- Eagle Lion
Eagle Lion is an event horse that has competed at the highest level of the sport with great success.
*Foaled: 1985 in
Ireland
*Height: 16.0 hh (163cm)
*Color: Bay
*Sex:Gelding
*Breed:Thoroughbred /Irish Sport Horse
*Breeding: by Gipfel, out ofStream Lion (ISH) (by Ideal Water ISH)
*Breeder: Patricia Nicholson of Kells, Co.Meath
*Owner: Mr. George Strawbridge of Wilmington, DE
*Rider:Bruce Davidson Eagle Lion [http://jmatt.net/rolex/2000/XC/bruce1.jpg] was out of the famous mare
Stream Lion , a producer of excellent event horses including stablematesPirate Lion andRegent Lion . HisThoroughbred sire, Gipfel, stood in Germany and produced many top-class sport horses.With Bruce Davidson in the irons, Eagle Lion has won the Fairhill CCI***, the
Badminton Horse Trials (making him the first of only two American horses to win the prestigious event), and has had top-five placings at Fairhill, Burghley, and other attempts at Badminton. Between the years 1990 and 1998, the horse gained 1277 points.There is now a bronze sculpture of the horse with his rider. Artist
Jean Clagett depicted the pair jumping over the "Head of the Lake" obstacle at theRolex Kentucky Three Day . The sculpture was mounted at theKentucky Horse Park during the 2007 Rolex Three Day.One of the few horses (if not THE ONLY horse) to complete the 4 star course at Badminton double clean (no jump penalties, no time penalties) four times.
Eventing Record
2001
* 10thRolex Kentucky Three Day CCI****
* 3rd North American Beaulieu Classic HT (Advanced)2000
* 7thRolex Kentucky Three Day CCI****
* 1st Morven Park Spring H.T. (Advanced)
* 1st Pine Top Farm Spring HT (Advanced)
* 9th Basingstoke Farms H.T. (AI)1998
* 3rdBadminton Horse Trials CCI****
* 6th Beaulieu North American Classic H.T. (Advanced)
* 8th Morven Park Spring H.T. (Advanced)1997
* 11thBurghley Horse Trials CCI***
* 8thBadminton Horse Trials CCI****
* 14th Beaulieu North American Classic H.T. (Advanced)
* 1st Morven Park Spring H.T. (Advanced)1996
* 3rd Fair Hill International Three-Day Event 3S
* 7th Morven Park H.T. (Advanced)
* 22nd Beaulieu North American Classic H.T. (Advanced)
* 14th Morven Park Spring H.T. (Advanced)
* 14th Sharpton Winter H.T. HT (Intermediate)1995
* 1stBadminton Horse Trials 3D CCI****
* 12th Beaulieu North American Classic H.T. (Advanced)
* 4th Morven Park Spring H.T. (Advanced)1994
* 4thBadminton Horse Trials CCI****1993
* 4thBurghley Horse Trials CCI***1992
* 1st Fair Hill International Three-Day Event 3S
* 2nd Pleasant Hollow Farms Inc. H.T. (Advanced)
* 4th Fair Hill H.T. (Advanced)
* 1st Loudoun Hunt P.C. Spring H.T. (Intermediate)1991
* 8th Radnor Hunt International Three-Day Event 2S
* 1st Fair Hill H.T. (Intermediate)
* 5th Millbrook Equestrian Center H.T. (Intermediate)
* 4th Groton House Farm H.T. (Intermediate)
* 4th Fair Hill May H.T. (Intermediate)1990
* 7th Ledyard Farm 3-Day Event 1S
* 2nd Millbrook Equestrian Center H.T. (Preliminary)
* 3rd Pleasant Hollow Farms, Inc. H.T. (Preliminary)
* 1st Somerset Hills H.T. (Preliminary)External links
* [http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/eagle+lion Eagle Lion's pedigree]
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