Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics three equestrian disciplines that took place in Hong Kong. Zara Phillips, the reigning world eventing champion and granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, had been included in the squad until her horse, Toytown, sustained an injury, which meant she missed her second successive Olympics. Great Britain qualified three fencers for the fencing competition. Two of these came from the re-allocation of places by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE), the governing body for Olympic fencing, after the withdrawal of other fencers. The Great Britain men's team qualified for the men's Olympic field hockey tournament after a must-win game against India in the
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