H&H’s Tokyo horse of the day: Fogoso – the showman stallion who charms his fans

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olympic dressage horse of the day: Lusitano stallion Fogoso at the Tokyo Olympics.
Rodrigo Torres and Fogoso at the Tokyo Olympics
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Rodrigo Torres rode a fun-filled freestyle test to charm the spectators and bring the empty stands to life in the Tokyo Olympic dressage individual final. Riding his family’s home-bred Fogoso, Rodrigo majored on the stallion’s party pieces to produce a huge personal best score of 78.943%.

“This horse has a big talent to do many things in [collected] paces,” he said. “So I took advantage of these to make many difficult exercises.”

Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.