Supreme Rock was an

Irish Sport Horse The Irish Sport Horse, or Irish Hunter, is an Irish breed of warmblood sporting horse, used mostly for dressage, eventing and show-jumping. It was bred from 1923 by cross-breeding of Irish Draught and Thoroughbred stock. There was some limited ...

, bred by Lindy Nixon-Gray Ireland & ridden by

Pippa Funnell Philippa Rachel "Pippa" Funnell MBE (née Nolan, 7 October 1968) is an equestrian sportswoman who competes in eventing. In 2003, she became the first person to win the Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing (consecutive wins at Rolex Kentucky, Badminto ...

in four event competitions for

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. He was put down in early April 2013 aged 25. He was a bay

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. He was retired in 2005 at the

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. He is remembered primarily for his role in Funnell's completion of the

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, winning the Badminton Horse Trials, the

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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 (

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) in 1999, and Pau (

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) 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

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Pedigree

"Supreme Rock"
''All Breed Pedigree''. Referenced January 10, 2008.

References

{{reflist Eventing horses Horses in the Olympics 1988 animal births 2013 animal deaths Irish Sport Horses