British Olympic horses arrive safe and well in Hong Kong
Team GBR’s dressage and eventing horses “all look great” after their journey to Hong Kong, Team GBR team leader Will Connell told H&H today.
The nine horses — four dressage horses and five eventers — arrived in Hong Kong after flying from Stansted Airport yesterday.
View pictures of the horses at Stansted
The show jumping horses are undergoing seven days quarantine at Towerlands in Essex prior to their departure next Monday.
Mr Connell said: “They all have arrived safely, look great and were walked out earlier today.”
He said the dressage riders are already in Hong Kong ready to start competiton on 13 August and the eventing team flies out tomorrow (Friday) to start on 9 August.
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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.