Zara Tindall equestrianism. Despite winning team gold at the 2007 European Eventing Championships in Italy, she failed to defend her individual title after a problem in the show-jumping phase of the competition. The British Olympic Association announced that Tindall would ride Toytown for the British equestrian team at the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 in Hong Kong. However Toytown was injured during training and she was forced to withdraw from the team. Tindall also missed the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, when Toytown suffered a similar injury during training. On 25 October 2008, Tindall fell from her horse, Tsunami II, at the 15th
Snowbound (horse) Snowbound (horse) Snowbound was the first horse to be ridden to an Olympic individual gold medal by an American rider, doing so with rider Bill Steinkraus in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. Snowbound was foaled in California in 1958. He was a dark bay Thoroughbred, standing high. He was sired by Hail Victory and out of the mare Gay Alvena; his registered name was Gay Vic. He was used as a racehorse for several years in California, before being sold to Hall of Fame show jumper Barbara Worth Oakford. By that time, Snowbound had suffered two tendon injuries