Lee Pearson sets British Paralympic team medal hopes alight with ultimate display of horsemanship

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British Grade II rider Lee Pearson rides Breezer at the Tokyo Paralympics
Lee Pearson GBR on Breezer competes in the Equestrian Individual Test Grade II at the Equestrian Park. Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan, Thursday 26 August 2021. Photo: OIS/Joe Toth. Handout image supplied by OIS/IOC
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Eight-time Paralympic individual gold medallist Lee Pearson put Britain in a commanding position with the first of our riders’ tests at the para dressage team competition at the Tokyo Paralympics. But it wasn’t plain sailing.

Grade II rider Lee, who holds the record for the most Paralympic individual gold medals won, demonstrated his excellent horsemanship throughout the test. His tactful riding ensured a polished test from his own home-bred Breezer, who appeared less relaxed in the arena today than in his individual test, to score 77.636%.

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.