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Daily Mail says golden Olympic dressage hero Carl Hester is ‘gay’ – horse deeply upset

by | 8th, August 2012

MORE dressage (say it to rhyme with message) rubbish in the tabloids as the Daily Mail proiles two part of Team GB’s ‘three-man’ winning Olympic team, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin. Alison Boshoff and Katherine Faulkner combine heads to tell readers a bit about them and their team-mate Carl Hester:

Miss Dujardin lives in a small cottage on Hester’s equestrian estate with her fiancé Dean Golding and their boxer dog Winnie. She rides for up to six hours a day, and is superstitious – always wearing the same set of clothes to compete.

Hester, who is gay, allowed her to ride his young horse, Valegro, as a novice, planning to ride the animal  himself when he reached international standard.

Gay? Do gay men make better horse riders? What is the point of stating that fact? Is one them a Catholic? Muslim? Jew? Has any of them ever dabbled is lesbianism? We demand to know. Over to you, Daily Mail exposers…



Posted: 8th, August 2012 | In: Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink