Sudden death of dressage rider Jane Gregory
British Olympic dressage rider Jane Gregory has died, following a heart attack.
The 51-year-old rode for Team GB at the 2008 Olympics in Hong Kong and at Atlanta in 1996. She shared her 2008 Olympic experience with H&H readers in a regular diary.
She is believed to have suffered a massive heart attack while riding at home last Monday and fell into a coma.
She was on life support, but died on Friday (1 April).
Jane married her long-term partner, Hong Kong dressage rider Aram Gregory in 2006.
For tributes to Jane see this Thursday’s H&H (7 April)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.