{"id":38183,"date":"2017-11-19T16:03:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/?p=38183"},"modified":"2023-02-21T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:26:58","slug":"a-photographic-tribute-to-gillian-rolton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/2017\/11\/a-photographic-tribute-to-gillian-rolton\/","title":{"rendered":"A photographic tribute to Gillian Rolton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gill started out with ponies like most Australian riders, but moved to the Hacking scene as she got older, here she is \u00a0winning Champion Lady Rider at Adelaide Royal Show. Adelaide was Gill’s hometown.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gill with the first of her Olympic Gold Medals, with team members, Andrew Hoy and Mat Ryan, at Barcelona<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gill and Freddie at a selection event at Avenel<\/em><\/p>\n

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Part of the Australian Team again in The Hague<\/em><\/p>\n

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And a second Gold at Atlanta, with Andrew Hoy, Wendy Schaeffer, and Philip Dutton<\/em><\/p>\n

One of Gill’s areas of input to the sport of eventing was teaching, many young and older riders benefited from her experience and knowledge…<\/p>\n

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When Gill became interested in judging the sport she loved, she travelled overseas to further her knowledge, we met up with her in Europe when she was visiting leading dressage trainer, Jan Bemelmans who was training the Spanish team at the time…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gill was part of many Ground Juries overseas, here at the World Eventing Championships in Malmo in 2005<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sonja Johnson’s Jaguar was a \u00a0Peppermint Grove Trophy winner<\/em><\/p>\n

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Adelaide 4*\u00a0remains the only event of that level in the Southern Hemisphere, and Gill was proud of the event in her home town that she was part of. Appropriately, Gill and Greg Rolton presented a trophy in memory of Peppermint Grove each year. Gill will be missed, but remembered for what she achieved…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A photo tribute to equestrian hero, Gill Rolton. Gill on-the-job, but still time to sign an autograph for a young fan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,5],"tags":[385],"class_list":["post-38183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-eventing","tag-gill-rolton"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38183"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65808,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38183\/revisions\/65808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}