Ready Teddy was an eventing

Eventing

Eventing is an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This event has its roots in a comprehensive cavalry test requiring mastery of several types of riding...

 horse competitively ridden by New Zealand equestrian Blyth Tait

Blyth Tait

Blyth Tait is a New Zealand equestrian. Tait has competed at four Olympics and has won four medals, one of only four New Zealanders to do so....

. He is believed to be the only horse to have ever won individual gold at both the Olympic Games (1996) and the World Equestrian Games (1998). He also won at the Burghley Horse Trials

Burghley Horse Trials

The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials is an annual three day event held at Burghley House near Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, currently in early September...

 in 2000. Ready Teddy died on 23 April 2011 of complications from colic

Horse colic

Colic in horses is defined as abdominal pain, but it is a clinical sign rather than a diagnosis. The term colic can encompass all forms of gastrointestinal conditions which cause pain as well as other causes of abdominal pain not involving the gastrointestinal tract. The most common forms of colic...

. He is buried at Tait's property at Karaka

Karaka, New Zealand

Karaka is a small town of Auckland, New Zealand. Located in Franklin, one of Auckland's two districts. Under the authority of the Franklin District Council.It is primarily a rural town associated with dairy farming and sheep...

, near Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

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