Meet the buckskin heading to Tokyo: ‘We never knew where his ceiling would be’

When you think of an Olympic eventer, what do you think of? A regal bay? An elegant grey, perhaps? A buckskin probably isn’t the first thing to come to most people’s minds, but the unusually coloured Tullabeg Flamenco will be heading out to the Tokyo Games, having been selected for the Irish team with Sam Watson.

Flamenco was bred by Nicholas Cousins and shares his colour with his sire, Nicholas’s Tullabeg Fusion. Sam rides “Danny” for owner Vahe Bogossian, whose son David first asked him to have a go with the horse.

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Article written by: Pippa Roome