Tales from Tokyo: ‘I’m wearing a necklace my brother gave me – I know he wants me to be here’

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Lindsay Kellock and Olympic dressage horse Sebastien pictured at the Tokyo Games
Lindsay Kellock and Sebastien at the Tokyo Olympics.
(Image credit: Peter Nixon)

When Lindsay Kellock rode into the arena yesterday to make her Olympic debut, she was proudly wearing the Canadian team kit.

But under the tailcoat and shirt was perhaps the most significant talisman – a necklace given to her by her brother Jonathan, a competitive ski racer who died of a brain tumour in January aged just 29.

Pippa Roome
Pippa Roome
Magazine editor and eventing editor

Pippa is a true eventing geek and has been H&H’s eventing editor since 2005. She has first-hand experience of competing up to British Eventing intermediate and international CCI2*-L level, and has worked in the industry on a top event yard. Pippa enjoys nothing more than immersing herself in the sport at the highest level, reporting from the five-stars and international championships, including the Olympics.