Jagerbomb – Becky Moody’s homebred ‘total legend’ who stole the spotlight on the world stage – and never let it go
From a ‘plain’ foal nobody expected much of, to Olympic bronze, European silver and a World Cup title – the story of Becky Moody’s homebred superstar, Jagerbomb
Jagerbomb is Becky Moody’s Olympic team bronze-medal-winning, World Cup-winning homebred – and one of Britain's most exciting and charismatic team horses.
“He always wants to make people happy, and he’s such a happy person himself,” says Becky. “If he were human, he'd be the one at the party going up to everyone to say hello.”
However, as a young horse, Becky wasn’t sure Jagerbomb had what it takes to reach the upper echelons of the sport.
Jagerbomb fact file
Stable name: Bomb
Height: 17.3hh
Born: 2014
Breeding: by Dante Weltino OLD out of Udysee (by Jazz)
Major results: Olympic team bronze (Paris 2024); European team silver (Crozet 2025); FEI Dressage World Cup champion (Fort Worth, 2026)
Jagerbomb’s early years
Jagerbomb is a homebred, out of Udysee, a mare Becky trained up to grand prix before retiring her to breed.
“Jagerbombs are my favourite drink, and I’ve always wanted to name a horse after it,” explained Becky. “So it was heaven-sent when the mare produced me a beautiful J-reg colt to name!
“He was always so easy to deal with as a young horse, and he was very straightforward to back. But he wasn’t very athletic, and he didn’t have that look-at-me factor.
“It was no secret that I would have sold him at that point, but I’m so glad now I didn’t,” Becky admits. “But I never thought he would end up being my top horse.
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“He always had the most incredible heart, though, and he’s such a trier – I could never fault his temperament.”
“I think he could be pretty epic”
Jagerbomb’s national breakthrough came when he won the seven-year-old final and was twice runner-up in the prix st georges classes at the National Championships.
“I remember in the seven-year-old class he just piaffed throughout the prize-giving. It was such a lovely feeling that the energy and excitement created that reaction in him,” Becky recalls
From that point on, Jagerbomb went from strength to strength. In 2022, he took home all the small tour titles at the Winter Championships.
“As he’s getting stronger, he’s getting sharper,” Becky said at the time. “I probably only school him three times a week, which isn’t much at his level. He does plenty of hacking and hill work – I’m careful not to overdo it.”
Becky Moody and Jagerbomb at the 2023 London International Horse Show.
His international debut came three months later at Hartpury CDI*, where he again scored a hat-trick of small tour wins.
The pair won the inter I on 77.32% – almost 6% clear of their nearest rival – at the same show where Becky debuted Jagerbomb’s iconic Sex Bomb routine.
“I think the music suits him,” Becky told H&H after her win. “It’s thanks to Kim Masson, my groom – she suggested Tom Jones. I resisted for a long time, then finally accepted that cheesy was good!”
At this stage, Jagerbomb had dipped below 70% only once in his career, with 31 wins from 52 starts. Still, Becky wasn’t sure he had what it took to reach the top level.
“My concern has always been whether he would have a good enough engine to keep going all the way through – it’s a hell of a task,” she said.
“There’s still so much more to come”
More wins followed at the National Championships – despite Becky suffering a collapsed lung less than a month beforehand – and at the Dressage Future Elite Championships, cementing Jagerbomb’s status as the standout small tour horse of 2022.
He made his grand prix debut in February 2023, winning with 76.09% at Reaseheath College.
His international debut came in May at Hickstead CDI3*, where he finished fourth in the grand prix on 71.02% and won his first-ever international grand prix freestyle with 75.71%.
The rest of 2023 was a highlights reel, capped that summer by a 79.99% freestyle at Hartpury CDI3* and Jagerbomb's selection as reserve for the European Championships – an achievement Becky called "simply insane."
A standout debut at the London International Horse Show followed, where the pair posted personal bests to finish third in both the grand prix (75.09%) and freestyle (83.67%).
“He was phenomenal and loved every moment of it, and I think you can see that on his face,” Becky said. “I came here for many, many years watching and getting to ride here has taken quite a long time. But I’m here now.
“The bigger the crowd, the better he is – he just thrives on it and really wants to do it. He came down the centre line saying ‘let’s go’, which is amazing.”
An unexpected Olympic call-up
In 2024, Becky and Jagerbomb stepped up to five-star level, placing at both Rotterdam and Compiègne CDIO5* as part of Britain’s Nations Cup teams, in their bid for a reserve spot at the Paris Olympics.
But just a week before the Games, fate took a turn: following Charlotte Dujardin’s withdrawal and suspension, Becky and Jagerbomb were thrust into the spotlight. They stepped onto the team under an undeniable cloud.
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Jagerbomb faced his own sire at the 2024 Paris Olympics, where Dante Weltino OLD – ridden for Sweden by Therese Nilshagen – made his final competitive appearance before retirement
However, smiling every step of the way, Becky dealt with the pressure with grace and aplomb and conjured fabulous performances.
"I was expecting a lovely 10-day holiday in France, but it hasn't come to that – I think it's quite a bit better," Becky joked. "There have been moments of extreme nausea, but I haven't felt external pressure."
In the grand prix, Becky got the ball rolling with a mistake-free 74.93%.
“That was insane,” she said. “What a stadium, what a crowd, what a horse! He loves to be out there – the more people watching, the better.”
In the special, the pair produced the test of their lives, scoring a new personal best of 76.49% as the pathfinders to give the team a comfortable margin in the race for the bronze medal.
“He’s a total dude and such a lovely, lovely horse,” said Becky. “He’s been quite spicy here this week. Carl Hester has helped me out an awful lot to find that inner calm in both of us.
“At the beginning of the test, we were quite excited and didn’t really want to stand still so we did a very quick halt – it was brief enough just for me to drop my hand, but as soon as we were there and going, we were on it.”
Becky and Jagerbomb capped their championship debut with a sensational freestyle, scoring another personal best of 84.36% to finish eighth overall.
“I had pretty much accepted I wasn’t ever going to ride at the Olympics. Toward the end of the 2023 season, though, that’s when I realised how good a horse Jagerbomb is,” Becky reflected.
“I’ve become the poster girl for ‘don’t ever give up.’ Keep on learning, and sometimes dreams do come true.”
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Since then, the pair have firmly established themselves among the world’s top combinations.
In a full-circle moment, they returned to London that December – the show that launched their remarkable rise a year earlier – and beat teammates Lottie Fry and Glamourdale in the grand prix with yet another personal best of 76.7%.
They also debuted a brand-new Beatles routine in the freestyle – casting off the Tom Jones soundtrack that had become their signature. It felt symbolic: they were no longer the plucky underdogs. They had arrived.
Cementing his place among the world’s elite
The two years since Paris have seen Jagerbomb become one of Britain’s most consistent championship horses, finishing fourth in the freestyle at the 2025 Europeans in Crozet on 86.98% as Britain took team silver – his and Becky's best result yet at a major championship.
That form kept building into 2026, culminating in a first World Cup Final appearance in Fort Worth, Texas, in April – Jagerbomb’s first time on a plane. Becky and Jagerbomb topped the grand prix and then delivered the performance of their lives in the freestyle to win on a personal best of 88.33%.
It was a statement from the first stride – four 9.5s and a 10 for their entrance and opening halt – with the judge at H awarding 90.24% by the end. Every extension drew cheers, and the curving two-time changes into ones brought the crowd to their feet as Becky came down her final centre line beaming.
Asked how she’d celebrate, she didn’t hesitate: “I will be going to find a drink later, definitely. I think maybe a Jägerbomb.”
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Oscar joined Horse & Hound in October 2023 and is the magazine’s dressage editor and sports manager, overseeing coverage of equestrian sport. After studying equine science at Myerscough College, he spent four years working for leading dressage rider Emile Faurie, competing at the 2015 National Dressage Championships and travelling with the yard to CDIs including Aachen and Saumur. He holds a master’s degree in Literature from York St John University (2021).