Supreme Rock

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Supreme Rock
BreedIrish Sport Horse
SireEdmund Burke (Thoroughbred)
GrandsireAdvocator (Thoroughbred)
DamRineen Classic (Irish Draught Sport Horse)
Maternal grandsireBassompierre (Thoroughbred)
SexGelding
Foaled1988
DiedApril 2013 (aged 25)
CountryUK
ColourBay
BreederLindy Nixon-Gray Ireland

Supreme Rock was an Irish Sport Horse, bred by Lindy Nixon-Gray Ireland & ridden by Pippa Funnell in four event competitions for Great Britain. He was put down in early April 2013 aged 25. He was a 16.3 hands (67 inches, 170 cm) bay gelding. He was retired in 2005 at the Badminton Horse Trials. He is remembered primarily for his role in Funnell's completion of the Grand Slam of Eventing, winning the Badminton Horse Trials, the Rolex Kentucky Three Day and The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. He is also the only horse ever to have won two European Championship titles back-to-back – Luhmühlen (Germany) in 1999, and Pau (France) in 2001 – as well as being one of a select group of horses to have won Badminton Horse Trials twice in 2002 and 2003. The high point of his career with Funnell was winning team Silver at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.[1]

Pedigree[]

Pedigree of Supreme Rock
Sire
Edmund Burke
Thoroughbred
1973
Advocator
Thoroughbred
1963
Round Table
1954
Princequillo – 1940
Knights Daughter – 1941
Delta Queen
1946
Bull Lea – 1935
Bleebok – 1941
Section
Thoroughbred
1965
*Ambiorix
1946
Tourbillon – 1928
Lavendula – 1930
Zonah
1958
Nasrullah – 1940
Gambetta – 1952
Dam
Rineen Classic
Irish Draught Sport Horse
1984
Bassompierre
Thoroughbred
1968
Khalkis
1960
Vimy – 1952
Merry Xmas – 1951
La Bonne
1961
Worden – 1949
La Bastille – 1957
Golden Brief
Irish Draught Sport Horse
1974
Awkward Brief
1957
Petition – 1944
Rocky Serenade
Bodecia
1964
Ireland
Ireland

[2]

Supreme Rock
Medal record
Equestrian
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Team Eventing
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Jerez de la Frontera Team Eventing
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1999 Luhmühlen Individual Eventing
Gold medal – first place 1999 Luhmühlen Team Eventing
Gold medal – first place 2001 Pau Individual Eventing
Gold medal – first place 2001 Pau Team Eventing

References[]

  1. ^ "Supreme Rock (ISH) Reigns Supreme at Badminton CCI**** 2003". Equiworld. Referenced January 11, 2008.
  2. ^ "Supreme Rock". All Breed Pedigree. Referenced January 10, 2008.
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