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Great Britain buys £2mil horse from Germany for the 2012 Olympics

The Great British Equestrian Team have recently bought, nine-year-old, Sanctos Van Het Gravenhorf, from Germany, for £2 million.

The jockey who is going to be this fantastic horse is Scott Brash, 26. Scott is a new rider for Team GB and has been riding since he was seven, 19 years. Even though Scott is only young, he is the number one Scottish Show Jumper, and is ranked 8^th in Britain and he is also world ranked.

Lady and Lord Harris have also bought horses for Tina Fletcher and Laura Renwick, who are also top show jumpers, although not at this high price!

As soon as the rider and owners heard about this unbelievable horse they just had, “immediate instructions to get on a plane and go to try the horse with Scott in Germany”.

Scott said he was “very excited about it, the horse didn’t put a foot wrong when I tried it in Germany”.

The plan for this ‘team’ is that they will go to America and work away quietly, and then hopefully at the end of the tour they will be out there jumping some big classes!

Lillie forgot to tie the news in with a Bible story, so DMMH wonders what Jesus would make of all this.   After all, he was quite happy riding into Jerusalem on a donkey.