French Dressage Rider Withdraws Her Horse from Olympic Team

The European web site Eurodressage.com is reporting that French rider Karen Tebar has withdrawn her Hanoverian mare Falada from their place on the French Olympic dressage team. The withdrawal was announced from French quarantine headquarters in Aachen, Germany.

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As you have surely read in the main news section of Equisearch.com, the US dressage team also had a withdrawal. First alternate Leslie Morse withdrew Kingston and was replaced by Michael Barisone on Neruda. The US eventing team also lost a key horse and rider combination when Heidi White and Northern Spy withdrew.