‘I can’t ask for anything more’: US superstar Sabine Schut-Kery wows in individual medal showdown

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US dressage rider Sabine Schut-Kery and Sanceo compete in the Tokyo Olympics dressage
Sabine Schut- Kery ( USA) riding Sanceo during the Grand Prix Special - Team Final for the Olympic Dressage Competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games held at Equestrian Park in Setagaya-ku in Tokyo in Japan between the 23rd July and 8th August 2021
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Sabine Schut-Kery delivered for the third time of asking in the Tokyo Olympic dressage competition, scoring 84.3% to take the lead in the freestyle fight for individual medals around the midway point.

Sabine and her 15-year-old stallion Sanceo have been a revelation at this year’s Games, exceeding expectations in both the first day’s grand prix as well as last night’s special. Yesterday they smashed their personal best to lift the US team up to take the silver medal, and so all eyes were on them as they took to the freestyle. For the third time in a row, they posted a massive personal best.

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.