Thursday Video from Ecovet: Happy Retirement Shannondale Titan!

Thursday Video from Ecovet: Happy Retirement, Shannondale Titan!

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Bill Levett and Shannondale Titan at the 2014 World Equestrian Games in Normandy. Photo by Jenni Autry.

The partnership of Australian eventer Bill Levitt and Shannondale Titan is a pretty epic one, tracing all the way back to 2011. Since then they’ve ticked all the big “B” boxes together: Badminton, Belton, Bramham, Blenheim, Burnham Market, Blair Castle, Burnham Market, Barbury Castle … and a few nbd non-“B” events too, like the 2016 WEG in Normandy. (Seriously though … WHY SO MANY “B”s?!

I digress. In the past couple years, this old married couple has become a staple of the Event Rider Masters series — and by staple, I mean they’ve completed a whopping 11 ERM CCI4*-S events, finishing in the top 10 in half of them. Millstreet would prove the swan son for “Alfie,” unfortunately, as Bill announced the 16-year-old Irish Sport Horse’s retirement earlier this month.

It is with a heavy heart that we sadly have to announce the retirement of Alfie (Shannondale Titan) owned by the…

Posted by Bill Levett eventing on Wednesday, September 4, 2019

A retirement well earned, sir. Cheers to you, Alfie! And thanks to ERM for sharing this tribute.

Go Eventing.

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September 19, 2019 at 05:59PM