Happy Birthday greetings to Graham Fletcher!
Here is Graham Fletcher on Tauna Dora (far right) in the winning Nations Cup team at Hickstead 1975 together with David Broome on Heatwave, Harvey Smith on Salvador and Paddy McMahon on Pennwood Forge Mill.
David Broome, Harvey Smith, Paddy McMahon and Graham Fletcher – Hickstead 1975
Happy Birthday to Graham Fletcher – 61 years today!
Graham Fletcher (* January 9 1951 in Yorkshire, England) was one of Britain’s leading showjumpers in the 1970′s and 1980′s. With great horses such as Buttevant Boy, Tauna Dora and Stylo Wilkie he won countless international honours. He is brother-in-law of David Broome, who married Elizabeth Fletcher.
Fletcher was the leading rider of the 1970 Horse of the Year Show. He entered the British team in Rome, Fontainebleau and Aachen in 1971. In that same year he won the Dublin Grand Prix on Buttevant Boy. He made a clear round in the Hickstead Derby in 1974, coming second after Harvey Smith. In 1975 he took a great victory on Buttevant Boy in the Aachen Grand Prix.
He participated in the Olympic Games in Montreal 1976 on Hideaway. At the alternative Olympics in Rotterdam 1980 he won a team silver medal on Preachan.
Here’s another vintage video from the jump-off of the King George V Gold Cup in 1978. This is Graham Fletcher on Cool Customer.
A piece of history from Hickstead – the magic British team with David Broome on Heatwave, Harvey Smith on Salvador, Paddy McMahon on Pennwood Forge Mill and Graham Fletcher on Tauna Dora. Those were really the days!
David Broome, Harvey Smith, Paddy McMahon and Graham Fletcher - Hickstead 1975
Graham Fletcher on Buttevant Boy
Happy Birthday to Graham Fletcher!
Graham Fletcher (* January 9 1951 in Yorkshire, England) was one of Britain’s leading showjumpers in the 1970′s and 1980′s. With great horses such as Buttevant Boy, Tauna Dora and Stylo Wilkie he won countless international honours. He is brother-in-law of David Broome, who married Elizabeth Fletcher.
Fletcher was the leading rider of the 1970 Horse of the Year Show. He entered the British team in Rome, Fontainebleau and Aachen in 1971. In that same year he won the Dublin Grand Prix on Buttevant Boy. He made a clear round in the Hickstead Derby in 1974, coming second after Harvey Smith. In 1975 he took a great victory on Buttevant Boy in the Aachen Grand Prix.
He participated in the Olympic Games in Montreal 1976 on Hideaway. At the alternative Olympics in Rotterdam 1980 he won a team silver medal on Preachan.
