Warwick Rex
| Warwick Rex | |
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| Father: | Torrent of words |
| Mother: | Mostly |
| Mother, father: | All over again |
| Gender: | gelding |
| Year of birth: | 1966 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Colour: | Brown |
| Equestrian: | Alwin Schockemöhle |
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Infobox last modified on: October 18, 2011. |
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Warwick Rex (* 1966 ) was a Hanoverian gelding and a former German world class jumping horse. Warwick Rex was ridden by the German show jumper Alwin Schockemöhle .
Successes as a show jumping horse
- 1975: European Champion in Munich
- 1976: Olympic champion in Montreal
- 1976: Team silver at the Olympic Games in Montreal
statue
A life-size bronze statue of the jumping horse has stood on Europaplatz in downtown Vechta since 1981 . Warwick Rex rider Alwin Schockemöhle lives in the district of Vechta in Mühlen . The statue was made by the Munich artist Heinrich Faltermeier and is intended to remind you that Vechta is a traditional center of German horse breeding and German equestrian sport. There is also such a statue in Bad Wörishofen in the city garden.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alwin Schockemöhle , sports-reference.com
- ^ City garden. In: bad-woerishofen.de. October 18, 2009, accessed November 8, 2019 .