Olympic gold medalist Jeepster dies at 26
Australian squad gilded medal winning eventer Jeepster has died at the historic menses of 26 subsequently battling Lymphoma.
The rugged New Zealand-bred thoroughbred had been inward retirement amongst his owners Stuart together with Karen Tinney at Maraylya, inward NSW. He died inward April.
Ridden by Stuart Tinney, Jeepster represented Commonwealth of Australia overseas together with inward front end of a roaring habitation crowd at Sydney’s 2000 Olympic Games.
Jeepster was the best performing Australian Equus caballus inward the squad trial at the Sydney Games, finishing amongst a grade of 41.00, the lowest of whatsoever squad combination. He executed an accurate dressage test, a faultless cross province circular together with had but ane rail together with a fourth dimension punishment inward the present jumping phase.
The other squad members were Darien Powers (Andrew Hoy), Kibah Sandstone (Matt Ryan) and House Doctor (Phillip Dutton).
Jeepster also represented Commonwealth of Australia at the Athens Games inward 2004.
His other major international results include finishing 1st inward the 1997 Melbourne CCI3*, 2nd inward the 2003 Adelaide International CCI4* together with ninth at the 1998 World Equestrian Games inward Rome. Jeepster also won the Lochinvar CCI3*, winning the 1998 trial together with finished 2nd inward 2000.
In 2000, Jeepster was crowned NSW Eventing Horse of the Year.
Stuart Tinney forged a formidable partnership amongst Jeepster together with says Jeepster was rattling much a fellow member of the family.
“Jeepster has been a swell together with loving friend for many years. We competed together all over the earth for over 10 years amongst swell results, culminating inward his Olympic gilded medal inward Sydney.
“Jeepster has been a rattling large business office of our family’s life together with nosotros volition immature lady him dearly,” he said.
Jeepster was born inward 1987 together with raced as Delphic Oracle {Gay Apollo x Fille D’Anne [War Hawk]). He had 22 starts, by together with large at the Illawarra together with Hawksbury races, earning $17 000.
He was retired from racing at five, together with tried equally a pic Equus caballus past times Heath together with Krissy Harris earlier moving on to the Tinney’s. Heath explained that Jeepster had been a “tough customer”, earlier he showed potential inward showjumping amongst Krissy, who said: “I had ever felt he’d survive a exceed class eventer thus nosotros got inward touching on amongst Stuart. I must acknowledge nosotros did learn Jeepster to prevarication down, bow together with produce the Castilian walk to assist amongst his submission! The latter proved to survive a somewhat bothersome trait.”
Michael Pribula bought Jeepster for Stuart Tinney inward 1993. (Pribula sold his percentage to the Tinneys inward 1995). Tinney says: “When Jeepster, had settled, nosotros thus realized that the Castilian walk together with bowing were a slight problem!
“Especially when Jeeps went on to compete inward dressage, ofttimes he would throw inward his Castilian walk – together with sometimes a slight hesitant bow at halt!”
In his mass Making the Time Stuart said: “He presently learnt he could operate these tricks equally a agency of avoiding doing what I wanted him to do, thus it took about three years to actually acquire how to acquire the best out of him.”
Described as feisty together with spirited horse, both Stuart together with Karen had to ride him to acquire him to settle inward dressage without a buck, plunge or full general naughty behavior.
In 1998 he broke his stifle at an trial inward Britain, together with subsequently surgical physical care for vets said he would non compete again. “This is where nosotros give thank y'all our thus physio Katherine Hamber for his return‐ (plus Jeepster’s volition power, let’s non forget that! Some days it took 2 handlers to walk him!) Not exclusively did he furnish subsequently ix months of physio, he went onto win a gilded medal together with remained on rails for Athens Olympics,” Tinney said.
“He gave Stuart his rattling best – everything he had to give – together they won scores of events, awards together with accolades both hither together with overseas,” said Karen Tinney.
“Jeepster made us proud together with brought us such enormous joy – nosotros are thus rattling lamentable he equally instantly gone forever from our lives.”
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