Valegro Retires: A tribute to his trainer Carl Hester

Elegant Scoundrel is proud to present the first of a two-part series to celebrate the retirement of the most famous dressage horse in the world, Valegro.
Part One tributes Valegro's owner and trainer Carl Hester - one of the greatest ever equestrians, who owns over 70 national titles, has represented Team GB at four Olympic Games, two World Championships and seven European Championships.
It was Carl that found Valegro as a two-year-old unbroken horse and sold a share to Roly Luard to help fund him. He also discovered and nurtured Charlotte Dujardin’s talent and turned down multi-million pound offers for the horse to avoid breaking up the formidable partnership of girl and horse for financial gain, nor did he reclaim the horse for personal glory, but instead continued to train them to victory after victory, gold medal after gold medal.
Please join us in celebrating Valegro's meteoric rise to success thanks to Carl Hester and his World Class horsemanship and sportsmanship.

[@charmainelee8815]

Carl is the man

[@pennyanderson9534]

.I can't get enough of Valegro ♥️

[@alimannion3163]

Great video, we love Carl . He seems like a really nice guy, and what amazing career! Thanks again for uploading.

[@liviaa6943]

Beautiful

[@HollyJordan15]

I love Carl 😍 but I love Charlotte & I prefer to watch Charlotte riding. Thank you to Carl for giving Charlotte that break she so deserved. But she worked her behind off before she came to him and whilst with Carl 😍

[@joanoreilly4326]

Love Carl and love this tribute! Thank you.

[@troyjackson9610]

Thank You Mr Hester

[@flawlessfluidity7771]

Phenomenal!! 😃

[@BumbleBeeBeeRock]

Carl Hester awesome guy :)))))

[@madisona3907]

Love you Carl!

[@swingtimeperformancehorses]

Great footage!!! Well done :)

[@rachel3591]

beautiful video, amazing man

[@johannarocho3040]

Between him and Catherine the brought out the best of Valegro!

[@e.conboy4286]

Who is Catherine?

[@meganantijunti5751]

Please read the published info above. You will understand why these horses aren't Valegro....He will be in Part 2...

[@user-ny1dh5iv8x]

オリンピックから外さない欲しいね。
(　I hope they don't take it out of the Olympics.　)

[@pkshumway7910]

How is Valegro?

[@paubla433]

I don't get why the title of this video is " Valegro Retires : Part One". This video is about Carl Hester (I know, he is the owner and so on) but it doesn't show Valegro. There isn't anything related to Valegro in this video at all!

[@localfellowemo9203]

PauBla Becuase it's a tribute to Carl heterogeneous,if u read the description it will say,Valegro is in part 2 xx

[@ETEquine]

this isn't valegro?

[@paulineedwards7223]

Emma Thomas Eventing o

[@danielthomas3333]

Alvie Laura’s horse is a neurotic mess.

[@danielthomas3333]

Carl is ok. Charlotte is very ordinary and owes her success on Carl and Valegro

[@katehobbs2008]

Daniel Thomas rubbish.

[@angelaphilpott6690]

Why did Charlotte receive a bronze medal at the Tokyo olympics then ? Nothing whatsoever to do with Carl Hester or Valegro. Charlotte trained Gio herself.