GB dressage horses to be sold - has this been posted already?

On an american forum they've already made the very sweet suggestion of holding a whip around to buy Valegro for Charlotte- saying a dollar a person surely wouldn't take long!!
 
From the Times today

A different fate awaits Team GB’s other gold-winning dressage champion, Mistral Hojris, or Alf, as he is known off-duty. Laura Bechtolsheimer, the grand daughter of a German billionaire, said she has not decided when to retire the 17-year-old star. He will not be sold, she said, adding: “At the end of the day it’s not a bike, it’s not a tennis racket, it’s a living animal that you’ve worked tremendously hard to have a partnership with.”
 
Well I think they were very misleading by saying that Charlotte's mum had bought him when her mum had died and insinuating that he still belonged to Charlotte - my mum was saying 'there you go, when I die you can buy a horse and go to the Olympics' like - hey mum, since when has your gaff been worth 6million?
 
Following on from an earlier post....... re riders to match these incredible horses.........Totilas is a prime example. MAR can't ride him....so he doesn't appear in public. Carl will ensure a good home I am certain.
 
4x4 said:
Well I think they were very misleading by saying that Charlotte's mum had bought him when her mum had died and insinuating that he still belonged to Charlotte - my mum was saying 'there you go, when I die you can buy a horse and go to the Olympics' like - hey mum, since when has your gaff been worth 6million?
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she bought Charlotte's first horse, not Valegro! I think that was pretty clear. Charlotte is just uber talented, can't get away from it, and her mum invested all she had in her. I don't see a difference between her and say Andy Murray's mum, but no-one bangs on about tennis being for the toffs.

There's a possibility they'll go to very rich American women, who will give them very good homes, and treat them with all the love and attention they also lavish on their handsome European trainers, while their high flying husbands are off earning a lot of money, and will learn great things from them, but never make an international team.

Not that I've seen that happen, you understand. ;) :p
 
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