She used the money to buy her daughter her first dressage horse. 'That money would have made a big difference for Mum and Dad but my mum gave it up to buy my first dressage horse. 'As the double Olympic champion there was definitely a lot of pressure going to Rio,' she says. There was a little horse she'd bought shortly after her Rio 2016 triumph when he was five years old. That little horse was, of course, her beloved Pumpkin with whom, a year later, she would, against all odds, make British Olympic history.

Source: Daily Mail August 06, 2021 21:45 UTC