Seigneur Medicott, Olympic event horse, retires: ‘I can’t thank you enough’

Fouaad Mirza and Seigneur Medicott at the Tokyo Olympics.

(Image credit: Peter Nixon)

Seigneur Medicott, the Tokyo Olympic ride of India’s Fouaad Mirza and a multiple four-star winner with Germany’s Bettina Hoy, has been retired, aged 18.

“There’s no way I could ever thank you enough for everything you’ve done for me and for the equestrian sport in India,” said Fouaad, who also paid tribute to the horse’s owner.

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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.

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In the autumn that year, Seigneur Medicott was sold to the Embassy Group for Fouaad, who had trained with Bettina, to ride. The new pair won their first competition together, the CCI* (now CCI2*-L) at Montelibretti in October 2017.

Over the next six years the horse was Fouaad’s partner in a number of milestones in his career, including individual and team silver at the Asian Games in 2018, his first Olympics and World Championships and two second places at four-star.

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