After six rounds of show jumping and a six-way jump-off for the gold, Canada’s Eric Lamaze and Fine Lady 5 won the bronze medal, Peder Fredricson and All In won the silver for Sweden, and Nick Skelton with Big Star earned the gold medal for Great Britain.

Lamaze originally purchased Fine Lady as a 1.50m speed horse, but the feisty mare that knocked down just a single rail during the Games has gone well beyond. Even Lamaze remains surprised at what she continues to deliver.

“If you’d asked me once we bought her if we would be at the Rio Olympics with her, I would say you are crazy. If you asked me at the beginning of last year if I was going to Rio with her, I would say no way. At that Masters last year, I’d say no, not at all,” he said after the team final. “In Geneva, last year, in the Geneva Grand Slam she was third in that grand prix – a million-dollar grand prix – and I used her only because Power Play wasn’t well. Everything I keep asking her, she does.”

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