Our favourite horses.. Number 9.. Stroller (1950 - 1986) was a Bay gelding and the only pony to compete at the Olympics in Show Jumping.
He was a member of the Team GBR in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico and was ridden by Marion Coakes. Marion and Stroller took the Individual Silver Medal, and were only four faults behind the Gold medallist. Stroller jumped one of the only two clear rounds in the Olympic individual championship. In 1967, Marion rode Stroller to victory in the Hickstead Derby; he is the only pony to have ever won Hickstead! Stroller was the grand age of 20 when he won the 1970 Hamburg Derby. All-in-all, the pair won 61 international competitions!
He was a crossbred horse, by a Thoroughbred sire out of a Connemara pony. Stroller died of a heart attack at the high age 36 in 1986, after 15 years of happy retirement. He is buried at Barton-on-Sea Golf Club, in Hampshire, England.
Breed: Thoroughbred X Connemara
Height: 14.1hh
Sex: Gelding
Foaled: 1950
Colour: Bay (star near hind sock)
Owner: Marion Mould
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