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Bettina Hoy, German event rider

Bettina Hoy and Ringwood Cockatoo lead the dressage at Aachen 2008

19 May, 2009

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Bettina is one of Germany’s best eventers with a long history of international successes and a notable reputation as an outstanding dressage rider.

Her early achievements include team bronze at the 1981 Los Angeles Olympics and team bronze at The Hague World Equestrian Games in 1994. She capped these with individual gold at the Burghley European Championships in 1997 on the grey Watermill Stream.

In 2004 in Athens Bettina almost became the first woman to become Olympic eventing champion, but she lost her team and individual gold medals on a technical fault in the show jumping — the worst of a series of near-misses at the top level which dogged her around this time.

But in 2005 she achieved the four-star win which had eluded her for so long when she took the first running of Luhmühlen at this level with her Athens partner Ringwood Cockatoo.

With the same horse she has since won team bronze at the Blenheim European Championships in 2005, team gold at the Aachen World Equestrian Games in 2006 (Ringwood Cockatoo) and individual bronze at the Pratoni del Vivaro European Championships 2007. In 2008 they won Pau, France, becoming the first pair to top both continental four-stars.

Bettina (née Overesch) was born in 1962 and is married to Australian Olympic triple gold medallist Andrew. They were based in Gloucestershire at a yard rented from Mark Phillips for many years, but couldn't find a suitable home in Britain when they left there, so moved to Germany for the 2009 season. During the 2010 season, they moved back to Britain, basing themselves on the Farley Estate, near Reading.

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