US Olympic dressage alternate horse Otto retired
US Olympic dressage squad alternate Otto has been withdrawn from the squad too instead of heading to London volition caput for a greenish pasture.
Ridden past times Todd Flettrich, the 16-year-old Danish Warmblood gelding was withdrawn from Olympic consideration past times possessor Margaret Duprey of Wellington, Florida.
Instead, Otto is headed for a life of turnout too relaxation.
“I am giving dorsum to him what he has given to us,” she said. “We made a determination earlier the [USEF Dressage Selection] trials that nosotros would retire him later the Games. We intend it’s fourth dimension now.”
Flettrich, who has been Otto’s passenger for the past times several years, agreed. “In my eyes he is a superstar,” Flettrich said. “He has been a Grand Prix Equus caballus for too thus many years. Where else tin he go? What else tin he do? He rose to the occasion of the Olympic trials. There is nada else for him to prove.”
Now that he has earned his retirement, Otto volition pass fourth dimension amongst his equine buddies at Duprey’s Cherry Knoll Farm inward Pennsylvania. She said his pasture mates include well-known horses similar Amadeus, Chappell, Dueling Oak too Cooper, her retired jumper.
Flettrich said he is going to savour spending or too thus fourth dimension inward Pennsylvania helping Duprey too other students larn develop for the autumn present season. He plans to provide to Wellington inward November.
As for her futurity plans, Duprey said they volition reckon their options. “We postulate to accept a deep breath too regroup,” she said. “We postulate or too thus time.”
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