Toytown (horse) Toytown (horse) Toytown was a British event horse owned and ridden by Zara Phillips. Toytown was a chestnut gelding born in 1992, standing at 17hh and with particularly distinctive markings including a white blaze and white spots. Toytown and Phillips competed together at the highest level of the sport until the horse's retirement in 2011, after accruing 1,421 British Eventing points in his career. Toytown's exact breeding is unknown. Noddy was spotted as a 7-year-old novice eventer in 1999 by Zara's father, Mark Phillips, when rider and former owner Meryl Winter went to him for a lesson. Zara bought the
Benin at the 2008 Summer Olympics the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he did not progress out of the heats. In 2008 Dansou repeated the result and failed to qualify for the semi-finals. He finished first in his heat in a time of 24.54seconds, ahead of Omar Jasim and Yasser Núñez. Overall he finished 62nd of 97 competitors and did not qualify for the semi-finals. Benin had one woman competing in swimming at the 2008 Olympics. That athlete was Gloria Koussihouede who competed in the 50 meters freestyle. The 2008 Olympics was Koussihouedes second Olympics after competing in 2004, and she was selected to compete in heat