Four-star horse retires: ‘To ride at the pinnacle of the sport as an amateur is special’

Bronze Flight, the horse who completed six four-stars with Irish amateur rider Alan Nolan, has retired from top-level eventing, aged 19.

Carole Warren’s Bronze Flight, by Dynasty, put in a clear cross-country jumping round at Badminton in May, his final competition with Alan.

“I was going to retire him after Burghley last year, but he felt so good that I got straight back on him on the Tuesday afterwards and we kept him going all winter, with the plan of running him at Badminton and then retiring him,” Alan told H&H.

Article by: Pippa Roome
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