08/01/2024
Age is just a number! Take care of your horse and they can continue to perform like the athlete they are!!
The 21 year old US bred Oldenburg N.A. gelding Wundermaske is not only the oldest horse across disciplines at the 2024 Paris Olympics
but also making a new record as the oldest horse in the Olympics ever and the sole U.S.-bred horse in the Olympic field this year!
Many U.S. eventing fans will recall the name Wundermaske as a former CCI5* partner of Sharon White,
earning two top-25 finishes at the then-4* level at Kentucky and Pau. Now Wundermaske made his Olympic debut
this weekend in Paris with Ecuador’s Ronald Zabala Goetschel.
Unfortunately, Roland and Wundermaske did not finish the cross country portion due to Roland’s fall at one of the jumps.
But it was anyway a great success for Roland and Wundermaske to make it into the top 50 of the international eventers.
And what counts is, that the Olympic dream became true for both of them.
Wundermaske has qualified for 3 Olympics:
- Rio 2016 - didn’t compete because of politics
- Tokyo 2020 - 2021 - didn’t compete because the rider got severely injured
- Paris 2024 - qualifies and gets enough points to compete
What a phantastic horse!!
