Farewell to legendary pony who kick-started Olympic medallist’s career: ‘He set me up for life’

Noble Springbok, who won nine pony eventing European medals with three riders and started Olympic triple medallist Laura Collett’s career, has died at the age of 27.

“Going to my first Europeans and winning team gold and individual bronze would be my favourite memory of him,” said Laura. “I went there not expecting anything and was very naive about the whole thing. He started all three of us off – none of us knew anything ...