestnut colored English thoroughbred gelding by Brilliant Invader. As a young horse he was called Striking Back and competed in horse races . Blyth Tait's father discovered him at a pony club event and brought him to England for his son in 1994.
versatility
At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the gelding was Olympic champion under Blyth Tait. It was Ready Teddy's first participation in the Olympic Games. It was Tait's second participation in the Olympic Games. The couple only competed in the individual competition and won gold, while Tait competed in the team competition with another horse. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, they only took part in the team competition, which they completed with the New Zealand team in eighth place. Again Tait rode another horse in the individual competition. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Tait rode Ready Teddy for the first time in both competitions. However, Ready Teddy only reached 18th place in the individual competition and 5th place with the New Zealand team.
At the World Equestrian Games in Rome in 1998 they won the gold medal in both individual and team competitions. This is the first and so far only time that an eventing horse has won gold in individual competitions and with the team at the Olympic Games or World Equestrian Games. The couple also took part in both competitions at the 2002 World Equestrian Games in Jerez , but were unable to complete the competition.
In 2001 Ready Teddy won the Burghley Horse Trials .
In 2004 Ready Teddy and Tait said goodbye to international sport at the Manukau Three Day Event in Puhinui, New Zealand. Ready Teddy died of colic on April 23, 2011 . He is buried on Tait's estate in Karaka, near Auckland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pedigree
- ↑ a b c Blyth Tait mourns loss of gold medal ride . In: Stuff.co.nz , April 24, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ↑ a b c Blyth Tait's 1996 Olympic champion Ready Teddy dies . In: Horse & Hound . April 26, 2011. Accessed April 18, 2017.
- ↑ Blyth Tait . Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ Thornton, Peter: Equestrian: Ready Teddy put out to pasture . In: New Zealand Herald , December 5, 2004. Retrieved April 18, 2017.