Eventing geek time-horses at top level sold on.

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Can anyone kill my boredom by telling me horses at top level eventing who were sold? And what happened to them?

I know Internet was sold a few years ago, and The Irishman was sold but then never really did anything?

Any to add?
 
i think serena russells top horse was sold
*pootles off to BE website*
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yehh two tone tyrone...

can't think of any others...


wow i feel geeky..

and the fredericks have got one of there top ones for sale
Jiggalong
and another one
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it must be 'that time of year'
 
I think one of the ultimate ones was Don't Step Back, sold in his prime then never really seen again. Seem to remember reading his new owner/rider went into the film industry and lost interest.
 
BTW has Poilu been sold ? I remember him being listed as "for sale" on Team Fredericks website but he's been taken off it just after his good results at Burghley and I haven't heard of him since then.
 
ElleJS was entered for Lt Downham & Witton OI on Kings Fancy I'm sure....

Darraks Tonto has been sold on, and is doing OPN's, E'd in the last one XC
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Internet hasn't done anything since Burghley '04 according to BE.

Tudor Flame, ex adv / *** mare, is still owned by the Turnbull's, has been doing intro and PN, did first N this year with a DC.

that's my geekiness done...I may think of some more
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Internet went to the states, hence not being on BE
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Yep ElleJS's new ride is "Nancy"
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Tip Top Tiger hasnt been sold, but is doing YR with another rider. Two Tone Tyrone has been brought by a young rider.

Daws Willowherb who Brook Staples and Clea Phillips went round Badders on is now with a young rider.

The great Master Monarch is doing YR stuff.... which was a bit of a surprise after he "retired"
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Lot of top horses move "owners" but stay with the same riders... so not always obvious that they have been sold
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Lot of top horses move "owners" but stay with the same riders... so not always obvious that they have been sold
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And conversely some move riders without changing owners!!
 
daws willowherb was mega-strong xc, iirc that's why Clea sold him, i hope your friend is strong or Brook's managed to reline his brakes!
umm, Bertie Blunt was sold for Toddy to ride (missed r&t flag allegedly, would have gone into sj at Burghley leading otherwise, then went and won Boekelo, then stirrup leather broke at Badders - heroics ensued - then won the next year.)
there was a time when Eddy Stibbe was THE man for buying up good horses, he bought his best ever Bahlua, from David O'Connor iirc. (or was it from Toddy?!)
the Griffin and Murphy swap was about the biggest move i can remember.
 
Nah he was still strong, but worMys fried has done well with him, and Bruce just used to XC him in a cheltenham gag, so he had settled a bit in his old age
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Eddy Stibbe bought Bahlua from Toddy.

Pippa sold Midnight Magic and Rainbow Magic, and I dont think they ever did anything major since.

The Fredericks have also sold a lot of good horses in the past.
 
Ok, not top yet but Land Vision was with someone down the road. He did N on him, but wasn't good enough jump rider to do anymore. He sold him to Oli T for £25,000, which he was very pleased with only to hear Oli T sold him to Toddy after just one season for £250,000
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thats what I was told by a very reliable source anyway
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she has done well
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but there are also times when shes had multiple refusals xc/has retired, and i think this is because of the brakes
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i think it depends on the course and his mood, but hes a frisky little mut
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I worked for Eddy Stibbe a zillion years ago, he had horses on the yard from:

Mark Todd
Nigel Taybor
Karen Straker

Those are the ones I remember but he did used to collect top class horses without blinking an eye. Money was no object!
 
i remember the legend about Eddy, that when he was still based in Holland and eventing from there he went and told Daddy Stibbe (that really was his name, btw!) that he needed a hill to get the horses fit, so they built one. in Holland, which is flatter than a pancake that's just been run over by an artic.
my mind boggles at what that would have cost.
i watched Eddy go xc at Brigstock A years ago as i was walking the course, talk about brave, there was a double of corners downhill to a pretty big road crossing and he never took a pull... i did though!
 
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i remember the legend about Eddy, that when he was still based in Holland and eventing from there he went and told Daddy Stibbe (that really was his name, btw!) that he needed a hill to get the horses fit, so they built one. in Holland, which is flatter than a pancake that's just been run over by an artic.

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Not necessarily, at my current yard we also have two artificial hills which were built for training purposes, it seems to be quite common (well maybe not common, but not unheard of either)
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Does anybody else remember that grey (iirc) eventer, qualified for badminton who was advertised on H&H a few years ago for 300k?
 
Was Tom Cruise II sold in the end when he went to Holland after a myriad of riders?
 
Don't Step Back is still competing in the US, he is 17 now.
Was placed in a OI at Colorado Horse Trials last month (think its a different rider than the one who initially bought him from Ireland).

Fiona
 
I don't think she counts as top level, but winning the British Intermediate Champs must give her come kudos - Daisy Crazy was sold on by OT in Feb/March 2008 (at least, that's when I found out she'd been sold on).
 
Justin Thyme - team horse for Anne-Marie Taylor then sold to Claus Erhorn of Germany.
Ava - team horse for Stuart Tinney. Sold to Susanna Bordone.
Carrerra - Res. for Athens as above.
Bahlua was reserve horse for Toddy in Seoul before Eddy bought him.
Many of the Australian team horses were sold after the championships in the 60s and 70s and were then very successful after.
Before Seoul and Barcelona good horses (and some not so good!)were sold to Korea and Spain.
Germany and America used to be a good source of riders for people to sell horses to until they started to produce their own.
 
An advanced horse that had been ridden by a number of male pros (Austin O'Connor, Frank Bourny etc) ended up at my old riding school
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Was taken out by their instructors but never really enjoyed it.

MdS knows of him - and if she's reading this, he's no longer in RS life, but is now privately owned, mainly for hunting
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Although looking at results, he's been out this season
 
Internet actually went to Canada, not the US, but now he's in the US so I guess more or less right in the end.
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He did well at a 2* last year but not sure what he's done since.

Diamond Hall Red, another of Mark Todd's rides (and the subject of a training series in H&H) was sold to an American who lives part of the year in Canada, went Advanced and then did some pure showjumping.

The Irishman, about a million years ago
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, was sold for Bruce Davidson to ride. I think he might have done one event but then went lame and never came right. No idea what he did after that.
 
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Diamond Hall Red, another of Mark Todd's rides (and the subject of a training series in H&H) was sold to an American who lives part of the year in Canada, went Advanced and then did some pure showjumping.



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sorry, but you've got the wrong horse there, Diamond Hall Red was ridden in the U.K. by Leslie Law for a bit after Toddy retired, and was then sold to Kelly Macpherson, who evented him and got to do Burghley with him in '06. he had a couple of years off after that and has been doing little stuff this season with someone else, did a N a few weeks ago actually. he's stayed in the U.K. all this time afaik.
 
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