Charlotte Dujardin's boyfriend Dean Wyatt-Golding put some extra pressure on his fiancée at the 2016 Olympic Games by publicly asking her to arrange their wedding. The couple has been engaged for four years and they are together for nine but a wedding still hasn't taken place.
Dean wore a special request on his T-shirt at the Rio Olympics saying "Can We Get Married Now?", making his intentions clear. At the press conference following the medal ceremony, Dujardin joked, "I've already got a ring on my finger. He’s such a banana. Bless him, he’s been waiting a long time. He asked me actually just before London, and I said yes, and I don’t think he’s believed it’s going to happen. He has made it so public, so now it's definitely going to happen."
I hope you all read the very interesting article "The Duo That Dominates Dressage" by Sam Knight in the highly prestigious The New Yorker, which has a readers' audience of 4.4 million! Eurodressage's editor-in-chief Astrid Appels got quoted twice in it. The article is about Charlotte Dujardin and how her image has promoted the sport of dressage world wide! A must read!!
The AES approved and SHBGB approved dark bay Dutch Warmblood stallion Woodlander Igor has passed away at age 26. The Zelhem x Sebastian stallion was originally the foundation stallion of Lynne Crowden’s internationally successful Woodlander Stud and proved himself as a Young Rider' horse. He was retired from competition in 2008 and moved to Kerensa Pluess Cobbledick's Trevoulter Barton stud in Cornwall.
Danish Olympic team riders Cathrine Dugour, Anders Dahl, Agnete Kirk Thinggaard and Anna Kasprzak all joined in the traditional ritual of getting Olympic rings tattooed on their body after their Olympic Games' participation.
Zuchterforum reported that Hendrik Schulte-Frohlinde, the former owner of Grönwohldhof and son of breeder Otto Schulte-Frohlinde, has passed away at age 70. Hendrik drew the designs for the Grönwohldhof himself when his father was very ill. Construction of the yard started in 1974 and two years later the equestrian centre was ready. It became the home base of the legendary stallion, Donnerhall (by Donnerwetter x Markus x Carnot). Hendrik Schulte-Frohlinde sold the yard in 2012 to Manfred von Allwörden.
Finnish Grand Prix rider Terhi Stegars and her husband John 'O Sullivan have announced that that they will become proud parents of their first baby. The baby is due in January 2017.