Jane de la Mare co-owns the 12-year-old gelding Nip Tuck with Sark-born Olympic dressage rider Carl Hester (49).
She said she was ‘over the moon’ that Nip Tuck had been chosen along with Mr Hester as one of the four rider/horse pairings to represent Great Britain at the Games, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 5-21 August.
Miss de la Mare (45) said: ‘I got a call from the British dressage team’s performance manager Richard Waygood, who told me the happy news.
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