A Norfolk-owned Stallion helped Team GB capture its first Olympic showjumping gold medal in over 60 years yesterday.
Big Star, ridden by Nick Skelton, won a dramatic jump-off against the Netherlands in the team event at Grenwich Park, sending a capacity 23,000 crowd wild.
The stallion is owned by Norfolk's Beverley and Gary Widdowson, based at the 1,600-acre Kelling Hall estate, near Holt.
Skelton said: 'It can't get better than that, It was just brilliant. We had to get stuck in to the jump-off – I said to the guys we needed to go out there and win it.
'I've waited 54 years for this, so you can certainly say it was a long time coming. I've had a few misses in my time, but finally we got there.
'We lost it, we won it, we lost it and then finally we won it back. Without this crowd we could never have done it. People said that riding in an Olympics at home would add pressure, but it was totally the opposite. This has to be my greatest moment.'
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